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Climate disaster victims are rebuilding using prefab homes from boxy to bespoke : NPR

Climate disaster victims are rebuilding using prefab homes from boxy to bespoke : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Jason and Colleen Warnesky are among the dozens of families in Altadena, Calif., who have opted to rebuild with manufactured homes, following the 2025 Eaton Fire. Vanessa Romo/NPR hide caption toggle caption Vanessa Romo/NPR When the Station Fire roared through the Angeles National Forest in 2009, Colleen and Jason Warnesky could see it from the front porch of their Altadena, Calif., home. Eleven years later, the family witnessed the Bobcat Fire from the same spot as it became one of the largest fires in Los Angeles County history. Their house remained standing after both close calls. So when the Eaton Fire struck more than 3 miles away in January 2025, they were certain they’d again remain unscathed. “We couldn’t imagine how it would get from all the way over there to our house,” Colleen Warnesky told NPR, as she pointed to the lush mountains on a recent Sunday afternoon. Fifteen months later, the couple is pacing around the fenced-in dirt lot that was once the site of their 1,400 sq. foot home. So far the …

Symptoms of early dementia reversed by bespoke treatment plans

Symptoms of early dementia reversed by bespoke treatment plans

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Addressing nutritional deficiencies could improve cognition in people with dementia CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU/AFP via Getty Images A personalised programme that combines targeted medical interventions with lifestyle changes seems to improve memory and functioning among people with mild cognitive decline or the early stages of dementia. This involves assessing someone for factors that could be affecting their cognition – such as mould exposure, infections or hormonal deficiencies – and creating a bespoke plan to target them. Dementia is an umbrella term for several conditions that affect memory, thinking and the ability to perform daily activities. It has no cure, with treatment generally focusing on relieving symptoms. But for Alzheimer’s disease – which makes up about 60 to 70 per cent of dementia cases – some drugs, like lecanemab, can clear the sticky protein plaques that form in the brain and are thought to contribute to the condition. However, many have argued that these don’t improve people’s symptoms in a meaningful way. This may be due to the complexity of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, which, evidence …

Inside Industry’s Brutal, Bespoke Wardrobe

Inside Industry’s Brutal, Bespoke Wardrobe

Published by Jenni Sidey

If he had a new item of clothing, he’d be determined to wear it in very quickly, because it’s embarrassing to have something that’s new. His watch jacket, for example, is old. His shoes would be something that he would keep getting resoled rather than buying new ones. It was about finding shoes that were like that for him. They were Church’s Oxfords—that’s the kind of thing that you go towards. This season, Henry Muck sports a vintage Rolex Datejust. Courtesy of HBO Whereas Whitney would buy something new that would be lovely—it would be an inheritance piece, but we never get quite that far with him. When we first see Whitney, everything that he’s wearing is new for a country weekend. It’s not something he’s experienced that well. He’s obeying all the elements of it. But everything he’s wearing is new, whereas everything that Henry has is much older. He’s had it. For example, there’s a small detail in episode two of this season: Basically, he takes acid out of his old school sock, …

How ‘The Washington Post’ Cultivated a Bespoke Concept of Sports Coverage

How ‘The Washington Post’ Cultivated a Bespoke Concept of Sports Coverage

Published by Sam Flores

Josh Barr arrived at the Washington Post sports section in October of 1995, just shy of his 23rd birthday. Surrounded by veteran journalists who would show him the ropes, he recalled this week, “I learned how to show up”—how to cover football practices, as explained by reporters who understood it as second nature. Barr likened the paper’s sports columnists to Brazilian soccer stars, known only by mononyms: Boz, as in the longtime baseball columnist Thomas Boswell, or Sally, as in the Pulitzer Prize finalist Sally Jenkins. Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon, the stalwart hosts of the ESPN sports debate show Pardon the Interruption, who each did long stints on the Post’s sports desk, didn’t know at the time that they were previewing their future careers for Barr. “What they did on TV,” Barr said, “they did in the office.” Such memories flowed freely this week on social media and in mournful first-person essays. Most of the ire around the mass layoffs at the Post centered on its publisher and its owner, Will Lewis and Jeff …

Inside the marketplace powering bespoke AI deepfakes of real women

Inside the marketplace powering bespoke AI deepfakes of real women

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Civitai automatically tags bounties requesting deepfakes and lists a way for the person featured in the content to manually request its takedown. This system means that Civitai has a reasonably successful way of knowing which bounties are for deepfakes, but it’s still leaving moderation to the general public rather than carrying it out proactively.  A company’s legal liability for what its users do isn’t totally clear. Generally, tech companies have broad legal protections against such liability for their content under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, but those protections aren’t limitless. For example, “you cannot knowingly facilitate illegal transactions on your website,” says Ryan Calo, a professor specializing in technology and AI at the University of Washington’s law school. (Calo wasn’t involved in this new study.) Civitai joined OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI companies in 2024 in adopting design principles to guard against the creation and spread of AI-generated child sexual abuse material . This move followed a 2023 report from the Stanford Internet Observatory, which found that the vast majority of AI models …