If you’ve been in construction long enough, you know how estimating used to be. Stacks of drawings. Highlighters everywhere. Long nights with a scale ruler and a calculator.

With the discovery of ever more exoplanets—over 6,000 now—scientists, of course, want to know if they are habitable for life. (At least, life as we know it.) But assessing habitability is a difficult ...

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Due to senior-specific inflation and rising Medicare premiums, it might not be enough. We'll find out the actual 2026 COLA in mid-October. The Social Security COLA is expected to be much greater than ...

A critical zero-day vulnerability in certain Cisco Systems firewalls has to be patched immediately, US and UK cyber authorities warned Thursday. They said exploits of the hole are part of ongoing ...

This novel attack chains the intended behavior of both MiniDumpWriteDump and WerFaultSecure, so this is more of a design weakness than a vulnerability in Windows. Defending against EDR-Freeze is ...

A regulatory effort to safeguard California homes from wildfires threatens to force some homeowners to remove trees and shrubs that sit close to structures, and is generating rage from residents who ...

The Reserve Bank of Australia’s model of the neutral cash rate implies a “significant downward revision” to its estimates while the job market is seen as tighter than previously thought, according to ...

Right on cue, Apple’s latest OS, iOS 26, has arrived. Is it worth downloading or should you hold off for now? Another version, iOS 18.7, is also available for those who want to hold off iOS 26 for now ...

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook referred to a condominium she purchased in June 2021 as a "vacation home" in a loan estimate, a characterization that could undermine claims by the Trump ...

A report published by the Alaska Department of Revenue last month says the state treasury will benefit far less from the new Willow oil project than previously estimated. According to the department’s ...

Newly unearthed documents challenge the Trump administration's accusations that Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook committed mortgage fraud, Reuters reports. The dispute bears on two consequential ...