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France to open new high security prison in French Guiana France to open new high security prison in French Guiana France will build a new high-security prison in its overseas department of French Guiana to house drug traffickers and radical Islamists, the country’s justice minister announced during a visit to the territory. Gérald Darmanin told Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD) newspaper that the prison would target organised crime “at all levels” of the drug supply chain. The €400m (£337m) facility, which could open as early as 2028, will be built in an isolated location deep in the Amazon jungle in the northwestern region of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni. The plan was announced after a series of violent incidents linked to criminal gangs which saw prisons and staff targeted across France in recent months. The prison will hold up to 500 people, with a separate wing designed to house the most dangerous criminals. In an interview with JDD, the minister said the new prison would be governed by an “extremely strict carceral regime” designed to “incapacitate the most dangerous drug traffickers”. Darmanin said the facility would be used to detain people “at the beginning of the drug trail”, as well as serving as a “lasting means of removing the heads of the drug trafficking networks” in mainland France. French Guiana is a region of France on the north-east coast of South America. Its residents are eligible to vote in French elections and have access to the French social security system, as well as other subsidies. Its distance from the French mainland means drug lords “will no longer be able to have any contact with their criminal networks”, Darmanin told JDD. French authorities have long struggled to control the infiltration of mobile phones into the prison network. Tens of thousands are known to circulate through French jails. Earlier this year, the French government announced new legislation designed to crack down on the activity of criminal gangs. The measures will create a dedicated branch of the prosecutors’ office to deal with organised crime. It will also introduce extra powers for investigators, and a special protected status for informers. It will also see the creation of new high-security prisons – including the facility in French Guiana – to hold the most powerful drugs barons, with stricter rules governing visits and communication with the outside world. France has seen a series of attacks on prisons in recent months, which Darmanin has described as “terrorist” incidents that come in response to the government’s new legislation. The perpetrators of these attacks have set vehicles outside prisons alight, while Toulon’s La Farlede prison was hit by gunfire. In some incidents the perpetrators of these attacks have styled themselves as defenders of prisoners’ rights. The proposed new facility in French Guiana is to be built at a “strategic crossroads” for drugs mules, particularly from Brazil and Suriname, according to AFP news agency. Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni is the former port of entry to the infamous ******’s Island penal colony, where 70,000 convicts from mainland France were sent between 1852 and 1954. The penal colony was the setting of French writer Henri Charrière’s book Papillon, which was later made into a Hollywood film starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman. The BBC has contacted the French justice ministry for comment. Source link #France #open #high #security #prison #French #Guiana Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content] For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

These two U.S. airline stocks are buys and can surge around 30% each, UBS says These two U.S. airline stocks are buys and can surge around 30% each, UBS says UBS is growing more bullish on airline giants Delta and United . The firm upgraded both airline stocks to buy from neutral. Analyst Thomas Wadewitz’s $66 per share price target on Delta, up from $46, implies roughly 30% upside from Friday’s close. On United, his $105 per share price target — up from $67 — points to for 35% upside. “Recent tariff relief due to the 90 day agreement with China and framework with the *** support a shift in our base case from a downturn in the economy to stability / slow growth,” Wadewitz said. “A more stable economic backdrop and the recent rebound in the US equity market give us increased confidence in the resilience of international and premium revenue which had been our primary cyclical concern for both DAL and UAL.” DAL UAL YTD mountain Delta and United Airlines stock in 2025. The analyst expects greater stability in terms of demand ahead, given recent positive comments from Delta executives, which could be a tailwind