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• Suffolk County, Long Island's heavy reliance on septic tanks is contaminating its groundwater.
• It's also restricting the construction of dense housing as home prices and rents soar.
• Sewer issues are sometimes used as an excuse to avoid building more housing, activists say.

When you flush the toilet, you

• The Evergrande collapse is not China's 'Lehman moment,' but it does complicate an economic recovery, CFR expert said.
• "Unlike Lehman, Evergrande's insolvency is due to its excessive borrowing and aggressive use of leverage, not over-securitization."
• But Evergrande's property crash has exacerbated weak

• Republicans lost George Santos's seat in a special election on Tuesday.
• That cuts the House GOP's majority down by one vote.
• Rep. Mike Collins is pointing fingers at the more than 100 Republicans who voted to expel Santos.

Rep. Mike Collins is taking one lesson from

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Chatbots occupy a tricky space for users — they have to be a search engine, a creation tool, and an assistant all at once. That’s especially true for a chatbot coming from Google, which is increasingly counting on AI to supplement its search engine, its voice assistant, and just about every productivity tool in its arsenal.

Right now, the ultimate version of

Apple appears to be turning off the ability to use web apps right from the iPhone’s homescreen in the European Union. Support for progressive web apps appeared to be broken inside in the EU during the first two betas of iOS 17.4, but today developer Maximiliano Firtman said in a post on X that web apps are still turned off in the third beta, which

Microsoft and OpenAI say that several state-backed hacking groups are using the latter’s generative AI (GAI) tools to bolster cyberattacks. The pair suggests that new research details for the first time how hackers linked to foreign governments are making use of GAI. The groups in question have ties to China, Russia, North Korea and Iran.

According to the companies, the state actors are using GAI

Dutch fintech Finom has raised €50mn, which the startup will use to boost its digital banking services. Founded in 2019, the Amsterdam-based business operates a pan-European neobank for SMEs and entrepreneurs. It integrates online banking, accounting, and financial management into a single platform. Kos Stiskin, co-founder at Finom, said the company was built to simplify banking for small

Get to know Kung Fu Panda 4's mysterious new thief in the latest clip. Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway are setting their sites on dinosaurs for David Mitchell’s new movie. Millie Bobby Brown goes dragon-chasing in a new trailer for Netflix’s Damsel. Plus, a new look at Disney+’s afrofuturist animated series Iwájú.…

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• The "singles tax" for solo renters has increased to an annual average of $7,110.
• New York City has the highest singles tax among major cities analyzed in a recent Zillow analysis.
• Zillow's Emily McDonald said the rental market is "normalizing," but affordability is an issue.

Sorry singles: In today's economy, it pays to be coupled up — at least if you're looking to

Since 1979, Arctic ice has shrunk by 1.35 million square miles, a new JPL study found ice loss in Greenland is far worse than previously thought and Antarctic ice is now at the lowest level since records began. The more they melt, the faster the rate of decline for the ice that remains until we’re faced with a series of catastrophes. The most immediate of which is sea level rise which threatens to