Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power | AI and the boom in clean-tech manufacturing are pushing America’s power grid to the brink. Utilities can’t keep up. (wapo.st)
In the Amazon, a new way to live off nature (wapo.st)
But now a smattering of solar panels across 12 villages in a couple of Ecuador’s deeply forested eastern provinces are making Canelos’s vision materialize. Every morning, before dawn, his people pass around a bowl of wayusa, a traditional drink made from a local plant that helps bring their dreams into focus. In them, they...
Capital One-Discover merger may face stiff antitrust review in Washington (wapo.st)
The plants used to make the world’s best mezcal are disappearing | Soaring demand is draining Mexico of its wild agave (wapo.st)
A Belgian port seized tons of cocaine. Criminals tried to take it back. (wapo.st)
Belgian customs officers seized three times as much cocaine in the port of Antwerp last year as U.S. customs and border officials seized in all of the United States
Trump skips Illinois loyalty oath promising not to overthrow government (wapo.st)
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Game of clones: Science is immortalizing Argentina’s top polo horses (wapo.st)
the extent to which this polo-obsessed nation has already fundamentally transformed the sport and the nature of horse breeding was evident on the field at the Argentine Open in Palermo in late November. As the players and the clones watched a video montage memorializing the late original champion mare, her name flashed across...
Girls bear the brunt of new HIV infections, assessment suggests (wapo.st)
Unguided ‘dumb bombs’ used in almost half of Israeli strikes on Gaza (Gifted article - no pay wall) (wapo.st)
U.S. stops helping Big Tech spot foreign meddling amid GOP legal threats (wapo.st)
The federal government is no longer warning Meta about foreign influence campaigns, a shift that comes amid a legal campaign against the Biden administration’s communication with tech platforms...
U.S. close to deal with Israel and Hamas to pause conflict, free some hostages (wapo.st)
Slow internet speeds? It might be faster to use a pigeon. (wapo.st)
To be clear: they’re talking about attaching a micro-sd card to the pigeon’s leg, not RFC 1149
China’s quest for human genetic data spurs fears of a DNA arms race (wapo.st)
‘Tron’ fan finds rare ‘holy grail’ arcade game abandoned on sidewalk (wapo.st)
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Philippine court acquits Nobel laureate Maria Ressa of final charges (wapo.st)
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Threads blocks searches related to covid and vaccines as cases rise (wapo.st)
Public health experts denounced the platform’s moderation policies, which they say restrict access to critical health information...
Lee remains major hurricane as risk of impacts in New England grows (wapo.st)
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How to talk to an AI (wapo.st)
An ordinary human’s guide to getting extraordinary results from a chatbot like ChatGPT...
5th Circuit finds Biden White House, CDC violated First Amendment (wapo.st)
The Court upheld many restrictions on the White House and Surgeon General’s office’s contacts with tech companies, finding that they ‘coerced’ platforms’ content decisions...
Powerful Hurricane Lee plows westward with land threats 6 to 10 days away (wapo.st)
The storm, briefly a Category 5, could affect Bermuda, eastern New England and the Canadian Maritimes in 6 to 10 days, but the track remains uncertain...
Where dangerous heat is surging (wapo.st)
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Gayle Hunnicutt, Texan actress who thrived in Britain, dies at 80 (wapo.st)
She made headlines for her marriage to British film star David Hemmings. Two decades later, she returned to the U.S. to appear in the prime-time soap opera ‘Dallas.’...
Scientists warn invasive pests are taking a staggering toll on society (wapo.st)
The authors of a major new U.N.-backed report say invasive species are costing the world more than $423 billion a year...
The endless battle to banish the world’s most notorious stalker website (wapo.st)
The anonymous forum, known as Kiwi Farms, keeps popping back online despite a relentless campaign by transgender activists and a former insider...