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TASS

Grain shipments to Greater Odessa ports fall 84% in early August — statistics

In the first five days of August a total of 182,000 tons of grain and milled products were transported by rail, which is 44.1% lower than in the same period in July

TASS

Sony's best cheap earbuds just fell to an unbeatable low price at Amazon

Sony's best cheap earbuds just fell to an unbeatable low price at Amazon

Budget earbuds don't get much better than this: both in terms of quality and value for money. That's what makes it so easy to recommend the Sony WF-C510 Earbuds at Amazon for £34.99 (was £54.99). You'd usually expect to make a handful of…

Portugal Resident

Rare pygmy hippo born at Portuguese zoo

An endangered pygmy hippopotamus has been born at Zoo Santo Inácio in northern Portugal, marking another boost for European efforts to conserve one of the world’s most threatened mammals. Named The post Rare pygmy hippo born at Portuguese…

Portugal Resident

How to view the solar eclipse from Guernsey

BBC

How to view the solar eclipse from Guernsey

Five things to remember when watching the partial solar eclipse from Guernsey

BBC

No, Tesla didn’t build this bizarre Cybertruck-inspired solar EV

No, Tesla didn’t build this bizarre Cybertruck-inspired solar EV

Deep Orange 17 is claimed to generate more electricity than it uses The BMW-backed project uses 1,700 photovoltaic cells The prototype is based on an average 12-mile daily commute A team from Clemson University in South Carolina has…

Poland and Baltics shield infrastructure, fearing a Russian false-flag strike

Poland and Baltics shield infrastructure, fearing a Russian false-flag strike

WARSAW/VILNIUS, Aug 10 - Russia's northern NATO neighbours are tightening security around dams, power plants and natural gas infrastructure in a sign of mounting concern that Moscow will stage a \"false flag\" attack on them using…

Meta launches new AI model as CEO Mark Zuckerberg champions open-weight push

Meta launches new AI model as CEO Mark Zuckerberg champions open-weight push

He says the US needed to rethink policies if domestic firms were to lead in open-weight models.

Rogue AI models that went on hacking other companies had a common 'Israel link'

Times of India

Rogue AI models that went on hacking other companies had a common 'Israel link'

Leading AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta accessed unauthorized systems during security tests. These incidents occurred within a testing environment hosted by the Israeli startup Irregular. Irregular stated a misconfiguration in…

Times of India

Peer review is overwhelmed—can it survive in the AI era?

Ars Technica

Peer review is overwhelmed—can it survive in the AI era?

Jason Semprini was excited about his research on policies mandating that elementary school students receive the human papillomavirus vaccine. HPV causes most cases of cervical cancer, but counterintuitively, Semprini found that mandates…

Ars Technica

Invisible poison: living with mercury pollution in the Colombian Amazon – in pictures

The Guardian