for the broader segment. The analyst also upped his earnings outlook for both firms. “A more positive outlook for demand translates to stronger TRASM [total revenue per available seat mile] which is the key driver of the increase in our EPS estimates,” he said. We assume ~1 pp better TRASM in 2025 vs our prior models and 0.5 pp stronger growth in 2026E (off the higher 2025E base) for both DAL and UAL.” Delta stock has slipped 16% in 2025, while United has pulled back about 20%. Most analysts are bullish on Delta and United. LSEG data shows that 18 of 23 who cover the former rate it a buy or strong buy. On the latter stock, 20 of 23 analysts have a buy or strong buy rating. Source link #U.S #airline #stocks #buys #surge #UBS Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Emily Lopes: Perth mum suffers rare pregnancy condition placenta accreta Emily Lopes: Perth mum suffers rare pregnancy condition placenta accreta A rare and potentially-deadly pregnancy complication is on the rise across the country. For one Perth family, it almost cost a mother and baby their lives. Source link #Emily #Lopes #Perth #mum #suffers #rare #pregnancy #condition #placenta #accreta Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

India threatens two offshore funds holding Adani shares with penalties, document shows India threatens two offshore funds holding Adani shares with penalties, document shows By Jayshree P Upadhyay MUMBAI (Reuters) -India’s markets regulator has threatened two Mauritus-based funds with investments in the Adani Group that they could face penalties and cancellation of licences for not sharing shareholding details despite repeated requests over two years, according to a document reviewed by Reuters. The Adani Group and its 13 offshore investors have been facing an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) since Hindenburg Research in 2023 alleged improper use of tax havens by the group, triggering a stock sell-off. The group has repeatedly denied wrongdoing, and its shares have since recovered. Indian regulations require that at least 25% of the shares of listed companies be held by public shareholders, but Hindenburg alleged the Adani Group breached those rules since some offshore funds with Adani company holdings were related to the conglomerate. The two Mauritius-based Elara funds – Elara India Opportunities Fund and Vespera Fund – had been asked since 2023 to provide “granular disclosures” of all their shareholders since they had “concentrated positions” in the Adani Group, according to a SEBI document dated March 28, which was reviewed by Reuters. “To date, this has not been provided by these FPIs (foreign portfolio investors) to SEBI … They have also not provided any reasons,” the document said, adding that such delays had “impeded the investigation into the Adani Group’s compliance with minimum public shareholding norms.” India’s Elara Capital and SEBI did not respond to Reuters queries. The Adani Group also did not respond. The SEBI document noted that Elara funds did not make disclosures about their acquisitions of certain Adani stocks exceeding 5% – as was required by Indian regulations. It did not specify the exact shareholding in question. Even though the funds are Mauritius based, they are registered with SEBI as FPIs, bringing them under compliance norms and scrutiny of the Indian regulator. The two funds have applied to SEBI to settle the matter without admitting guilt and by paying a monetary fine, said two sources with direct knowledge of the matter, who declined to be named as the investigation is confidential. It was not clear what penalties could they face eventually. In November, U.S. authorities indicted group chairman Gautam Adani and some other executives, alleging they paid bribes to secure Indian power supply contracts and misled U.S. investors during fund raising. Adani denies wrongdoing, and says the allegations are baseless. Story Continues At least two other offshore investors in Adani stocks – Mauritius-based Lotus Investment and LTS Investment – also did not supply information on Adani holdings when asked by SEBI, the two sources added. P.R. Ramesh, a lawyer who represent Lotus and LTS in India, did not respond to repeated requests for comment. (Reporting by Jayshree P Upadhyay; Editing by Aditya Kalra and Raju Gopalakrishnan) Source link #India #threatens #offshore #funds #holding #Adani #shares #penalties #document #shows Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

