Frontiers

Societal allostatic load under chronic threat: defensive dominance and collective efficacy (Iran as a case example)

Chronic exposure to threat cues such as economic unpredictability, environmental hazards, institutional coercion, and persistent uncertainty can recalibrate human behavior at scale by biasing ...
AeroTime

Mirage IIIE launches Taimoor cruise missile in Pakistan Air Force test

The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has conducted a successful flight test of the indigenously developed Taimoor air-launched cruise missile, according to a statement released on January 3, 2026. Described ...
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Federally Funded Clinical Trial Suggests Knowing HIV ‘Viral Load’ Doesn’t Improve Number of Patients Seeking Needed Care

Johns Hopkins Medicine/CDC study finds no difference overall in linkage-to-care rates if next-day testing is done to quantify number of HIV particles in a patient Paper in (bit.ly/48CwxWw) by ...
CNBC

How families could get stuck with higher electric bills if the AI data center boom goes bust

Data center demand forecasts have led to skyrocketing prices to secure future power supplies on PJM Interconnection, the largest electric grid in the U.S. Consumers served by PJM will pay $16.6 ...
The Verge

Google’s Nano Banana AI image model goes Pro and is free to try

The model that recently went viral is improved with Gemini 3 Pro. The model that recently went viral is improved with Gemini 3 Pro. is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Amazon Says Berkshire Utility Failing to Power Data Centers

Amazon.com Inc. alleges that a Berkshire Hathaway Inc.-owned utility in Oregon is failing to provide sufficient power for four new data center facilities, highlighting the strain rapid expansion of ...
The Hill

Markey pushes for nuclear arms talks with Russia, citing ‘House of Dynamite’ example

Democratic Sen. Ed Markey (Mass.) called on the Trump administration to discuss nuclear disarmament with Russia on Monday, arguing it is “our only real path to escape nuclear catastrophe.” Citing the ...
Scientific American

Resuming U.S. Nuclear Tests Is Reckless and Dangerous, One Expert Says

“The only countries that will really learn more if [U.S. nuclear] testing resumes are Russia and, to a much greater extent, China,” says Jeffrey Lewis, an expert on the geopolitics of nuclear weaponry ...
Nature

We need a new Turing test to assess AI’s real-world knowledge

Vinay K. Chaudhri is principal scientist at Knowledge Systems Research in Sunnyvale, California. Whenever assessments measure the intended skill inaccurately, it is considered a proxy failure. For ...
GitHub

Stub function for Azure Load Testing - can't retrieve credentials from both JMeter Properties and Environment variables

Hi all, I've installed Stub function for Azure Load Testing plugin, with following info: Stub function for Azure Load Testing plugin: 0.1.0 Apache JMeter: 5.6.3 O.S. Windows 11 JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit ...
GitHub

Stub function for Azure Load Testing - error loading Version 0.1.2 on startup - Netty Error filtering class

Hi all, I've installed Stub function for Azure Load Testing plugin, with following info: Stub function for Azure Load Testing plugin: 0.1.2 Apache JMeter: 5.6.3 O.S. Windows 11 JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit ...