#inbrief — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #inbrief, aggregated by home.social.
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Iran abused mobile networks’ vulnerabilities to locate US military in the Middle East, report says
The Iranian government abused well-known vulnerabilities in the global telecoms infrastructure to locate U.S. military personnel in the…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #cellularnetworks #InBrief #Iran #iranwar #surveillance
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Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return
Anthropic announced on Monday that Amazon has agreed to invest a fresh $5 billion, bringing Amazon’s total investment…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Business #Amazon #Anthropic #AWS #datacenter #InBrief
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The Risks and Realities of America’s Iran Blockade
On April 13, the U.S. military began a “blockade of all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports.”…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #InBrief #Iran
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Anthropic took down thousands of GitHub repos trying to yank its leaked source code — a move the company says was an accident
Anthropic accidentally caused thousands of code repositories on GitHub to be taken down while trying to pull copies…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #anthropic #GitHub #Headlines #InBrief #TopStories
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https://www.alojapan.com/1463155/uber-wayve-and-nissan-plan-to-launch-a-robotaxi-service-in-tokyo-this-year/ Uber, Wayve, and Nissan plan to launch a robotaxi service in Tokyo this year #AutonomousVehicles #InBrief #news #Nissan #robotaxis #Tokyo #TokyoNews #uber #wayve #東京 #東京都 Fresh off a $1.2 billion funding round, U.K.-based autonomous vehicle software company Wayve is teaming up with Uber and Nissan to launch a robotaxi service in Tokyo, with a pilot scheduled for late 2026. The companies said the deal will see Wayve integrating its AI-powered,
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Rocket Lab wins another defense-related space contract
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Rocket Lab wins another defense-related space contract
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Jared Isaacman confirmed as next head of NASA
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Jared Isaacman confirmed as next head of NASA
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Microsoft buys 3.6M metric tons of carbon removal from bioenergy plant
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Nvidia is reportedly testing tracking software as chip-smuggling rumors swirl
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Unconventional AI confirms its massive $475M seed round
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Fal nabs $140M in fresh funding led by Sequoia, tripling valuation to $4.5B
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SpaceX reportedly planning 2026 IPO with $1.5T valuation target
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SoftBank and Nvidia reportedly in talks to fund Skild AI at $14B, nearly tripling its value
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SoftBank and Nvidia reportedly in talks to fund Skild AI at $14B, nearly tripling its value
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SpaceX reportedly in talks for secondary sale at $800B valuation, which would make it America’s most valuable private company
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Meta reportedly plans to slash Metaverse budget by up to 30%
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Amazon hopes to jump-start its AI coding tool Kiro by giving it away to startups
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Meta poaches Apple design exec Alan Dye to lead new creative studio in Reality Labs
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Redwood Materials reportedly cuts 5% of staff after $350M raise
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ChatGPT’s voice mode is no longer a separate interface
ChatGPT’s voice mode is getting more usable. OpenAI announced on Tuesday it is updating the user interface to…
#NewsBeep #News #Artificialintelligence #AI #AIvoice #Apps #ArtificialIntelligence #AU #Australia #ChatGPT #InBrief #OpenAI #Technology
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Microsoft’s AI chatbot Copilot leaves WhatsApp on January 15
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Fleet Space finds massive lithium deposit using AI and satellites
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Malaysia may ban users under 16 from social media starting next year
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Trump Energy department drops renewables, promotes fusion in office reshuffle
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Meta wins antitrust trial as judge denies that it’s a monopoly
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Boeing has a carbon emissions problem. Startup Charm Industrial is cleaning up.
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AI PowerPoint-killer Gamma hits $2.1B valuation, $100M ARR, founder says
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Chris Sacca’s VC firm is raising a second nuclear fusion fund
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Meta estimates that it earns 10% of its revenue from scams, report says
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Sam Altman says OpenAI has $20B ARR and about $1.4 trillion in data center commitments
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Ford execs reportedly discuss ending the F-150 Lightning
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Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police
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Facebook brings back job listings in the US
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/14/facebook-brings-back-job-listings-in-the-us/
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Rivian is redesigning the R2 SUV’s door handles for better safety
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📝 Heavy Metal aids a plant invasion 🧵
https://doi.org/px4k ($)New research shows how an invasive plant in China is using copper and lead pollution to oust its native neighbours.
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/10)
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📝 The plants that photosynthesise to a deadline 🧵
https://doi.org/pxnjIn the forest understorey, Spring fires the starting gun on a race to catch sunlight before the forest canopy fills. But changing climates means different plants now start at different times.
