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Is the war entering a new phase? Separate Ukrainian drone strikes across Russia have killed at least three people, while another attack triggered a massive blaze at a warehouse belonging to Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries in the Tambov region. Tambov Governor Yevgeny Pervyshov said on Wednesday that the logistics centre was "completely destroyed by fire". He said earlier that about 100,000 square metres (1.1 million square feet) of the facility were set ablaze, the equivalent of 14 football pitches. He did not say if the fire had been extinguished.

Scott Bessent called his maximum pressure Iran sanctions campaign an 'Economic D-Day.' But D-Day was not victory — it began the final campaign toward one.

AOC borrowed the phrase 'Woke 1' to describe 2020 politics, but compartmentalization lets Democrats avoid reckoning with progressive stances on police reform and prisons.

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New findings shed light on what's making the parasite less treatable using the drug that's considered a first line of defense. The main drug that has been in use for decades to combat malaria in sub-Saharan Africa is running into a problem: In recent years, researchers have become increasingly concerned that parasites are becoming less sensitive to treatment. Identifying the underlying genetic factors has become an urgent priority. In an attempt to identify the reason for drug-resistant malaria, a team led by Brown University researchers conducted whole-genome analysis of 157 malaria parasite samples selected from specimens collected in Uganda between 2016 and 2024. The work, published in Nature Medicine this week, shows evidence that mutations in a gene that encodes a protein called px1, which had previously received little attention, is likely responsible for the rise in drug resistance.

That's a major factor in how well models do on the most famous puzzle-based benchmark, ARC-AGI. These problems require you to infer abstract, general rules from a set of examples. Models do better on ARC puzzles when they receive each grid not as an image but as a string of numbers that encodes the color of each cell. Research suggests that even when models answer ARC-AGI questions correctly, they often do so using byzantine and non-generalizable rules, whereas humans draw on simple visual concepts. Despite these disadvantages, models have gotten quite good at ARC-AGI over the past year, but some puzzles--such as the one printed here--still stump them.

Kids today are growing up in a world of agents and chatbots. What does that mean for their future? When my oldest child was born, I immediately set up Gmail and Twitter accounts in her name. I broadly announced her birth online and proceeded to plaster her photo across all sorts of platforms. In short, I began creating her digital footprint long before she could stand on her own two feet. Fast-forward a couple of years to when my second kid came, and I had essentially the opposite reaction.

Employees walk into Huawei's European-themed data center on July 24 in Guian New Area in southwestern China's Guizhou province. GUIAN NEW AREA, CHINA - In China's hilly Guizhou province, a cluster of European-style buildings complete with a clock tower and a multi-arched bridge emits a low, permanent hum -- a clue to its unexpected identity as tech giant Huawei's largest data center. The town-like complex is unique in design, but not in its placement. Dozens of data centers have been constructed in the southwestern province in recent years. They are part of a government strategy that has seen much of the digital infrastructure for breakneck artificial intelligence development across China's eastern seaboard established in the country's less populated, rural west. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever.

Wayve and Uber have said more than 100,000 Londoners are on their waiting list for self-driving taxis. Wayve and Uber have said more than 100,000 Londoners are on their waiting list for self-driving taxis. Uber and Wayve had said they would start trips'later this summer' but launch now looks unlikely this year The rollout of robotaxis on the streets of London is unlikely to happen this year, as regulatory and technical hurdles push back the ambitious schedule set out by the UK government. Only weeks ago Uber and London-based Wayve were granted the first minicab licences in the capital to allow them to offer self-driving taxi rides to paying customers - but with a human safety driver in place, for now - and said they would start trips "later this summer" before a full public launch . In 2025, Heidi Alexander, the transport secretary, accelerated the proposed timeline for commercial trials of fully driverless taxi services by a year, announcing that they would start in the spring of this year.