‘Pro-mortalist’ Guy Bartkus named as bomber in Palm Springs fertility clinic attack – The Independent ‘Pro-mortalist’ Guy Bartkus named as bomber in Palm Springs fertility clinic attack – The Independent ‘Pro-mortalist’ Guy Bartkus named as bomber in Palm Springs fertility clinic attack The IndependentFBI identifies suspect in fatal Palm Springs fertility clinic blast BBCWho was Guy Edward Bartkus? What we know about the Palm Springs bombing suspect Fox NewsTwentynine Palms neighborhood evacuated due to FBI explosives investigation; unclear if it’s connected to Palm Springs explosion ABC7 Los AngelesSuspect in Palm Springs Explosion at Fertility Clinic Is Said to Have Died in Blast The New York Times Source link #Promortalist #Guy #Bartkus #named #bomber #Palm #Springs #fertility #clinic #attack #Independent Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

RBA interest rates: Borrowers tipped to win interest rate relief despite trade tensions easing and strong jobs RBA interest rates: Borrowers tipped to win interest rate relief despite trade tensions easing and strong jobs The Reserve Bank is widely tipped to cut interest rates on Tuesday despite an easing of trade war tensions and strong jobs growth. Source link #RBA #interest #rates #Borrowers #tipped #win #interest #rate #relief #trade #tensions #easing #strong #jobs Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Keepit to expand SaaS backup footprint and intelligent automation Keepit to expand SaaS backup footprint and intelligent automation Denmark-based SaaS backup provider Keepit is adding to functionality in June and July that includes support for Atlassian dev workflow tools Jira and Confluence, as well as Okta’s access management tool that’s used in Google Workspace. These come quickly on the heels of anomaly detection capability in backups added in April and sit alongside longer term roadmap items that include development of a threat library that can be scanned alongside backup jobs and automated intelligent restores built around customer RPOs and RTOs. Keepit is working on expanding its footprint among SaaS applications with the addition of backup support for Atlassian’s Jira and Confluence products. These are, respectively, enterprise development workflow and tracking and corporate wiki software. Anomaly detection functionality added last month uses insight it can gain from holding large amounts of data from a customer and comparing it over time for anomalies, said Michael Amsinck, chief product officer with Keepit. “We can look at the data in a very unique way, to say, ‘Can we see any trends happening with your data?’. One of the biggest things is, of course, if snapshot one compared to snapshot two has decreased by X amount of gigabytes, that could be a first red flag that something is going on in your organisation,” said Amsinck. “In the very infancy of anomaly detection, it’s actually all about data size. It could be how many objects are there or types of objects that we know are harmful that we can flag early on.” Key challenges for Keepit when developing new functionality include determining the criticality of workloads. “When you ask 10 different companies, they will give you most likely nine different answers,” said Amsinck. “But there are some common points among the customer base. They’ll be on Microsoft or Google, Entra ID or Okta access management. Then maybe they’re using Teams or Slack.” Keepit already has Entra ID integration. Okta will come in July. Longer term, Amsinck talked about development of a threat library, in partnership with a third party. So, for example, as backups are run, the threat library is scanned for potential multiple external factors that could result in disruption. “I wouldn’t call it a roadmap item yet. It’s sort of like a discovery point,” said Amsinck, who expanded on the potential complexity of SaaS deployments as a vulnerability to organisations. “It’s very easy to acquire a SaaS tool. You just go in, swipe your credit card and now you have a SaaS tool. “And, it’s equally easy to connect that SaaS tool with some other SaaS tool that is within your stack. So, all of a sudden you could intentionally and unintentionally have a very big cobweb of SaaS applications that are tied together, which means that a potential bad actor now has different attack vectors. So, there are different threats that could occur other than the classic ransomware that you would have to be aware of.” Here, said Amsinck, Keepit would look to partner with someone with threat expertise to develop a threat library that runs whenever a backup runs. Another big item on the horizon for Keepit is to add more intelligent automation to restores. That’s likely to appear “probably within this year”, but with no firm timeline yet, said Amsinck. Here the aim is to allow a company to restore data in a way that best suits their recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs). “If the expectation is, ‘I’m just going to restore everything at once’, that’s not going to be very useful because a customer could have one drive that’s many, many terabytes,” said Amsinck. “Instead, it could say, who are the most important people in the company and what amount of data do we need? So rather than saying, I want all five years-worth of data, I need the last month’s-worth of data to get us back on track.” Setting that up would start when a customer begins their backup journey with Keepit. So, when they design and orchestrate their backup they also reverse engineer that for restores, said Amsinck: “So, we would go in and ask a few questions such as, ‘Select the top 10 people, what’s the retention rate you want?’