ANNALS OF AUTOPHAGY:  Researchers Discover a Surprising Twist in How Our Cells Age

Scientists Found a Bizarre Pattern in Over 1,000 Cases of Alleged Human Reincarnation

A scammer could use what’s already exposed about you

OutThere: “Enter your email and we’ll look up what’s out there.Then we’ll show you the scam it could become.”

New Data Show How Much Worse Scams Are Getting for Americans Over 60

Gizmodo: “The Federal Trade Commission released a new report Monday on fraud targeting older Americans, defined as people 60 and older. And things just keep getting worse. The report, which is mandated by Congress under the Elder Abuse Prevention and Prosecution Act of 2017, found that the amount of money seniors reported to the FTC as being lost to fraud jumped from $600 million in 2020 to $3 billion in 2025. 

But the real number is likely several times that, since most fraud goes unreported. The FTC estimates that the overall cost in 2025 could be anywhere from $13.5 billion to $119.5 billion, depending on which methodology is used. That’s an increase of as much as 47% over 2024…”

Source document – FTC Issues Annual Report to Congress on Agency’s Actions to Protect Older Adults. Older adults continue to report losing far more money to investment scams than to any other fraud type, the FTC’s report finds

The Chestnut Grove Caught in the Middle of A Years-Long Data Center Fight

404 Media: “They want to put a data center in a grove of endangered trees, PHP faces a massive vulnerability, and a Republican candidate for Congress left his AI prompt exposed. Lots going on today, let’s get into it. Near the bank of the Ohio River, a historic American chestnut grove in Mason County, West Virginia has become the epicenter of a fight against a planned 2,250 acre data center campus. Plans for the UK-based startup Nscale’s Monarch Compute Campus, with clients including Anthropic, Nvidia and Microsoft, encompass the former Clements State Nursery and the American chestnut trees still growing there. For thousands of years, the American chestnut tree was a staple of life. Its natural range spanned hundreds of millions of acres from Maine to Mississippi, centuries before those names existed. As many as four billion trees provided a hearty nut crop for humans and provided miraculously rot-resistant lumber for railroad ties and housing. 

It sustained black bears as they prepared to hibernate, fed white-tailed deer and turkey, and shed nutrient-dense leaves. The largest American chestnut trees once grew 100 feet tall and 13 feet wide and represented one-fourth of all hardwoods; a squirrel could scamper along their branches from New England to Georgia without touching the ground, as an old saying goes. In 1904, a forester at the Bronx zoo noticed something alarming among their American chestnuts: 

The trees were dying en masse, struck by a mysterious blight. Within 40 years, that blight — thought to be brought to America on Asian chestnut trees — wiped out the tree’s population to near-extinction. Since then, conservationists have worked to restore American Chestnut trees and breed blight-resistant specimens. Typically, threats to groves include pests, climate change, and the fungus that destroyed their ancestors. Today, however, a new threat has entered the picture: data centers. 

Across the country, communities are pushing back against massive hyperscale data center projects, protesting against the noise pollution, environmental impacts, and blow to property values near these computer warehouses. In many places, elected officials are forging ahead to allow these multi-billion dollar deals in direct defiance of their constituents’ wishes. Earlier this year, an Oklahoma farmer was arrested at a town hall meeting for speaking over his time against a 255-acre data center. 

Data centers are easy to build but much harder and slower to power, and their workarounds are egregious; For example, Elon Musk’s xAI Colossus 2 data center in Tennessee skips the local grid and runs its own natural gas turbines, worsening pollution and disproportionately impacting Black neighborhoods. But this tiny plot of American chestnut trees, just a little over an acre of land, has become a site of resistance in West Virginia…”