The more I learn about the Vegas Loop, the more I think the tunnels are actually the least interesting part of it. The Boring Company has already built 14 stations, 12 emergency egresses, six cross-passages and nine knockout shafts around the system. By the end of the year, they expect 28 stations. And some of the engineering happens in remarkably small increments. Connecting two existing tunnels takes about ten days. Stabilize the earth, cut through one tunnel wall, excavate roughly ten feet a day toward the other, then waterproof and reinforce the new passage into both structures. It made me realize that building an underground transportation network isn’t really one giant tunneling problem. It’s hundreds of small civil-engineering problems that eventually become a city beneath the city. Writer: Oliver

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[NEW] The Bearly AI app now has Scholar Mode. Ask a scientific or technical question and Bearly searches a paper index, reads the passages that carry the answer, and cites them. A papers card under the reply lists what it used.

The IDF has destroyed a tunnel network belonging to Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip. Early in the war, the IDF claimed to have uncovered 1,500 tunnel shafts and separate passages, destroying at least 500 alongside hundreds of distinct underground routes. Defense Minister Israel Katz stated recently that 83% of the tunnels located within the IDF-held portions of Gaza have been systematically demolished. - @MarioNawfal

"Chat with your documents" usually means uploading them to someone else's cloud. The QVAC SDK does the whole thing on-device. It ships native RAG: ragIngest your files, embed turns them into vectors locally, ragSearch finds the relevant passages, and completion answers from text the model can actually see. No external vector database. What you can build with it: a knowledge base over years of your notes, contract and research Q&A, a support bot grounded only in your manuals, a private second brain that cites its sources. Your private documents never leave the machine. No cloud vector store, no API key, no leak surface. npm install @qvac/sdk

The Egyptian Football Association released a video titled: “The Secret to Victory.” They openly declare that the key to victory is to begin each match by cursing Christians and Jews. Before every game, the team gathers to recite Quranic passages describing Christians and Jews as infidels under Allah’s wrath. Coptic Christians make up 15% of Egypt’s population, yet they are not allowed on the national team. Now, the Islamic team of Egypt has been eliminated by the ‘infidel’ nation of Argentina. Allah was not on their side.