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Claim: In August 2026, Yellowstone National Park rangers warned the public that ravens had learned to open car doors. Rating: A rumor that Yellowstone National Park rangers warned the public that ravens at the park had learned how to open car doors spread online in August 2026. For example, the Facebook page Casper Planet posted shared the claim (archived) on Aug. 24:  Yellowstone Rangers Warn Visitors After Ravens Learn to Open Vehicle Doors Yellowstone officials are warning visitors to secure and lock vehicle doors after ravens reportedly learned how to open several different types of vehicles and push button hatch backs. Rangers…

Operation Jackal IV – which took place between November 2025 and June 2026 – investigated how the groups laundered money and how financial fraud cyber crimes, such as cryptocurrency and email compromise fraud, were conducted.Scams often targeted “retirees in English-speaking countries”, Interpol said.”By following illicit financial flows across borders, we are attacking the very lifeblood of organised crime and making it increasingly difficult for criminal networks to profit from their activities,” Tomonobu Kaya, director of Interpol’s financial crime centre, said in a statement.”Operation Jackal IV demonstrates the power of international co-operation.”During the operation, Interpol helped with cross-border co-ordination and intelligence…

Sweden’s armed forces have asked the government to expropriate a Russia-owned property near a naval base on security grounds.The military requested the seizure of the beach plot near Muskö base in Stockholm archipelago, citing “the threat from Russian drones and the ownership situation of the property”.Swedish reports say a businessman with links to the Russian state, has been building a luxury house on Muskö island – although his wife, who holds both Russian and Swedish citizenship, is the registered owner.Two years ago, Sweden ended two centuries of military non-alignment and joined Nato because of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.In its…

Mike Mazzei, the head of a financial planning firm who is vying to be the Republican nominee for Oklahoma governor, has presented himself as a staunch supporter of President Trump, who endorsed him and carried Oklahoma with 66 percent of the vote in 2024.A former state senator and budget secretary under Gov. Kevin Stitt, Mr. Mazzei is locked in a hard-fought Republican primary runoff against the state’s attorney general, Gentner Drummond.Should he prevail, Mr. Mazzei, 61, would be the favorite in the general election against the Democratic nominee for governor, State Representative Cyndi Munson.Here are five things to know about…

At the San Diego City Council’s most recent budget meeting, Sith Lord Darth Vader had some points to make. Between gasping breaths, Vader praised the council’s recent votes to renew its contract with the surveillance company Flock Safety, which has been making headlines recently as more and more stories of police officers abusing its tools have continued to come out—and as a WIRED review of code for a new AI tool already in use by some police departments has made clear that it is watching far more than just license plates.“The emperor is a fan of Flock. And we must…

Model cards report quality under server-class, full-precision conditions. Those numbers rarely predict how the same model behaves on a phone. This week, Liquid AI released Pipette. It is an open-source platform for benchmarking foundation models on edge devices, built in partnership with Artificial Analysis as an independent methodology validator. Pipette treats on-device behavior as a property of the deployed system, not the model in isolation. Its unit of measurement is a full configuration: model + quantization + runtime + device. The launch dataset covers five on-device performance metrics across more than 1,000 model × quantization × runtime × device ×…

This October, SecurityWeek, in partnership with MTSI, will offer the Cyber Attack Methods (CAM) course for the second consecutive year as part of the 25th Anniversary Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Cybersecurity Conference. Understanding how adversaries compromise cyber-physical systems requires more than reading threat reports or reviewing lists of attack techniques. Defenders must understand how attackers examine a system, identify opportunities and connect individual weaknesses to achieve a larger operational objective. The multi-day, hands-on course will take place October 6–8 at the W Nashville alongside the special 25th anniversary edition of the ICS Cybersecurity Conference. Learning to Think Like an Attacker…

Cardano’s vote to seat four elected Constitutional Committee members is now in its final week, and both voter groups remain far from the required marks. If support does not catch up before Sept. 1, committee-backed governance could hit a continuity break.The proposal would bring in four elected members before four incumbents leave. If it fails, only three seats stay active, two fewer than the committee’s current minimum, leaving committee-required actions unable to clear ratification.A live CardanoScan reading on Aug. 25 showed support from delegated representatives, or DReps, at 41.7% against a 67% threshold. Stake pool operator support stood at 12.0%,…

NASA’s Deep Space Network facility in California is marking the addition of a brand new 34-meter-wide (114-foot-wide) radio frequency antenna to the agency’s deep space communications and navigation system. The network uses giant dish antennas located at three global facilities to support more than 40 spacecraft exploring the solar system and interstellar space. The new Deep Space Station 23 (DSS-23) is located at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, near Barstow, and is managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. NASA leadership and personnel as well as dignitaries gathered at the complete DSS-23 antenna for a ceremonial ribbon…

Firms across Europe have been switching to electricity from fossil fuels for their industrial needs, encouraged by subsidies from EU funds.While that is helping bring down emissions of climate-warming gases, it has also made firms more vulnerable to power cuts.And in Spain and Portugal that threat was made painfully clear last year.On both sides of the border, firms are looking for ways to avoid disruption. “The industrial sector has been one of the first to look at storage systems, since it can’t have its production drop off too abruptly,” says Miguel Matias, founder of the Portuguese energy services company Self…