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Most kids learn in elementary school that the seasons are caused by Earth rotating on a tilted axis during its yearly orbit around the Sun. The substantial tilt, about 23.5 degrees, is thought to be the result of an ancient planetary body, Theia, smashing into Earth about 4.5 billion years ago, in the same cataclysmic collision that formed the Moon. To visualize why Earth has seasons, imagine the planet as a spinning top tilted to one side. Around the June solstice, the Northern Hemisphere leans toward the Sun, bringing more direct sunlight and longer days. Around the December solstice, the…

OMS Group has opened a new remote operations center (ROC) in Singapore, dedicated to remote supervision of unmanned surface vessel (USV) operations, real-time monitoring and validation of survey data, and coordinated multi-vehicle operations across geographically dispersed projects.Source: OMS Group The ROC, operated by the group’s marine survey business unit OMS Geometra, brings together USV pilots, survey specialists and project teams into one operating environment. “The ROC is designed as an extension of our survey division, not a separate technology silo,” said Maxime Even, Director, Marine Survey Integration and Operations. “By bringing vessel operations, survey expertise and data into one environment,…

When Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi meets with U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly today, she will have a new plan at her disposal to highlight how Tokyo will do more for the U.S.-Japan security alliance. Her government is undertaking the most substantial overhaul of Japan’s intelligence collection and analysis capabilities since 1945, with the ultimate goal of creating something Japan has never had: its own version of the CIA by 2028. Although its final name and structure remain unsettled, Tokyo clearly intends for the new agency to conduct clandestine human intelligence (HUMINT) operations…

Claim: A U.S. Secret Service agent said working for U.S. President Donald Trump had “ruined” him because of the president’s kindness. Rating: A claim (archived) circulated online in September 2026 that a U.S. Secret Service agent said working for President Donald Trump had “ruined” him because of the president’s kindness. According to one Facebook user, the agent in question said: Trump RUINED me for this job. Not because he’s difficult — but because he’s completely different. Trump knows my NAME. Other Presidents called me “agent.” Trump calls me by my actual name. The same claim, text and image also circulated…

No group claims responsibility for attack, but suspicion falls on ISIL affiliate.Published On 22 Sep 202622 Sep 2026Hundreds of people have fled their homes after an armed group killed 15 people in the village of Madegoua near the town of Makary in the Far North region of Cameroon.The attack on Wednesday triggered a wave of displacement from 10 nearby villages. Several hundred people fled towards Kousseri and others went farther afield towards the towns of Mora and Waza close to the border with Nigeria, the RFI news outlet reported.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“They arrived here terrified, sleeping…

Datacentre nimbys are holding Britain back, George Osborne has said in reaction to nationwide protests about the giant water- and energy-guzzling structures.The former Tory chancellor is now the head of AI for countries at OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT. His job is to represent the company to governments around the world and he also has a role in enabling the building of datacentres and other infrastructure.Speaking at the Big Brue festival in Somerset on Sunday, Osborne said: “You try and build a datacentre in Britain … I spent my life when I was politician trying to get people to agree…

For decades, chipmakers have sought to make semiconductors faster by shrinking down silicon transistors and packing more of them on each chip. But shrinking transistors comes with its own problems: controlling electron flow becomes harder, which exacerbates problems such as leakage, power loss and heat. Nexstrom, a semiconductor startup incubated by Xora Innovation, thinks using two-dimensional (2D) materials instead of silicon is one viable way to solve that problem, especially as the global component shortage driven by demand for data centers shows no signs of letting up. The Singapore-based company is building equipment and processes that would let foundries manufacture…

AutoScheduler has launched its warehouse app builder to let logistics teams build custom tools directly from live facility data. The new software module forms part of the company’s wider Warehouse AI Platform, serving distribution centres that balance inventory, machinery, and labour.Distribution centres routinely depend on rigid enterprise resource planning and warehouse management suites. When operational snags crop up between these massive platforms, floor managers often turn to manual spreadsheets or unrecorded staff routines. Site planners can now assemble targeted software routines in plain language. This capability bypasses lengthy commercial software release cycles and overburdened enterprise IT queues.Keith Moore, CEO at…

Swati KhandelwalSep 22, 2026Vulnerability / Virtualization A new flaw in the Linux kernel’s KVM virtualization code for ARM64 processors can leave a freed piece of host memory exposed to a guest virtual machine on hosts with nested virtualization enabled. The bug, tracked as CVE-2026-89775, allows a guest to read and write host kernel memory, and the researcher who found it says it can be used to escape the guest and run code on the host machine. The affected code is part of the mainline Linux kernel for ARM64, and it is fixed in Linux 6.18.51, 7.2.5, and 7.3-rc1. Nested virtualization…

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