Mongabay

Taiwan’s tallest tree found with help of citizen science

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Researchers have confirmed Taiwan’s tallest known tree: an 84.1-meter (276-foot) Taiwania fir they named “the Heaven Sword of the Da’an River.” A ...
Forbes

Cook County's Tax Algorithm Worked As Designed. That Was The Problem

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Cook County's machine-learning tax model made assessments fairer, yet homeowner bills soared ...
CSOonline

Claude Code has an MCP security problem — and your developers are already using it

Claude Code is Anthropic’s AI coding assistant — a command-line tool that developers are adopting fast. It connects to external services through Model Context Protocol, the standard that lets AI tools ...
ECOticias.com

Two young inventors design a brick that can cool cities using electricity, and the idea points to buildings that stop being part of the heat problem

On the hottest afternoons, a bus stop can feel like a stove. Asphalt throws heat upward, traffic adds noise and exhaust, and the shade, if there is any, barely seems to help. A new design called ‘bloc ...