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7 Python mistakes that make your code slow (and the fixes that matter)

Python is a language that seems easy to do, especially for prototyping, but make sure not to make these common mistakes when ...
Yahoo

The Florida reef gecko is disappearing—can we save it before it’s too late?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Florida reef gecko, which lives in small pockets of South Florida’s tropical hardwood hammocks, is the only gecko native to ...
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The secret Python switch: How one flag makes your scripts run faster

Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.
Mercury News

Miss Manners: Can we use the wedding save-the-date as an elimination round?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My daughter is planning a wedding in 14 months. We are currently looking at venues in the city where she lives, which is a six-hour drive from our hometown. Related Articles Miss ...
Forbes

Congress Can Begin Viewing Unredacted Epstein Files Next Week, Report Says

Federal lawmakers will be able to review unredacted Epstein files starting next week, according to NBC News, offering a chance to see the publicly available documents linked to the convicted sex ...
TechCrunch

Adobe Acrobat now lets you edit files using prompts, generate podcast summaries

Adobe has been aggressively adding AI features to all its products in the last few years. The company is now adding more AI tools to Acrobat, including the ability to generate podcast summaries of ...
Reason

Can We Save American History From Partisan Politics?

This week, guest host Eric Boehm is joined by Colleen Shogan, the former archivist of the United States and head of the National Archives, the federal agency responsible for preserving presidential ...
Austin American-Statesman

When can we file taxes in 2026? See earliest date to file, how to track tax refund

Get your W-2s ready. In two weeks, the Internal Revenue Service will begin accepting 2025 tax returns. The 2026 tax season begins Jan. 26, the agency announced Thursday. “The Internal Revenue Service ...
The Atlantic

Can We Save the Internet?

In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel discusses the nightmare playing out on Elon Musk’s X: Grok, the platform’s embedded AI chatbot, is being used to generate and spread nonconsensual ...
The New Yorker

Can We Save Wine from Wildfires?

According to Mike Zolnikov, who tends a couple of acres of Pinot Noir and an acre of Chardonnay on a flat, slightly soggy patch of the central Willamette Valley, in Oregon, it had been a ...
Yahoo

Posts claim Epstein files can be unredacted with copy and paste. Here's what we know

Soon after the U.S. Department of Justice released a batch of documents related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in late December 2025, social media users claimed the text hidden by redactions ...