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The largest lake in Earth’s history is now in the Guinness Book of World Records. The Paratethys—or Lake Paratethys, if you will—and contained 10 times more water than all of Earth’s modern lakes. In other words, it’s long overdue for its place in the Guinness Book.

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Meta has engaged in "systemic online censorship" and its "policies and practices have been silencing voices in support of Palestine" amid the war in Gaza, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch.

In the 51-page study published Wednesday, the human rights organization concluded the tech giant's content moderation policies have "censored or otherwise unduly suppressed" over 1,000 counts of

• Over 85% of short-term rentals in the US charge a cleaning fee, according to industry analysts AirDNA.
• Guests, however, have aired their frustrations over cleaning fees online over the years, calling the charges over-the-top.
• Some hosts said they need to charge cleaning fees to stay in business, while others say they don't

• The Houthi militia in Yemen is launching waves of attacks on ships in the Red Sea. 
• The US is deploying a major firepower to shoot them down. 
• The Houthis — allies of Iran — began their attacks after Israel's counterattack on Gaza. 

The US response to waves of attacks by Islamist militants on

• New data out earlier this week shows the fatal injury rates among occupations for 2022.
• Logging workers, roofers, as well as fishing and hunting workers had the highest fatal injury rates.
• The rate for logging workers was 100.7 fatal injuries per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers.

It can be pretty dangerous to be a logging worker or roofer based on their extremely high

A life without burps might sound like a blessing, but a new study shows it’s anything but. Researchers interviewed patients with the rare condition retrograde cricopharyngeus dysfunction (R-CPD), which makes them unable to burp or belch, about how it affected their daily life. Not only did patients report unpleasant…

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• The UK's supreme court has ruled that AI cannot be named as an inventor.
• A computer scientist lost an attempt to register patents for inventions he said were made by an AI.
• The Intellectual Property Office, High Court, and Court of Appeal previously made the same ruling.

The UK's supreme court ha

Connections is the latest New York Times word game that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.

If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end

• It takes a brave CEO to stand up to Apple.
• The company is arguably the most powerful tech firm in the world.
• But a recent loss for the company shows that sometimes the little guy can take on Apple and win.

It's not easy taking on a company as shrewd and muscular as Apple.

For one, the

An influential machine learning dataset—the likes of which has been used to train numerous popular image-generation applications—includes thousands of suspected images of child sexual abuse, a new academic report reveals.

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