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Taoyuan prosecutors raided Unimicron Technology's headquarters and a plant, questioning 14 staff over allegations the company relabeled China-manufactured circuit boards as Taiwan-origin products. Several executives were released on bail ranging from NT$300,000 to NT$15 million, and the investigation into possible forgery and false origin-marking continues.
Two decades after the International Astronomical Union voted in 2006 to reclassify Pluto as a dwarf planet, a vocal group of scientists, historians and enthusiasts continue to push back against that decision. Critics like Philip Metzger of the University of Central Florida argue the IAU's planetary definition is scientifically unworkable, while others such as writer Laurel Kornfeld have campaigned against the ruling since the day it was announced. The dispute remains largely an American phenomenon, tied partly to national pride since Pluto was discovered by a US astronomer in 1930.
An Amazon human resources leader detailed in a company blog post how she returned to coding after a 25-year break by using Amazon's AI-powered tool Kiro, eventually writing over 100,000 lines of code. She first built a family calendar app, then created a submission app for an internal contest called 'Everyone Can Build,' which drew more than 1,500 employee participants who built tools ranging from automation scripts to a virtual desktop pet.
A technical post explains intrusive linked lists, a linked-list variant where the 'next' pointer is embedded directly inside the data structure being linked rather than stored in a separate wrapper node. It walks through how to construct such a list in C, including how to recover the address of a containing object by subtracting the offset of its embedded list member.
Network Address Translation, introduced in RFC 1631 in 1994 as a stopgap for IP address depletion, let multiple devices share a single public IP by rewriting packet headers. That fix, paired with restrictive ISPs and CGNAT, made it hard for ordinary devices to act as servers, pushing users toward centralized cloud services instead of direct peer-to-peer connections.
A review of global polling, including a 55-country UNICEF study, finds that outlook on the future varies sharply by country, income and demographics rather than tracking objective economic conditions. Western nations like the US, UK and France show surprisingly bleak expectations for coming decades, sometimes ranking below countries such as Lebanon and Morocco, while many lower-income nations report greater optimism despite facing similar or greater challenges.
A team of astronomers, led by Sarah Burke-Spolaor at West Virginia University and Michelle Ntampaka at the Space Telescope Science Institute, posted an unreviewed white paper on arXiv outlining four archetypes for research groups to help them decide how to use AI tools like large language models. Rather than proposing a single universal policy, the framework maps each lab type against its research priorities using a radar-style diagram to suggest which AI applications, from code generation to writing assistance, best fit its values.
A new global analysis estimates how many people worldwide are bitten by snakes each year, along with associated rates of death and disability. The research aims to fill gaps in data on a health issue that disproportionately affects rural and low-income populations.
Pope Leo XIV has published an encyclical titled Magnifica Humanitas, accompanied by a video presentation, addressing how artificial intelligence affects the human person. The document, discussed alongside remarks from Cardinal Michael Czerny, frames AI's trajectory as a matter of human choice and institutional responsibility rather than an inevitable outcome of the technology itself. It focuses on three central risks: loss of inner freedom despite tool use, erosion of critical judgment amid abundant data, and diminished real human connection in digital life.
A developer describes overriding a self-imposed website blocker for 444 minutes and using it as the turning point to rebuild his relationship with distracting apps. Rather than quitting YouTube, Reddit and LinkedIn, which he considers genuinely useful, he redesigned his phone to strip away addictive design cues, including switching the display to grayscale and forcing browser use instead of apps.
Apple Intelligence shipped enabled by default with iOS 26, running in the background on eligible devices even for people who never use tools like Writing Tools, Image Playground or notification summaries. These features can consume up to 7GB of storage, and users can disable them individually or entirely through Settings without affecting core device functions.
During NASA's post-launch news conference for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, Administrator Jared Isaacman stepped away mid-briefing to take a call, then returned to let President Trump address reporters and officials over speakerphone. Trump praised the launch's television coverage, complimented Isaacman's leadership, and noted his administration's funding for the agency.