Ocean’s ability to absorb carbon is weakening as climate change intensifies, UN warns
The ocean absorbs around 30 per cent of human-caused carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions and 90 per cent of excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases. But climate change has already reduced its capacity to absorb carbon by approximately six per cent, a new UN report warns ahead of the COP31 climateContinue Reading
Record heat-related deaths in 2023, WHO-partnered report finds
Climate inaction continues to harm and kill people in all countries with a record 710,000 estimated deaths globally from heat in 2023, a UN-partnered report warned on Wednesday. For the first time, more than seven in 10 fatalities were attributable to human-caused climate change.Continue Reading
Vivek Ramaswamy’s Ad Somehow Gets Even Worse
Long-lost family members are emerging out of the woodwork to defend Dr. Amy Acton from Vivek Ramaswamy’s revolting attacks. As the days ticked down to the midterm election, Ramaswamy hatched a crackpot plan to damage Acton’s credibility by weaponizing the sexual assault she suffered during her childhood against her. RamaswamyContinue Reading
Citizen of the Week: From Fashion Runways to Human Rights, Tausi Likokola Champions the Vulnerable
From the fashion runways of Europe to classrooms in Tanzania and the halls of Congress in Washington, D.C., Peachtree City resident Tausi Likokola has spent much of her life using her international platform to help others. The former international fashion model, author, and humanitarian has worked with some of the world’s best-known designers, …Continue Reading
Forecasters are predicting a warmer and wetter winter. Here’s how El Niño will affect your region.
El Niño years typically lead to more precipitation and higher-than-average temperatures. The latest data shows the different potential impacts by region. (Image credit: Marta Lavandier)Continue Reading
Activists accuse Israeli settlers of assault in occupied West Bank
Footage shows men, some armed, beating a US journalist and an Israeli-Russian activist in Umm al-Khair., Video footage posted online showed several men, some of them armed, beating Nathaniel and Andrey X. Russian activist Adele Shoko has said that Israeli settlers attacked her alongside two of her colleagues in theContinue Reading
30-year sentence in Minnesota fraud that drew The Traitor backlash
Government says Salim Said hit the jackpot in a scheme claiming to feed needy children during the COVID-19 pandemic., Government says Salim Said ‘hit the jackpot’ in a scheme claiming to feed needy children during the COVID-19 pandemic. A 37-year-old man who played a key role in defrauding a UnitedContinue Reading
Ubuntu plans firmware HWE to prevent issues on older kernels
Ubuntu is planning a new linux-firmware-hwe package, in an effort to reduce the risk of firmware updates for newer kernels causing problems for users running older ones. On Ubuntu long-term support (LTS) releases, you can stick with the standard (GA) kernel it was released with for the duration of itsContinue Reading
It costs a lot more to use AI models in some languages
A new study from the Coalition for Language Equity in AI Research shows that AI models require significantly more tokens to process certain languages than others. These differences mean that users of underrepresented languages risk paying more for the same services, reports Rest of World. An LLM’s tokenizer breaks textContinue Reading
Apple updates iMac, MacBook Pro, and Creator Studio
Apple’s second day of launches this week saw it follow its tempting iPad mini upgrade by pumping up the processor in two of its most popular Macs, even while it injected artificial intelligence into Creator Studio. 24 hours of portable pro performance: 14-in MacBook Pro Apple’s 14-inch MacBook Pro is popular butContinue Reading
Sonoma Students Protest Pride Flag Limits as Hastings Weighs Display Rules
Hundreds of students and supporters walked out at Sonoma Valley High School in Sonoma, Calif., on Oct. 13, five days after the district’s board voted to stop flying the Pride flag every day, the Sonoma Index-Tribune reported. Students left class at 11:50 a.m. The school’s GSA organized it. The nextContinue Reading
Dispelling Unfounded Claims About Voting Machine Issues
Q: Are voting machines changing Democratic votes to Republican votes? Several posts on Facebook are making that claim. A: There is no evidence that touchscreen voting machines are deliberately switching voter selections. Rather, elections experts and state election officials have said that reported issues of machines initially not recording votesContinue Reading
Milwaukee Brewers defeat Tampa Bay Rays to claim first World Series title
The Milwaukee Brewers’ 57-season wait for a World Series title ended Wednesday as they defeated the Tampa Bay Rays in five games., Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading