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For wildlife moving between Lake Manyara and Tarangire, a line on a map was never enough. Elephants, wildebeest, and other animals crossed land used by pastoralists and farmers, where roads, cultivation, and settlements were expanding. Keeping such routes open meant persuading people who lived there that wildlife had a place in their future. It meant dealing with livestock killed by predators, arguments over revenue, and the tedious business of local institutions. John Gospel Yonazi Salehe, who died on June 19th aged 71, spent much of his working life on such problems. A Tanzanian forester by training, he worked…

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung proposed talks with North Korea to formally end the long-running Korean War, as Pyongyang deepens ties with Russia while asserting its status as an “irreversible” nuclear state. The two Koreas remain technically at war because their 1950-53 conflict, triggered by a North Korean attack, ended with an armistice rather than a peace treaty. Lee made the proposal in his speech at a ceremony marking the anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule. “Let us put down our intentions to threaten each other and begin discussions to end the long-running war as the directly…

Magyar said on X that the current water level near Hungary’s only nuclear energy facility is 122 cm lower than normal and it is projected to drop below 132 cm on Monday, which would force one of the plant’s two turbines to shut down. On Wednesday, Magyar announced that they would be building a riverbed sill with 150,000 cubic meters of stone and was considering sinking the two 80-meter barges. A sill is an underwater dam meant to slow down the current and raise water levels. Hungary’s Defense Ministry has assigned 100 troops to work around the clock on the…

pros and cons Pros Gorgeous build.Excellent battery.Display punches above its price point.Very thin and light. Cons 8GB of RAM is limiting.Only two USB-C ports. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.Dell’s new XPS 13 dropped with a singular purpose in mind: compete with (and take down) the MacBook Neo. Does it do that? It depends. But it absolutely does raise the bar for “budget” Windows laptops — something PC makers realized they could no longer avoid post-Neo.Perhaps, then, the question is not so much about the Dell XPS 13’s relationship to Apple’s most affordable MacBook and more about how…

A new Mirai-based modular Linux botnet malware called Evooo1Bot has been targeting internet-facing gateway devices, turning them into SOCKS5 traffic relay nodes. The malware’s capabilities extend beyond turning devices into proxy nodes and include credential theft, SSH brute-forcing, and launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Since at least July, Evooo1Bot has been targeting devices from Alcatel, NETGEAR, Tenda, Mitsubishi Electric, Telesquare, and D-Link across various regions by exploiting known vulnerabilities. Evooo1Bot’s current geographical spreadSource: Fortinet “While the malware reuses the DDoS engine from the publicly leaked Mirai source code, it extends the original framework with numerous capabilities, including encrypted C2 communications,…

In brief Meta filed a patent for cameras that use facial recognition to tag people by name and auto-generate clips around their detected actions. The system is assistant-driven: it serves pre-sorted “who did what, when” highlights to a phone or headset on request. It’s a continuation of a 2022 parent application and sits at “Ready for Examination”—not granted, and far from a shipping feature. Meta Platforms Technologies, the entity that holds Meta’s R&D and hardware intellectual property, published a patent for a camera system that identifies people by face and logs what they do.The filing describes cameras feeding footage into…

A Shropshire vicar played a key role in a new two-part BBC documentary featuring Welsh Hollywood actor Michael Sheen’s investigation into toxic waste dumps.The Rev Paul Cawthorne, priest in charge of churches in the Hadnall area, is also a long time environmental campaigner.He began looking into the history of the former landfill site at Stoney Hill, in Telford, where former chemical giant, Monsanto, is known to have legally dumped waste in the mid to late 1980s.”When I found out about the Monsanto chemical dumping at Stoney Hill, I next identified Sutton Walls in Herefordshire, then Cefn Mawr in north Wales,”…

In a village in central Nepal, growing conflict between farmers and rhesus macaques has prompted researchers to test artificial intelligence-based systems that can swiftly detect and deter the monkeys, reports contributor Praveen Kumar Yadav for Mongabay. A 2026 study that followed rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) in one central Nepal region, found that nearly half of their diet consists of cultivated crops. In villages like Birta Deurali, also in central Nepal, farmers take turns guarding fields every two hours, Yadav reported. To alleviate this burden, researchers in the country are developing AI-driven solutions. Progress Jung Thapa, a researcher at…

Iran has accused Qatar of capturing three of its bomber pilots in the early days of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, and on Saturday called on the International Committee of the Red Cross to intervene on their behalf.Gen. Seyed Mohammad Bagherzadeh, commander of the Iranian armed forces’ missing persons search committee, wrote to the global aid organization in a letter published by Iranian media. He said the men were flying Su-24 fighter jets in an operation on March 2, days after the outbreak of the war, when their planes had been hit by “enemy defenses” and the pilots ejected.They survived…

Drawing largely on testimony gathered by the House Jan. 6 Committee, the BBC’s attorneys say Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump were present as the president revised his speech and were on hand at the Ellipse as he spoke. The network’s lawyers also say Kushner drafted a proposed statement for the president condemning the violence.The subpoenas seek both deposition testimony and relevant documents from the Trump family members.Court filings indicate that the BBC tried to serve the subpoenas to Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s home in Miami in May, but police blocked the attempt. A lawyer for the Secret Service, Troy…