. It’s in the early stages of sort of design flows and doing these things currently.” Keepit is one of a number of SaaS cloud-to-cloud backup products and services that have arisen to fill the gap left by cloud providers not offering real backup natively for SaaS apps. A key feature of Keepit is that it runs its own datacentre capacity, so all backups are independently held away from where source SaaS applications reside. Keepit has regions based around datacentre capacity in Copenhagen, Frankfurt, London, Zurich, Sydney, Toronto and Washington DC. Each region is treated as a sovereign availability zone with no data moved between them unless approved by the customer. Each region has two active-active datacentres with full-site failover between them. Keepit does not charge for ingress, egress or capacity, but charges by the seat. Keepit backup is designed to run one or two times a day on an incremental forever schema. It is possible to see individual files and preview them, but that depends on the workload. Source link #Keepit #expand #SaaS #backup #footprint #intelligent #automation Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

The day Chicago got a dusty taste of ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ The day Chicago got a dusty taste of ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ “A gentle wind followed the rain clouds, driving them on northward, a wind that softly clashed the drying corn,” wrote John Steinbeck in Chapter 1 of “The Grapes of Wrath,” his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel charting the stormy upheaval faced by those who toiled on the American prairie in the 1930s. “Little by little,” he wrote, “the sky was darkened by the mixing dust, and the wind felt over the earth, loosened the dust, and carried it away. The wind grew stronger. The rain crust broke and the dust lifted up out of the fields and drove gray plumes into the air like sluggish smoke.” We associate such images with the Oklahoma of Woody Guthrie (“I am made out of this dust and out of this fast wind”), but on Friday, Chicagoland had its own encounter with a dust storm. Clouds of the stuff — what stuff? — darkened our sky, obscured our view as walked our dogs, blew through our high school graduation ceremonies, halted plane departures at Midway Airport and made freeway travel even more difficult than usual thanks to the sensation of driving into a great wall of dust. Fans of Beyoncé, slated to play Saturday night at Solider Field, fretted that their visibility would be limited by more than the cowboy hats on their heads. Chicagoans headed out from their homes to find a Friday dust cloud coming at them with the intensity of the raging infected souls in the dystopian TV show “The Last of Us.” Chicago, we should note, did not experience the Friday tornadoes that ravaged cities like St. Louis, where loss of life occurred. At least 14 people died in Kentucky and seven in Missouri. But Friday still was an extraordinary day, so much so that those of us who have been around these parts a while racked our brains as to when we previously had seen the like. Weather forecasters were doing the same. The National Weather Service said that this was first time it ever had issued a dust storm warning that included the city of Chicago. What happened? “Thunderstorms in central Illinois produced a big push of wind (60 to 70 mph) that surged northward into our area,” the National Weather Service said. “As the winds moved over dry farmlands, it collected and suspended dust into the air. The trajectory of the push of wind was oriented into the Chicago area. Hence, we got a dust storm.” But that didn’t answer the question of why this hadn’t happened since the notorious Dust Bowl of Steinbeck’s writing. Some pointed to the exceptionally dry conditions in central Illinois this spring even as the fields had been recently tilled. Some noted the exceptional speed of the winds around Bloomington and Normal that pushed the dust to the north. Some fretted over agricultural practices that made such events more likely, issuing timely reminders that the problem of soil erosion in the Land of Lincoln did not disappear in Steinbeck’s era. So noted. As in all such events, there were winners as well as losers. With Chicago vehicles coated in a thin film of earthy particles, Chicago’s car washes had a banner Saturday. Submit a letter, of no more than 400 words, to the editor here or email *****@*****.tld. Source link #day #Chicago #dusty #taste #Grapes #Wrath Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content] For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

