Valve appears to add a Team Fortress 2 SDK to its Source SDK 2013 repository
A GitHub entry titled "Add Team Fortress 2 SDK" suggests Valve has pushed a fresh TF2-related code change into its public Source SDK tree.
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NASA Monitors Asteroid 2024 YR4 Impact Probability for 2032
Astronomers are refining orbital trajectory data for asteroid 2024 YR4, which currently holds a low-percentage impact probability for a potential 2032 Earth encounter.
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Researchers say carbon capture costs more than switching to renewables
A Reuters report cited in the prompt says new research finds carbon capture is more expensive than replacing fossil-fuel generation with renewables in many cases.
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Report says DOGE.gov allowed public edits through an insecure database
Security researchers told 404 Media that the DOGE.gov site was pulling from a database anyone could write to, letting prank entries appear on the live page.
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Researcher says Google service chain could expose YouTube email addresses
A security write-up says an attack chain involving Google services and an internal discovery document could leak the email address attached to any YouTube channel for a $10,000 bounty.
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KM3NeT records the highest-energy neutrino yet detected
A Mediterranean observatory traced an extraordinarily energetic muon to a cosmic neutrino, opening a new window on the universe’s most powerful particle accelerators.
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Honda's rodent-repelling tape gets a close-up in a quirky review
A first-person account turns an obscure Honda accessory into an oddly memorable product story, showing how automakers market practical fixes for very specific problems.
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Google Calendar Drops Cultural Events From Default Listings
Black History Month, Pride Month and other observances disappeared after Google returned its calendars to public holidays and national observances supplied by one provider.
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Graduate student overturns 40-year hash-table assumption with faster search method
Andrew Krapivin and collaborators say a new hash table design can search and insert in time proportional to the square of a logarithm, beating a long-held conjecture.
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Free online course aims to teach people how to navigate ChatGPT and other LLMs
The course frames large language models as useful tools that can also flood the information environment with nonsense, making discernment as important as experimentation.
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Krebs says DOGE access story shows how cybercrime histories collide with government power
Krebs on Security recaps Wired reporting that a 19-year-old DOGE technologist with roots in The Com gained access to sensitive government systems, raising clear vetting questions.
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Unsealed emails appear to deepen Meta's legal fight over AI training data
New filings in the authors' copyright case point to internal discussions about torrenting and seeding, giving plaintiffs more material for their claim that Meta handled pirated books while training AI models.
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Estimated 2032 Impact Risk for Asteroid 2024 YR4 Rises to 2.3%
Astronomers urged calm after an early orbit calculation put the newly discovered object at a one-in-43 chance of striking Earth, with revisions expected.
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How a self-tracking experiment exposed the reach of location data brokers
A developer who traced leaked app data said he was able to find how his location could be reconstructed from ad-tech and analytics traffic.
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CDC data begin disappearing as scientists warn of a widening purge
Scientists said CDC pages and datasets were vanishing as agencies moved to scrub terms related to gender and identity.
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Gamedev City goes offline as its creator says the maintenance burden became too much
The operator of Gamedev City said he is taking the site offline for now and leaving only a read-only archive.
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 puts planetary defence teams on alert after early orbit calculations
Astronomers are tracking a newly spotted asteroid whose early measurements give it a small but non-zero chance of striking Earth in 2032.
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JavaScript Temporal arrives as MDN expands documentation for modern date handling
Experimental browser releases are beginning to ship Temporal, a new JavaScript API designed to replace the long-troubled Date object.
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Why one longtime developer is still sticking with Sublime Text in 2025
A long-time Sublime Text user says the editor remains fast, familiar and actively maintained despite the crowded market.
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Bluesky crosses 30 million users
Bluesky says it has reached 30 million users, a milestone that underlines its growth even as it remains far behind Threads.
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Google Maps will use Gulf of America labels in the US after Trump’s name change order
Google says it will relabel the Gulf of Mexico for US users in line with the official government name once the change is updated in federal mapping systems.
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Cory Doctorow says the tech industry keeps legalizing misconduct through apps
In a post tied to his new novel, Cory Doctorow argues that many business models hide old-fashioned wrongdoing behind app interfaces.
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DeepSeek-R1 paper says reinforcement learning can grow reasoning without human demos
An arXiv paper claims reasoning in large language models can be improved through pure reinforcement learning rather than human-annotated trajectories.
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Subaru STARLINK flaw reportedly exposed vehicle accounts across multiple countries
Researchers say a vulnerability in Subaru’s admin panel could have given access to vehicles and customer accounts in the U.S., Canada and Japan.
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