Europe’s luxury sector is ‘ economic powerhouse’ but needs more support – ECCIA report
A new report on the high-end and luxury sector in Europe shows that it’s a…
Fine-tune OpenAI GPT-OSS models using Amazon SageMaker HyperPod recipes
This post is the second part of the GPT-OSS series focusing on model customization with Amazon SageMaker AI. In Part 1, we demonstrated fine-tuning GPT-OSS models using open source Hugging Face libraries with SageMaker training jobs, which supports distributed multi-GPU and multi-node configurations, so you can spin up high-performance clusters on demand. In this post,…
Documenting the battle to protect New Zealand’s endangered birds
Rangers setting out to install stoat traps in the Kea Basin, New Zealand Robin Hammond/Panos Pictures Across New Zealand, a vast conservation effort is under way to wipe out invasive species and enable various native and endangered birds to rebound. The ground-dwelling kiwi Robin Hammond/Panos Pictures The country’s Predator Free 2050 project, documented here by…
Scientists discover crystal that breathes oxygen like lungs
A team of scientists from Korea and Japan has discovered a new type of crystal that can “breathe” — releasing and absorbing oxygen repeatedly at relatively low temperatures. This unique ability could transform the way we develop clean energy technologies, including fuel cells, energy-saving windows, and smart thermal devices. The newly developed material is a…
Hidden venom divide in Australia’s deadliest snake raises urgent treatment questions
A University of Queensland study suggests the antivenom given to people bitten by Eastern Brown Snakes may not be as effective as it could be, prompting a review of hospital cases. Professor Bryan Fry from UQ’s School of the Environment led a team which assessed the blood-clotting toxins in venoms from every Australian brown snake…
ISC Stormcast For Friday, August 22nd, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9582
ISC Stormcast For Friday, August 22nd, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9582, (Fri, Aug 22nd) Source link
140,000-year-old skeleton shows earliest interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals
Research team: “This discovery reveals the world’s earliest known human fossil showing morphological traits of both of these human groups, which until recently were considered two separate human species. The current study shows that the five-year-old child’s skeleton is the result of continuous genetic infiltration from the local — and older — Neanderthal population into…
Ancient fossil discovery in Ethiopia rewrites human origins
A team of international scientists has discovered new fossils at a field site in Africa that indicate Australopithecus, and the oldest specimens of Homo, coexisted at the same place in Africa at the same time — between 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago. The paleoanthropologists discovered a new species of Australopithecus that has never been…
Baby food firms told to cut sugar and stop promoting snacks for under-ones
Catrin Nye and Adam Eley BBC News Getty Images Baby food manufacturers must cut levels of salt and sugar in their products and stop promoting snacks for babies under the age of one, the government has said. The new guidance would also restrict the use of marketing claims that suggest health benefits without scientific evidence….
Inline code nodes now supported in Amazon Bedrock Flows in public preview
Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of support for inline code nodes in Amazon Bedrock Flows. With this powerful new capability, you can write Python scripts directly within your workflow, alleviating the need for separate AWS Lambda functions for simple logic. This feature streamlines preprocessing and postprocessing tasks (like data normalization and…
There might be a ‘Planet Y’ hiding in the outer solar system
Are there unseen planets in our solar system? Peter Jurik/Alamy Somewhere at the edge of the solar system a new Earth-sized world might be lurking, dubbed Planet Y. Astronomers have long proposed that there might be hidden planets beyond the Kuiper belt, a region of icy objects that is home to Pluto. Some of the…
