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Grown exclusively in the Mie Prefecture in Japan, Matsusaka cattle are raised so their fat achieves the lowest melting point possible. The finest cuts of Matsusaka wagyu have a melting point of 12 degrees Celsius, 8 degrees lower than Kobe. These cows are so valuable that in 2002, one fetched 50 million yen, over $330,000, at auction.

These high prices are not about just how the cows live, but how

• Russian troops are dealing with outbreaks of "mouse fever," Ukrainian intel alleges.
• The disease is being carried by rodents in the trenches, Ukraine said.
• Symptoms include sudden intense headaches, fever, chills, and nausea, according to the CDC

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A popular training dataset for AI image generation contained links to child abuse imagery, Stanford’s Internet Observatory found, potentially allowing AI models to create harmful content.

LAION-5B, a dataset used by Stable Diffusion creator Stability AI and Google’s Imagen image generators

• NASA's deep-space laser experiment beamed an ultra-HD cat video to Earth.
• The cat clip traveled 19 million miles in just 101 seconds, faster than most broadband internet.
• Laser technology could upgrade NASA's deep-space communications and help send astronauts to Mars.

If aliens had intercepted NASA's space-laser

• The Census Bureau released new 2023 estimates that indicate just how much state populations have expanded or shrunk.
• South Carolina was the fastest-growing state from July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2023.
• New York saw its population decline from where it stood in July 2022.

While

• The Colorado Supreme Court cited part of the 14th Amendment as it booted Trump from the 2024 ballot.
• That same clause was used last year — by the same group — to remove a NM politician from office.
• But the two situations aren't the same. The Supreme Court will have the

In case you missed it, a massive ransomware attack hit Insomniac Games, the Sony-owned development studio behind games such as Ratchet & Clank and Marvel's Spider-Man 2.

Cybercriminal group Rhysida leaked 1.67 terabytes of secrets, including story spoilers and unannounced characters from unreleased games, according to Cyber Daily.

Reportedly among that breached data includes a deal Sony signed

Electric scooter company Bird is flying south for the winter, and it might be a very different kind of fowl by the time it returns. The Miami, Florida-based micro-mobility company known for allowing rambunctious, helmetless e-scooterists to fly down city streets declared bankruptcy Wednesday, saying it was entering…

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• Trump is disqualified from the ballot in Colorado, the state's Supreme Court ruled.
• But the case is sure to go to the Supreme Court.
• Colorado's court cited Justice Neil Gorsuch in their decision.

Colorado's top court appears to be already looking for sympathetic ears on the US Supreme Court to uphold its decision that would boot former President Donald Trump