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Astronomers are reporting surprising signs of an atmosphere around a tiny distant world billions of miles from Earth — a so-called plutino, one of the icy bodies sharing Pluto's orbital neighborhood. It's a reminder that even the frozen edges of our solar system can still catch scientists off guard.
Closer to home, the ongoing conflict involving Iran is doing something energy markets couldn't accomplish alone — accelerating the adoption of solar panels and heat pumps across Europe. Households rattled by volatile energy prices are moving fast, and the data suggests this shift is structural, not just a spike.
And in open source software, the maintainers of the PlayStation three emulator RPCS3 have had to ask their community — politely but firmly — to stop submitting AI-generated pull requests. The code is arriving faster than humans can review it, and much of it doesn't meet basic quality standards. It's a real tension: AI lowers the barrier to contribution, but someone still has to do the work of judgment.
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