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Among the many people I encountered while reporting on the aftermath of devastating floods in Nepal late last month, 23-year-old Tamang was particularly unforgettable. The eldest of five siblings, Tamang lost his parents at a young age and had long acted as the head of the family. Then a glacial lak
Korea Times World
Indonesian authorities also said they are also closely monitoring wind direction, which has been affecting transboundary haze spreading to the wider region.
Channel News AsiaSingapore
Amnesty International is urging Algeria to abandon plans to resume executions. After deadly wildfires swept across the country’s northeast last month, President Tebboune called to impose the death penalty on people who start the fires. He said child abductors and abusers should also be executed.
Africa NewsAlgeria
According to the National Seismological Research Centre, the first tremor of magnitude 4.5 was recorded at 1:51 a.m. (local time)
The Hindu
A Depression-era soil fix that blanketed millions of Southern acres became an environmental bogeyman—but the numbers tell a very different story than the legend. The post In 1935 the government paid Southern farmers eight dollars an acre to plant a fast-growing Japanese vine to stop their soil washi
Space Daily
A September 2026 policy brief from the UN University warns that electricity infrastructure with 15 to 20 year lifespans is being approved on weather records that no longer describe the climate the assets will operate in — even as the IEA projects renewables will nearly triple by 2030. The post The U
Space Daily
A new report from the UN has concluded that world-changing levels of global heating are now guaranteed. If we do end fossil fuels in the coming years, we can still avert potentially civilization-ending levels of heating, but no matter what we do, dangerous global warming is here to stay. Given that
Asia Times
Defenders of forests and rivers killed at rate of one every three days in 2025, with 85% of deaths in Latin America Nature and land defenders were murdered at the rate of one every three days last year, prompting many communities to set up self-defence units, according to the latest annual death tol
Guardian WorldAmerica
Analysts told The Block that the crypto market will continue to move with interest rates and the broader monetary environment.
The Block
This live blog is now closed. Sign up for US Breaking News emails Kash Patel, the FBI director, is now testifying before lawmakers on the Senate judiciary committee. A reminder that the last time he appeared before Congress was in May, when he sparred with senators on the appropriations committee
Guardian TechnologyUnited States
Climate change, driven by humans, is making extreme weather more commonplace
Scientific American
Authorities say new video shows a suspect launching fireworks from a moving truck. The 18-year-old faces multiple charges, including first-degree manslaughter.
ABC News Top
The government's climate advisers say Heathrow's third runway cannot be approved under current climate policies.
BBC Science & Environment
The iPhone 18 Pro models support Apple Reference Image, a way to verify that a photo was taken with an iPhone and hasn't been edited. Apple says it's a method to prove that something actually happened and wasn't AI-generated, likening the feature to a digital film negative. Apple Reference Imag
MacRumors
Bitcoin Magazine Strive’s Matt Cole: Bitcoin is Primed for 30% Growth into 2030 Strive CEO Matt Cole shares his base case for Bitcoin, forecasting roughly 50% annualized returns through 2030. This post Strive’s Matt Cole: Bitcoin is Primed for 30% Growth into 2030 first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine
Bitcoin Magazine
The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident - A Technical Reconstruction and Its Implications for AI At this Black Hat USA 2026 talk, OpenAI security engineers and researchers will reconstruct the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident and examine its implications for AI security, cyber resilience,
Dark ReadingUsa
AI-assisted researchers flooded Vercel with reports, forcing the company to automate vulnerability triage. The post $1 Million Sandbox Challenge Uncovers Linux Kernel Flaws appeared first on SecurityWeek.
SecurityWeek
Developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and CISA, this interagency report provides federal agencies and cloud service providers with guidelines to protect the identity assertions, access tokens, and cryptographic mechanisms that support modern authentication and author
CISA Advisories
Video: 00:03:22 ESA’s state-of-the-art FLEX Earth Explorer satellite and the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite have been launched together aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, marking a new milestone in Europe’s Earth Observation Programmes. Flight VV30 lifted off
ESA Space News
The mission, with the shorthand VV30, is the second launch of a Vega-C rocket managed solely by Avio without Arianespace. Liftoff from Ensemble de Lancement Vega at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana happened at 10:21 p.m. local time (9:21 p.m. EDT / 0121 UTC / 3:21 a.m. CEST).
Spaceflight Now
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Ars Technica AI
Spokesperson: Alexis Cathalifaud, CEO As demand for artificial intelligence compute continues to grow, the infrastructure supporting that demand is becoming a strategic consideration in its own right. Companies across the sector are racing to secure access to increasingly powerful GPUs, while questi
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Differential acceleration of cyber, math, and AI
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