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In 1915, Kazimir Malevich hung a black square on a gallery wall and called it the zero point of painting – the end of the image, presented as an image. A little over a century later, the black square returns in Remains, but this time as consequence rather than statement. If the collector of one of these works by artist Rupture does nothing, the on-chain response is to produce the black square for them, one pixel at a time, one block at a time, until nothing is left of the image. Remains is a series of four hybrid works in…

New research suggests that whatever scientists ultimately discover about the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees, one characteristic may be difficult to dispute: it was probably capable of climbing trees. Humans and chimpanzees went their separate evolutionary ways between 6 and 7 million years ago, when they diverged from the last common ancestor (LCA) they once shared. Reconstructing that ancestor has become an important part of understanding human evolution, including the emergence of walking on two legs. One major question concerns where and how the LCA moved through forests. Did it spend much of its time among high horizontal…

“Since Wednesday, life has been upended,” Upadhyay told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast on Tuesday. “For the first few days, we were we were waiting very hopefully for some information. There was some hope that he would somehow have walked up to higher ground and would have made the long trek, sort of the 60-mile trek home. “But as the days passed, that hope has definitely faded.”Authorities said rescue efforts had been largely focussed on the Trishuli 3A and 3B sites – hydropower projects with tunnels.Nepali authorities are blasting into hillsides to try and reach those trapped, with a controlled blast…

Jan De Nul’s extra-large cable-laying vessel (CLV) Fleeming Jenkin has started sea trials, soon to be followed by its twin, William Thomson.Source: Jan De Nul Jan De Nul placed an order for Fleeming Jenkin at China’s CMHI Haimen shipyard in October 2023, followed by an order for William Thomson in May the following year. With a cargo capacity of 28,000 tons and a length of 215 meters, the two identical vessels are the largest of their kind, the company said. It was reported on August 28 that Fleeming Jenkin was headed out to sea for the first time to undergo extensive testing. William…

New towns will again be a lasting Labour legacy, just as in the eras of Clement Attlee and Harold Wilson. Those monuments to optimism, created in the mid-20th century by pulling down slums and building better, will be joined by seven more in an attempt to ease the housing crisis.Enfield has been the exemplar, its proposed 21,000-home new town enthusiastically backed by its previous Labour council, which was struggling with 3,000 families expensively dumped into miserable temporary accommodation, and, I’m told, 7,000 on the waiting list. But in May’s elections, the great anti-Labour storm brought in a regime resisting the…

Australia’s two biggest cities had their hottest and equal hottest winters on record, with three eastern states also breaking temperature records.The Bureau of Meteorology’s (BoM) spring outlook shows above average daytime and nighttime temperatures are expected to continue for much of the country, with an increased chance of unusually high maximums.Dr Simon Grainger, a senior climatologist at the bureau, said Sydney had its warmest winter on record, with the mean temperature of 15.3C at Observatory Hill breaking the previous record of 15.0C set in 2013. Average maximum and minimum temperatures at the same site were also the warmest on record.Melbourne…

Burnham to say he wants to unlock ‘positivity’ in first statement to MPs since becoming PMGood morning. Andy Burnham became prime minister six weeks ago, but today will be the first time he addresses MPs in the Commons. It will also be the first time he has spoken as a minister from the dispatch box in more than 16 years. As MPs return to Westminster, they will be telling each other about how they spent the summer holiday and, for Burnham, it has undoubtedly gone well. He has unveiled a blitz of announcements which, broadly, have had a good reception…

This weekend, I strapped on an Apple Vision Pro to watch a baseball game in immersive virtual reality for the first time. It was technically impressive, visually pretty remarkable, and also didn’t make that much sense.Apple and Major League Baseball chose a classic match-up of the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees for the first of its series of four games streamed on the device. I do not review tech for The Verge, but I do watch a lot of baseball — if there’s a game on and I’m at home, it’s likely on my television. If this…

Two security vulnerabilities in the PaperCut NG and MF print management software, patched last week after being exploited as zero-days, are now being abused in data theft attacks. According to PaperCut Software, the software is used by 100 million users across more than 70,000 organizations, including large companies, state agencies, and educational institutions. Tracked as CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078, the two security flaws can be chained to bypass authentication and gain remote code execution on vulnerable PaperCut NG and MF print management servers. PaperCut Software released two sets of emergency patches to address the vulnerabilities on Thursday and Friday, and published…

Michael Saylor recently published an essay arguing that institutional custody and securities can expand Bitcoin without eliminating self-custody. On the same day, Strategy reported $2.0065 billion of net MSTR share-sale proceeds, $5.10 billion in its USD Reserve, $1.59 billion in a new USD Cash pool and a $136.4 million repurchase of STRC preferred stock.Saylor’s “The Bitcoin Reformation” defines sovereignty as the ability to choose among direct ownership and transparent institutional claims. Strategy’s Aug. 24 Form 8-K shows the company raising, protecting and reallocating capital through exactly those layers while holding 840,447 BTC.The essay remains attributed directly to Saylor; Strategy’s formal…