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Controversial Plan to Kill 500,000 Barred Owls in U.S. Clears Major Hurdle

To save the northern west’s spotted owls (Strix occidentalis caurina) from extinction, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to kill up to 450,000 barred owls (Strix Varia) across California, Oregon, and Washington. The controversial conservation strategy, announced last year, has sparked an ethical debate that recently played out on the Senate floor. On October

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Deep Learning’s Edge: Why it’s Revolutionizing Specific Industries

Deep learning, a subset of machine learning, has emerged as a transformative force across various industries. Its ability to automatically learn complex patterns from vast amounts of data, without explicit programming, has opened doors to solutions previously deemed impossible. This article explores the “edge” deep learning provides, highlighting its revolutionary impact on several key sectors.

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Kimi K2 Thinking

👋 Hello from Kimi Team! Introducing Kimi K2 Thinking: 1T Open-Source Reasoning Model. SOTA with 44.9% HLE, 60.2% BrowseComp. (not just open-source SOTA) > Trillion-param MoE, trained for $4.6M, 4x cheaper than peers. > INT4 inference: 4-bit quantized, <1.2s latency @ 256K context. > Full step-by-step reasoning, 200+ tool calls, self-correction (GPT-5 level), fully open

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After Russian spaceport firm fails to pay bills, electric company turns the lights off

One of Russia’s most important projects over the last 15 years has been the construction of the Vostochny spaceport as the country seeks to fly its rockets from native soil and modernize its launch operations. However, the initiative has been a fiasco from the start. After construction began in 2011, the project was beset by

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