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Sound moves far slower than light, so strong coupling in a fiber is a precondition for buffering or briefly storing a signal in the acoustic wave.One report1 publisher

Illustration: A long strand of bare optical fiber runs from a spool on an optics-lab bench into the open port of a small cryostat, a stainless vacuum chamber with a frosted cold-head flange and its lid unbolted. A coil of the same fiber lies loosely beside it. No resonator, mirrors or cavity, just the fiber passing through the cold.

Science · The Scientist · 51m ago

Interior Alaska camp from 13,800 years ago yields the oldest known needles in the Western Hemisphere

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Illustration: Inside a canvas field tent at an excavation, a trowel-scraped pit of dark silty permafrost soil with a few small bone needles, slender and pointed, lying in the soil beside a scatter of chipped stone flakes and a small stone microblade core. A soft brush and a plain paper-free wooden screening frame rest at the pit edge.

Build · The Engineer · 2m ago

MCP makes Roots, Sampling, Logging and Dynamic Client Registration eligible for removal from July 28, 2027

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Illustration: Open network closet with a wall-mounted patch panel. Most ports hold tidy blue patch cables, but four adjacent ports hold older grey cables, each tied with a blank paper tag. A cable tester and a spare coil of cable sit on a shelf below. Daylight comes from a nearby door, and the metal and plastic show ordinary wear.

Science · The Scientist · 1h ago

Ultracold cesium chains give indirect evidence of Bethe strings

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Science · The Scientist · 1h ago

Sydney PhD student sorts almost 800 million Martian locations into 2,000 soil classes

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Illustration: A long laboratory bench with dozens of small shallow plastic seedling pots filled with rust-red soil in graded shades from pale ochre to deep brown, a few pots holding tiny green seedlings and most bare. Beside them, a trowel, a sieve of red grit and a plain tray of unplanted pots, under window light.

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Science · The Scientist · 1h ago

Most dried essential-oil cockroach treatments killed under 10% of insects in Kentucky tests, researchers report

Low-income households, where German cockroaches are common and professional control can be hard to afford, may spend limited money on a spray that leaves them exposed to asthma-linked allergens.One report1 publisher

Illustration: A lab bench with a ceramic tile and a pine board, each lying under a petri-dish-style clear plastic arena ring. Both surfaces carry a dried, faintly glossy spray residue. Several live-looking cockroaches walk unharmed across the dried residue. One dead cockroach lies on its back on a separate wet-sprayed tile at the edge. A small trigger spray bottle without a label sits nearby.

Build · The Engineer · 1h ago

DEV Community review: Firefox's free AIControls policy in policies.json can block AI features, while Mozilla charges for the Enterprise console

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Security · The Watch · 2h ago

Telegraph says Musk proposed the Starlink speed cap on Ukraine to Trump

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Product · The Product Desk · 2m ago

Shoppers at Nvidia's RTX Spark launch told PCMag they were holding off over the $2,599 price

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Invest · The Investor · 11m ago

Korean Air and Asiana lift November fuel surcharges four levels as jet fuel rises 9.7%

Year-end travellers carry the increase: a Korean Air round trip to the U.S. East Coast now includes 816,200 won in surcharge alone, 91,000 won more than in October.Confirmed2 publishersInvestor

Security · The Watch · 4h ago

Attackers pushed a backdoor through AOMEI Backupper's update servers in windows of 5 to 10 minutes

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Illustration: A rack-mounted file server in a small server room, its front drive bay open with one drive sled pulled halfway out; beside it on a shelf, a row of identical external backup drives, one with its casing screw removed and the lid slightly ajar. Ordinary dust, cable ties, patch cables, fluorescent ceiling light.

Leadership · The Board Room · 22m ago

David Rosenthal says ChatGPT practiced medicine without a license in advising on his medications

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Invest · The Investor · 20m ago

Nasdaq drops 2.15% as CoreWeave swaps imply over 60% odds of default in five years

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Illustration: Inside a half-built data hall, a row of server racks stands with GPU servers fully installed in the near racks while the far racks are empty frames. Thick power cables and cooling pipes run overhead toward the empty racks. Unopened shipping crates and a pallet jack sit on the polished concrete floor beside the gap, lit by ceiling fixtures.

Invest · The Investor · 31m ago

Cardano's treasury holds 1.378 billion ADA but has only 42.6 million ADA of withdrawal room left

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Invest · The Investor · 32m ago

Early ChatGPT advertisers split over whether clicks turn into sales

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Leadership · The Board Room · 42m ago

Nine-year Delta agent sues, alleging a forced resignation over a CBP seal that was later granted

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Invest · The Investor · 1h ago

Lighter's EVM devnet lets smart contracts trade on its order engine with mocked proofs underneath

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Security · The Watch · 1h ago

Sansec disputes Adobe's 30-day patch window for the BlockStrap Magento flaw

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Leadership · The Board Room · 1h ago

Safe Software's people chief is codifying the company's culture ahead of a $250 million revenue target

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Product · The Product Desk · 1h ago

Santa Ana winds push Camp Pendleton's Henderson fire to 2,080 acres with no containment

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Illustration: A two-lane Southern California highway shoulder at dusk with dry golden grass and chaparral on both sides. A wooden utility pole carries sagging power lines, its crossarm and insulators visible. Orange traffic cones and a collapsible road-closure barricade stand across the empty lane. In the background hills carry a low band of brown smoke bending sideways, and a roadside windsock hangs fully

Science · The Scientist · 1h ago

Isaacman names Stephen Cash, who joined Marshall in 1982, to run the Huntsville center

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Science · The Scientist · 1h ago

Guesses about strangers' tastes were more accurate when the strangers differed more from the guesser

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Illustration: A long wooden cafeteria tasting table in a research lab break room: two rows of plain white paper cups holding different foods, a pair of near-identical pale crackers on one side and, across the table, a sharply different pile of dark chilies and a lemon wedge. Small unmarked cards sit beside each cup, blank.

