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The UK has warned countries around the world that the climate and nature crises and the coming El Niño threaten their national security and defence, presenting foreign ministries with the findings of an explosive report suppressed under Keir Starmer.Ed Miliband, the foreign secretary, made a presentation to the foreign ministers of the EU as well as Kenya and other countries on Wednesday night at a private meeting during the UN general assembly in New York, based on the report by the UK’s spy chiefs that found the collapse of natural systems around the world would lead to conflict, migration and…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a slate of bills on Monday that could finally give communities better data — and more say — on how data centers impact their electricity bills and water supply.As data centers invade a growing number of communities across the US, they’ve triggered protests over how the infrastructure underpinning AI might stress power grids and local water systems. That’s fueled partly by concerns about how difficult it is to see just how much electricity or water they’re actually gobbling up. California’s new disclosure rules won’t offer a full picture, but starting next year, data center operators…

NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3 Diarization, an open-weight speaker diarization model on Hugging Face. It answers one question about any conversation: who spoke when. The 100M-parameter model tracks up to 8 speakers, including when voices overlap. One checkpoint handles both offline recordings and real-time streaming. Is it deployable? Yes. The weights are released under the OpenMDW License 1.1, which permits commercial use. It runs on Linux through NVIDIA NeMo, using Ampere, Ada Lovelace, Hopper, or Blackwell GPUs. Why Speaker Diarization? Automatic speech recognition (ASR) gives you the words. It does not tell you who said them. Without attribution, a summarizer…

Swati KhandelwalSep 23, 2026DevOps Security / Supply ChainThe private email address GitLab gives you for filing issues by email is a credential. Anyone who gets it can email a patch that GitLab commits in your name, to any branch you can push to, including main, and can start CI/CD jobs that run as you. GitLab shows each user this address behind a button labeled “Email work item to this project.” Mail sent to it opens an issue in that project, authored by you. The string in the middle of the address is a token tied to your account, and GitLab’s…

Visa released the results of a survey signaling that bank-level fraud protection and insurance could drive adoption in stablecoins for cross-border transactions among US users.In a survey of 2,192 US-based customers published on Wednesday, Visa said that the “adoption intention” of stablecoins among US users could climb from 36% to 56% “in a hypothetical scenario with bank-level fraud protection and deposit insurance.” The findings conducted by Morning Consult between February and March showed that Americans who were asked about financial terms like stablecoins were looking for faster and cheaper methods to send money abroad.“Nearly two-thirds (64%) [of respondents] say trust…

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A reptile believed to be struggling in sand at a Southern California beach was simply making history: a sea turtle laying eggs on the U.S. West Coast. And three days later, there were more. An olive ridley turtle — maybe the same one — laid eggs on Sept. 19, a few miles away near the Huntington Beach Pier in Orange County, authorities said. “This is the first-ever recorded natural nesting for any sea turtle species” on the West Coast, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s West Coast Fisheries division said on Facebook. Olive ridley turtles…

DeepOcean and the controlling entity of TFKable Group are planning to establish a joint venture (JV) that will provide integrated engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) services for inter-array cable projects in offshore wind, as well as a newbuild, dedicated inter-array cable laying vessel (CLV). The planned JV will provide an integrated offering covering key stages of inter-array cable projects, including seabed mapping, route surveys, engineering, cable manufacturing and transportation, trenching, installation and cable protection. The collaboration, set to combine TFKable Group’s subsea cable technology and manufacturing capabilities with DeepOcean’s expertise in offshore engineering, installation and seabed intervention, will initially focus…

The United Nations was created, its charter states, to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war”. Donald Trump used his address to the general assembly to threaten Iran, another member state, with annihilation again. The charter also speaks of the obligations of international law. On Venezuela, Mr Trump gloated that “to the victor belong the spoils”. His speech in New York on Tuesday might be regarded as an improvement on last year’s only in that it was not an explicit, full-scale attack on the UN itself, merely on its founding principles.The absences this year are perhaps as telling as the…

The day so far Iran’s president said his country’s people had been the “victims of terrorism” by the United States. Delivering a rare wartime speech at the UN General Assembly, Pezeshkian displayed images of the late supreme leader Ali Khamenei and more than 150 schoolchildren killed in the opening days of the conflict. “We have only defended ourselves. We are not terrorists,” Pezeshkian said at the General Assembly. “Our innocent people have been the targets of cowardly attacks and aggressions imposed upon our country. And we defended ourselves with utmost strength. America and Israel attacked us.” On the strait of…

The Chagos Islands deal is on hold for as long as Donald Trump objects to it, UK officials believe, with no immediate signs it can be adapted to suit the US president.After Trump savaged the three-way plan as “a terrible deal” during a meeting with Andy Burnham at the UN general assembly, the prime minister said he was “confident” the UK would be able to find a solution to revive the idea.But while efforts are still taking place to do this, there is an acceptance in the government that it is extremely unlikely unless Trump has another change of heart.…