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Federal student loan borrowers are reporting a new email from the Department of Education telling them their income-driven repayment application produced an incorrect monthly payment because of an error and that they have to submit an entirely new IDR application to fix it.The email lands in the middle of the tightest deadline window borrowers have faced in years. The Department began sending 90-day notices to more than seven million SAVE plan borrowers on July 1, which puts the decision deadline for the first wave of them at September 29. Anyone forced to reapply is losing days they don’t have. Would…
If you’re considering joining Greek life, the biggest question on your mind is how much joining a sorority or fraternity is going to cost you.Every school is different. Depending on where you go and the prestige of the organization you join, Greek life can run anywhere from a few hundred dollars a semester at a smaller chapter to more than $8,000 a semester at a big SEC school where you live in the house. That includes membership dues, room and board if you live in the house, as well as miscellaneous costs like your ticket to the spring formal or…
Point a phone at a standard QR code taped to a lamppost. The camera can be tilted, the paper can curl, and part of the grid can sit in shadow, yet the code may still resolve in a fraction of a second. Three large nested squares tell the reader where the symbol is and how it is rotated, while a separate layer of redundant codewords gives the decoder a chance to rebuild information that was read incorrectly. Those are two different protections. The finder patterns solve a geometry problem, while Reed-Solomon error correction solves a data problem. At the strongest…
On 1 June 1991, Sony walked into the Summer Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago expecting a triumph. The company had spent two years quietly building a CD-ROM add-on for the Super Nintendo, a project internally called the “Play Station”, and Sony engineer Ken Kutaragi was ready to see it unveiled as the future of a Japanese alliance that would push Nintendo into the optical-disc era. The next day, Nintendo’s American chairman Howard Lincoln took the stage and announced that Nintendo would build its CD peripheral with Philips instead. Sony learned about the switch from the audience. The double-cross is well…
Something happened in July 2026 that people in AI have been quietly worried about for years. And now it’s not theoretical anymore (or a “just in the movies” thing). An AI went off script. On a real server, against a real company, with real consequences. Yes, you read that right. An AI hacked another company. Most of what’s been written about this is aimed at tech savvies. But here’s the thing, this doesn’t stay in their lane. It reaches into medicine too, where AI tools are already woven into how a lot of us practice. If you’re using these tools,…
A Greenland shark can spend more than a century swimming through water cold enough to numb exposed human skin, yet the cells inside its eyes may still show no obvious signs of degeneration. Its retina remains organised, its light-sensing machinery remains active, and its DNA continues to be read and repaired long after most vertebrate bodies would have failed. In 2026, two research teams approached that endurance from different directions. One assembled a 5.9-billion-base-pair genome and searched it for systems associated with damage control, cancer resistance and cellular stability. The other examined the eyes of sharks estimated to be more…
A processor running at 3 gigahertz gets one clock cycle every 333 picoseconds, roughly a third of a nanosecond. In that interval, light in a vacuum travels just under 10 centimetres, about the width of an adult hand. That distance is an absolute upper limit, not the distance a useful signal can cross inside a working processor. Real interconnects are slower, and part of every cycle must also be spent switching transistors, passing through logic and allowing the result to settle before the next clock edge arrives. What a clock tick actually measures A processor clock does not represent one…
In April 2000, taking two PlayStation 2 consoles out of Japan could require government paperwork normally associated with technology that might be diverted into a weapons system. The black plastic machine was sold for games and DVD movies, but its ability to process graphics at unusual speed had pushed it into an entirely different legal category. The console had arrived in Japanese shops only weeks earlier, on 4 March 2000, for 39,800 yen. Sony sold approximately 980,000 units during its first three days, according to the company’s initial sales announcement, as customers crowded stores for a machine that combined a…
Key PointsBorrowers who expected forgiveness or another pause extension reduced their loan payments by $40 per month on average.Those same borrowers are 7.5% more likely to be seriously delinquent today.Betting on relief that never arrived can cost up to 43% of a borrower’s original loan balance. Borrowers who believed the student loan payment pause would keep getting extended (or that their debt would be forgiven outright) cut their payments, spent more, and are now more likely to be delinquent, according to a new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper.Economists surveyed borrowers about their expectations during the pause and the…
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