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Leia este artigo em Português. Along the river the Xavante people of Brazil call Owawê are many of the Indigenous tribe’s sacred sites, ancient villages and cemeteries. It is also where their ear piercing rituals are held, marking the transition of boyhood to adulthood.  Now, a railway project—Ferrovia de Integração do Centro-Oeste (Center-West Integration Railway, or FICO)—threatens to separate an already fragmented population even more. While the first phase of the project nears completion, Xavante leaders say the government did not give them the prior and informed consent assured in legal documents. The leaders say problems like food insecurity, invasions…

The claim that a Muslim family living in the Middle East recently bought one of the biggest Bible-producing publishers in the world is unproven.  The rumor stems from a video published in early August 2026, in which California-based author and pastor Jack Hibbs urges his viewers to quickly buy physical Bibles, alleging “a Muslim family in the Middle East just bought one of the biggest Bible-producing publishers in the world.” He did not mention the purported company’s name. As of this writing, we did not yet uncover evidence to confirm or debunk this rumor. Snopes contacted Hibbs to ask for…

Venezuela on Friday freed another 131 people considered to be political prisoners, in a sign of progress in talks to reconcile the nation following Nicolas Maduro’s removal by US forces. The 131 people had been granted “alternative measures from incarceration”, under the “Programme for Peace and Democratic Coexistence”, the country’s interim government said. Outside the El Rodeo I prison, AFP reporters witnessed scenes of tearful joy as several former prisoners reunited with their families. Leomar Guerra hugs a child after his release from El Rodeo prison under Venezuela’s government “Peace and Democratic Coexistence” programme. © Luis Colmenares, Reuters Some relatives…

pros and cons Pros Elevated designPunchy, deep bassPlenty digital and analog connectivity Cons Recessed upper-midsLimited separation more buying choices Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.Building a vinyl system can be a major task: you’ll need a turntable and bookshelf speakers, and if they’re analog, you’ll also need a preamp, maybe an amp, too. Then, you’ll need records and a place to store them. Vinyl can be a demanding and space-consuming hobby.Also: This Bluetooth-only Marshall home speaker sounds so good, I can forgive the missing Wi-FiMany people are low on space for several reasons, but an all-in-one suitcase turntable…

In this tutorial, we implement an end-to-end supervised fine-tuning pipeline for the XYZ-Aquila-SFT dataset, Hugging Face Transformers, PyTorch, and PEFT. We stream and inspect the dataset, parse multi-turn tool-use trajectories, extract structured tool calls, analyze corpus characteristics, and preserve embedded reasoning and observation patterns. We then convert tool schemas between message-embedded and structured formats, render Qwen-compatible ChatML with assistant-only loss masking, prepare a custom PyTorch dataset and collator, and fine-tune Qwen3-0.6B with LoRA. Finally, we evaluate tool-call prediction before and after training and export both the transformed dataset and corpus statistics for further experimentation. import os, sys, subprocess CFG =…

JPMorgan’s reported position in BlackRock’s Bitcoin exchange-traded fund increased by about 25% in the second quarter, while its Ether ETF position more than quadrupled, according to its latest securities filing. The Form 13F filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, submitted Wednesday, covers holdings as of June 30 and includes 17 other investment managers across JPMorgan. That makes it difficult to determine whether individual positions reflect a directional market view, Jonatan Randin, senior market analyst at PrimeXBT, told Cointelegraph.“It gives you some idea of what they are doing but not their opinion about the future direction of a specific…

A large study involving more than 5,500 adults over age 50 has identified a potentially dangerous combination of health risks. People who had both abdominal obesity and vitamin D deficiency faced a 123% higher risk of death compared with those who had neither condition. The findings, published in the journal Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, suggest that the two conditions may be especially harmful when they occur together. Although each was associated with a higher risk of death on its own, the combined effect was substantially greater. “Abdominal obesity is a well-known risk factor because it’s associated with inflammation and metabolic…

A large-scale Ukrainian attack struck industrial infrastructure in Russia’s southwestern Samara region Saturday, a Russian official said. Ivan Noskov, head of the region’s capital, Samara, said air defence forces had repelled a “massive” missile attack, with “localised damage” to the city’s industrial sites. He also said that medical assistance has been provided to those injured in the attack, but did not give further details. Ukraine has stepped up its long-range aerial attacks on Russian military industries and energy facilities, aiming to cut Moscow’s revenue for the war and make Russians feel the consequences of the invasion, now in its fifth…

The sun was hot. The crowd had thinned. The ceremonial shovels, their duty done, rested in ceremonial dirt.And Senator Ed Markey, 80, needed a quick favor from two other Massachusetts Democrats as they celebrated the opening of an industrial campus in Worcester: Would they join him for a selfie video?“We’re at the groundbreaking! For GreenTech Park! Here in Worcester!” Markey said into the phone, treading lightly on the R in “park” and practically levitating off the pockmarked road as Representative Jim McGovern and Mayor Joseph Petty of Worcester, both 66, squeezed into the frame. “It’s the dawn of a new…

Justin Blinder had just been laid off when he first came up with the idea for Ground Truth. It was 2020, two weeks before covid lockdown went into effect, and the Brooklyn-based artist and technologist had no idea what the future would hold. He started working for the food delivery apps, and as he was riding his bike across the city, he began noticing the stark differences between neighborhoods.“I really started to kind of become a bit more aware of how different neighborhoods, often right next to each other, could feel very economically and psychologically very far apart, even though…