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Belgian shipping company Exmar has taken delivery of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier (LNGC), which will be upgraded to function as a floating transshipment unit (FTU), dedicated to the LNG bunkering market. LNG carrier Simaisa; Source: Exmar Exmar has confirmed the delivery of the 146,000-cubic-meter (cbm) LNG carrier Simaisa, which is secured under an initial seven-year charter contract. The company explains that this vessel will soon undergo a dry-dock, including modifications to make it suitable as a floating transshipment unit for the LNG bunkering market. According to the Belgian shipping player, the FTU will receive large parcels of LNG…

Claim: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s city-run grocery stores will require shoppers to present photo identification. Rating: Context The rumor misrepresents a statement from Jeanny Pak, interim president and CEO of the nonprofit New York City Economic Development Corp. Pak said the city-run stores may utilize a “library card-esque” system aimed at managing supply, and preventing bulk buying and reselling of goods at higher prices. However, the stores won’t require people to show ID to shop, and they will not have systems verifying identity, residency or income, a spokesperson for Mamdani’s office confirmed to Snopes. In summer 2026, a…

Lithuanian minister warns against Russia’s ‘false flag’ strike on the BalticsLithuania’s defence minister Robertas Kaunas warned that Russia could be considering possible “false flag” provocations against Nato countries in the Baltic region.A “false flag” is a term for an event or attack which would later be blamed on someone other than the actual perpetrator.Kaunas said there was no specific date for any potential Russian actions, but authorities were closely monitoring Russia’s plans and exchanging information with Poland and other Nato allies.“We are assessing and monitoring the threat level,” he said, quoted by LRT.BNS news agency reported that one scenario believed…

On the night of the 2020 election, a small error caused the publication of incorrect results showing that Joseph R. Biden Jr. had won the heavily Republican county. The county’s clerk at the time, Sheryl Guy, who had just cast her own ballot for Mr. Trump, explained her mistake and quickly corrected the tally. But then a team of lawyers and computer experts working to help Mr. Trump challenge Mr. Biden’s win across the country descended on Antrim and produced a report claiming that the election there showcased errors in voting machines. The report was quickly debunked, but that didn’t…

More than 1,900 small high street businesses including mini-marts, vape shops and car washes are licensed to sponsor foreign workers under a specialist scheme intended for high-earning individuals despite visa rules being tightened, BBC Verify has found.The Home Office scheme allows registered employers to recruit workers from overseas who meet a certain skill level. The rules were tightened in July 2025 to restrict the scheme mostly to graduate-level employees who would be earning at least £41,700.But a year on from the rule change, BBC Verify has found more than 1,500 grocery and convenience stores, 150 taxi operators, 100 barber shops,…

Meta, considered a bit of a straggler in the AI harnesses realm, is making strides to catch up. This week, the company released a new terminal coding agent aimed at programmers looking for assistance with complex tasks across large software code bases. Muse Code, which is currently available in beta, can accomplish “complete software engineering tasks across large repos,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a social media post on Wednesday. Those tasks include “planning changes, writing code, validating the results,” he added. Code, which can be installed with a single command, is powered by Meta’s previously released coding model,…

Prime Intellect has open-sourced Prime Agent, a self-improving coding harness designed around two abstractions, the Recursive Language Model (RLM) and Continual Harness. Fixed tool schemas and context compaction force a model to work around its own scaffolding. Prime Agent replaces both with a persistent Python REPL and a rewritable harness. With Opus 5, it reports 95.5% on ARC-AGI-3, above the reported human expert baseline of 95.4%. It is MIT-licensed. Is it deployable Yes, today. Prime Agent installs on Linux or macOS with one command. It runs on subscription logins (Codex, Claude Pro/Max, GitHub Copilot), API keys (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Groq,…

Hackers exploited a SQL injection vulnerability to install a post-exploitation toolkit directly inside an Oracle database that was used to breach a corporate network. The attack was discovered by Huntress on July 27, 2026, after its security platform detected credential theft on a server hosting an Oracle database server. Apache access logs showed that the attackers gained access through a vulnerable search engine endpoint in a public-facing Java application running Apache Tomcat. The application failed to properly validate input submitted through an autocomplete search feature that allowed the attackers to issue SQL commands to the Oracle database. Huntress traced the malicious requests…

A Federal Bureau of Investigation agent allegedly took $1 million in seized cryptocurrencies before turning himself in, according to court records.  Documents unsealed this week allege Patrick Steven Yaroch, who was a FBI Supervisory Special Agent working at the FBI Headquarters Counterintelligence and Espionage Division, claimed he “was frustrated that the FBI could not or would not act against adversarial cryptocurrency accounts.” He then proceeded to “take matters into his own hands,” according to the affidavit filed with a district court in Virginia, and transfer $925,426.07 in crypto to his personal wallets over numerous transactions.  Yaroch then allegedly toyed with…

Nightmares can be one of the most distressing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a condition that may develop after a person experiences a disaster, serious accident, violence, combat, or another severe trauma. During sleep, people with PTSD may feel as though they are living through the event again in vivid detail. These repeated episodes can cause severe sleep loss and make some people afraid to go to bed. Available medications often provide limited relief from trauma-related nightmares. Researchers at Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin therefore examined whether a prescription drug containing THC, one of the active compounds found in cannabis,…