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Mexico’s Jalisco drug cartel commander ‘El Jardinero’ found hiding in ditch | Crime News

Mexico’s Jalisco drug cartel commander ‘El Jardinero’ found hiding in ditch | Crime News

Published by Sam Flores

Mexican special forces have arrested Audias Flores, known as “El Jardinero”, one of the top commanders of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), as well as his chief financial operator, Mexico’s Security of Security ⁠Omar Garcia Harfuch said. Videos shared by ‌Garcia Harfuch on social media on Monday showed aerial footage of the arrest of Flores as helicopters hovered overhead during the arrest operation, which the Mexican Navy said followed months of surveillance and involved more than 500 troops, six helicopters and several planes. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list “Audias Flores Silva, alias ‘El Jardinero’, was detained in Nayarit. He has an arrest warrant in Mexico and is also sought by United States authorities for extradition purposes. For his capture, the US government offered a reward of 5 million dollars,” Garcia Harfuch said in a post on social media. Flores, a regional commander in control of swaths of CJNG territory along Mexico’s Pacific coast, was considered a potential successor to Nemesio Oseguera, alias “El Mencho”, who ran the feared cartel and …

Your Windows 11 PC is hiding 7GB of storage you can reclaim right now

Your Windows 11 PC is hiding 7GB of storage you can reclaim right now

Published by skeptic

I bought my PC laptop primarily as a gaming machine. It’s got a decent GPU and a solid CPU, but it does have a rather small SSD at 512GB. That means I have to swap out installed games as I want to play them, rather than keep them on my drive at all times. I went looking for a way to maximize my storage space, though, and came across one way I could save 7-10 GB of space, maybe enough for a smaller title. For folks with even smaller SSDs than mine, this could be a decent savings, as well. It’s called Reserved Storage, and it sets aside a portion of your drive (at least 7GB, no matter what your total disk space) for Windows updates, temp files, and system caches to ensure critical OS functions always have access to disk space. Here’s what it does and how to reclaim that storage with a quick PowerShell command. Related I learned what Windows “Quick Format” actually does (and it’s terrifying) Data privacy is important What Windows …

300-degree hot springs hiding under the frozen Antarctic sea

300-degree hot springs hiding under the frozen Antarctic sea

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The Antarctic sea, where glaciers drift across the surface. What kind of world lies 1,300 meters below the surface? Scientists have now succeeded in directly observing a realm that had previously been inferred rather than seen. There, hot fluid surged upward from the seafloor, and a unique marine ecosystem unlike any previously documented was thriving. The Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) announced that a team led by Principal Researcher Park Sung-hyun had successfully completed an expedition aboard the icebreaking research vessel Araon in the Antarctic mid-ocean ridge region, roughly 1,200 kilometers from Jangbogo Station. The expedition used an unmanned submersible to directly investigate hydrothermal vents along the Antarctic mid-ocean ridge. The Korea Polar Research Institute described the achievement as a world first. Until now, the extreme conditions of the Antarctic deep sea had made access itself a formidable challenge. Unable to observe the seafloor directly, researchers had to depend entirely on indirect methods — lowering sampling equipment to collect …

Your SSD is slowing down, and Windows has been quietly hiding the fix

Your SSD is slowing down, and Windows has been quietly hiding the fix

Published by skeptic

It’s hard to associate slowness with an SSD. But over time, your new SSD will slow down, causing longer boot times, poor file transfer speeds, and weak benchmark results. It’s tempting to write this off as the drive wearing out or the usual cost of running Windows for a few years. While those do play a part, there’s another reason your SSD is slowing down, and it has nothing to do with age. Windows ships with a maintenance job that’s supposed to run on its own and optimize your SSD for the best performance, and on a healthy system, it works. However, it can silently stop running after an update or driver change, and nothing in Windows will tell you it’s been broken, causing degraded SSD performance. SSDs slow down as they fill up The cache shrinks when free space runs out Credit: Gavin Phillips / MakeUseOf Most consumer SSDs use TLC flash, which stores three bits per cell. But TLC is slow to write to directly, so the controller sets aside a chunk of empty …

Meet the Baby Koala Hiding in Its Mom’s Pouch at a Florida Zoo’s New Outback Habitat

Meet the Baby Koala Hiding in Its Mom’s Pouch at a Florida Zoo’s New Outback Habitat