How President Trump is sparking a crypto revolution in America – NPR How President Trump is sparking a crypto revolution in America – NPR How President Trump is sparking a crypto revolution in America NPRBreaking Down Trump’s Entanglements With Crypto WSJPresident Trump Urges U.S. to Engage with Bitcoin as Wall Street and Trillion-Dollar Firms Show Interest The DefiantHow US Crypto Firms Navigate Trump’s New Playbook ForbesCrypto industry praises Trump, calls for market clarity France 24 Source link #President #Trump #sparking #crypto #revolution #America #NPR Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Intel launches $299 Arc Pro B50 with 16GB of memory, ‘Project Battlematrix’ workstations with 24GB Arc Pro B60 GPUs Intel launches $299 Arc Pro B50 with 16GB of memory, ‘Project Battlematrix’ workstations with 24GB Arc Pro B60 GPUs Intel has announced its Arc Pro B-series of graphics cards at Computex 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan, with a heavy focus on AI workstation inference performance boosted by segment-leading amounts of VRAM. The Intel Arc Pro B50, a compact card that’s designed for graphics workstations, has 16GB of VRAM and will retail for $299, while the larger Intel Arc Pro B60 for AI inference workstations slots in with a copious 24GB of VRAM. While the B60 is designed for powerful ‘Project Battlematrix’ AI workstations sold as full systems ranging from $5,000 to $10,000, it will carry a roughly $500 per-unit price tag. Image 1 of 5 (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Intel has focused on leveraging the third-party GPU ecosystem to develop its Arc Pro cards, in contrast to its competitors, who tend to release their own-branded cards for the professional segment. That includes partners like Maxsun, which has developed a dual-GPU card based on the B60 GPU. Other partners include ASRock, Sparkle, GUNNR, Senao, Lanner, and Onix. Both the B50 and B60 GPUs are now being sampled to Intel partners, as evidenced by a robust display of partner cards and full systems on display, and will arrive on the market in the third quarter of 2025. Intel will initially launch the cards with a reduced software featureset, but will add support for features like SRIOV, VDI, and manageability software in the fourth quarter of the year. You may like Image 1 of 4 (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) The Intel Arc Pro B50 has a compact dual-slot design for slim and small-form-factor graphics workstations. It has a 70W total board power (TBP) rating and does not have external power connectors. The GPU wields 16 Xe cores and 128 XMX engines that deliver up to 170 peak TOPS, all fed by 16GB of VRAM that delivers 224 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The card also sports a PCIe 5.0 x8 interface, which Intel credits with speeding transfers from system memory, ultimately delivering 10 to 20% more performance in some scenarios. The B50’s 16GB of memory outweighs its primary competitors in this segment, which typically come armed with 6 or 8GB of memory. The card also has certified drivers that Intel claims deliver up to 2.6X more performance than the baseline gaming drivers. Intel shared a slew of benchmarks against the competing Nvidia RTX A1000 8GB and the previous-gen A50 6GB, but as with all vendor-provided benchmarks, take them with a grain of salt (we included the test notes at the end of the article). In graphics workloads, Intel claims up to a 3.4X advantage over its previous-gen A50, and solid gains across the board against the RTX A1000. It sports similar advantages in a spate of AI inference benchmarks. Image 1 of 4 (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) The Intel Arc Pro B60 has 20 Xe cores and 160 XMX engines fed by 24GB of memory that delivers 456 GB/s of bandwidth. The card delivers 197 peak TOPS and fits into a 120 to 200W TBP envelope. This card also comes with a PCIe 5.0 x8 interface. Get Tom’s Hardware’s best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. Intel supports multiple B60 GPUs on a single board, as evidenced by Maxsun’s GPU, with software support in Linux for splitting workloads across both GPUs (each GPU interfaces with the host on its own bifurcated PCIe 5.0 x8 connection). Intel’s benchmarks again highlighted the advantages of the B60’s 24GB of memory vs the competing RTX 200 Ada 16GB and RTX 5060Ti 16GB GPUs, claiming this can impart gains of up to 2.7X over the competition in various AI models. Intel also highlighted the advantages of higher memory capacity