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Across the northeastern United States, numerous small, often obsolete dams on streams and rivers are being torn down, reopening historic migration routes for river herring and other fish. The removals, less publicized than high-profile Western dam demolitions, are occurring piecemeal across the region as agencies and conservation groups target structures that block fish passage.
Archaeologists have recovered thousands of artifacts from a site in Alaska dated to roughly 13,800 years ago. Researchers say the find reflects cultural ties linking ancient populations across the former Bering Land Bridge region.
Gallup's latest global survey finds that among adults worldwide who say they want to move permanently to another country, just 15% name the United States as their preferred destination, the lowest share in nearly two decades of polling. The figure peaked near 24% between 2007 and 2009 and has stayed at or below 18% since 2017. Canada remains the second most desired destination at 9%, a share that has held steady even as U.S. appeal declined.
A Hacker News poster warns that domains using the third.level.name format are scheduled to be permanently expunged next year, and asks others how they are migrating away. The poster describes being stuck with Azure, saying admin emails on the account cannot be changed and that Microsoft support has been unable to help.
From 2001 to 2015, pilots in white hooded costumes flew open-cockpit ultralights to teach captive-raised whooping crane chicks a migration route between Wisconsin and Florida, since the species had lost its eastern migratory tradition. The method worked technically, successfully guiding birds that had never flown the route before, but the program was ultimately shut down.
Abstract, the Ethereum layer-2 built by Pudgy Penguins parent Igloo Inc., announced it will cease operations on Dec. 15, 2026, giving more than 144 deployed apps roughly two months to migrate. Users must move funds via Abstract's Migration Hub or Native Bridge, which has a three-hour delay, and any funds not bridged by the deadline will be lost. Igloo CEO Luca Netz said the company spent tens of millions over two years without achieving product-market fit.
Genetic analysis indicates that humans arrived in the Americas at least 21,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age. However, the data remains inconclusive and continues to be debated among researchers. The findings challenge previous timelines but require further evidence for confirmation.
Researchers led by Carter et al., writing in Nature, compared gut microbiota of Tanzania's Hadza people with Bolivia's Tsimane people, whose ancestors diverged tens of thousands of years ago. They found hundreds of microbial species common to both groups, with genetic differences between strains aligning with the timing of prehistoric human migrations. Many of these shared microbes are now rare or absent in people living in industrialized regions.
Microsoft used AI agents to convert the Copilot runtime's 430,000 lines of TypeScript into 800,000 lines of Rust, a project that took about 14.5 weeks, over 135 releases, roughly $120,000 in AI token costs, and three weeks of human developer oversight to fix dozens of regressions. The Rust version now powers Copilot across VS Code, Visual Studio, the CLI, SDK, and Office apps like Excel and Outlook.
Apple's upcoming iOS 27.2 update will introduce a system-managed migration flow that lets developers move a user's data and settings from a discontinued app to its official replacement before deleting the old one. Code found in the first beta shows users will be prompted with an alert offering to 'Move App Data and Settings' or 'Don't Move Anything,' with a follow-up warning if they decline.
Polars has shipped the first release candidate for version 2.0, with the final release expected in coming weeks. The major version bump primarily changes the default execution engine for LazyFrame queries from the in-memory engine to the streaming engine, alongside other default setting changes and removal of legacy design constraints.
Ornithologist Péter Palatitz has spent 20 years studying the red-footed falcon, a colonial raptor that depends on abandoned rook nests to breed. After rook persecution in the 1980s and '90s destroyed those nesting sites and cut falcon numbers to a quarter of their former size, Palatitz began installing thousands of artificial nest boxes across Hungary in 2006, and the falcon population doubled within ten years. Satellite tracking of 28 birds also revealed they fly nonstop across the Mediterranean and Sahara for five days, covering 6,000 miles to winter in southern Africa.