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Three Norwegian oil and gas players – Aker BP, Equinor, and DNO – have carried out appraisal drilling activities on two hydrocarbon discoveries in the North Sea off the coast of Norway, raising the estimated size of these finds. Deepsea Nordkapp rig; Source: Odfjell Drilling Aker BP and its partners, Equinor and DNO, have drilled the 16/1-EA-4 H appraisal well on the Verdandi and Lillefix discoveries in the North Sea, which has increased the projected discovery size, according to the Norwegian Offshore Directorate. The well 16/1-EA-4 H was drilled about 200 kilometers west of Stavanger by Odfjell Drilling’s Deepsea Nordkapp…

I was with great sadness that I read that Phil Gates’s country diary piece was to be his last (Country diary: A lesson from my final diary after nearly 40 years – keep looking closely, 19 September). It has become my habit to check the column as soon as I get my hands on the paper to see if it was a “Phil Gates diary day”, then to savour it.This is partly, perhaps, because his diaries are from my own county, but mainly because I have never failed to learn something new and interesting about some overlooked or unspectacular species in the…

There is something pleasingly improbable about Angh.The film comes from Nagaland, a mountainous state of fewer than two million people on India’s northeastern frontier, and is in Konyak, a tribal language unfamiliar to most Indians, never mind audiences abroad. It was director Theja Rio’s first feature and most of its cast faced a camera for the first time.And yet, at the Toronto International Film Festival this month, this quiet film won the Platform Prize, a major juried award.The award is intended to recognise films with a particularly distinctive directorial voice. The jury praised Rio’s “refreshing perspective” and the film’s portrait…

A bold bid by residents of a progressive town in the English West Country who raised almost £1m to create what could have been the UK’s largest community-led regeneration project is in tatters.More than 1,000 residents of Frome in Somerset had clubbed together with the aim of building homes, workspaces, a riverside park and a lido on a brownfield area in their town centre.But rather than selling the 5-hectare (12-acre) site to the community-led Mayday Saxonvale project, Somerset council has agreed a deal with a real estate investment company based in Soho, central London.The announcement of the preferred bidder’s identity…

Waymo’s commercial robotaxi ramp-up looks expansive, both in geographic reach and in ridership. And by almost every measure, it is — until you pay attention to where the bulk of those robotaxis are actually showing up. The numbers over the past two years reflect the kind of commercial rollout you’d expect from a deep-pocketed company like Waymo, which spun out of Google and still counts Alphabet as its majority owner. In September 2024, Waymo was operating in just three cities — Phoenix, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Today, it offers robotaxi service in 15 U.S. cities, with most of those…

GPU utilisation shows compute activity, not whether capacity is actually available. A GPU can report low utilisation while remaining fully allocated to one workload. This post explains why workloads queue beside idle-looking GPUs, how allocation, memory, placement, and application bottlenecks contribute, and how GPU sharing methods differ in their tradeoffs.Capsule:AI workloads can wait for GPUs even when monitoring shows idle compute. A GPU with low compute activity is not necessarily available capacity for another workload because allocation rules, memory requirements, hardware compatibility, isolation, and placement constraints determine what can actually run. The post should explain how to distinguish an actual…

Ravie LakshmananSep 25, 2026Vulnerability / Web Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), on Thursday, added two critical security flaws impacting WSO2 and Adobe Commerce and Magento to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-5430 (CVS score: 9.8) – A path traversal vulnerability in WSO2 API Control Plane, API Manager, Traffic Manager and Universal Gateway that could allow unrestricted file upload and lead to remote code execution. CVE-2026-71362 (CVSS score: 9.1) – An incorrect authorization vulnerability in Adobe Commerce and Magento that could allow an attacker…

Is a $1 million Bitcoin price target thinking too small? Jeff Booth thinks so, and he explains why valuing Bitcoin in dollars means pricing it from a game that’s rigged by debasement. He argues that Bitcoin isn’t just a coin or an asset, but the beginning of a decentralized, secure, and private protocol stack that will look a lot like the internet. In his view, Bitcoin is evidence of the first free market that has ever existed. Chapters:0:00 Jeff Booth, The Price of Tomorrow & Technological Deflation0:30 AI Valuations & Why Free Markets Push AI Prices Toward Zero1:29 AI Deflation…

Astronomers are finding that the first generations of galaxies do not always behave the way existing models predict. One possible reason is that their most massive stars may have evolved very differently from massive stars in the modern Milky Way. A new survey led by the University of Utah is using the Hubble Space Telescope to investigate those differences. The project, known as the Treasury of Extremely Metal-Poor O Stars (TEMPOS), relies on ultraviolet (UV) measurements from Hubble’s Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) to examine massive stars in nearby galaxies that resemble the environments found in the early universe. The unusually…

Sagal Abdi-Wali does not want to be the prime minister. She doesn’t even want to lead her party. Labour’s candidate for Holborn and St Pancras laughs and shakes her head with unusual vigour when asked if she would like to follow in the footsteps of the last member of parliament for the constituency, Keir Starmer.“No, no, no, no, that’s not at all, in any way, what I’m trying to do,” she says during a break in campaigning in the Primrose Hill cafe in Regent’s Park. “I’m literally trying to get through the next few weeks and trying to be the…