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According to protocol, all Bell helicopters across the country have been grounded, a source from the civil protection ministry told the BBC.The source added that the second Bell helicopter involved in the collision made an emergency landing in an area of low vegetation. “The two people on board, a British pilot and a Greek fire service liaison officer – escaped with minor injuries,” the source said. “Both remained conscious and have been admitted to hospital, where they will remain under observation for 24 hours as a precaution.” The source also told the BBC the British survivor was a private pilot…

The leader of Restore Britain, Rupert Lowe, has extended an olive branch to Nigel Farage, saying the two should put “personalities and our past disagreements aside for the good of the country”.Lowe told the Reform UK leader that if he was “prepared to work together around serious policies, serious reform and serious government, then so are we”.In a video posted on X, Lowe said: “I truly believe there could be sufficient common ground for our two movements to cooperate collectively, destroy the looming leftwing alliance that will finish off what hope remains for this country.“In my view, failing to even…

In this tutorial, we design a complete GeoAI workflow for extracting building footprints from high-resolution NAIP aerial imagery. We begin by configuring the geospatial deep learning environment, downloading raster imagery and vector labels, and inspecting their spatial properties before generating georeferenced image chips and segmentation masks. We then train a U-Net model with a ResNet-34 encoder, evaluate its learning behavior, and apply sliding-window inference to an unseen scene. Beyond semantic segmentation, we convert predicted masks into cleaned and regularized building polygons, calculate IoU and F1 metrics, explore zero-shot segmentation with Grounding DINO and SAM, and compare the results with a…

Researchers suspect that a vulnerability in COLDCARD hardware wallet firmware was exploited to steal an estimated $88.6 million in Bitcoin from thousands of wallets whose seeds were generated using a flawed random number generator. Digital asset research firm Galaxy Research says it identified an initial wave of transactions that it believes was likely linked to the vulnerability, draining approximately 1,083 BTC, worth $70.2 million, from 1,196 addresses on July 30. The 41-minute attack occurred approximately 30 hours before Coinkite publicly disclosed the flaw. Every transaction used an identical hardcoded fee rate of 30 satoshis per virtual byte and left no…

Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt.GM!Today’s top news: Crypto majors are red while stocks grind higher; BTC -2% at $63.7k BTC ETFs see $233M in net inflows, 2nd biggest day since early May Coinbase posts surprise loss in Q2 earnings; Strategy books $8.2B loss NY AG files petition to shut down Kalshi, seeks $36B in damages Coldcard exploit leads to $38M in Bitcoin losses 📉 Coinbase Posts a Surprise Loss as Trading Dries UpCoinbase reported $1.22 billion in second-quarter revenue on Thursday, down…

Cancer may be damaging its own genetic material by forcing critical genes to operate at extreme levels. New research suggests that powerful DNA control regions known as super-enhancers drive unusually intense activity in genes that support tumor growth. This relentless activity places strain on the DNA and can lead to serious breaks. Cancer cells are often able to repair the damage and continue growing. However, repeated cycles of breaking and repair can introduce errors, allowing mutations to accumulate in these highly active regions. The same biological machinery that helps tumors grow rapidly may therefore make their DNA increasingly unstable, potentially…

A crucial point that your editorial on India’s gen Z protests (28 July) missed out was that the protests the Cockroach Janta party (CJP) launched in Delhi, hunger strikes and all, were not just supported by young, restless or unemployed people. It was wholeheartedly supported by their parents and grandparents, the old and the middle-aged, even well-off young adults with good jobs and little children. And this was not just in Delhi, but across the country in the huge metropolises of Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Bengaluru, as well as smaller towns. And it was all peaceful, for which credit goes…

If you’ve missed her (I have!), don’t worry — Katrin will be back tomorrow. For now, today’s newsletter is on what happened in Ceuta, a Spanish territory in North Africa, last week.Why did 50,000 to 60,000 people rush en masse from Morocco to a Spanish exclave over the course of two days? We know why, in a general sense — because they thought they’d find better opportunities in Europe. But what prompted the sudden, seemingly coordinated surge? That’s the mystery.Today I’m writing about what we do and don’t know about Ceuta, and why it matters that we still don’t understand…

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! TechCrunch covered a couple of stories this week that illustrate the countervailing forces at play within the autonomous vehicle industry. The federal government is hitting the accelerator while state and local officials are pumping the brakes on autonomous vehicles.  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration made a series of autonomous vehicle technology announcements designed to cut red tape and accelerate…

Thinking Machines Lab has released Inkling-Small, an open weights Mixture-of-Experts model with 276B total parameters and 12B active. That is about a quarter the size of Inkling, which carries 975B total and 41B active parameters. The model was trained on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems. It reasons natively over text, images and audio. The context window reaches 1M tokens, and thinking effort is adjustable. Weights ship under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face. Is it deployable Yes, and the quantized checkpoint is why. Per the model card, the BF16 checkpoint needs at least 600 GB of aggregated VRAM. That is met by…