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A Drug-Resistant 'Superbug' Fungus Infected 7,000 Americans in 2025
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Independent:
Candida auris, a type of invasive yeast that can cause deadly infections in people with weakened immune systems, has infected at least 7,000 people [in 2025] across 27 U.S. states, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control a...
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The US Effort to Break China's Rare-Earth Monopoly
The New York Times checks in on U.S. university researchers and start-ups trying to create domestic rare-earth processing facility:
There is too little money to be made in rare earths for the elements to be of much interest to mining giants, so the challenge of reestablishing a domestic industry h...
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Reddit Surges in Popularity to Overtake TikTok in the UK - Thanks to Google's Algorithm?
Reddit "has overtaken TikTok as Britain's fourth most-visited social media service," reports the Guardian:
The platform has undergone huge growth over the last two years, with an 88% increase in the proportion of UK internet users it reaches. Three in five Brits online now encounter the site, up fr...
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What Happened When Alaska's Court System Tried Answering Questions with an AI Chatbot?
An AI chatbot to answer probate questions from Alaska residents "was supposed to be a three-month project," said Aubrie Souza, a consultant with the National Center for State Courts told NBC News. "We are now at well over a year and three months, but that's all because of the due diligence that was ...
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Google's $250M Deal with California to Fund Newsrooms May Be Stalled
Remember how California's government negotiated a 2024 deal where Google contributed millions to California's local newsrooms to offset advertisers moving to the search engine?
"A year after it was cemented — and billed as a model that could succeed where entire countries and continents had ...
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