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Ukraine Says It Struck Lukoil’s Kstovo Refinery; Local Footage Shows Large Fire

Ukraine's General Staff said its forces struck Lukoil's Kstovo refinery overnight; footage shows a large fire, but damage wasn't independently confirmed. ...Read more

$LKOH, #russia, #ukraine, #energy, #oil

Essendon coach vows to pursue Toby Greene if he decides to leave GWS

New Bombers coach Mark McVeigh says Essendon will 'get in the ring pretty aggressively' for GWS captain Toby Greene as the forward weighs a move. ...Read more

#afl, #essendon, #tobygreene, #gws

LAION publishes 10-million-hour open video dataset LAION-BVD; processed subsets available

LAION published LAION-BVD, a claimed 10-million-hour open video dataset for multimodal AI; processed subsets and pipelines are public, raw videos restricted. ...Read more

#laion, #dataset, #ai, #video, #multimodal

Dolly Parton, Country Music Icon, Dies at 80

Dolly Parton, the country singer behind 'Jolene' and 'I Will Always Love You,' died at 80 in Nashville; family asks that fans support her Imagination Library. ...Read more

#dollyparton, #countrymusic, #obituary, #imaginationlibrary

FDA Clears Abbott’s Libre Duo 10 Day, First U.S. Wearable to Continuously Monitor Ketones and Glucose

FDA authorizes Abbott’s Libre Duo 10 Day, the first U.S. wearable to continuously monitor ketones and glucose for ages 2 and up. ...Read more

#diabetes, #fda, #medicaldevices, #abbott

Justice Department Sues Columbus Municipal Court Over Rule Limiting Immigration Arrests

DOJ sued Franklin County Municipal Court in Columbus, saying its new Rule 2.10 unlawfully bars federal immigration arrests at or near the courthouse. ...Read more

#justice, #immigration, #franklincounty, #columbus

NASA Spotlights Ames’ Software, Coronagraph Tools Ahead of Roman Telescope Launch

NASA details how Ames Research Center’s software, coronagraph masks and supercomputing will support the Roman Space Telescope ahead of its Aug. 30 launch. ...Read more

#roman, #nasa, #ames, #coronagraph

Bitcoin Tops $81,000 as ETF Inflows and U.S. Treasury Buybacks Boost Demand

Bitcoin topped $81,000 on Aug. 25 — its highest since mid‑May — after nearly $2bn of U.S. spot‑ETF inflows, Treasury long‑bond buybacks and a softer dollar. ...Read more

$IBIT, #bitcoin, #cryptocurrency, #etf, #treasury

ECHR Grand Chamber Orders Türkiye to Release Osman Kavala, Declares His Conviction Void

The European Court of Human Rights ordered Türkiye to free civil-society activist Osman Kavala and to erase the legal effects of his conviction under the Convention. ...Read more

#turkey, #echr, #humanrights, #kavala

Apple unveils M6 (first 2nm Mac chip) and quad-die M5 Ultra to boost on‑device AI

Apple introduced the M6 — its first 2nm Mac chip — and the quad-die M5 Ultra, aiming to bring far stronger on-device AI to new Mac mini and Mac Studio. ...Read more

$AAPL, #apple, #mac, #mseries, #ai

Study finds at least 24.5% of former NFL players who died 2016–2021 had CTE

Using deaths of 878 former NFL players (2016–2021), researchers estimate at least 24.5% had CTE, with a plausible prevalence range up to 97.7%. ...Read more

#cte, #nfl, #braininjury, #neuroscience

30 Killed as Heavy Rain Triggers Collapse of Dar-es-Salam Landfill in Conakry

Thirty people died after heavy rain caused a collapse at the Dar‑es‑Salam landfill in Conakry, burying homes and shelters while rescuers search for survivors. ...Read more

#guinea, #conakry, #landfill, #disaster, #rain

CD PROJEKT Targets 2028 Release Window for The Witcher 4, Won't Show Game at Gamescom 2026

CD PROJEKT RED says The Witcher 4 is targeting a 2028 release window and won't be shown at Gamescom 2026; focus will be on a Witcher 3 expansion. ...Read more

$CDR, #cdprojektred, #witcher4, #gamescom, #thewitcher

Carnegie Mellon Preprint Finds Reinforcement Learning on Benign Facts Can Amplify LLM Leakage of Memorized Emails

A CMU preprint shows reinforcement learning on benign factual Q&A can make models more likely to reveal memorized Enron email addresses. ...Read more

#ai, #privacy, #llm, #machine-learning

Northwestern team realizes first one-positron quantum cyclotron, enabling sharper antimatter tests

Northwestern physicists trapped a single positron in a quantum cyclotron, demonstrating quantum control that could enable more precise CPT tests. ...Read more

#physics, #antimatter, #quantum, #positron