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📝 500km from friends, these trees are running out of places to hide from climate change 🧵
https://doi.org/pxckHow can isolated trees survive rising heat? Botanists have been looking for microrefugia, small locations with favourable conditions for stressed plants.
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/10)
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📝 Silence of the Llanos 🧵
https://doi.org/pw82Botanists are hearing an alarm call alerting the world to habitat loss in Colombia, but it’s not a noise that they hear, it’s silence caused by vanishing bird calls marking lost ecosystems.
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/11)
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📝 What 17,000 Pressed Flowers Revealed About Arctic Climate Change 🧵
https://doi.org/pwncThe brief Arctic summer is getting briefer. Research using herbaria shows that flowering times are shifting. Not all plants are responding the same way & that’s a problem
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/10)
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📝 Wet Gets Wetter, Dry Gets Drier in the Amazon Rainforest 🧵
https://doi.org/pr26As seasons get more extreme in the Amazon, weather patterns will shift across South America, threatening both indigenous communities and economic stability.
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📝 The genetic prison that traps a ghost plant 🧵
https://doi.org/10.1002/pei3.70060Why would you make leaves that are all cost and no benefit? A ghost plant puzzle is solved.
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/10)
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📝 The hidden complexity of pollinator networks in gardens 🧵
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-025-01737-zWhat might appear to be one network of plants and pollinators may in fact be many.
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📰 Is it time to kill the “Mass Extinction” concept? 🧵
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2481371-theres-growing-evidence-the-big-five-mass-extinctions-never-happened/A story popular in New Scientist at the moment questions what we know of the deep past, and it has a plant twist.
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/10)
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📝 How Heliamphora turns a first date into a last meal 🧵
https://doi.org/10.1111/ede.70009Researchers at Colorado State University have found the genetic basis of attraction - if you’re a carnivorous plant seeking prey.
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📰 The Swindle That Left Tea With a Bitter Taste 🧵
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyg59yn10moHow did a fake Scottish tea plantation fool the finest hotels?
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/11)
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📝 How do plants respond to hormone signals instead of cellular noise? 🧵
https://doi.org/g9k3kfYou might expect the instructions a cell receives to make a flower to be precise, but the response to those instructions isn’t.
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/11)
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📝 What were root genes doing before they started building roots? 🧵
https://doi.org/g9k8xdEven plants that don’t have roots have genes to make them, so what is it that these genes are up to?
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/10)
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📝 Fronds with Benefits 🧵
https://doi.org/pnt8New research reveals how plant leaf shapes affect your mood. Small, complex leaves calm while large leaves energise our spaces.
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📝 How Is Human Mismanagement Reshaping the Biodiversity of American Forests? 🧵
https://doi.org/ph36Human-introduced trees are silently reshaping US forests, eliminating rare native species.
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📝 The Secret of a Plant's Sexual Attraction Is Betrayed by the Shadow of Its Scent 🧵
https://doi.org/phngBotanists discover that plants seeking to sexually attract a pollinator may be hiding their stocks of potent perfumes in overlooked alkenes.
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📝 The Wisdom of Green-Thumbed Crowds Brings Expertise to Western Australia 🧵
https://botany.fyi/engijlExperts validate the surprising accuracy of plant identifications on iNaturalist, enhancing conservation data in Western Australia.
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📝 The Genetic Secret Behind Wasabi's Defensive Kick 🧵
https://doi.org/g897b6The genes that help plants draw in carbon dioxide also help plants kick out poisons when herbivores visit.
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📝 Scientists Find a Gene That Enables a Plant to Become a Vampire 🧵
https://doi.org/pdxmScientists discover the gene that gives parasitic dodder its "sense of touch" that makes it an effective predator on host plants.
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📝 Less Can Be More For Modelling Invasive Species 🧵
https://doi.org/pbqdA new study reveals that sometimes adding more data to a model reduces its predictive power.
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📝 Saving Space for Lapwings Between Crops and Wetlands 🧵
https://doi.org/n9tdSaving lapwings means managing Italian farm landscapes for sparse vegetation.
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📝 Mapping Hope for Nearly Lost Plant Species 🧵
https://doi.org/n9s4Research identifies plants on the edge of extinction.
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📝 Does Bamboo Interfere with Panda Brains to Get Eaten? 🧵
https://doi.org/n9fwScientists discovered that bamboo plants may actively influence pandas' brains and biology through tiny RNA molecules that enter their bloodstream.
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📝 How One Tool Helps Different Fungi Hijack Plant Signalling 🧵
https://doi.org/n8wwScientists discover fungi use a universal "hacking tool" to trick plants into starvation mode, disabling their immune defences and causing devastating crop diseases worldwide.