in model size, context, and concurrency scaling. Image 1 of 6 (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) The Intel Arc Pro B60 will primarily come in pre-built inference workstations ranging from $5,000 to $10,000, dubbed Project Battlematrix. The goal is to combine hardware and software to create one cohesive workstation solution. However, the per-unit cost will be in the range of $500 per GPU, depending on the specific model. Project Battlematrix workstations, powered by Xeon processors, will come with up to eight GPUs, 192GB of total VRAM, and support up to 70B+ parameter models. Intel is working to deliver a validated full-stack containerized Linux solution that includes everything needed to deploy a system, including drivers, libraries, tools, and frameworks, that’s all performance optimized, allowing customers to hit the ground running with a simple install process. Intel will roll out the new containers in phases as its initiative matures. Intel also shared a roadmap of the coming major milestones. The company is currently in the enablement phase, with ISV certification and the first container deployments coming in Q3, eventually progressing to SRIOV, VDI, and manageability software deployment in Q4. Image 1 of 12 (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Intel’s partners had multiple Project Battlematrix systems up and running live workloads in the showroom, highlighting that development is already well underway. One demo included a system running the full 675B parameter Deepseek model entirely on a single eight-GPU system, with 256 experts running on the CPU and the most frequently used experts running on the GPU. Other demos included running and finding bugs in code, an open enterprise platform for building RAGs quickly, and a RAG orchestration demo, among others. As noted above, the Intel Arc Pro B50 and Intel Arc Pro B60 will arrive on the market in the third quarter of 2025. Image 1 of 16 (Image credit: Tom’s Harware) (Image credit: Tom’s Harware) (Image credit: Tom’s Harware) (Image credit: Tom’s Harware) (Image credit: Tom’s Harware) (Image credit: Tom’s Harware) (Image credit: Tom’s Harware) (Image credit: Tom’s Harware) (Image credit: Tom’s Harware) (Image credit: Tom’s Harware) (Image credit: Tom’s Harware) (Image credit: Tom’s Harware) (Image credit: Tom’s Harware) (Image credit: Tom’s Harware) (Image credit: Tom’s Harware) (Image credit: Tom’s Harware) Source link #Intel #launches #Arc #Pro #B50 #16GB #memory #Project #Battlematrix #workstations #24GB #Arc #Pro #B60 #GPUs Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Premiership Rugby talking points: Danny Care, Freddie Steward, Adam Radwan and more Premiership Rugby talking points: Danny Care, Freddie Steward, Adam Radwan and more England will announce a training squad for their tour of Argentina and the United States later this week. With those picked for the British and Irish Lions and players from Bath and Northampton, who are preparing for European finals, to be left out, there are some intriguing options pushing hard. Uncapped full-back Joe Carpenter put in another classy display at the back in the win over Bristol and has been integral to *****’s late-season form. Team-mate Raffi Quirke came off the bench to score a sharp try, after Harry Randall had done similar for Bristol in the first half. Fellow nine Jack van Poortvliet impressed again for Leicester, delivering zippy service and setting up Joe Woodward’s try with a well-weighted cross-field bomb. Winger Adam Radwan now has nine tries in nine games since joining Tigers mid-season from Newcastle and will be difficult to ignore. Seb Atkinson purred in Gloucester’s midfield, deftly setting up Chris Harris and teenage wing Jack Cotgreave for tries and racing away for one of his own, as they beat Newcastle. Saracens number eight Tom Willis took out some of his frustration at being overlooked for the Lions with a big hit on Henry Pollock in Saracens’ loss to Northampton. Exeter back row Ethan Roots, whose last appearance for England was back in March 2024, also put in a timely performance, menacing the breakdown and rattling ribs in the loose against Harlequins. Will Evans, who leads the league’s turnover charts with team-mate Jack Kenningham, was also in typically light-fingered form, pilfering ball on the floor. The last time England toured Argentina in a Lions year, a teenage Tom Curry made his debut. Only injury has shifted him from England’s back row ever since. Opportunity knocks. Source link #Premiership #Rugby #talking #points #Danny #Care #Freddie #Steward #Adam #Radwan Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Google I/O 2025: What to Expect From Google’s Annual Developer Conference on May 20 Google I/O 2025: What to Expect From Google’s Annual Developer Conference on May 20 Google I/O 