Published by Sam Flores

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A zoo in Florida has two reasons to celebrate — the first birth of a koala and a newly renovated habitat for the cuddly creatures is opening to the public on Saturday. “For the zoo and for us here, it’s the very big deal,” said Amarylis Celestina, who oversees carnivores and koalas at the Palm Beach Zoo & Conservation Society in West Palm Beach, Florida. “We are trying the best that we can to help with a lot of the genetic diversity within the population that we have here in the United States. So that’s why it’s important that we do have a joey and that we were successful this year.” The joey, born to Ellin and Sydney last fall, remains in its mother’s pouch and has just recently started to become visible to zoo officials. They continue to monitor Ellin’s weight, and are providing extra food as she cares for the baby. Meanwhile, the koala population is enjoying a renovated habitat, which include more greenery, new perching for …

I found 50GB of ghost files on my SSD — this is where they were hiding

I found 50GB of ghost files on my SSD — this is where they were hiding

Published by skeptic

If you’ve been seeing your C: drive shrinking on its own, you’re not going crazy. Windows and its programs love to set up folders and start filling a cache of data that eats up space like anything on your drive. The worst part? Getting rid of this data isn’t as simple as selecting it and hitting delete. Windows itself can hold back as much as 7 GB on your SSD, but these so-called ghost files created by installed programs on your PC are much worse. Thankfully, with a free tool and some cautious deletion, you can chase these ghosts straight out of Windows. Related You don’t need a bigger SSD if you do this with your storage Free up SSD space without spending a dime. Visualizing storage to uncover what Windows hides Windows’ built-in File Explorer is nowhere near as effective if you’re looking to find hidden files. In this case, using a tool like WizTree makes more sense. It’s a free disk analyzer for Windows that’s embarrassingly fast compared to File Explorer. Instead of …

If You Felt Like You Had To Hide Who You Were Growing Up, You Likely Have These 11 Odd Habits Now

If You Felt Like You Had To Hide Who You Were Growing Up, You Likely Have These 11 Odd Habits Now

Published by Jenni Sidey

In life, we are often encouraged to wear masks or personas that are not who we truly are in order to live up to the expectations others have for us. At work, we’re expected to have a professional, prim persona and be passionate about work. At church, we’re expected to have a deeply spiritual and holy vibe. And at home? Well, it depends on how you were brought up. Many of us grew up in families that constantly encouraged us to hide who we were. If we were to say something that didn’t go with the desired narrative, it would cause a torrent of problems. So, we masked. Of course, this leads to a bunch of habits that can be hard to break as you get older. The habits below prove that masking never really conceals everything. If you felt like you had to hide who you were growing up, you likely have these 11 odd habits now 1. Saying, “I’m fine. Let’s talk about you. What’s going on with you?” Charday Penn from Getty …

Amazon Accused of Hiding Worker’s Death for a Week, Making Employees Keep Working as Corpse Lay on Floor

Amazon Accused of Hiding Worker’s Death for a Week, Making Employees Keep Working as Corpse Lay on Floor

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Amazon’s warehouse operations have long struggled with high rates of injury. A 2024 investigation led by Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions member Bernie Sanders accused the company of pushing for higher productivity at the cost of employee safety, in conclusions Amazon vehemently denied at the time. But even in the case of a worker’s death, managers are being instructed to tell employees to look away. At least,that’s according to a startling new investigation by the Western Edge, which found that Amazon tried to keep the April 6 death of a worker at its distribution center in Troutdale, Oregon, from being publicized. The outlet is the first to report on the death one week later. Worse yet, an employee, who was given the pseudonym Sam, told the outlet that despite seeing a “body form laying lifeless,” his supervisor told them to “please get back to work.” A woman reportedly ran over to the individual in distress …

Alex Cooper calls on Alix Earle to ‘stop hiding behind other people’ amid rampant feud rumors

Alex Cooper calls on Alix Earle to ‘stop hiding behind other people’ amid rampant feud rumors

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Alex Cooper and Alix Earle’s long-rumored feud has evolved from fan speculation over severed business ties and passive-aggressive comments to a full-blown TikTok callout with Cooper, 31, urging Earle, 25, to “get specific.” A day after both of the podcast hosts separately spent the weekend at Coachella, Cooper said in a video shared across her platforms Monday morning: “You guys know I don’t usually address this kind of stuff because it feels like a waste of time. And honestly, it’s embarrassing to participate in this.” Cooper said, “But I am obviously seeing the videos and I’m getting tagged. I see the DMs, I see the comments. So, at this point, it just feels long overdue.” “Alix Earle, hey girl,” she said calmly. “The passive-aggressive …