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New investigative findings from a Florida sheriff’s office detail the stark conditions of emaciated and dehydrated sloths at a planned tourism attraction where more than 50 of the animals died, including one frothing at the mouth and another that had been lying on the ground for two days, covered in feces.   Even so, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday that it would not bring any criminal charges.   The report’s author, Deputy Aaron Bennett, attributed the deaths at Sloth World in Orlando to problems with the sloths’ health “rather than the result of criminal activity or improper care.”  From the…

The financial pressures described by university leaders (UK universities face ‘financial crisis’ amid collapse in international students, 14 August) are both clear and serious, yet there are wider consequences of declining international student numbers that deserve attention.While the immediate economic contribution that international students make is significant, so is their broader value in bringing international perspectives to our campuses, enriching the learning experience, and strengthening the UK’s relationships, reputation and influence around the world.At a time when relationships, trust and influence increasingly matter, British Council research shows that studying in the UK can create enduring personal and professional connections. International…

Claim: Every year, an Italian town punishes the politician behind the year’s worst decision by locking them in a cage and plunging them into a freezing river. Rating: What’s True The Tonca is a real annual event in Trento, Italy, held as part of the Feste Vigiliane celebrations honoring the city’s patron saint. It includes a satirical public trial followed by a symbolic river dunking. The person placed in the cage is a performer. For many years a man named Giorgio Vianini filled that role, and after his death in 2024, his daughter took over. What’s False The event is…

The suspect, Jessica Bowie, 35, was arrested on charges of providing material support for ‘terrorism’.The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the United States has claimed to have thwarted a planned attack to kill lawmakers at the New York State Capitol.On Thursday, the Department of Justice announced it had arrested a suspect, 35-year-old Jessica Bowie, who was accused of obtaining an explosive after pledging loyalty to ISIL (ISIS).Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listSince 2004, the US has designated ISIL a “foreign terrorist organisation”. Bowie was charged with providing material support to such a group.John A Eisenberg, the Justice…

Google will soon allow you to customize your Discover feed by describing what you want to see. The new feature, rolling out to the Google app in the “coming days,” will use AI to automatically tweak your feed and “remember” your preferences for future visits.You’ll find the option within the three-dot menu on your Discover feed. As shown in a video shared by Google, tapping the feature will open a chatbot-style interface, where you’ll be able to describe your preferences. The chatbot will confirm your choices and lay out the types of content it will prioritize, but you’ll also have…

Superwhisper has released the S1 family of models: S1-Voice, S1-Language, and S1-mini. S1-Voice is a cloud speech-to-text model, and S1-Language is a cloud instruction-following model for cleanup and formatting. The one that is quite interesting outside the app is S1-mini, released with open weights on Hugging Face. S1-mini is a 0.6B text normalizer, not a transcriber and not a chat model. It sits after automatic speech recognition and rewrites raw transcripts as clean written text: fillers removed, self-corrections resolved to what the speaker landed on, punctuation and capitalization applied, and spoken numbers, dates, currency, and email addresses rendered in written…

Jake Williams told Dark Reading he felt compelled to act after OpenAI disclosed its models had breached Hugging Face.The cybersecurity expert and vice president of R&D at Hunter Strategies had been working on a new idea for a while and was in the midst of submitting it to conferences and shopping license agreements. He had developed a new framework called CUSTODY, which is designed to trap AI agents inside a network and keep them from causing mischief or even mayhem outside it. The CUSTODY acronym stands for: conditions of release; untrusted input; supervision and stop; temporary authority; observability and escalation;…

Michael Selig, who chairs the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), signaled that the agency would not be idle while Congress continued to debate provisions in a cryptocurrency market structure bill.In prepared remarks for the inaugural meeting of the CFTC’s Innovation Advisory Committee on Thursday, Selig said that the commission would move forward on crypto regulations even in the absence of the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act being passed by lawmakers, adding it would “help [Donald Trump] deliver if Congress will not.” According to the chair, he had already directed staff to allow registered and non-registered entities to offer…

SmallSat 2026 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth # 635, 835, 641, and 940) for Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Agenda below. MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 9:00 – 10:00 AM WelcomeJose NunezBryceTech’s Smallsats by the Numbers: 2026Fletcher FranklinSupply Chain ObservationsBruce YostTechnology Shortfall Rudy de RoseeSPARCS Camera and Early Science ObservationsKaitlyn AshcroftJPL: SkyfallTim CanhamSWIFT LINK ReboostBo NaaszFlight Opportunities – Hosted Orbital Ecosystem – Fly Foundational Robos – Space Roboticist ChallengeAnh NguyenFrom Rideshare to Dedicated Launches: SmallSat Options with NASA LSPCaley BurkeYou Bring the Mission, We’ll Bring the Lab: Partnering with MSFCRush ElkinsNASA Ames Mission Design Center: Imagining the Next Generation of Spaceflight…