Through extraordinary efforts, WindBorne Systems successfully navigated a controllable... balloon above powerful Typhoon Dolphin, descended into its eye, then collected multiple vertical profiles as we circled inside its eye. A first of its kind type of hurricane data collection.show more

i minted my first nft collection as a full-time... artist. the work is built from a hopfield network, one of the most fundamental forms of neural network. it learns different writing systems, then begins to forget them. as its memories decay, it starts producing glyphs it was never taught.show more

$U by U is now live on BNB Chain.... As a first-of-its-kind stablecoin, $U unifies all major stablecoins into a single liquidity layer across trading, payments, DeFi, institutional settlement and AI-native systems. This enables greater capital efficiency and a smoother user experience across onchain use cases. More on why this matters 🧵👇show more

🌪️ Category 5 Typhoon RAGASA-25 (Nando), the strongest storm... in the world this year, showed its perfect eye as it passed over Calayan Island. 👉 Winds peaked at 269 km/h (165+ mph) after rapid intensification, unleashing torrential rain and destructive gusts across northern Luzon. ⚠️ Nearly 10 million people are within reach of hurricane-force winds, with thousands already evacuated in the Philippines. Storm surge warnings up to 3 meters remain in place, while Hong Kong, Taiwan & southern China prepare for impact. Even without direct landfall, outer bands are bringing flooding, landslides & life-threatening conditions. A reminder of how fast today’s warming oceans can supercharge storms. 🌏 Follow its path on the Hurricane Tracker on 🌀 #Typhoon #HurricaneSeason25 #Ragasashow more

Sometimes you gotta run before you can walk &... we are running for Art Basel. OASIS x ES c/o Riccardo Contini A limited edition collection of pure 18k gold smart rings handmade by Italian artisans – the first of its kind. Only ten pieces available.show more

The treacherous quadcopter hovers above us, playing the sound... of a crying child to lure someone out… then fires without mercy. I can clearly hear the sound of its rotors and the gunfire — as if death is whispering in my ear. Look at the terror we are living through… I feel death drawing closer with every passing moment.show more

NEW: Chicago records its first homicide of 2026 just... days into the new year. 51-year-old Marcos Almeida was found shot multiple times in the chest, head and back inside a South Shore home Saturday morning. He was pronounced dead at the scene. No one in custody as detectives investigate.show more

A lone Komodo dragon stalks through the brush, targeting... a baby goat distracted by its own feeding. With a sudden, explosive burst of speed, the dragon closes the gap before the goat can react. Utilizing its powerful, serrated teeth and muscular jaws, the Komodo dragon secures a firm grip on the small prey. Because of its highly flexible skull and ability to expand its throat, the dragon does not stop to tear the carcass apart. Instead, it maneuvers the baby goat and gobbles it down whole in a matter of seconds. This efficient feeding method allows the dragon to consume a massive amount of protein instantly, leaving no trace behind as it retreats back into the shadows of the island scrub.show more

It feels kind of bananas that we can watch... an El Niño forming live as it happens. This is sea surface temperature anomaly data. Keep your eye on the west coast of South America, and how the current on the equator starts by flowing away, but then reverses and flows towards land and builds a bank of hot surface water (yellow).show more

Shield worlds were the Didact's proposed counter-solution to the... Flood. Requiem, the first of its kind, came to serve as a silent tomb for the Promethean commander after he was driven mad by the Gravemind and turned into an agent of chaos for the Flood. #FictionFridayshow more

China publicly demonstrated its truck-mounted electromagnetic aircraft launch system... (EMALS) for the first time, successfully launching a drone from a modular catapult built from multiple linked trucks. Three or more trucks connect to form a catapult that can be rapidly assembled and moved. The catapult is part of a broader family of containerized military systems—including missiles, radars, electronic warfare, and command centers—that can be deployed from ships or land. It is designed to launch drones where runways don’t exist, such as islands, remote areas, or civilian ships converted into drone carriers. Chinese sources reportedly aim to produce 2,000 containerized systems annually. Source: KAROTASU, TWZshow more

USS Missouri (BB-63) Enters Pearl Harbor Crowds lined the... shoreline as the battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) made its way through the channel into Pearl Harbor. Spectators gathered to witness the historic vessel’s arrival, marking its transition from an active warship to a permanent museum ship alongside the nearby USS Arizona Memorial. The Missouri’s journey began in Bremerton, Washington, where it had been stationed before being carefully towed across the Pacific. As it entered the harbor, the ship drew the attention of onlookers eager to see one of the most iconic battleships in U.S. naval history return to a place of deep historical significance. Its arrival symbolized more than just a relocation — it represented the preservation of a powerful legacy. Now positioned as a museum ship, the USS Missouri offers visitors the chance to step aboard and experience its history firsthand, standing in solemn proximity to the Arizona Memorial as a lasting reminder of the past.show more