2025 is set to kick off on Tuesday, and the company is expected to announce several new features at its annual developer conference. Technology enthusiasts and developers can look forward to learning about new features coming with the Android 16 update later this year, as well as new features powered by artificial intelligence (AI). Google and Samsung could also give us another look at the latter’s extended reality (XR) headset, which is expected to debut later this year. Google I/O 2025: What to Expect From Google’s Upcoming Event Last week, we got a good look at several new features and updates to the Android 16 user interface (UI) via “The Android Show” livestream. These new features are expected to roll out to users later this year with Android 16. With that out of the way, the company is now expected to focus its attention on unveiling upcoming updates to its AI, cloud and XR services at the upcoming event. Google could announce new features coming to its Gemini AI chatbot on Tuesday. The company has recently added support for new features, including the ability to point a smartphone’s camera at various objects, or share their screen with the chatbot to receive responses. The company could also take the wraps off more powerful or efficient AI models at Google I/O. Last year, Google showed off an advanced AI assistant that it referred to as Project Astra. While some of these features, such as the ability to “see” objects using a smartphone’s camera have made their way to Gemini AI, the company could unveil more advanced Project Astra features at its upcoming developer conference. We might also see a tighter AI integration with the company’s products, including Google Search. AI Overviews and the recently introduced AI Mode are already accessible to users, so it will be interesting to see how the company plans to upgrade its search experience for web search and mobile app users. A recent report from The Information indicates that an image search focused app is also in development at Google, and that the company could unveil it at the upcoming Google I/O event. This app is said to be similar to Pinterest, allowing users to save and curate images and pages they see online for easy access. Samsung’s next-gen XR headset (dubbed Project Moohan) was previously unveiled by the company along with some details of how it functions, and we can expect to see more about the device and Google’s new operating system that it runs on — Android XR. Google recently showed off a new pair of smart glasses that resemble a pair of spectacles, and we could also learn more about these wearables on Tuesday. It’s worth noting that Google could also reveal additional features and functionality coming to Android 16, Wear OS 6, and Android TV 16 at the event — especially if they work with unannounced AI features. Similarly, we can expect to learn more about Google’s apps such as Chrome, Gmail, Google Maps, and other apps that could gain additional functionality with the integration of new AI features. Source link #Google #Expect #Googles #Annual #Developer #Conference Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Singer returns to stand in Diddy sex trafficking trial Singer returns to stand in Diddy sex trafficking trial Pop singer Dawn Richard is set to return to the witness stand in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial, after telling a jury last week that she saw the hip-hop mogul physically and emotionally abuse his then-girlfriend for years. Richard, a former member of the pop group Danity Kane, described an incident at Combs’ Los Angeles home in 2009 when she said Combs beat his then-girlfriend Casandra Ventura and dragged her upstairs by the hair. Richard then said she heard breaking glass and screaming. Richard testified Combs called her and others who witnessed the alleged assault into the studio the next day, gave them flowers and said their careers would be harmed if they reported the incident. Combs, 55, has pleaded not guilty to five felony counts of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. Combs has been held since September in a Brooklyn jail when not in court. If convicted on all counts, he could face 15 years to life in prison. The 38-year-old Ventura, a rhythm and blues singer known as Cassie, said over four days of testimony last week that Combs coerced and blackmailed her into taking part in days of drug-fuelled sex parties he called “Freak Offs”, which are at the heart of the prosecution’s case. Ventura, the prosecution’s star witness, said she suffered years of physical and emotional abuse during their tumultuous relationship. Ventura, who is in a late stage of pregnancy with her third child and completed her testimony last week, told jurors Combs ****** her in August 2018 at her home after they broke up. “I just remember crying and