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Investigation into 10 lion deaths in Tanzania focused on poisoning : NPR

Investigation into 10 lion deaths in Tanzania focused on poisoning : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Lions walk in the Ngorongoro Crater in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, west of Arusha, northern Tanzania, Monday, Jan. 19, 2015. Mosa’ab Elshamy/AP hide caption toggle caption Mosa’ab Elshamy/AP Ten lions found dead in a wildlife reserve in Tanzania are suspected to have been poisoned, according to wildlife officials. The animals were discovered on Friday in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, home to pastoral tribal communities that raise cattle. It is also one of the most visited tourist destinations in the country. “Preliminary findings suggest the animals may have died after ingesting poison,” a statement from The Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority said, adding the authority has launched a full investigation “to determine the cause of the incident and identify those responsible.” Large animals are under threat across East Africa, in places where they frequently come into conflict with humans. An investigation is underway in neighboring Kenya, where over the summer, 18 elephants died from suspected poisoning. Police have arrested four people. According to Kenya’s Wildlife Service, preliminary tests showed the elephants may have ingested cyanide. Tomato farmers in …

The House Article | Urban Lib Dems Fear Their Party Is Too Focused On The Blue Wall

The House Article | Urban Lib Dems Fear Their Party Is Too Focused On The Blue Wall

Published by Sam Flores

(Illustration by Tracy Worrall) 10 min read2 hr Can the Liberal Democrats break through in big cities again? Noah Vickers reports on the party’s bid to sharpen its ‘national brand’ Ed Davey was triumphant on May 8 as the results of the local elections in England rolled in. “We’re on for historic gains. This would be another record eighth year of consecutive gains in local elections for the Liberal Democrats – that’s never been done before,” he told Sky News. The party enjoyed a net national gain of 155 councillors, continuing an upward trend that began under Sir Vince Cable’s leadership in 2018. But not all Lib Dems shared Davey’s upbeat assessment. A deeper analysis revealed that, while the party had made further in-roads in many of the formerly Tory blue wall areas it won at 2024’s general election, progress in other places – especially in England’s biggest cities – was more limited. On Leeds, Birmingham and Manchester city councils, the party failed to gain any seats and saw its vote …

Lucien Smith, Market Darling Who Focused On Helping Artists, Has Died

Lucien Smith, Market Darling Who Focused On Helping Artists, Has Died

Published by Jenni Sidey

Lucien Smith, a onetime market darling who more recently focused on supporting emerging artists, has died at 37, the news was confirmed to ARTnews by dealer Bill Powers, who had showed Smith early on. No information has been released about the cause or place of his death. “Lucien lives in a wordless place inside us now,” Powers told ARTnews. “I loved him and I’m hapy knowing he found some serenity later in life,” artist Joel Mesler told ARTnews via text, adding a heart emoji. Related Articles “Lucien Smith was our friend and his death is tragic,” artist Andrew Kuo wrote on X. “This is a loss for our community. Damn. Rest in peace, Lucien.” Born in 1989, Smith earned a BFA at New York’s Cooper Union in 2011. Around this time, New York art dealer Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn helped propel Smith to art-world fame when she began showing him after seeing his work at his thesis exhibition. According to the artist’s website, “Following what seemed like overnight success Smith battled with some of the pitfalls …

Infantino tight-lipped on abandoned proposal, says FIFA focused on growth

Infantino tight-lipped on abandoned proposal, says FIFA focused on growth

Published by Sam Flores

KATOWICE, Poland, Sept 5 : FIFA President Gianni Infantino, who attended the opening match of the Under-20 Women’s World Cup in Katowice on Saturday, remained tight-lipped about whether he regrets his abandoned proposal to sell a stake in the World Cup. The event is the first tournament organised by world soccer’s ruling body since the Swiss administrator called off the plan, which valued the commercial rights of the World Cup and other FIFA tournaments at $20 billion. The proposal was abandoned in late July following a fierce backlash and boycott threats from regional governing bodies, including Europe’s UEFA and major stakeholders in the sport. “I’m very happy to be here in beautiful Poland, in Katowice, a fantastic setting for this Under-20 FIFA Women’s World Cup. It’s great,” Infantino said at the opening game between hosts Poland and Argentina. “This is what we do, this is about giving opportunities, giving chances to teams with players, talents from all over the world, increasing number of participants.” ‘NOT TODAY, NOT HERE’  Infantino did not answer questions about whether he regretted …

Strange behavior in focused laser light could change how quantum computers control qubits

Strange behavior in focused laser light could change how quantum computers control qubits

Published by Jenni Sidey

Physicists have directly observed the optical Magnus effect for the first time by mapping how a tightly focused laser interacts with a single trapped calcium ion. The strongest atom-light interaction shifted sideways by several hundred nanometers instead of occurring exactly at the laser beam’s center. The effect could create unwanted errors in laser-controlled qubits, but the same forces may also provide a new way to connect qubits during quantum computations. A spinning table tennis ball can veer sharply across a table even when its forward motion seems to point elsewhere. The same basic phenomenon helps bend football shots and curve baseballs. Physicists call it the Magnus effect, a sideways force produced when a rotating object moves through a surrounding medium. Now an international team has observed an optical counterpart at the scale of a single trapped ion. Instead of watching an atom curve through space, the researchers found that a tightly focused laser interacts most strongly with the ion slightly away from the beam’s center. The finding matters because tightly focused lasers are increasingly used …

