The Nightly

Madaya Kennedy: Aussie FIFO worker makes eye-boggling amount from vending machine side hustle

An Aussie FIFO worker has revealed the eye-boggling sum she makes from her side hustle after gambling nearly $10,000 of her savings to get it started. Queenslander Madaya Kennedy is a drill operator ...

Comparing FIFO and LIFO Inventory Valuation Methods

Explore how FIFO and LIFO inventory methods affect your balance sheet, cost of goods sold, and net profit. Understand why ...

STMicroelectronics’ tiny motion sensor boosts comfort and precision in wearable and implantable medical applications

Produced using biocompatible materials and manufacturing processes, the MIS2DU12 has a 20nA power-down and sub-1µA active mode to extend the operating envelope of implantables such as cardiac monitors ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Decision Tree Regression from Scratch Without Pointers or Recursion Using C#

Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of decision tree regression from scratch using the C# language. The goal of decision tree regression is to predict a single numeric ...
CNET

Starlink Is Using Your Personal Data to Train AI. Here’s How to Opt Out

Starlink says it may also share personal data with partners to help it "develop AI-enabled tools that improve your customer experience.” Joe Supan is a senior writer for CNET covering home technology, ...
New York Post

A cow named Veronika shocked scientists with a new skill — proving they’re a lot smarter than we thought: ‘Not accidental’

She needed a moo-sage. Utilizing implements isn’t limited to primates and brainiac birds. A brown cow named Veronika was documented using tools with impressive skill for the first time ever, ...
Wired

‘Veronika’ Is the First Cow Known to Use a Tool

Justice for Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson: A team of scientists has observed, for the first time, a cow using a tool in a flexible manner. The ingenuity of “Veronika,” as the animal is called, shows ...
Science News

This tool-using cow defies expectations for bovine braininess

A deck brush can be a good tool for the right task. Just ask Veronika, the Brown Swiss cow. Veronika uses both ends of a deck brush to scratch various parts of her body, researchers report January 19 ...
Scientific American

A tool-using cow is challenging what we know about farm animal intelligence

In news that is sure to delight fans of a certain Gary Larson cartoon turned meme about the limitations of bovine cognition, cow tools are real. Larson’s 1982 comic for his series The Far Side showed ...
Education Week

More Teachers Are Using AI in Their Classrooms. Here’s Why

The percentage of teachers who are using artificial intelligence-driven tools in their classrooms nearly doubled between 2023 and 2025, according to data from the EdWeek Research Center. In 2023, a ...
GitHub

How can I produce truly fixed-size SST files when using FIFO compaction in RocksDB?

I’m trying to generate SST files with a strict, fixed size under FIFO compaction. I’ve set write_buffer_size and target_file_size_base to 512 MB, but the resulting files still vary (roughly 505–518 MB ...
CNN

In a scientific first, biologists recorded a wild wolf potentially using tools

A female wild wolf living on the central coast of British Columbia was filmed pulling a crab trap out of the ocean to eat the bait — a never-before-seen behavior that could constitute the first ...