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12 Jul 2026 5:51am GMT

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12 Jul 2026 4:15am GMT

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12 Jul 2026 4:00am GMT

The Associated Press reports: An islandwide blackout struck Cuba on Friday for the second time this week as the nation of nearly 10 million people grapples with a crumbling power grid and fuel shortages stemming from a U.S. energy blockade... Authorities reported that they have already begun restoring power to some areas. On Monday, another massive blackout affected nearly 10 million people nationwide. Authorities reported during the week that service was gradually being restored from that outage. "While total blackouts have become increasingly common in the Caribbean country, it's unusual for back-to-back ones to hit just days apart..."

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12 Jul 2026 3:52am GMT

"Meta has axed a controversial feature that allowed users to modify photos from public Instagram accounts using AI," reports TechCrunch: The feature, which wasn't designed to alert a user if their photos were used in this way, prompted immediate backlash... The company issued a blog post Friday announcing that it was removing the feature. Puck News founding partner Dylan Byers was the first to share the company's decision... Byers notes that the decision to do away with the feature came "amid scrutiny from users and talent agencies, including CAA."

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12 Jul 2026 1:52am GMT

Since February, New York state police have arrested 48 people for trespassing on a former IBM campus in Somers, New York, reports the Wall Street Journal. 30 of the arrests were teenagers. The long-vacant site has become a magnet for so-called urban explorers, who prowl abandoned malls, hospitals, power plants, amusement parks, factories and any other disused structure they can breach... [I]t's been turbocharged by artsy videos on Instagram and TikTok that spur others to create their own posts, luring still more curiosity seekers... In Somers, social-media images of the old IBM campus - a sprawling, pyramid-studded 1980s complex designed by the late I.M. Pei's firm - show dystopian scenes: busted windows, tossed rooms and graffitied walls. But they also give eerie glimpses of conference rooms and cubicles unchanged since IBM left a decade ago, as if employees had fled the daily grind one day and never returned... One man in his mid-20s faces felony charges; police allege he had a loaded 9mm gun and took a Sony camera and power strip among other souvenirs. Andrew Proto, a defense lawyer, said "a 15-second clip" isn't worth a criminal record... Proto said he has represented or advised several minors arrested on the campus. The Somers town court clerk said some defendants received a 6-month "adjournment in contemplation of dismissal," meaning charges will be dropped and their arrest sealed if they avoid trouble. Some explorers who have posted about the IBM site say they follow an observe-and-preserve ethos and reject vandalism. They say they're driven by curiosity, the thrill of roaming forbidden spaces and a zeal to document discoveries - and that they're careful and know their limits. "It actually gives me hope when I hear that kids are out there getting into trouble," says Bradley Garrett, a cultural geographer and author of the book "Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City," about his own urbex adventures. He sees urban exploration as "a gateway drug in a good way, sometimes, into intellectual curiosity about history and culture." But Garrett said popular spots can be "loved to death" online - and then shut down, looted or set ablaze. "Trespassers were blamed for a March 30 fire, reports a local newspaper, "that damaged one of the buildings and required volunteer firefighters to spend three hours extinguishing the blaze."

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11 Jul 2026 10:47pm GMT

Navidrome 0.63 introduces word-by-word synchronized lyrics, smarter search, and dramatic speed improvements for large music libraries.

11 Jul 2026 7:44pm GMT

Pop!_OS 24.04 users can now enable COSMIC's long-awaited Frosted Glass effect, with a wider Linux rollout expected next week.

11 Jul 2026 2:20pm GMT

Debian 13.6 is out with 120 security fixes, 124 stability updates, and Secure Boot changes, while Debian 12.15 becomes Bookworm's last point release.

11 Jul 2026 1:20pm GMT

It's unclear how the planet avoided its star's bloated red giant stage.

11 Jul 2026 12:00pm GMT

For the first time since 1995, the Bureau of Land Management is rewriting its grazing regulations.

11 Jul 2026 11:11am GMT

Reinforcement learning uses error information to adjust control algorithms.

10 Jul 2026 11:02pm GMT