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The monthslong closure of the Strait of Hormuz is reinforcing an expensive geopolitical lesson about how risky it can be to rely on imported energy.From South America to Southeast Asia, governments and private companies are being forced to look inward and take steps to harness what they can domestically, even when doing so raises upfront costs. Call it the era of me-first energy.Guyana, a fast-growing South American oil producer that ran short of fuel this spring, is discussing building its first refinery. Indonesia is accelerating plans to harness more power from the sun. Many other Asian countries have turned to…

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SpaceX has sealed another massive deal to rent out compute for AI — this time with Google.As the Elon Musk-owned company gets ready for its PO the terms of the agreement were disclosed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.It revealed that Google has committed to pay SpaceX $920 million per month for access to about 110,000 Nvidia GPUs, CPUs, memory, and other related components.The arrangement is set to start in October and last until June 2029, according to SpaceX.Should it fail to provide access to the agreed number of GPUs by September 30, Google will have…

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Gambling online can be much easier than going to a physical casino. “It does kind of limit the barriers to gambling because it’s so easy to be on your phone,” says Mark Meiselbach, PhD, an assistant professor in the department of Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore and an author of the JAMA Health Forum paper.Some people with a gambling disorder struggle with a psychological phenomenon called the “near-miss effect,” where a person loses a bet but believes they were close to winning.People who engage in online sports betting may keep placing…

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Whether you’re navigating a job interview, meeting someone for the first time, or responding to an unexpected challenge, success often depends on your ability to adjust your behavior. In some situations, adapting quickly can even be critical for survival. But how does the brain know when it’s time to abandon an old strategy and try something new? A new study published in Nature Communications sheds light on that question. Neuroscientists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have identified a key brain mechanism that helps animals adapt when circumstances suddenly change. The findings could improve our understanding of…

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Democrats are set to lose their leverage for reining in President Trump’s deportation force as Republicans prepare to send him a bill this week funding immigration enforcement agencies through the remainder of his term. The House will vote on the Senate-passed $70 billion package as early as Tuesday. Republicans are united in supporting multiyear funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection after Democrats declined to support annual appropriations for the agencies earlier this year. Senate Democrats filibustered the annual Homeland Security Department appropriations bill, which led to a record 76-day partial shutdown. FILE – A…

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It was an investigation long sought by Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, and it was announced not in court papers, but through a haze of cigar smoke on Joe Rogan’s podcast in early June of last year.Mr. Patel’s prized criminal inquiry, known as “the grand conspiracy case,” sought to tie together actions by a group of people that President Trump blamed for various investigations into him, going back to the examination of possible ties between his 2016 campaign and Russia, and extending into events surrounding the 2020 election and the criminal prosecutions of Mr. Trump in 2023 and 2024. In…

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Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of Armenia declared victory early Monday in a high-stakes election, overcoming a pressure campaign by Moscow and winning a mandate to move forward on peace talks with neighboring Azerbaijan that President Trump helped broker last year.The results announced by the central election commission showed that Mr. Pashinyan’s party, Civil Contract, received 49.8 percent of the vote in early results, enough to secure a majority of seats in Parliament based on Armenia’s complex electoral rules.Sunday’s election was the first time that Armenians had voted nationally since a disputed territory, Nagorno-Karabakh, was seized by Azerbaijan in 2023, a…

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