The uproar centres on a citizens’ initiative to restrict, but not ban, motorised traffic in the city centre — a deeply divisive policy that has become a culture war flashpoint in many countries, pitting environmentally minded urban residents against suburban commuters.

This is what happens when you let natural monopolies operate without oversight. They don’t compete on price or quality. They extract rent.

But new research from UCLA has found that, in several specific cases, sections of the building code – which is written and updated by the International Code Council (ICC) – are either outdated, or are not grounded in sound building science. The result: Buildings that are both more costly to build and give builders less flexibility in the use of modern technologies and techniques.

Apollo Housing Deck.

If David Foster Wallace were alive today, he’d be reporting from the bar in a beachside town on the Omani coast– taking notes on a napkin about the particular quality of silence in a hundred-room hotel with three guests, watching tankers drift towards, but never quite reach, the Strait of Hormuz. That’s our inspiration here, if DFW was also concerned with finding alpha.

…In mid-2025, Hyppönen pivoted from cybersecurity to a different kind of defensive work. He became the chief research officer at Sensofusion, a Helsinki-based company that develops an anti-drone system for law enforcement agencies and the military.

You might have heard about “China Speed” and how local automakers can develop a brand-new model in two years or less. By comparison, legacy brands often need twice as long, and sometimes even more, to engineer a new product. With an astronomical number of companies developing vehicles at a record pace, it’s no wonder it feels like China is launching a new car every other day.

The risk is that teams everywhere start using AI to produce products that are globally polished but contextually shallow. A fintech interface can sound sophisticated while still failing to explain timing, settlement behavior, or support expectations clearly. A B2B SaaS site can look world-class while saying almost nothing a real buyer would recognize as grounded. A devtool can have excellent marketing language and still ignore the practical pains of understaffed teams dealing with on-call load, compliance pressure, and cost constraints.

The best tools for sending an email if you go silent.

Welcome to the Atlas of Arda, a project aimed at celebrating Tolkien’s incredible work through hand-drawn cartography, artwork and illustrations that act as a reference to dive deeper into the beautiful world Tolkien created.

The settlement also includes an agreement by Deere to provide “the digital tools required for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repair” of tractors, combines, and other machinery for 10 years. That part is crucial, as farmers previously resorted to hacking their own equipment’s software just to get it up and running again. John Deere signed a memorandum of understanding in 2023 that partially addressed those concerns, providing third parties with the technology to diagnose and repair, as long as its intellectual property was safeguarded. Monday’s settlement seems to represent a much stronger (and legally binding) step forward.

This project reverse-engineers Google’s SynthID watermarking system – the invisible watermark embedded into every image generated by Google Gemini. Using only signal processing and spectral analysis (no access to the proprietary encoder/decoder), we:

As part of the event, interoperable digital tools were introduced intended to streamline care and improve the patient experience. Highlights included:

• Digital data access and check?in (“Kill the Clipboard”), allowing patients to securely share information with a simple scan on their phone.
• Personalized health applications, offering tailored guidance on nutrition, wellness, and chronic disease management—extending care beyond clinic walls.

The BWB, due to its very dominant parasitic drag, about 2/3 of total drag between 30,000ft and 40,000ft, needs to initiate the cruise above 40,000ft, where the parasitic drag has declined below 60% of total drag. If the cruise is done below 40,000ft, the BWB has a higher total drag, which means it consumes more fuel than the NMA.

Since 2019, the Michelin Guide has rapidly expanded its portfolio of American guides thanks in part to the sponsorship of local tourism boards, or destination marketing organizations (DMOs), as they’re often called. 

Those contributions have ranged from $300,000 from Colorado’s state tourism board to $2.7 million from Texas’ state and local tourism boards.   

Williams-Smith confirmed that Visit Milwaukee will contribute $450,000 ($150,000 per year) for its three-year contract with the Michelin Guide, which runs from 2027 to 2029. 

Destination Cleveland is also paying $450,000 for the three-year contract. Meet Minneapolis will pay $750,000 over the three years. 

Other American Great Lakes DMOs did not immediately disclose their contributions. 

Earlier this month, Carter Bank sold the (Greenbriar) loans to “an unaffiliated third party,” according to a filing last week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The loan principal was $209.48 million, and Carter received $289.48 million in cash in the transaction. The company that bought the debt was TRT Holdings, owned and operated by Dallas billionaire Robert Rowling and his son Blake.

This city and its beaches, with their pacific blue waters during the summer months (which has earned us the moniker “Malibu of the Midwest”) and tempestuous, Gordon Lightfoot-inspiring gray deeps during winter, is forever home. This attachment, already firm for me as a teen (when a good number of classmates wanted nothing more than to be gone), became concrete during my years away. Charleston and Coronado are fine places to live, both effortlessly beautiful, and the 250,000 nautical miles in the U.S. Navy’s bilges and maintenance shops were certainly an experience for which I remain grateful, but the snatches of days home on leave had more life and light in them than the months away. 

The FAA counted 370,286 active student pilots at the end of 2025, up from 345,495 in 2024 and 222,629 in 2020. Total active pilots also rose to 887,519, compared with 848,770 a year earlier.

Aadam Jacobs has secretly recorded over 10,000 local concerts since 1989. Now, they are cleaned up and ready to listen to for free online.

Instead, the way Anthropic built that kernel is straight out of classical symbolic AI. For example, it is in large part a big IF-THEN conditional, with 486 branch points and 12 levels of nesting — all inside a deterministic, symbolic loop that the real godfathers of AI, people like John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky and Herb Simon, would have instantly recognized.*