Russia’s blockade could halve Ukraine’s grain exports. Kyiv is asking the EU for €220 million
Ukraine’s Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food has asked the European Commission for €220 million ($253 million) in grants to keep its small and medium farmers afloat, after Russian strikes on the Greater Odesa ports severed the sea route that carries most of the country’s agricultural exports. The money wouldContinue Reading
Under roadblocks and metal detectors, Moscow buries a general likely killed in the Bucha commander’s party bombing
Major General Valery Plokhotnyuk was buried in Moscow on 5 August 2026, four days after he reportedly died in a bombing at an Italian restaurant. Security was heavy at the funeral. The ceremony at Troyekurovskoye Cemetery reportedly took place behind roadblocks, metal detectors, and buses carrying Russian National Guard troops.Continue Reading
Illinois Just Told Every Operating System to Start Reporting Your Kid’s Age
Illinois has become the latest U.S. state to pull operating systems into the age verification pool. Governor JB Pritzker has signed HB5511, the Children’s Online Social Media Safety Act, putting forward a new age verification framework for every device sold or used in the state. The bill imposes age checkContinue Reading
Proxmox Virtual Environment Officially Runs on ARM64, But Your Raspberry Pi Isn’t Supported Yet
Virtualization is basically load-bearing infrastructure for any serious data center in 2026. Enterprises lean on it to run more workloads on less hardware, isolate services cleanly, and keep uptime high without buying a rack of extra servers. Proxmox has built a name for itself in this space over the yearsContinue Reading
Upgrade to Fedora 44 from Fedora 43 Workstation (GUI and CLI)
Here’s are the quick steps on how you can upgrade to the Fedora 44 version. Fedora 44 is officially available for download and the upgrade channels are now available. This release brings the latest and greatest GNOME 50 desktop for workstation editions, refinements to KDE Plasma desktop and more updates.Continue Reading
Earth’s molten core suddenly reversed direction — and scientists don’t know why
Earth’s molten iron core unexpectedly reversed direction beneath the Pacific, revealing a dramatic change in the hidden engine that creates our planet’s magnetic field. Satellite data suggest the surge is already weakening, raising the possibility that the deep-Earth upheaval is part of a mysterious natural cycle., Read MoreContinue Reading
Nurses Chase Cyclospora, Aided by Interviews, Fast-Food Receipts — And the Messy Details
Yes, they’ve heard all the poop jokes. Public health staffers are painstakingly tracing the sources of this massive outbreak, combing through fast-food orders and lettuce purchases as they listen to people’s lengthy, messy stories about their illness…Read MoreContinue Reading
Earth’s Core Is Leaking: Here’s the Evidence
Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size entities anchored to the core-mantle boundary might be involved. #science #geophysics #earthscience Read more at Quanta Magazine: https://www.quantamagazine.org/earths-core-appears-to-be-leaking-up-and-out-of-earths-surface-20250804/ Associated papers: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08322-y, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09003-0 ——— Quanta Magazine is an editorially independent publication supported byContinue Reading
Capybaras caught roaming government building in Brazil
Footage captured by a civil servant shows capybaras calmly roaming the entrance hall of the legislative assembly building in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/user/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1 The large rodents are regular visitors, often wandering over from a nearby park. ‘They show up here quite often, soContinue Reading
Bomb planted on minibus wounds 14 near Damascus, officials say
CORRECTION: A bomb planted in a minibus wounded 14 people on the outskirts of Syria’s Damascus, with some of the injuries so severe that they were taken for fatalities, an official said. We are deleting an earlier video with the incorrect death toll. #News #Reuters #Newsfeed #syria #damascus #middleeast ReadContinue Reading
Meta ordered to pay $567M in child safety case
A New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay $567 million for contributing to a teen mental health crisis., A New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay $567 million for contributing to a teen mental health crisis., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Some US adults are using AI for financial guidance but few trust it, Gallup poll finds
NEW YORK (AP) — Some U.S. adults are using artificial intelligence for financial guidance, but it’s far from the most trusted source of advice, according to a new Gallup survey conducted in partnership with Edward Jones, a financial services firm. About 1 in 5 Americans who have sought financial adviceContinue Reading