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A 2× coverage whole genome was sequenced from an Old Kingdom Egyptian male dated to 2855–2570 BCE at Nuwayrat.

Approximately 78 % of his ancestry traces to North African Neolithic populations and about 22 % to eastern Fertile Crescent (Mesopotamian) groups.

Isotope and osteological analyses indicate he grew up locally in the Nile Valley and experienced high physical labour despite a high‐status burial.

GitHub archives every public commit, including those removed by force-push, as zero-commit PushEvents accessible via GH Archive.

The author scanned all GitHub force-push events since 2020 and uncovered leaked secrets that earned approximately $25k in bug bounties.

An open-source Force Push Scanner tool was released to automate searching GH Archive for Oops Commits and scanning them for secrets using TruffleHog.

Astronomers have discovered 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object to enter our Solar System.

The object is likely a comet traveling at about 60 kilometres per second, making it the fastest interstellar object observed.

3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to the Sun in October and exit past Jupiter by next March.

The Trans-Taiga Road is a 666 km gravel route built to access Hydro Quebec dams and generating stations along the La Grande River.

This extremely remote road has no public settlements and reaches a point 745 km from the nearest town, the farthest such point in North America.

The section from Brisay (km 582) to Caniapiscau (km 666) has very coarse gravel and recommends a 4-wheel drive vehicle, though passenger cars can manage with caution.

Rare EACCES errors occurred during large NFS file copies when Kerberos was enabled.

Kernel retransmissions with new GSS sequence numbers caused HMAC mismatches on stale responses.

The bug was reproduced using a memory-backed FUSE filesystem, eBPF tracing, and a human-firewall packet delay.

Google’s Veo 3 AI video generator can produce realistic content that is easily misused for hate speech.

TikTok has experienced a surge of racist and antisemitic AI-generated videos targeting Black, immigrant, and Jewish communities.

Enforcement of TikTok’s hate speech policies is insufficient, allowing these videos to garner millions of views.

Federal budget cuts in 2025 threaten to gut US science funding across NASA, NSF, NOAA, EPA, CDC, and FDA.

Over one-third of NASA science missions are facing cancellation, risking a generational loss of research and talent.

Thousands of science employees have been laid off, grants rescinded, and agencies attacked despite court orders.

Tesla’s energy storage deployments fell for a second consecutive quarter, with 9.6 GWh installed in Q2 2025, down 0.8 GWh from Q1.

Deployments peaked at 11 GWh in Q4 2024, and Tesla installed 31.4 GWh of storage products in 2024.

Energy storage and solar revenue grew from $2 billion in 2020 to $10.1 billion in 2024, but the downward trend in 2025 may end this growth streak.

Websites for the U.S. National Climate Assessment and the U.S. Global Change Research Program went offline, leaving no links or referrals to the reports.

The White House said the reports will be moved to NASA, but provided no details and searches on NASA’s site were unsuccessful.

NOAA did not respond to inquiries, and its main climate.gov site now redirects elsewhere.

Couchers has moved out of Beta into an official v1 launch, marking core features as complete and ready for all users.

The platform’s new strategy focuses on being the safest, healthiest, and most active couch surfing community.

A redesigned landing page clearly communicates Couchers’ values and mission to both new and existing users.