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US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified | that, a, it, department, interior

On Monday, the US Department of the Interior announced that it was pausing the leases on all five offshore wind sites currently under construction in the US. The move comes despite the fact that these projects already have installed significant hardware in the water and on land; one of them is nearly complete. In what…
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World’s largest shadow library made a 300TB copy of Spotify’s most streamed songs | music, files, by, spotify, archive

The world's largest shadow library—which is increasingly funded by AI developers—shocked the Internet this weekend by announcing it had "backed up Spotify" and started distributing 300 terabytes of metadata and music files in bulk torrents. According to Anna's Archive, the data grab represents more than 99 percent of listens on Spotify, making it "the largest…
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The 60 Minutes report on CECOT that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband | it, a, segment, minutes, cbs

Yesterday, Bari Weiss, the new editor-in-chief of CBS News, censored a segment of its newsmagazine 60 Minutes about men who had been deported to an El Salvador prison. Today, it's popping up online. 60 Minutes had already begun promoting the now-censored segment online. Because it was pulled so late, it seems that CBS missed at…
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How to watch Hawks vs. Bulls online for free | a, free, nba, live, expressvpn

TL;DR: Live stream Atlanta Hawks vs. Chicago Bulls in the NBA for free with a 30-day trial of Amazon Prime. Access this free live stream from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.The festive NBA action continues with Atlanta Hawks vs. Chicago Bulls. Both sides are hovering around the middle of the Eastern Conference standings, with…
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Google lobs lawsuit at search result scraping firm SerpApi | google, a, s, serpapi, its

Google has filed a lawsuit to protect its search results, targeting a firm called SerpApi that has turned Google’s 10 blue links into a business. According to Google, SerpApi ignores established law and Google’s terms to scrape and resell its search engine results pages (SERPs). This is not the first action against SerpApi, but Google’s…
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The evolution of expendability: Why some ants traded armor for numbers | a, as, they, dilemma, it

The trade-off between quality and quantity is a fundamental economic dilemma. Now, a team of British, American, and Japanese researchers describes how it applies to biology, as well. They have discovered that this dilemma most likely shaped the evolutionary trajectory of ants, one of Earth’s most successful groups of organisms. Their study reveals that, as…