Invest · The Investor · 1h ago

Anthropic says Claude traced the P-256 seed to a Unix random number run in August 1997

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Product · The Product Desk · 1h ago

Veeam argues AI agents force security and recovery into one discipline

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Illustration: A paper-based office filing room: a steel filing cabinet with several drawers pulled open, folders inside with some visibly rearranged and bent, while a second identical set of neatly aligned duplicate folders sits in a banker's box on the desk beside it. Overhead fluorescent light, worn linoleum, a rubber stamp pad nearby.

Build · The Engineer · 1h ago

A student trained only on number sequences inherits part of its teacher's French-reply backdoor

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Security · The Watch · 1h ago

Intruder survey finds 47% of firms go over a month between pentests of their most-tested app

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Invest · The Investor · 1h ago

Yum Brands credits voice AI at more than 890 Taco Bell drive-thrus with lower crew turnover

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Illustration: A fast-food drive-thru lane seen at the order point: a plain unmarked steel speaker post with a small mesh grille and a bare mounting bracket stands beside an empty car lane. On the pavement next to it, an unoccupied stool and a row of plain hooks on a nearby wall hold only empty headset cradles, suggesting absent crew. Overcast daylight, wet asphalt, worn paint.

Science · The Scientist · 1h ago

Cutting battery demand would avoid more emissions by 2050 than cleaner production, a Melbourne-led model finds

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Illustration: On a concrete workshop floor, a single small bare lithium-ion pouch cell sits beside a very large stack of identical unmarked battery modules wrapped in grey plastic film on a pallet. The small unit is plain matte metal; the big stack towers over it, with a smaller, worn pack in front showing long use. No labels or printing.

Build · The Engineer · 1h ago

Claude Code 2.1.299 warns that plan mode skips its edit blocks when bypass permissions is available

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Illustration: A workshop floor with a yellow-and-black hazard tape line marking off a bench saw. The saw's blade guard is lifted and propped open, and a plain unmarked key sits in the lock of a hinged safety cage-less interlock box beside it. A paper cut-list and pencil lie on the bench next to uncut lumber, showing a plan on the bench while the blade is exposed.

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Max Planck and Hannover physicists reach strong light-sound coupling in a cooled optical fiber

Interior Alaska camp from 13,800 years ago yields the oldest known needles in the Western Hemisphere

MCP makes Roots, Sampling, Logging and Dynamic Client Registration eligible for removal from July 28, 2027

Ultracold cesium chains give indirect evidence of Bethe strings

Sydney PhD student sorts almost 800 million Martian locations into 2,000 soil classes

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Most dried essential-oil cockroach treatments killed under 10% of insects in Kentucky tests, researchers report

DEV Community review: Firefox's free AIControls policy in policies.json can block AI features, while Mozilla charges for the Enterprise console

Telegraph says Musk proposed the Starlink speed cap on Ukraine to Trump

Shoppers at Nvidia's RTX Spark launch told PCMag they were holding off over the $2,599 price

Context · for builders

Korean Air and Asiana lift November fuel surcharges four levels as jet fuel rises 9.7%

Attackers pushed a backdoor through AOMEI Backupper's update servers in windows of 5 to 10 minutes

David Rosenthal says ChatGPT practiced medicine without a license in advising on his medications

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Nasdaq drops 2.15% as CoreWeave swaps imply over 60% odds of default in five years

Cardano's treasury holds 1.378 billion ADA but has only 42.6 million ADA of withdrawal room left

Early ChatGPT advertisers split over whether clicks turn into sales

Nine-year Delta agent sues, alleging a forced resignation over a CBP seal that was later granted

Lighter's EVM devnet lets smart contracts trade on its order engine with mocked proofs underneath

Sansec disputes Adobe's 30-day patch window for the BlockStrap Magento flaw

Safe Software's people chief is codifying the company's culture ahead of a $250 million revenue target

Santa Ana winds push Camp Pendleton's Henderson fire to 2,080 acres with no containment

Isaacman names Stephen Cash, who joined Marshall in 1982, to run the Huntsville center

Guesses about strangers' tastes were more accurate when the strangers differed more from the guesser

Anthropic says Claude traced the P-256 seed to a Unix random number run in August 1997

Veeam argues AI agents force security and recovery into one discipline

A student trained only on number sequences inherits part of its teacher's French-reply backdoor

Intruder survey finds 47% of firms go over a month between pentests of their most-tested app

Yum Brands credits voice AI at more than 890 Taco Bell drive-thrus with lower crew turnover

Cutting battery demand would avoid more emissions by 2050 than cleaner production, a Melbourne-led model finds

Claude Code 2.1.299 warns that plan mode skips its edit blocks when bypass permissions is available