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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused the court of threatening American sovereignty, saying the administration was acting to protect its citizens from a “sham” institution and would never allow Americans to be “transported beyond seas to be tried for pretend offenses.” Tuesday’s sanctions are part of a campaign Washington launched last month to cripple the ICC. The U.S. has already sanctioned at least 11 ICC officials and has urged the court’s 125 member states to withdraw from the organization. The Hague-based ICC, established in 2002, prosecutes genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Its pursuit of charges against senior…

Joining the agreement would require the UK to accept some asylum seekers from the EU. However, the Liberal Democrats argue numbers would be lower than those currently coming to the UK by small boat and that they would be screened before entering the country. The party says the scheme would save British taxpayers money, with the cost of participating – around £100m a year – amounting to a fraction of the £5bn spent on a “failing asylum system”. Sir Ed said: “We have a plan that would finally end the small boats crisis: a pact with every EU country that…

Jared Moskowitz, a centrist Democrat and one of the most vocal supporters of Israel in the House, won his primary in Florida’s 25th Congressional District on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press, despite a high-profile challenge from a democratic socialist.Mr. Moskowitz, who is seeking a third term, is running in a new district stretching along the Atlantic coastline from Miami-Dade to Palm Beach Counties. Mr. Moskowitz’s former district, largely in blue-leaning Broward County, was eliminated when state Republicans redrew the congressional map to favor them. He will face Scott Singer, the former mayor of Boca Raton.Still, Mr. Moskowitz has an…

NVIDIA has released TensorRT Model Connect (TRTMC) in public preview, an open-source project that takes a supported Hugging Face or local checkpoint to end-to-end TensorRT inference in two commands. There is no intermediate ONNX export step. The build produces a versioned .bundle artifact that runs through native C++ task APIs, so inference can execute in a C++ service, embedded application, or robotics stack without PyTorch in the runtime path. The project is Apache-2.0 licensed and ships as a collection of family-owned reference implementations rather than a single generic converter. NVIDIA also states that the entire project — model implementations, performance…

Ravie LakshmananAug 18, 2026Vulnerability / Artificial Intelligence Two critical vulnerabilities impacting MLflow, an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform, and FUXA, an open-source, web-based SCADA / HMI software built for operational technology (OT) and industrial automation, are witnessing malicious scanning and exploitation efforts. According to independent reports from watchTowr and VulnCheck, the vulnerabilities in question are as follows – CVE-2026-64849 (CVSS score: 9.3) – An unauthenticated Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in MLflow that can allow an attacker who can reach the Tracking Server (mlflow server) to issue HTTP requests to arbitrary internal cloud metadata endpoints and extract sensitive data. (Affects…

Interstice Digital has launched a cross-chain swap engine with FalconX connecting the Canton Network with Ethereum, Solana and Robinhood Chain. According to Tuesday’s announcement, the non-custodial engine allows assets to be swapped across the four networks without Interstice taking custody or executing transactions on users’ behalf. FalconX, a digital asset prime brokerage serving institutional investors, provides liquidity for the engine, which is designed to connect Canton’s institutional markets with assets and trading activity on public blockchains, giving users a route between tokenized assets on Canton and liquidity on networks such as Ethereum and Solana.Canton is a public blockchain built for institutional finance,…

Scientists say they have been “stunned” by how quickly young children’s lungs began to recover and grow after pollution restrictions were brought in where they lived.Researchers found that children in London whose lung growth had been stunted by pollution showed impressive improvements after the introduction of an Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) in 2019 reduced emissions.The study followed more than 3,400 primary school children in London and Luton and provides what scientists believe is the strongest evidence yet that local clean air zones could help reduce some of the harm caused by pollution during childhood.But independent researchers caution that other…

In the last four years, Nepal’s wild tiger population has experienced a historic increase. In 2022, the tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) population was numbered at 355 individuals. Now, it has reached an estimated 429 individuals — nearly a four-fold jump from 16 years ago, reports Mongabay’s Abhaya Raj Joshi. Bed Kumar Dhakal, spokesperson for the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation, said that the department’s latest tiger monitoring survey results “reflect the positive outcomes of ongoing efforts in the field of tiger conservation in Nepal, such as habitat conservation and management, poaching control, conservation of prey species,…

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at British military commitments to Ukraine, South Korea’s efforts to reduce reliance on the United States, and Israeli airstrikes on a Syrian military base. Will London Pay the Price? The United Kingdom pledged its continued support for Ukraine on Tuesday, defying Russian threats of possible retaliation for supplying drones to Kyiv. Such posturing highlights the significant role that drone warfare has played on the battlefield, and it risks broadening the yearslong conflict into NATO territory. Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at British military commitments to Ukraine, South Korea’s efforts…

Claim: In 2012, a Twitter user posted “Stop chat gpt!!” even though ChatGPT would not be released until 2022. Rating: Context The post was authentic, posted to Twitter (now X) on Oct. 5, 2012. However, conclusions about the post’s actual meaning or intent are purely speculative and it was unlikely to be related to OpenAI’s ChatGPT platform or time travel. A rumor that a social media post from 2012 called for users to stop using ChatGPT, a generative AI chatbot released by OpenAI in 2022, circulated online in August 2026.  Social media users allegedly unearthed a post on Twitter (now called…