All mention of fossil fuels, by far the largest contributor to climate change, has been dropped from the draft deal under negotiation at the COP30 UN climate talks in Belém, Brazil enter their final stretch. Draft agreements at the meeting of nearly 200 countries usually go through multiple revisions as all parties must agree in…
As sentences go, “Apple Intelligence now works in Apple Shortcuts” isn’t the most likely to inspire a lot of people to click a link. And that’s too bad: This change, one of the more overlooked new features in macOS 26, means you can use Apple’s on-board AI to do all kinds of things while designing…
Clinical psychologist Dr Becky Kennedy says resisting the urge to fix, and connecting with your child instead, is key. Source link
From time to time, it can be instructive to look at generic phishing messages that are delivered to one’s inbox or that are caught by basic spam filters. Although one usually doesn’t find much of interest, sometimes these little excursions into what should be a run-of-the-mill collection of basic, commonly used phishing techniques can lead…
Fergus WalshMedical Editor Getty A major prostate cancer screening trial aimed at finding the best way to detect the disease has been launched in the UK. The first letters have been sent out from GPs inviting men to join the study, the biggest of its kind in decades. The £42 million Transform trial is funded…
Hugh CasswellEast Midlands environment correspondent BBC Mohammed Siddiqui says “Mock COP” allows future leaders to put forward ideas As the COP30 climate change meeting in Brazil comes to a close, students at the University of Leicester have held their own climate talks. Students played the roles of different countries, gave speeches, and “negotiated” with one…
New findings show that the transient killer whales living along the West Coast between British Columbia and California are actually divided into two separate subpopulations known as inner and outer coast transients. A study published in PLOS One used 16 years of information from more than 2,200 documented encounters to reevaluate long-standing ideas about these…
Corporate AI slop feels inescapable in 2025. From website banner ads to outdoor billboards, images generated by businesses using AI tools surround me. Hell, even the bar down the street posts happy hour flyers with that distinctly hazy, amber glow of some AI graphics. On Thursday, Google launched Nano Banana Pro, the company’s latest image-generating…
ISC Stormcast For Friday, November 21st, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9710, (Fri, Nov 21st) Source link
Navin Singh KhadkaEnvironment Correspondent, BBC World Service Getty Images India is the world’s third-largest carbon emitter At this year’s UN climate summit (COP30), under way in Brazil’s Belem city, all eyes are on India – the world’s third largest carbon emitter. India has not yet submitted a key climate plan that countries are required to…
