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World War II books have a habit of being as enormous as the conflict itself. The average war buff owns at least a couple of hefty tomes that could, in a pinch, stop a bullet or two, whether it’s Gerhard Weinberg’s classic A World at Arms (1,208 pages), Richard Overy’s Blood and Ruins (1,040 pages), or Antony Beevor’s The Second World War (880 pages). Even a relatively svelte volume like John Ellis’ One Day In a Very Long War runs over 400 pages. The third world war could be fought by using World War II books as artillery shells. Jonathan…

Ratko Mladic, a war criminal convicted for his role in orchestrating the Srebrenica Genocide in 1995 – the first genocide on European soil since the second world war – died in prison in The Hague at the age of 84.⁠He had been serving a life sentence for ‌genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity – crimes whose “seriousness” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres restated after his death on Thursday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“The Secretary-General stands in solidarity with the victims, survivors and ⁠their families who suffered the crimes for which Mr Mladic was found guilty … [and]…

Greenland’s justice minister has said the government cannot conclude whether genocide was committed against the Inuit community after experts examined the use of forced contraception in the 1960s and 70s.”We cannot say, on behalf of the government, whether there was genocide,” Marianne Paviasen told reporters. “This is something we can continue to debate.”Two reports on the practice were released on Friday, a year after Denmark apologised for the treatment of Inuit women and girls in its autonomous territory. Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said a “reconciliation commission” would be set up while Danish PM Mette Frederiksen promised the governments would…

Labour has rejected calls to pause construction of major AI infrastructure in Britain after the Green party leader, Zack Polanski, said it was time to “slam the brakes on these energy-guzzling, water-guzzling datacentres”.The government hit back at the opposition party’s proposal of a “moratorium other than [for] local-scale datacentres for the local community”, saying it “would be a disaster for jobs and national security”.The Greens’ call for a pause comes amid one of the UK’s worst droughts in years and predictions that datacentres’ electricity use, now standing at about 2.5% of the UK’s supply, will rise fourfold by 2030.Datacentres contain…

Russia is losing about 6,000 more troops in Ukraine each month than it can recruit, western officials have said.While Russia is still acquiring new battlefield recruits at speed, with an estimated rate of 1,000 a day, in the last two months even this has not been sufficient to replace those killed or injured.“We estimate that the gap between the number of people Russia is losing to casualties and the number they’re being able to recruit is around 6,000 a month at the moment,” one western official said.“Putin’s response to this has been to escalate himself and to target civilian infrastructure…

Prince Alois chose Liechtenstein’s national day on August 15 to announce a break with three centuries of dynastic tradition: future generations of women could inherit the throne on equal terms with men.For a country that was Europe’s last to give women the vote, in 1984, the change was hailed as overdue progress. But it also masked a much broader consolidation of power.Internal documents reviewed by the FT show that three days earlier, behind the walls of Vaduz Castle, Europe’s wealthiest ruling dynasty had quietly approved an overhaul that strengthens the authority of a prince who already wields extraordinary power over…

Milo Yiannopoulos, a British national known for his near-constant reinventions as a vizier within far-right American politics for more than a decade, has been detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Louisiana, according to the department’s records.While it’s not clear which detention facility Yiannopoulos is currently being held in, the ICE directory instructs any family or legal representatives to contact the Enforcement and Removal Office in Alexandria, Louisiana, a processing center for the central part of the state, about 200 miles from New Orleans.ICE and the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately comment on the matter or indicate…

Two frontier open-weight models shipped within a day of each other this week. Z.ai released GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320B-parameter multimodal MoE model with 18B active parameters. Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a 125B model with 6B active parameters that previews the Qwen4 architecture. The two teams designed these systems independently. Yet their configs read like near-copies of each other. Both use a 3:1 hybrid of linear and full attention. Both select context with a compressed indexer capped at 2048 tokens. Both widen the residual stream into 4 gated branches. Both train with the Muon optimizer, with fused parameter matrices split before…

SecurityWeek’s weekly cybersecurity news roundup offers a concise overview of important developments that may not receive full standalone coverage yet remain relevant to the broader threat landscape. This curated summary highlights key stories across vulnerability disclosures, emerging attack methods, policy updates, industry reports, and other noteworthy events to help readers maintain a well-rounded awareness of the evolving cybersecurity environment. Here are this week’s highlights:  Developers say Log4j vulnerability alert overblown An Apache Log4j 2 vulnerability raised concerns in the cybersecurity community this week. Reports started circulating about a critical remote code execution vulnerability. However, Log4j developers calmed fears, describing the…

In brief The SEC declared effective Evernorth’s Form S-4 registration statement on August 27, clearing Armada Acquisition Corp. II to schedule a shareholder vote on their merger. Armada shareholders of record as of August 20 will vote on the deal September 30; investors seeking redemption must file by September 28. Evernorth aims to become the largest publicly traded XRP treasury, but the roughly $947 million it spent on XRP last October is now worth hundreds of millions less. The Securities and Exchange Commission has cleared a path for Evernoth Holdings, an XRP treasury company, to list on the Nasdaq.The SEC…