19+ hour, 43+ min ago   (433+ words) Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy essay Saturday calling on the entire artificial intelligence industry to deliberately slow the pace at which it advances model capabilities, arguing that without a coordinated pause, the technology could pose catastrophic risks within…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (310+ words) Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday that scam centers in Southeast Asia steal billions of dollars from Americans each year, as the department sanctioned Xinbi Guarantee, a Chinese-language platform accused of supporting cyber scams. A $24 Billion Marketplace Since roughly 2022, the…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (671+ words) The August 26 tragedy in the Bhote Koshi-Trishuli basin is a stark reminder of the trouble brewing in the fragile Himalayan transboundary river systems. Nearly 1,300 people were killed, and more than 5,600 were missing in these floods in Nepal, while China maintains…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (667+ words) Melbourne: The world is bracing for the strongest El Nino in history. The United Nations has made the grim prediction that our planet now sits in the "danger zone" of extreme weather. That's based on data suggesting the current El…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1330+ words) Three months before a wall of water, mud and rock killed hundreds when it hurtled down a Himalayan valley bordering Nepal and China, experts and officials from both countries met in Kathmandu to discuss the risk of such disasters. At…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (376+ words) As Nepal assesses the damage from the devastating flashfloods near its border with Tibet, Beijing's restrictions on access to the affected region have come under scrutiny, raising broader concerns over the availability of timely information and hydrological data to countries…...

2+ week, 21+ hour ago   (89+ words) UAE CENTRAL BANK SAYS IT WILL CONDUCT SPECIAL AND URGENT EXAMINATION INCLUDES FORENSIC/IN-DEPTH LOOKBACK COVERING PERIOD REFERRED TO IN THE STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE U.S. AUTHORITIES FOR BANQUE MISR B Dailyhunt UAE CENTRAL BANK SAYS IT WILL CONDUCT SPECIAL AND…...

2+ week, 21+ hour ago   (131+ words) Bhubaneswar child prodigy secures two remarkable Guinness World Records Six-year-old Anvi Vishesh Agrawal from Bhubaneswar has officially secured two Guinness World Records, establishing herself as an extraordinary global talent. She currently holds titles as both the youngest female to publish…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (265+ words) Nathan Cofnas, the US academic who accused late Cambridge University professor Jason Arday of plagiarism, has been allowed to resume some of his work at Ghent University while a disciplinary probe continues, the Belgian entity said on Friday. Arday, once…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (578+ words) A tourist filming the mountainous landscape in Gyirong County in China's Xizang Autonomous Region accidentally captured what experts believe was the high-altitude glacier collapse that triggered the deadly mudslide at Gyirong Port on the Nepal-China border. According to a China…...