BC Hydro just bought a gas power plant | The Narwhal
The Narwhalby Shannon Waters·23d ago
Summary On Aug. 6, with much of southern B.C. blanketed in wildfire smoke, Minister of Energy and Climate Solutions Adrian Dix kicked off a Campbell River press conference by thanking wildfire...
Ask a Scientist: How can researchers use AI to predict a flood?
The Keywordby Hannah Hunt·23d ago
Ask a Scientist: How can researchers use AI to predict a flood? In 2018, we piloted a flood forecasting model in India that relied on real-time river data to predict a flood.
SpaceX launches its 100th mission of the year, sends Starlink satellites to orbit (video)
Latest from Space.comby Mike Wall·23d ago
SpaceX has hit the century mark for the third year in a row. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on Wednesday (Aug. 19) at 12:01 a.m. EDT (0401 GMT; 9:01 p.m.
Cloudflare WriteGuard Brings Fine-Grained Security Controls for MCP Servers
InfoQby Sergio De Simone·23d ago
Cloudflare is introducing WriteGuard, now in private beta, to provide fine-grained security controls for MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers.
A hospice patient's last wish was to snuggle a golden retriever 'with puppy breath.' Gladdie was the girl for the job
Good Good Goodby Kamrin Baker·23d ago
Mount Evans Home Health Care & Hospice, which serves mountain and foothill communities in Colorado, has spent 45 years fulfilling the final requests of its patients.
Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
Apple Newsroomby Apple Newsroom·23d ago
UPDATE August 18, 2026 Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union Apple today announced changes to its business terms for apps in the European Union, following close collaboration with...
iPhone 18 Pro could get a major performance boost from A20 chip
Cult of Macby Anurag Chawake·23d ago
Apple’s A20 Pro chip is shaping up to be a big leap forward. A new leak points to a significant jump in speed with a considerable cut in power use.
Anthropic’s Text Watermarking Proves AI Companies Do Not Care at All About Writing
404 Mediaby Jason Koebler·23d ago
Earlier this month, Anthropic announced that future versions of Claude will generate text that includes watermarks showing it was AI-generated.
Returning captain Joe Root aiming to build on best of Stokes era against Pakistan
Cricket | The Guardianby Taha Hashim in Headingley·23d ago
Joe Root says he is not planning on “ripping up” the work of Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum as England prepare to face Pakistan in the first Test in Leeds, on the Yorkshireman’s return to the...
The Athletic teams up with sports creators to reach new (and younger) audiences
Nieman Labby Hanaa' Tameez·23d ago
Last month at the National Sports Card Convention in Chicago, creator Brandon Pereira, who posts as Coach Koe, met a kid named Dominic.
Between the jungle and the oil: The Amazon municipality to which Colombia owes an energy transition
El País Englishby María Mónica Monsalve·23d ago
In Orito, Putumayo, a Colombian municipality in the Amazon foothills, the classic tourist sign reading “I love” followed by the place name is set against a backdrop of a pumpjack and an abandoned...
Anthea Coster awarded International Union of Radio Science Appleton Prize
MIT Newsby Nancy Wolfe Kotary | MIT Haystack Observatory·23d ago
MIT Principal Research Scientist and Haystack Observatory Assistant Director Emerita Anthea J. Coster was awarded the prestigious Appleton Prize at the International Union of Radio Science (URSI)...
How to Run a Local LLM on Your Phone (and Why You’d Want To)
Lifehackerby David Nield·23d ago
There are now enough freely available Large Language Models (LLMs) that running them locally on a computer is commonplace, and a better idea in some ways—they're more private, as you don't have to...
Google Home outage left Nest devices stuck and unresponsive
Latest from Android Centralby Jay Bonggolto·23d ago
What you need to know - Google Home and Nest suffered a widespread outage, leaving devices unresponsive, routines broken, and Nest Hub screens stuck on white or loading screens.
Iran Moves to Outlaw All Contact With "Hostile" Foreign Media
OCCRP·23d ago
Reported by Iran’s parliament has approved the general framework of a bill that would criminalize speaking to or sharing data with foreign media outlets deemed "hostile."
Trainwatch is a life sim, a horror game, and a time management experience rolled up into a haunting story about the eerie places you see from a speeding carriage
Rock, Paper, Shotgunby Edwin Evans-Thirlwell·23d ago
Recently, RPS has seen a mighty renaissance of train game reporting. Look to east, and you will find James doing locomotive kickflips in Denshattack, a J-pop stunt racer turbocharged by the hope of...
Apple may be considering adding a Camera Control button to a future iPad
AppleInsider Newsby William Gallagher <wg@williamgallagher.com>·23d ago
A newly-revealed patent details a button that can be swiped as well as pressed. It's the iPhone's Camera Control button, and it may be coming to the iPad.
BGP Role model: tracking the adoption of RFC 9234
The Cloudflare Blogby Mingwei Zhang·23d ago
Route leaks push traffic down paths it was never meant to take. We have written and spoken publicly in the past about route leaks in Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), depicting these events as...
Today in Apple history: iJustine's 300-page iPhone bill shocks the internet
Cult of Macby Luke Dormehl·23d ago
August 18, 2007: A video goes viral on YouTube when 23-year-old internet personality Justine Ezarik, aka iJustine, posts a 300-page iPhone bill mailed to her in a box by AT&T.
Planet Crafter – Wrecks and Portals and Over Abundance
The Ancient Gaming Noobby Wilhelm Arcturus·23d ago
We have blown through the age of abundance in Planet Crafter and have reached a point of over abundance. We have too much stuff.
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