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On July 1, an open-source investigations account posted a satellite image taken on June 16 of the port of the Baltiysk Naval Base, located in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, which lies between Poland and Lithuania. The image shows a Russian cargo ship, the Mikhail Britnev, being loaded with “armoured fighting vehicles and personnel carriers”. This satellite photo of the Mikhail Britnev was taken on June 16, 2026. Source: X, Sonarrow To display this content from X (Twitter), you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices The Mikhail Britnev is part of the fleet of Russian…

At the Makerfield by-election, which Labour’s Andy Burnham won shortly before becoming British prime minister, Restore Britain bagged 6.8 percent to Reform’s 34.5 percent. Even though their combined totals wouldn’t have beaten Burnham, Farage lambasted the result, asking Restore voters: “What do you want?” A similar pattern emerged at last week’s Greater Manchester mayoral by-election to succeed Burnham, where Restore picked up 8.7 percent of first preference votes. What’s the latest on a rapprochement? After the Greater Manchester contest, Lowe shot a 12-minute X video calling for the two men to put “personal differences aside” to deliver credible change. Lowe’s…

Andy Burnham’s government will continue to function normally while the new prime minister is away on holiday, Downing Street has said.Burnham is taking a break from his day-to-day duties to spend time with his family, after entering No 10 two weeks ago.His official spokesman has said he will remain in direct contact with officials and continue to hold meetings while away from Downing Street. But Reform UK’s chairman Lee Anderson has criticised Burnham for going on holiday so soon after taking office, saying: “This isn’t a prime minister that’s serious about leading.”He accused the new prime minister of having “bunked…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Electric vehicles myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Lucid’s new chief executive has warned that the US car sector would not “stay isolated” from cut-throat competition posed by Chinese rivals as he predicted a shakeout in the crowded global EV market.“Everyone is fighting for survival . . . the number of EV suppliers we have today is excessive and they will not survive,” Silvio Napoli, who took over as head of the struggling Saudi-owned group in June, told the FT.Steep US tariffs and restrictions on Chinese car software have protected the American car industry…

ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.If you are in the market for a new home speaker, you have multiple excellent options. Two of the best, most balanced choices include Marshall’s Stanmore IV and the Sonos Era 300. Both offer room-filling sound, thumping bass, and a rich feature set. Both speakers have their own merits, but you need to know what you want. One is strictly a Bluetooth speaker, while the other has the smarts you’d expect from every modern speaker. Also: Forget the soundbar: How I upgraded my TV audio with spare Bluetooth speakersI put them against each other…

Cursor Research has open-sourced Mixture-of-Kittens (MoK), the mixture-of-experts training megakernel behind its Composer models. MoK fuses every MoE communication and computation step into a single deterministic kernel. Cursor team reports up to 2.37x higher throughput than the strongest public baseline. It already powers Composer training across tens of thousands of GPUs. Is it deployable Yes, but the hardware floor is high. MoK is on GitHub under Apache-2.0. It requires NVIDIA Blackwell SM100 or SM103 GPUs, which means GB200 NVL72 or GB300 NVL72 racks. It also needs Python 3.12+, PyTorch 2.10+, and CUDA toolkit 13.0+. Inter-GPU buffers rely on PyTorch symmetric…

Runtime security company Oligo Security today announced raising $60 million in a new funding round that brings the total to $140 million. Ballistic Ventures, Canon Capital, Greenfield Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Red Dot Capital, TLV Partners, and angel investors participated in the round. Founded in 2022, Tel Aviv-based Oligo has built a security platform covering application code, cloud workloads, and AI systems that provides deep runtime visibility and real-time protection. Through code execution observability, the platform enables organizations to block exploit attempts, prioritize risky vulnerabilities, and automate response. As the window between vulnerability disclosure and exploitation has diminished significantly in…

Latest NewsPublishedAug 4, 2026In a July 8 meeting, US and UK regulators highlighted the implementation of the GENIUS Act, payment modernization and cross-border cooperation, reinforcing a shared framework for digital asset oversight.The United States and the United Kingdom reaffirmed their commitment to closer financial regulatory cooperation during a recent bilateral working group, signaling continued policy alignment on digital assets as US authorities move to implement landmark stablecoin legislation.During the 13th meeting of the UK-US Financial Regulatory Working Group (FRWG), held in London on July 8, officials discussed stablecoin regulation, digital asset market structure in the United States, tokenization and the…

Bones recovered from underwater caves can provide an extraordinary record of the distant past. Until now, however, scientists have lacked a reliable way to determine how the remains of extinct megafauna and other animals accumulated, survived, and changed inside these submerged graveyards. A new study led by Griffith University provides researchers with a framework for reading the evidence preserved on these bones. Reading the Fingerprints Left on Cave Bones “By analyzing animal bones from two underwater cave systems in South Australia, we have revealed how different cave environments leave distinct preservation ‘fingerprints’ on skeletal remains,” said Meg Walker, a PhD…

In her upcoming book, My Wild City: Finding Nature, Meaning, and Hope in India’s Capital, conservation biologist Neha Sinha takes readers to the hidden and not-so-hidden ecosystems of India’s largest city. And while the book expertly details the biodiversity, I believe its greatest strength lies in connecting with the reader emotionally through powerful stories from her personal life. On this week’s episode of the Mongabay Newscast, Sinha explains why nature in cities isn’t just important from an ecosystem health perspective, but necessary for the emotional life of all people.Sinha describes the difficulty of caring for her ailing father, and how…