Hailuo 2.3 on Hailuo AI-MiniMax Design Prompt: A highly... detailed, cinematic overhead shot of a colossal ancient sea monster emerging just below the ocean surface. Extreme close-up on its enormous reptilian eye filling almost the entire frame, textured scaly skin, deep ridges and cracks, glowing amber-yellow-green iris with a sharp vertical black slit pupil. A tiny luxury yacht floats vulnerably on the curved surface of the eye, dwarfed in scale, looking minuscule against the massive creature. Dramatic moody lighting, teal-green underwater glow, misty atmosphere, rays of light from above piercing the water. Cinematic, hyper-realistic, epic fantasy horror style, high detail, 8K, slow motion. The boat gently rocks and moves across the eye as the enormous eyelid blinks once, water subtly rippling, terrifying yet majestic scale, slow camera zoom out.show more

We look back on a successful first week of... our daily quest campaign! We already have over 105k participants. All part of our Airdrop! Soon, you can join Hybrid's public testnet, try Atlas Lite, and contribute to its development before wider release. Every day between 12:00 PM and 4:00 PM UTC, a new quest goes live. So, keep an eye on our quest platform!👇show more

Going 88 miles per hour into the future of... Web3. Today, we are unveiling our next step towards revolutionizing how drivers get behind the wheel. Powered by a collaboration with Otherlife and MoonPay 🟣, DeLorean Motor Company new Web3 marketplace for current and future reservations is a first-of-its-kind experience. Coming Q4 2024.show more

We MUST ban cloud seeding in America for public... health Both RFK Jr and Head of the EPA Lee Zeldin confirmed its happening in America and said it would be a priority to ban it - First they spray our skies - Then the trail spreads - Then it turns into this:show more

🚨NEW: Hurricane Lala is pounding Hawaii's Big Island, leaving... more than 60,000 residents without power. The governor has confirmed one death. The Category 1 hurricane’s core scraped the southern tip of the island, but its eye ultimately passed just offshore, narrowly avoiding what would have been the Big Island’s first hurricane landfall in 155 years. Volcanoes National Park has taken over 20 inches of rain. Mauna Kea clocked a 140 mph gust. Maui, Oahu and Kauai remain under tropical storm warnings as Lala tracks south-west. This is Hilo’s Rainbow Falls today compared to a normal day.show more

After a formative time at OpenAI, I’m launching Maison... AGI (Maison AGI), a fashion house creating cultural artifacts for the AI era. Our first collection, Relic of Thought, is a collaboration with Ilya Sutskever (Ilya Sutskever), featuring his original artworks alongside a signature hat modeled after his iconic head. It is a study in conviction and the clarity of vision that gives thought its form. I believe we're living through something extraordinary that deserves to be remembered. Not in research papers or technical model cards, but in tangible objects we can hold, wear, and pass down. Working alongside some of the world's brilliant researchers building Claude and ChatGPT, I've come to realize they are among the most creative minds alive. Research, at its best, is an act of imagination: the ability to glimpse what doesn't yet exist and then build toward it. Many of them remain unseen, even as their work quietly reshapes our future. Though AGI progress can feel incomprehensible from the outside, its story is deeply human - full of curiosity, conviction, and creation. We're bridging that world with the creatives who give form to ideas. This may be humanity's last time to create a hand-crafted project before what we build surpasses us. Each collection is also a message to superintelligence itself: that we cared, and that we tried to make beauty out of understanding.show more

Humanitarian summary Aug. 12: 🚛📦Aid entry: Close to 320... trucks entered Gaza through the Kerem Shalom and Zikim crossings. 🛻📦Aid collection: Close to 320 trucks were collected and distributed by the UN and international organizations. ⛽️Fuel: 3 tankers of UN fuel entered for the operation of essential humanitarian systems. ✈️📦Airdrops: 97 pallets of aid were airdropped in cooperation with the UAE, Germany, Belguim, Italy, and France. ⚙️Humanitarian personnel: A rotation coordination of humanitarian personnel has been successfully completed. We will continue expanding our efforts to facilitate humanitarian aid for the civilian population of Gaza.show more

Once again, the Black Skimmer is demonstrating the wonders... of aerodynamics. Each twist of the body, each individual feather helping steer while a wall of crashing white water rumbles just behind the bird’s outstretched tail. Like a surgeon’s scalpel, the bird’s lower beak surgically slices through the water with utmost care and precision in hopes of coming into contact with a poor, unsuspecting fish. This attempt might have been unsuccessful, but it doesn’t seem like the bird has a care in the world. It just keeps skimming through the shallows, waiting for that tasty morsel to graze its outstretched beak. So remember, when failure raises its head and stares you in the eye. Just keep skimming because eventually you’ll succeed just like the magical Black Skimmer.show more

🚨 THIS IS DISTURBING: BILL GATES WAS ARRESTED -... THEN HID HIS MUGSHOT INSIDE MILLIONS OF MICROSOFT USER PROFILES In 1977, Bill Gates was arrested for driving without a license. That’s documented history, not disputed. What’s disturbing is what came later. When Microsoft released Microsoft Outlook 2010, the default user profile silhouette quietly mirrored Gates’ real mugshot. Not kind of. Exactly. This man overlays them and it lines up perfectly. This wasn’t a prank by an intern. This was his trillion dollar company quietly embedding its founder’s face into millions of digital identities. What kind of power makes someone comfortable leaving their mugshot everywhere?show more