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There is also a belief that greater regulation alone will achieve little.Too much conservation work currently relies on philanthropists’ cash and devoted volunteers, those in the sector say, and much more languishes on the to-do list due to a lack of money.The federal government directly spends about A$700m on nature protection, a fraction of the A$33bn – or 1% of GDP – conservationists say it should be. That is an eyebrow-raising figure, people like Paul Elton concede, but one they argue is reasonable.According to his research – which the government disputes – more than A$26bn is still being spent on…

Oman has said positive talks have been taking place with Iran over an agreement to secure a shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz, as Tehran warned that any deal would not see an immediate reopening of the vital waterway.Both sides suggested on Saturday that discussions were progressing, but a timeline on any deal being finalised remained unclear. Oman’s foreign ministry warned against attacks on shipping that could hamper that.Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said talks were in their final stages but the reopening of the strait remained “subject to other conditions”.Tehran has effectively blockaded the waterway, through which around…

To power its new West Texas data center, Amazon is investing in the construction of a new power plant that could be one of the largest single producers of greenhouse gases in the US, according to the New York Times. The new gas-burning plant in Pecos County, Texas has received significant investment from Amazon and, at least initially, would not be connected to the state’s power grid. Instead, its 35 natural-gas turbines would primarily deliver its 7.65 gigawatts of electricity to the new data center.According to Cleanview, which tracks data centers and their associated power projects, GW Ranch received a…

US-listed spot Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded funds pulled in more than $1 billion in fresh cash this week, with both groups registering their strongest inflows since April as demand for regulated crypto investment products rebounded.Data from SoSoValue shows that spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted $853.54 million during the week ended Aug. 7, their biggest haul in nearly four months.The funds recorded inflows in every session, including $170.09 million on Monday, $211.49 million on Tuesday and $244.42 million on Wednesday before demand moderated toward the end of the week.The total surpassed the roughly $824 million collected during the week of April 24…

The rapid expansion of data centers across the United States is putting growing pressure on the nation’s electricity supply. These facilities require enormous amounts of power not only to operate their computing equipment, but also to keep it cool. The Electric Power Research Institute estimates that data centers could account for as much as 9% of annual U.S. electricity generation by 2030, compared with 4% of total electricity demand in 2023. Researchers are now exploring ways to reduce some of that strain. A team led by Gang Wu, the Elvera and William R. Stuckenberg Professor in the McKelvey School of…

Brown, Matt, and Bill Barrow. “Trump Writes Partisan Plaques for Presidential Walk of Fame.” AP News, 17 Dec. 2025, apnews.com/article/trump-plaques-presidential-walk-fame-e6b496f68862f4b678bbe608a0efde95.Christensen, Laerke. ‘White House Plaques on “Presidential Walk of Fame” Criticize Biden, Obama’. Snopes, 18 Dec. 2025, https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/trump-white-house-plaques/.Dapcevich, Madison. “Did Trump Try to Deflect Attention from His COVID-19 Response by Criticizing Obama’s to H1N1?” Snopes, Snopes.com, 23 Sept. 2020, www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-deflect-to-h1n1/. Accessed 22 June 2026.gavinnewsom. ‘Sleepy Don’. Instagram, 3 Dec. 2026, https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fgavinnewsom%2Freel%2FDRz5eWsAfnq%2F&is_from_rle.Lee, Jessica. “Does Vid Show Biden Dozing off at Climate Change Summit?” Snopes, Snopes.com, Nov. 2021, www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-sleep-climate-summit/. Accessed 22 June 2026.Mary L Trump [@MaryLTrump]. ‘Sleepy Don #lindseygraham https://t.co/etdXPc3H2Y’. X, https://x.com/MaryLTrump/status/2083615795209208277.””Sucker,” “Loser”…

The Inter Miami forward, 39, also became an eight-time Ballon d’Or winner and won the Champions League four times with Barcelona, plus 10 La Liga titles in 17 seasons in their first team.Jorge supported his local team Newell’s Old Boys and Lionel joined the club when he was seven years old.The family relocated to Spain in February 2001 after Lionel was signed by Barca aged just 13, and although Messi’s mother and three siblings soon moved back to Rosario, his father stayed with him in Barcelona.”Jorge was the pillar and the person who supported with vision, rigor and affection the…

X, the social media platform now owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is shaking up how it pays influencers and creators. In announcing the change, the company said it will be winding down its existing Revenue Sharing program and replacing it with something called Original Content Rewards. X will stop accepting new Revenue Sharing participants, while existing participants will continue earning money through September 7. Then, starting on September 8, they’ll be able to apply for the new program. Participants will still need to subscribe to one of X’s Premium tiers, and there will be qualifying thresholds for follower count (500…

Ravie LakshmananAug 08, 2026Vulnerability / Enterprise Security N-able has released a fresh round of hotfixes for N‑central as part of its investigation into ongoing exploitation of a recently disclosed security flaw in the Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) product. “We are proactively expanding protections in response to ongoing monitoring of threat actors as they evolve their attack techniques,” the company said. “This is not a duplicate of our previous communication. Hotfix 2 is required, even if you already applied the earlier hotfix. Hotfix 2 supersedes Hotfix 1 with additional hardening measures to further protect you and your customers.” The disclosure…

In brief The initiative says it has scanned about 150 Bitcoin repositories and made more than a dozen vulnerability disclosures. The team is developing an open-source AI platform for auditing Bitcoin software. Developers say the effort is uncovering critical vulnerabilities across wallets, cryptographic libraries, and infrastructure. A volunteer security initiative says it used frontier AI models to scan 150 Bitcoin repositories and found more than a dozen vulnerabilities as developers increasingly use artificial intelligence to audit blockchains.In a post on X earlier this week, AnchorWatch CEO Rob Hamilton said the group has spent about $20,000 on AI services while building…