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🖼 Funny Wildlife Outtakes Entries for the 2026 Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards opened this week. To celebrate, the contest shared a set of outtakes from last year's competition. They are just as funny as you'd expect: a caiman with butterfly "accessories," a friendly damselfly, and two baboons caught in an awkward moment.

🔥 "Cognitive Atrophy" is One of the Main Fears About AI  Only bot unreliability, the impact of technology on the economy, and the loss of agency and autonomy due to AI worry people more. These were the findings made by Anthropic after surveying more than 80,000 users of its Claude bot. The interviews were conducted by Claude itself—this is the world's first survey of this scale conducted by AI. "I got excellent grades using AI's answers, not what I'd actually learned. I just memorized what...

⚛️ CERN Discovers New Proton-Like Particle The LHCb experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has discovered a new particle made of two charm quarks and one down quark. Its structure is similar to that of the familiar proton, but two light up quarks are replaced by two much heavier charm quarks—making the new particle about four times heavier. "The result will help theorists test models of quantum chromodynamics, the theory of the strong force that binds quarks into not only conventional ...

🇰🇵 North Korea's 100,000 Fake IT Workers Earn $500M a Year A joint report from IBM X-Force and cybersecurity firm Flare, published this week, has pulled back the curtain on North Korea's sprawling fake IT worker operation, revealing a centrally organized scheme that places thousands of operatives in legitimate technology jobs at companies worldwide—generating an estimated $500 million a year for Pyongyang.

🧠 Redditor 3D-Printed His Own Brain The whole process took 23.5 hours, he claims. If you have an MRI brain scan file in NIfTI format, you can turn it into a 3D-printable model for free at brain2print.org. Another idea for an unusual gift!

☀️ Rising Heat Could Cause Up To 700,000 Extra Deaths A Year By 2050 A study in The Lancet Global Health finds that higher temperatures may push more people into inactivity, increasing health risks. Each extra month above 27.8°C is linked to a 1.4 percentage-point rise in inactivity worldwide (1.85 pp in lower-income countries). By 2050, this could lead to 470,000–700,000 extra deaths annually and $2.4–3.68 billion in lost productivity.

🩸New Blood Test Detects Brain Tumors with Over 90% Accuracy Scientists at the University of Manchester have developed an experimental blood test that can identify glioblastoma, the deadliest form of brain cancer, with more than 90% accuracy—a breakthrough that could one day allow general practitioners to detect the disease through a simple test similar to a COVID swab.

🤖 Robot Demolishes Shelf While Serving Customers A robot salesman in China knocked over a shelf while retrieving merchandise for customers. But the customer still got their bottle, and the robot didn't lose its charm for a second.

😱 Full-Scale Model of Arthropleura A Redditor had 3D-printed a 1:1 model of an Arthropleura, the largest insect (arthropod) ever known to exist. The good news is that it went extinct 300 million years ago.

🦞 Tencent Embeds OpenClaw AI Agent into WeChat for Over a Billion Users Tencent launched a tool on Sunday to embed the OpenClaw AI agent directly into its WeChat messaging platform, turning China's most widely used app into a gateway for AI-powered task automation. The software, called ClawBot, appears as a contact within WeChat, allowing users to send commands and interact with the agent through the familiar chat interface, according to Reuters.