Researchers issued a technical addendum detailing the exact configuration of geoid models—EGM96, EGM2008 and GOCO06s—used in their earlier meta-analysis showing sea levels are higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments. The addendum specifies data sources, resolution, reference ellipsoid parameters and processing settings from the International Centre for Global Earth Models to make the original results fully reproducible.
Researchers from Stanford, including Erik Brynjolfsson, analyzed labor data and found that since 2022, employment among 22-to-25-year-olds in the most AI-exposed occupations has dropped about 11 percent, while it rose 10 percent in the least-exposed fields. Economy-wide, however, employment differences between AI-affected and unaffected jobs were minimal, suggesting the disruption is concentrated among young, entry-level workers.
Intel unveiled architectural details of its next-generation Xeon 7 'Diamond Rapids' server processors at Hot Chips 2026, revealing a design with up to 256 P-cores and 1.28 GB of last-level cache, targeted for a 2027 data center launch. The chips use Intel's 18A-P process for core chiplets, add AVX 10.2 instructions, and switch from EMIB to UCIe-S packaging alongside Foveros Direct 3D bonding to link compute and fabric tiles.
As part of Google Summer of Code 2026, contributor Emmanuel Nyarko has been enhancing NetBSD's RAIDframe disk management system. The work adds an N-way RAID 1 extension letting mirrors span more than two disks with one primary and multiple secondaries, and introduces scrubbing support to proactively detect read failures across disks.
The second episode of HBO's DC series 'Lanterns,' starring Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre, adds significant new layers to the show's plot and characters. The episode builds on the premiere by deepening the mystery and character relationships central to the series.
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