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Myanmar's military has taken control of KK Park and is inspecting the area, driving a large number of people into Thailand, the statement said.

Myanmar's KK Park is  a notorious enclave  known to international law enforcement and diplomats  for its involvement in cyberscams.
KK Park's sprawling compound and others nearby are run primarily by  Chinese criminal gangs  and guarded by local militia groups  aligned to Myanmar's military.

I've come think there's something more at play here than a mere investment bubble. The unspoken consensus seems to be that unlike blockchain, AI isn't a mere candidate for being the next disruptor. We are, in fact, done with candidates: AI must be it, or we're screwed. So, we're betting it all on this LLM card.

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A common (and fairly poor) counterargument when complaining about crap results from LLMs is "bad prompting" - but in the case of Google searches, I'm not the one prompting it. Surely Google themselves should know how to use the LLM they've developed to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars?

So far, much of the attention has been on the stratospheric prices that Americans might see on plans they buy from Affordable Care Act marketplaces. Critical tax credits for those plans are set to expire at the end of the year, and, on top of that, insurers have proposed a median 18 percent price increase for 2026. With the higher prices and a loss of credits, some Americans could see their monthly premiums more than double.

In an analysis last month, nonpartisan health policy group KFF estimated that, on average, ACA marketplace premiums would rise 114 percent, going from $888 in 2025 to $1,904 in 2026.

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The Nation of Gods and Earths was founded by Clarence 13X after he left the Nation of Islam (NOI)'s Temple No. 7 in Harlem, New York, the same temple where Malcolm X was a minister from 1960 to 1963.

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He was joined by Abu Shahid, formerly John 37X, who agreed with Allah's questioning of Wallace Fard Muhammad. Allah the Father and Shahid were nicknamed "High Scientists" due to their intense study of lessons.[5] Allah was joined by Justice, formerly James 109X, and before that, James Howell, who became one of Allah's closest associates until his death.

Today, the groups are so embedded that Davies argues that they are a key part of the political economy. The money they generate helps power Cambodia’s patronage system like illegal logging once did, he said, adding, “Cambodia is feudalism plus capitalism plus gangsterism.”

…the NYC Open Data Week Multi-Park Squirrel Count did not rely on a rigorous methodology…

According to The Economist, 100,000 Russian troops have been killed in combat in 2025 alone — a roughly five to one ratio of Ukraine’s deaths. That is at least six times the Soviet Union’s 1980s death toll in Afghanistan — an unpopular war that drained support for Moscow’s regime. If those kill estimates are correct, Russia has a bigger recruitment problem than Ukraine in spite of having almost four times the population. Moreover, Ukraine’s ability to target Russia’s oil and gas war-funding spigot is draining Putin of money for his recruitment bonuses. He could be forced to shift to conscription for the frontline, which would jeopardise support for his regime. Though Ukraine continues to suffer from its own thinning ranks, invading armies tend to suffer heavier losses than defending ones.

Putin has almost nothing to show for all that blood.

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What makes Trump so sure Putin is winning? Explaining why Putin is so good at sweet-talking the US president triggers polarised responses. Some believe that Putin has some kind of a secret hold over Trump. Others say that is deep state propaganda. Whatever lies behind Trump’s cupidity, we should be long past caring why. The reality is settled fact. Putin has fewer cards in his hand than Trump supposes. One of those cards is Trump.

From quantum electrodynamics it can be found that photons cannot couple directly to each other and a fermionic field according to the Landau-Yang theorem[11] since they carry no charge and no 2 fermion + 2 boson vertex exists due to requirements of renormalizability, but they can interact through higher-order processes or couple directly to each other in a vertex with an additional two W bosons: a photon can, within the bounds of the uncertainty principle, fluctuate into a virtual charged fermion–antifermion pair, to either of which the other photon can couple. This fermion pair can be leptons or quarks.