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Hyper-vigilance isn’t a personality trait — it’s a stress response first documented in combat veterans, and researchers later found the same scanning-for-danger reflex in...

In 1941, the psychiatrist Abram Kardiner published The Traumatic Neuroses of War, a clinical study of American soldiers returning from the First World War who could not stop scanning rooms for threats. Kardiner described men who flinched at car...

LōD to Pilot Grid-Responsive AI Technology with Dominion Energy

LōD Technologies has been selected to pilot its flexible AI inference technology with Dominion Energy, one of North America’s largest energy providers. The pilot follows LōD’s selection for the Dominion Energy Innovation Center’s 2026 Accelerate program, a startup accelerator backed...

Albo’s AI FOMO

At one end of the ADC spectrum is the broken promise of the current capital gains tax changes. At the other, the PM’s trademark delay/defer/dilute/drift approach – think gambling ad reforms, religious and LGBTQI protections, environmental law reforms. Wednesday’s carefully...

Telstra was warned the $30k part that crippled the nation needed upgrades, didn’t do it, and now has 8000 claims for compensation

US-based supplier Microchip Technology warned the telco multiple times a Network Time Protocol server required a software update to prevent a “rollover problem” that would take down the system, Telstra officials told a parliamentary inquiry in Canberra. The snap inquiry...

The reason a chosen breakup can leave a hollow you did not choose: the good reasons for leaving live in one part of the...

Ann Graybiel’s team at MIT has studied rats running mazes and mapped circuits in the brain where repeated actions become habits. The dorsolateral striatum, a small structure buried under the cortex, plays a key role in habit formation, and...

In a classic experiment, people preferred to repeat 90 seconds of painfully cold water rather than 60 seconds of the same pain because the...

There is the pain a person lives through, and then there is the pain their memory files away for later. The unsettling part of the classic cold-water experiment is that those two versions of an experience do not always...

The EU says Instagram and Facebook’s addictive design likely breaks its rules — and it wants autoplay and infinite scroll off by default

The European Commission said on 10 July that the design of Instagram and Facebook probably breaks European law, in a preliminary finding that Meta did not do enough to keep its platforms from being addictive. Regulators pointed to four...

Most of what you do all day runs on habit, not choice — but a new study found the habits are usually working for...

You woke up this morning and, somewhere between the alarm and the front door, made a few dozen small decisions you will never remember making. Which foot hit the floor. Coffee before the shower or after. The precise path...

How GroundedAI Is Bringing AI Below the Surface

Canada is preparing to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on transit, energy, mining, and other major infrastructure projects. But some of the biggest threats to delivering that work on time and on budget lie beneath the surface. Unlike above-ground...

An Expanding DMG Invests in Local Startups with ‘Tremendous Synergies’

DMG Blockchain Solutions this week unveiled multiple strategic investments aimed at supporting growth objectives. The B.C.-based vertically integrated digital asset and data centre technology company is investing in MeetAmi Innovations. Founded in 2019, MeetAmi is a Vancouver fintech company targeting digital...
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Trump Killed the Truth, the Left Must Now Bury It

Let’s begin with this question: Why is the social media platform that’s so obviously filled with lies called “Truth...
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