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Since 2014, Womanizer has been satisfying people with vulvas all over the world. Thanks to its revolutionary Pleasure Air Technology, which mimics the feeling of oral sex, Womanizer not only discovered a way to stimulate the 10,000+ nerve endings in the clitoris in a way no sex toy had before—yes, they were the first—but the brand can even boast a 100% orgasm rate among users.As a company that puts sexual pleasure front and center, Womanizer has continued to expand its very impressive lineup of orgasm-inducing toys. They’ve even branched out by creating products like the Womanizer Duo and Womanizer Duo 2, both of…

The Rust project warned last week that an ongoing social engineering campaign is targeting Rust-lang team members and the owners of popular crates to hijack developer credentials and deploy malicious packages. The crates.io team and the security response working group issued the warning. According to the alert, attackers lure targets into video calls under the guise of job offers or contract opportunities.  Once on the call, the target is tricked into installing software under the pretext of a missing audio codec or executing malicious code pasted to their clipboard. To lend the approach credibility, the attackers are creating new companies…

Australia’s new 40-year economic outlook has identified artificial intelligence as one of five major transitions expected to have a profound effect on the economy, while leaving out any mention of crypto. The latest Intergenerational Report, published on Monday by the Australian Treasury, described agentic AI systems as having become “significantly” more capable, autonomous and widely used — surpassing human-level performance on some benchmarks. The other major transitions are geopolitical conflicts, an aging population, a shift to clean energy and Australia’s industrial transformation toward services.“The Intergenerational Report makes it clear that Australia’s prosperity over the next 40 years will depend heavily on…

1 Min Read Perseverance’s View of ‘Turquoise Bay’ PIA26815 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal Perseverance’s View of… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Description NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture this 360-degree panorama of “Turquoise Bay,” a geologic area of interest in the “Margin Unit.” The 818 images used to create the natural-color panorama were captured between Oct. 5 and Oct. 16, 2023, the 933rd to 944th Martian days, or sols, of the mission. Figure A is an enhanced-color version, in which color bands were processed to improve visual contrast and accentuate…

Well into its fourth year, the war in Sudan is the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. At least 59,000 people have been killed and more than 14 million displaced, while famine and widespread sexual violence have left millions in urgent need of food, medicine, and mental health support. Sudanese people know the war must end—and, God willing, it will. But after more than a dozen failed cease-fires brokered by international parties, it is time to put a lasting end to this war so the guns do not return when the world looks away. That is what Sudanese civilians ask of me,…

Nearly 4m records documenting the lives of enslaved people across 20 former British colonies have been made searchable online for the first time.The records have been digitised and indexed by the genealogy company Ancestry, which has partnered with the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at University College London.The global collection offers millions of descendants across the African-Caribbean and wider African diasporas access to one of the most extensive surviving archives of British enslavement, potentially helping them uncover family histories.The collection, known as the Former British Colonies Enslavement Registers, contains about 300,000 pages recording enslaved people…

There is always something oddly unreal about party conference season. In theory, everyone is getting away from Westminster to better reflect on the state of the nation. In practice, the whole circus just briefly relocates to the coast, to live off warm white wine and gossip for three days, before coming back with a streaming cold. But this year, reality seems more elusive than usual.Everyone knows hard choices loom, but everyone is frightened to make them. Every serious party needs billions of pounds to fund their promises, and everyone knows there’s an obvious place to find the money, but nobody…

Interview with Philip R. Lane, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, conducted by Sébastien Ruche on 15 September 202622 September 2026How does the ECB assess the ongoing energy crisis? Essentially, we experienced an initial wave of energy price increases in March and April this year, and then some optimism after the United States and Iran signed the Memorandum of Understanding on 17 June to bring the conflict to an end.But then the war continued…Indeed. We are now seeing a second wave of price increases, not just for oil but also for gas. That’s why we indicated on 10…

T-Mobile for Business is the upgrade a small business owner will find useful, with unlimited plans, a super-fast 5G network, and customer support whenever you need it. With no data overages, surprise fees, or annual service contracts, there’s an affordable plan for any type of business. Plus, without an annual contract, you’re never locked into anything long term, and as your business changes and grows, your plan can change too.With T-Mobile for Business, you can focus on your growing business, knowing you’ll have unlimited data and texting in over 215 countries, four full-flight Wi-Fi sessions per year, and unlimited one-hour…

Coding agents now run for hours, not minutes. Every edit, test run and log read goes back into the model’s context. A team of researchers from NVIDIA, NTU and MIT have released SoL-Pi, a set of 4 efficiency mechanisms for the open-source Pi coding agent. An AI found these mechanisms by running auto-research loops at the harness layer. On the 51-task EdgeBench evaluation, SoL-Pi cuts recorded token traffic by 44.7% to 49.0% versus Pi and cuts API cost by roughly 33%. Its scores stay close to Pi on both GPT-5.6 Sol and Opus 5. Is it deployable? Yes. SoL-Pi ships…