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Roughly 3,000 Olympic athletes will participate in the ceremony, officially marking the beginning of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

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The new coding model released Thursday afternoon, entitled GPT-5.3-Codex, builds on OpenAI’s GPT-5.2-Codex model and combines insights from the AI company’s GPT-5.2 model, which excels on non-coding ...

Waking up with a snake in your bed is a rare problem, but not impossible, especially if you live in Australia. That’s precisely what happened in this recent news story: a woman awoke from a peaceful ...

The new year started off with a bang when a python hunter caught a 202-pound female python. That's a lot of meat to eat. But don't do that.

He picked up his phone and showed an app, dubbed Cogbill ERP, which today helps the small job shop track orders and organize ...

Apple’s Xcode 26.3 adds Claude Agent SDK integration, enabling autonomous AI coding and visual verification while reshaping ...

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When parts of the south sit below 50°F for hours, cold-blooded life slows, hides, or tumbles into the headlines. Iguanas lose ...

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This case study examines how vulnerabilities in AI frameworks and orchestration layers can introduce supply chain risk. Using ...