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Counter-Strike 2 skin market collapses after update wipes out $3 billion overnight

The game 'Counter-Strike 2' has been updated, and items that were previously only available through 'gacha' can now be obtained through trading. This has caused the value of some items that were ...
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OpenAI says 'more than 1 million people talk about suicide on ChatGPT every week'

OpenAI has worked with clinically trained mental health professionals to train its AI model to better recognize distress, calm conversations, and guide users to professional care when appropriate.
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What are the 6 habits that put your bladder at risk?

The bladder is an organ that temporarily stores urine from the kidneys before it is excreted, and although it is a modest but important part of our quality of life, Dipa Kamdar, a senior lecturer in ...
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Pakistan's first hand-drawn animated feature film, 'The Glassworker,' produced by a director inspired by Studio Ghibli, is being crowdfunded for a Japanese dubbed version and ...

The film explores the contrast between the horrors of war and the beauty of art, delicately portraying the fate of love between a boy and a girl shaken by the flames of war, as well as the conflict ...
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Study reveals that wild chimpanzees consume the equivalent of one beer of alcohol per day

The ripe fruits eaten by chimpanzees contain ethanol, a type of alcohol produced through natural fermentation. Alexei Marot, a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley, and his team ...
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Chinese AI company DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, an AI model that can handle large inputs at low cost

DeepSeek, a China-based AI company, has announced the release of DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, an AI model optimized for large inputs. DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp boasts significantly improved computational efficiency ...
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Russian military spy ship 'Yantar' is said to be mapping and intercepting undersea communications cables across Europe

Reports that the Russian special intelligence and research vessel Yantar has been sailing off the coast of Northern Europe have reportedly raised alarm among Western authorities. The Yantar has been ...
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The EU cybersecurity agency announced that the reason for the frequent delays and cancellations at several European airports was a ransomware attack by a third party

Over the weekend of the third week of September 2025, numerous flight delays and cancellations occurred at London Heathrow Airport in the UK, Berlin Airport in Germany, and Brussels International ...
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The MacBook is equipped with a sensor that detects the opening and closing angle of the display.

Apple's MacBook has a hinge equipped with a sensor that detects the angle at which the display is opened and closed, according to engineer Sam Henry Gold. According to Gold, starting with the 16-inch ...
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Switzerland's unique, fully open-source LLM 'Apertus' is released, emphasizing learning, transparency, and digital sovereignty with 15 trillion tokens across over 1,000 languages

Apertus, jointly developed by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ), and the Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS), ...
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The creator of smartwatch pioneer Pebble reveals the final design of the new watch, the Pebble Time 2.

Pebble, a smartwatch that began development in 2008, earlier than the Apple Watch, failed to achieve commercial success. However, after many twists and turns, it was announced that it would be revived ...
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'I tried every to-do app out there, but I ended up with a .txt file.'

Basili has tried several to-do apps, each time thinking, 'This is the last one, I'll finally be organized.' However, he had a terrible experience: one app charged a monthly fee, another had a broken ...