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'We will go wherever they hide': Rooting out IS in Somalia

BBC News

'We will go wherever they hide': Rooting out IS in Somalia A figure appears in the picture, moving through a valley. He has been to fetch water for his friends, says the drone operator. He is running and carrying something on his back, adds another soldier. The man on the screen is near a cave, which the army believes is a hideout for 50 to 60 IS fighters. The Puntland Defence Forces have about 500 soldiers stationed at this base in the north-east of Somalia. Ten years ago the barren and inhospitable landscape was home to only a few nomadic communities, but that changed when IS established a foothold here, shifting its focus to Africa as its fighters were driven out of their strongholds in Syria and Iraq.




Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Stochastic Ensemble Value Expansion

Jacob Buckman, Danijar Hafner, George Tucker, Eugene Brevdo, Honglak Lee

Neural Information Processing Systems

We propose stochastic ensemble value expansion (STEVE), a novel model-based technique that addresses this issue. By dynamically interpolating between model rollouts of various horizon lengths for each individual example, STEVE ensures that the model is only utilized when doing so does not introduce significant errors.


Friday the 13th linked to biblical end-times prophecy rooted in Jesus' betrayal

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Trump's Iran war death toll climbs to 13 after all crew onboard US refueling plane died in crash Alexander brothers' alleged HIGH SCHOOL rape video: Classmates speak out on sickening footage... as creepy unseen photos are exposed Kylie Jenner's total humiliation in Hollywood: Derogatory rumor leaves her boyfriend's peers'laughing at her' behind her back I've spent 25 years treating patients with autism. This is the truth about the condition that many people don't want to hear: DR MAX PEMBERTON'Comatose' Mojtaba Khamenei'is UNAWARE there is a war on and has no idea he is supreme leader', report says - despite regime issuing his'first statement' Iran-linked cyberattack on US is'first drop of blood' as experts reveal alarming new threat to homeland Pete Hegseth melts down over'fake headlines' on Strait of Hormuz chaos as US hits Iran with'heaviest' day of fire yet Formula One set to CANCEL next month's Bahrain and Saudi Arabia races amid war in the Middle East - leaving a month-long gap in the calendar Trump insiders fear Operation Epic Fury is suddenly at risk over a new threat they're struggling to contain: MARK HALPERIN Pete Hegseth challenges Iran's'wounded and disfigured' new Ayatollah to appear on camera I worked with Carolyn Bessette. This is the'messy' truth about what she was REALLY like in secret. After she met JFK Jr she tried to hide it... but we all knew the nighttime gossip The disturbing truth about the link between alcohol and cancer and whether YOU could be at risk... as the Princess of Wales reveals her relationship with drinking has changed since beating the disease NFL fans left divided as team replace historic logo with'boring' new design as part of franchise rebrand Trump slammed after lifting oil sanctions on Russia as gas prices skyrocket: 'It's a betrayal' Friday the 13th linked to biblical end-times prophecy rooted in Jesus' betrayal Friday the 13th and its reputation of bringing bad luck has been tied to an ancient prophecy of global destruction rooted in the betrayal of Jesus Christ. In an oddity of the modern calendar, Friday the 13th has come again, just one month after arriving on February 13, 2026.


Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more

The Guardian

Switching to big tech alternatives is easier than you might imagine. Switching to big tech alternatives is easier than you might imagine. T here's not much to love about big tech these days. So many ills can be laid at its door: social media harms, misinformation, polarisation, mining and misuse of personal data, environmental negligence, tax avoidance, the list goes on. Added to which, Silicon Valley's leaders seem all too keen to cosy up to the Trump administration, to shower the president with bribes - sorry, gifts - and remain silent about his worsening political overreach. And that's before we get to the rampant " enshittification ", as the tech writer Cory Doctorow describes it, which means that by design many big tech products have become less useful and more extractive than they were when we originally signed up to them.


'It's survival of the fittest': the UK kebab chain seeking an edge with robot slicers

The Guardian

'People are being more discerning about spending money,' he says. 'People are being more discerning about spending money,' he says. T hey are already packing our groceries and delivering shopping. Now robots are coming to the kebab shop, alongside self-service screens and loyalty apps, as takeaways look for ways to tackle rising costs. German Doner Kebab (GDK), a perhaps surprisingly British-owned chain that has been springing up across the country, has turned to technology to keep its fast food business buzzing in the face of rising costs and tough times on the high street.


Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,457

Al Jazeera

How the US left Ukraine exposed to Russia's winter war Will Europe use frozen Russian assets to fund war? How can Ukraine rebuild China ties? Russian forces launched 448 attacks on 34 settlements in Ukraine's front-line Zaporizhia region in a single day, injuring a six-year-old child and damaging homes, cars and other infrastructure, regional governor Ivan Fedorov wrote on the Telegram app. Russian drone, missile and artillery attacks on Ukraine's Kherson region injured five people and damaged homes, including seven high-rise buildings, the local military administration said on Telegram. Russian attacks also continued in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk and Sumy regions, but local officials there noted that "fortunately, no people were injured".