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GoPro suddenly looks like a very different company than it did just last week. First, YouTuber Mark “Markiplier” Fischbach became the company’s single largest shareholder, without disclosing that in a sponsored review that came out a week later. Now, almost the entire company has been bought by Starman Holding for $285 million in cash, which Starman is characterizing as a “merger.”While GoPro has always been best known as the company that makes consumer action cameras, the press release takes a bit of a different tone: founder and CEO Nick Woodman now calls GoPro “a leading American imaging and optical solutions…

“> Part I is a six-agent pipeline: Data Steward, Visual Analyst, Idea Miner, Factor Evaluator, Backtest Engineer and Research Librarian — orchestrated by an AI Manager. Agents never call one another; every handoff goes through the Manager, keeping runs auditable. A factor enters as a falsifiable proposal, not an expression: hypothesis, mechanism, predicted direction, and refutation conditions. Only then is it assembled from the standard formulaic-alpha operator registry. Because every time-series operator reads only a trailing window and every cross-sectional operator reads only the current timestamp, causality is closed under composition. Three feedback loops run: direction calibration inside a backtest,…

Healthtech company Novocure says the data of an undisclosed number of employees and more than 1,400 U.S. cancer patients has been exposed in a mid-August cyberattack. Novocure is a global oncology company with more than 1,300 employees and operations in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, known for inventing and commercializing Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields), a non-invasive electromagnetic field therapy for cancer tumors. The Company disclosed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it discovered the incident after unauthorized access to some of its information systems in mid-August. According to a follow-up investigation,…

Ethena has launched a global money app built around its USDe synthetic dollar, expanding the crypto-native asset into everyday payments, savings and cross-border transfers.According to Tuesday’s announcement, the self-custodial Ethena Pay app allows users to hold USDe through a dollar-denominated balance, earn as much as 6% in annualized rewards and spend funds through a payment card, while supporting fiat onramps.The beta rollout includes 48 countries across Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and other regions, though the initial rollout is limited to 400 users, with access set to expand weekly, Ethena said in a Tuesday thread on X. Avalanche will…

Computer models are helping scientists explain a puzzling pattern of deformation beneath the East African Rift System. The results point to the African Superplume, a vast upwelling of hot mantle material deep inside Earth, as the source of unusual motion that runs parallel to the rift as well as a matching pattern in the way seismic waves travel through the rocks below. Continental rifting happens when Earth’s rigid outer shell begins to stretch and thin. That outer shell, called the lithosphere, includes the crust and the uppermost part of the mantle. As the lithosphere is pulled apart, it can behave…

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Drone pilot Manish Maharjan has helped rescue teams in Nepal find people missing after last week’s catastrophic floods, sometimes using speakers mounted on the devices to call out to or play music for those stranded on hillsides. But the search for hundreds of workers believed to be trapped in power plant tunnels — now a major focus of rescue operations — presents an entirely different challenge, he said. “We found tunnels were filled with mud like toothpaste in a tube,” Maharjan said. “There was no hollow or empty space inside.” Maharjan, who is also a filmmaker, joined…

Amplitude Energy, an Australian gas production company focused on supplying the Southeast domestic gas market, has begun drilling an exploration well off the coast of Victoria, targeting an estimated 48.8 billion cubic feet (bcf) of prospective gas, as it advances its East Coast Supply Project (ECSP). Transocean Equinox, former Songa Equinox; Credit: ALP Maritime Amplitude Energy has started drilling the next well of its ECSP campaign, with the Transocean Equinox rig spudding Juliet-1 on August 22, 2026. This exploration well is located in permit VIC/L24 within Commonwealth waters, adjacent to the existing Casino, Henry, Netherby (CHN) pipeline. Juliet-1 is targeting…

“I have just been informed by the United States Navy that all mines have been removed and/or detonated from within the International Waters of the Strait of Hormuz,” U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social on Aug. 25. At the beginning of the war, Iran had mined the Strait of Hormuz’s Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS), the official shipping lane that runs through the middle of the strait. Mines, of course, make it extremely risky for ships to sail through. And now, Trump has said that the mines are gone. It is fantastic news because removing mines is painstaking and…

“Hey Taha, what’s the visibility like?” shouts a man with a towel slung over his shoulder.“Uh, nice,” says Surf Life Saving New South Wales drone operator Taha Kafil-Hussain.“Good?” the man asks. “Very good,” Kafil-Hussain assures him. Thanking him, the early morning swimmer turns and heads down the steps to Coogee beach.Kafil-Hussain, who Guardian Australia has joined on his early morning shark surveillance flight, says: “When they’re local, they just want to see what the weather, what the water looks like, [if there’s] anything scary.”The 22-year-old has been flying drones for SLS NSW for four years, but only at Coogee beach…

Germany has said Russia was responsible for last month’s drone attack at Leipzig’s airport. A drone carrying an explosive device was discovered at Leipzig/Halle Airport in eastern Germany, close to Ukrainian cargo planes, on 4 August.It failed to explode as the detonator was apparently faulty, and investigators suspect a second drone collided with a cargo aircraft nearby. A third drone was reportedly found near the airport 10 days later.Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said the Leipzig airport attack followed the “well-established pattern of Russian hybrid operations in Europe” and the assumption was that Germany would be targeted again.Security experts had speculated…