Back To School: How To Keep Your Kids Focused And Safe From Online Distractions

Back To School: How To Keep Your Kids Focused And Safe From Online Distractions

Published by Sam Flores

This might look like a regular phone, but it’s actually loaded with a clever technology designed specifically for kids’ safety called SmartMode. You buy the phone – a lightweight phone with all the functions of a regular phone from cult brand Nothing – as it is. There’s need to download software, apps, or fiddle around with controls, because it’s already got SmartMode baked into it, which uses AI to monitor, block, and filter content that you deem inappropriate for your child. Unlike other safety software, which blocks specific websites or keywords, SafetyMode has been trained to read real conversations and understand context, so it won’t pose annoying blocks for your kid, and cause an unnecessary family fallout. It also tracks their location, and you can change the filters according to their needs, so you can constantly adjust what content they have access to as they grow up. Plus, when worrying content is detected, it will send an alert straight to you, so you won’t feel like you’re constantly having to check in on what they’re …

New Business Insider CEO focused on monetising off-platform audience

New Business Insider CEO focused on monetising off-platform audience

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Business Insider CEO Christian Baesler. Picture: Axel Springer Business Insider is set to begin monetising its non-website audience, which new CEO Christian Baesler said has not been done “in any meaningful way so far”. Baesler, who has been leading Business Insider on an interim basis since June and has now been appointed permanently, said the brand is entering its “next phase”, which is also centred on the “need to become essential for a number of professional niches”. He is bringing social media expertise from five years as president and CEO of former Hot Ones producer Complex and then just over a year as chief operating officer at Buzzfeed after its 2022 takeover. Visits to the Business Insider website in the US more than halved in the past two years to 30.9 million in June. Ten people were laid off in May at Axel Springer-owned Business Insider, its fourth round of layoffs in four years, as the newsroom scaled back in some coverage areas and refocused on others. Baesler told Press Gazette: “Historically, Business Insider has …

The browser is where attacks land. Why is security still focused on the endpoint?

The browser is where attacks land. Why is security still focused on the endpoint?

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Presented by CloudMosa Enterprise work now happens increasingly inside the browser, and that shift has made the browser a primary point of entry for cyberattacks as well. Browser-based attacks have surged over the past two years, according to industry reports, while Gartner projects that more than 85% of enterprise workloads will be accessed through the browser by 2027. And yet most enterprise security architecture is still built to protect the device rather than the browser session where that work, and those attacks, actually take place, says Shioupyn Shen, founder and CEO of CloudMosa, the company behind Puffin Cloud Security. “CloudMosa originally built its cloud architecture to improve browser performance and accessibility, with the expectation that enterprise work would increasingly move into the browser,” Shen says. “Today’s AI-assisted hacking has validated that architecture, demonstrating that what was designed for performance also provides a strong foundation for modern enterprise security.” The browser as the enterprise’s operating environment SaaS platforms, CRM and ERP systems, and collaboration tools have made the browser the primary gateway, and often the central …

This Adorable BlackBerry-Inspired Phone Keeps Me Focused in Ways I Didn’t Expect

This Adorable BlackBerry-Inspired Phone Keeps Me Focused in Ways I Didn’t Expect

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Back in the 2000’s — pre-iPhone — the BlackBerry was a productivity powerhouse that constantly demanded your attention, whether to punch through your email inbox or message contacts over BlackBerry’s BBM texting service. Now in 2026, Unihertz’s $490 Titan 2 Elite feels much like a modern-day BlackBerry, and its smaller screen actually keeps me from doomscrolling. I’ve spent weeks testing a prerelease edition of the Titan 2 Elite with early software. I like its adorable design, which gives a “small phone” feel. Its 4-inch square-ish screen feels like holding a 4:3-aspect-ratio TV. The relatively compact display is great for doing all the things I used to do with a BlackBerry, like reading websites, checking email and using the physical keyboard to type my way through all of it. But watching video — especially vertical video — is frustrating. Since most applications and websites are now built with rectangular phone displays in mind, it does become a bit challenging when the phone’s square display doesn’t work as well for showing off content. While there are quirks …

America is at war. Hegseth is focused on grooming and hormones.

America is at war. Hegseth is focused on grooming and hormones.

Published by Sam Flores

During a recent visit to a Navy ship, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly became angry after seeing sailors with facial hair. The Navy requires sailors to be clean-shaven unless they’ve been given a medical waiver. America is at war. The ship and its crew were operating amid heightened tensions. Hegseth’s attention was on beards. Pentagon officials subsequently held meetings in which subordinates were told that Hegseth was closely watching the services’ progress on grooming rules. Weeks later, the Navy limited medical shaving waivers — which let a sailor with a qualifying skin condition keep about a quarter-inch of trimmed facial hair instead of having to shave daily — to four consecutive 90-day renewals, a maximum of 12 months. Sailors whose condition hasn’t cleared by then can be pushed out through administrative separation, a discharge process that doesn’t require a court-martial, though the Navy says no one will be separated under the new rule before July 2027. Then, this week, Hegseth announced another priority: Every service member age 30 or older, including women, will be screened …