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• A Ukrainian sea-drone operator took out a Russian patrol ship, per The New York Times.
• His "whole" team was "filled with emotion" when he struck it in September, he told the newspaper.
• Sea drones have the potential to end Russia's "reign" over the Black Sea, he suggested.

A Ukrainian sea-drone operator

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The best sci-fi movie of 2023 is already making an early play for the best sci-fi movie of 2024 on a technicality. After its unprecedented international success, Godzilla Minus One is returning to Japanese theaters for a special release in black and white.

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• The Cybertruck is the first Tesla vehicle with "wade mode."
• The feature allows the truck to drive through around 30 inches of water.
• Turning on wade mode "raises ride height and pressurizes battery when driving through water."

While the Cybertruck isn't able to cross lakes and seas like Musk once promised, it does have something called "wade mode" that

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.

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