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This unassuming octopus pairs bacterial chemistry with evolutionary efficiency to deliver one of the most powerful defenses in all of the ocean.gettyThe blue-ringed octopus (genus Hapalochlaena) is small enough to fit comfortably in the palm of your hand. You’ll find it drifting unassumingly through shallow coastal waters, more inclined to hide than to hunt. And yet, tucked inside its tiny little body is a neurotoxic system so potent that it has become the stuff of legend: a golf-ball-sized animal said to carry enough venom to kill dozens of people.A minuscule octopus that packs a deadly enough punch to kill 26…

Fortnite fans were wondering what Epic would do about its previous collaboration with D4vd, the musician whose cosmetics were sold in the game in 2024 and 2025, and now we have an answer.The outcry has been due to the fact that D4vd has now been accused of the murder of a 14-year-old girl, Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who was discovered in the trunk of a car. This past week, additional evidence was revealed in the case against the singer, namely a large collection of child pornography. Needless to say, this is not something Fortnite players, or presumably Epic, want to be…

Amazon Web Services has introduced a managed agent harness in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that lets developers stand up a working autonomous agent through configuration rather than orchestration code. The preview, paired with a new command-line interface, a persistent agent filesystem and prebuilt skills for popular coding assistants, signals that AWS sees deployment friction, rather than model quality, as the next constraint on enterprise agentic artificial intelligence.The harness manages reasoning, tool selection, action execution and response streaming inside a dedicated microVM spun up for each session. AWS says developers can declare an agent’s model, system prompt and tools, then run it…

Below, Aneesh Raman and Ryan Roslansky share five key insights from their new book, Open to Work: How to Get Ahead in the Age of AI. Raman is LinkedIn’s chief economic opportunity officer. He previously served as senior adviser on economic strategy to the state of California and led economic impact at Facebook. Roslansky, who is CEO of LinkedIn, is also EVP of Microsoft Office and Copilot. What’s the big idea? AI’s impact on work is unfolding in real time—rapidly—and individuals have more agency than they think. By understanding how skills, roles, and industries are evolving, anyone can actively shape their…

EDMONTON, CANADA – JANUARY 28: A woman holds a cell phone in front of a computer screen displaying the DeepSeek logo, on January 28, 2025, in Edmonton, Canada. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)NurPhoto via Getty ImagesDeepSeek V4, the long awaited update from DeepSeek, arrives at a fiercely competitive moment, when Open AI’s GPT 5.5 and Anthropic’s Opus 4.7 have just launched one after the other. The AI models race apparently achieve a new level. As an unique believer in open sourced tools, DeepSeek impress developers with its cost-efficiency rather than the raw scale.The preview release includes two Mixture-of-Experts…

When U.S. Navy leaders declared that “the dream of a laser on every ship can become a real one” earlier this year, they apparently had one particular ship in mind. The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush shot down multiple drones with a high-energy laser weapon stationed on its flight deck during a first-of-its-kind live-fire test in October 2025, the Navy recently revealed. Photos published to the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS) on April 20 show a 20 kilowatt Palletized High Energy Laser (P-HEL) system—based on the LOCUST Laser Weapon System from defense contractor AV and on loan from the U.S. Army’s Rapid Capabilities and…

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY MARIANNE BARRIAUX Vendors sell meat at the Oshodi night market in Lagos, late on June 6, 2015, lighting their stall with a fuel lamp in absence of electricity. AFP PHOTO / PIUS UTOMI EKPEI (Photo credit should read PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty ImagesThe lights in Lagos, Nigeria, go out between 30 and 60 times a month. When power does flow, it lasts perhaps six to eight hours a day—enough to charge a phone, but not nearly enough to run a factory. It is the same story in Nairobi, Lusaka, and…

Updated April 26, 2026 06:29AMIt’s 3 A.M., and my alarm is rudely beckoning me to get out of a comfy blanket burrito to start the day. Yesterday was a rough run—six hours behind the wheel through intense thunderstorms, followed by navigating endless desert roads with so many washboards that I feel like my brain is still rattling in my skull. Reluctant to leave my bed, I muster just enough energy to drag myself up and unzip the tent door.As the world outside my blanket comes into focus, I quickly realize the sky is filled with flickering, multicolored stars that stretch…

News that Microsoft was reportedly planning to pause its carbon removal purchases has rocked the still-nascent carbon removal industry. The company helped drive the market: In fiscal year 2025 alone, it made deals with 21 companies around the world to remove a record 45 million tons of CO2. Those deals included new contracts with companies like Re.green, which is restoring a swath of the Amazon rainforest, and Vaulted, which removes carbon by burying organic waste. Last month, it added a contract with Liferaft, a company making biochar from agricultural waste in the Midwest. The industry uses a wide range of…

Satechi’s new Thunderbolt 5 Cube Dock is made for the Mac mini M4 Pro but will work with any Thunderbolt-equipped computer.SATECHIBack in January at CES, San Diego’s tech and lifestyle brand Satechi announced the launch of the CubeDock, its first Thunderbolt 5 device. The CubeDock has an enclosure for an SSD as well as plenty of ports and connections to turn a Mac mini M4 Pro into an even more powerful and well-connected workstation.The new Satechi CubeDock is powered by the latest Intel Thunderbolt 5 chipset, which offers double the bandwidth and speed of Thunderbolt 4 and is backward compatible…