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Video production is shifting as social clips, ad creative and film pre-visualization move from cloud to local GPUs. LTX today released LTX-2.5, an open weights world model for video generation, real-time applications, and physical AI, built for exactly that shift. LTX optimized the model for local inference on NVIDIA RTX GPUs and NVIDIA DGX Spark, cutting VRAM requirements so a frontier world model runs on hardware creators already own. The release anchors NVIDIA’s month-long local AI series, launched the same day as its open Nemotron 3.5 Lightning agent model. The signal from both: open models, accelerated locally, are becoming default…

Delta Air Lines is investigating an unauthorized Wi-Fi network that appeared aboard a flight from Las Vegas to Atlanta carrying passengers who had attended the DEF CON hacker convention. ​The company told BleepingComputer that the incident occurred yesterday on Flight 591 and did not affect the safety of the passengers or aircraft operating systems. “We will partner with federal law enforcement and aviation regulators to ensure the incident is thoroughly investigated,” a company spokesperson said. “One initial finding is an unauthorized WiFi network, which was not provided, operated, or supplied by Delta, was present onboard the aircraft for a short…

Brazil’s biggest bank is taking another step into tokenized assets, adding to a growing list of the country’s financial heavyweights experimenting with putting traditional investments on blockchain rails.Itaú Unibanco has started working with digital-asset infrastructure provider OpenAssets on a tokenization pilot run by Brazilian Financial and Capital Markets Association ANBIMA, the companies said Tuesday.The project will test how fixed-income securities and investment funds can be issued, traded and settled using distributed-ledger technology, the firms said in a press release. The work will also examine the rules and technical standards needed for banks and asset managers to use such systems.Itaú’s involvement…

We are flush with toilet paper options. I’m looking to minimize the environmental impact of every wipe, and it’s overwhelming. I’ve been barraged with ads touting bamboo toilet paper’s environmental superiority to wood pulp counterparts. But my interest gave way to skepticism when I learned that all the bamboo used for toilet paper is grown in Asia. No bamboo toilet paper is “Made in the U.S.A.” from shoot to sheet. I wondered whether growing bamboo in the United States would be environmentally better. After all, citrus growers have been venturing into bamboo farming after invasive pests and diseases decimated crops. Sign…

In Kenya, a network of Indigenous women’s groups is restoring degraded areas of the Mau Forest while also providing the women with incomes and decision-making power.The Paran Women Group includes Maasai, Ogiek and other Indigenous community members learning to manage enterprises such as tree nurseries, kitchen gardens, savings groups, beekeeping and landscape restoration.Research shows that restoration programs designed to transform unequal gender roles give women more prominence in the household and improve conservation outcomes.Paran members say they previously relied on their husbands for everything, but they now have income of their own as well as a larger say in…

UK-headquartered and AIM-listed upstream oil and gas company Afentra has wrapped up its first operated offshore campaign on Block 3/24, supporting the maturation of three hydrocarbon discoveries toward a final investment decision (FID). FSO Palanca deployed at Block 3/05; Source: Stapem Offshore Afentra’s first operated offshore campaign on Block 3/24 enabled the inspection of the Palanca NE, Golungo-1, Quissama-1, and Quissama-2 subsea wellheads, acquiring video, measurement, and well integrity data to support the ongoing technical evaluation of the Golungo-Palanca NE-Quissama (GPQ) development, containing three of the ten discoveries identified on the block. The company emphasizes that no hydrocarbon leakage or seepage…

The wildfire that began on protected heathland in the New Forest in Hampshire on Sunday was reported to be under control on Tuesday. But with temperatures forecast to reach 36C or higher in parts of England on Thursday, the risk of further outbreaks remains high. Firefighters responded to 185 wildfires in the first 10 days of August. In coastal Suffolk, conservationists and locals are counting the cost of the blaze that devastated Dunwich Heath. Its vegetation and rare bird populations are expected to take decades to recover.Although the immediate cause of many wildfires is litter, the risks are elevated by…

Claim: U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee from Michigan, said he believes America deserved the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Rating: Context There is no evidence El-Sayed said the U.S. deserved the 9/11 attacks. Far-left Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who campaigned for El-Sayed in 2026, expressed the sentiment in 2019. A rumor spread online in August 2026 that Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, said he believed America deserved the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.  El-Sayed’s Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, relayed the claim on his official X account. On Aug. 6, 2026, he posted a video of himself saying,…

Six people have been killed and 10 injured in strikes by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis on a cargo ship in the Red Sea, the internationally recognised government of Yemen has said.The transport ministry said the vessel was hit with three ballistic missiles, south of the port of Mocha, causing a fire on board and resulting in the deaths of four crew – three Pakistanis and one Indonesian. Yemen’s coastguard later said a second deadly missile strike targeted rescuers who tried to evacuate the ship. The Houthis said they hit a ship carrying Saudi military equipment. It appears to be the first…

During five intense days last month, Iran launched waves of drones and missiles at U.S. troops on three bases in Jordan, hoping to break through the formidable American air defenses.Using advanced missiles that can suddenly change course, Iran pummeled the bases’ defensive systems, forcing the Americans to burn through scarce supplies of Patriot interceptors.On the fifth day, the Iranians broke through.A missile struck prefabricated housing units at one of the bases on July 17, killing three U.S. soldiers and wounding more than 100. Pentagon officials later acknowledged that scores of other troops were injured and several aircraft damaged in attacks…