saying no but it was very fast,” she said last week, as her voice trailed off. A lawyer representing Combs on Friday sought to undercut Ventura’s ***** claim, showing jurors text messages indicating Ventura had consensual sex with Combs a month after the alleged *****. The trial in Manhattan federal court, which has drawn intense media coverage because of Combs’ wealth and towering influence in the music industry, could last up to two months. Combs, previously known as Puff Daddy and P. Diddy, founded Bad Boy Records, and is credited with helping turn artists like Mary J. Blige, Faith Evans, Notorious B.I.G. and Usher into stars in the 1990s and 2000s. Part of the criminal case stems from Ventura’s November 2023 civil lawsuit against Combs. She testified that he agreed after 24 hours to settle for $US20 million ($A31 million). Richard has filed a civil lawsuit against Combs alleging he subjected her to inhumane working conditions, including groping and assaulting her. The lawsuit says Richard saw Combs brutally beat Ventura on many occasions. 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732) Lifeline 13 11 14 Men’s Referral Service 1300 766 491 Source link #Singer #returns #stand #Diddy #sex #trafficking #trial Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Doctor reveals what you should always do two hours before flying to avoid getting sick Doctor reveals what you should always do two hours before flying to avoid getting sick Travelers should pop zinc and vitamin C two hours before arriving at crowded transit hubs like airports and bus terminals, according to Wyoming-based hospital physician Dr. Steve Burgess. Airplanes, trains, and buses pack numerous people into enclosed spaces with recirculated air, and adding the stress of travel, interrupted sleep and exposure to new environments creates the “perfect storm” of conditions to weaken the immune system. Taking the germ-blasting supplements within the crucial window is a critical component that often goes ignored and gives your immune system a targeted boost to battle a bug when it needs it most, explained Burgess, who often sees physicians fall ill at the medical conferences he leads for CME Vacations. Airplanes packed with people add to the “perfect storm” of conditions that weaken the immune system during travel. stnazkul – stock.adobe.com “Think of it like putting up your umbrella right before walking into the rain, rather than waiting until you’re already soaked,” he said. “These supplements temporarily enhance certain immune functions, but that enhancement only lasts for a few hours.” For long journeys with connections, consider taking another dose before each new flight or train ride, the doc added, but within reason. “I’ve seen many common misconceptions among travelers — from mega-dosing vitamins throughout entire trips to exclusively blaming airplane air quality while ignoring surface contact,” said Burgess. Zinc helps prevent viruses from multiplying and infecting the respiratory tract, and even has anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties that can protect against autoimmune diseases and allergies. Taking zinc within 24 hours of onset can help reduce the duration and severity of colds, studies show. Another tip is to take zinc lozenges rather than tablets. The lozenges give the mighty mineral direct contact with the throat and respiratory tract, where many infections begin. Burgess recommends taking 15 to 25 milligrams of zinc and 500 to 1000 milligrams of vitamin C. sonyachny – stock.adobe.com Vitamin C boosts various cellular functions of the immune system that help prevent infections. “It doesn’t require expensive supplements or complicated regimens,” Burgess noted. “Just common, affordable supplements taken at precisely the right time.” He recommends taking 15 to 25 milligrams of zinc and 500 to 1000 milligrams of vitamin C. Dr. Steve Burgess started CME Vacations to offer medical professionals opportunities for continued learning. CME Vacations/ Facebook Constant high doses can cause digestive issues, he added, and hand washing remains necessary. Also, keeping hydrated will help the supplements work more effectively and counters the dehydrating effects of flying. His tips come as a record-breaking 45 million-plus people will travel at least 50 miles from home over Memorial Day Weekend, many by plane, train, bus and on cruises, AAA announced this week. Source link #Doctor #reveals #hours #flying #avoid #sick Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content] For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Trump set to implore Putin to end the 'bloodbath' in Ukraine in high-stakes phone call – NBC News Trump set to implore Putin to end the 'bloodbath' in Ukraine in high-stakes phone call – NBC News Trump set to implore Putin to end the ‘bloodbath’ in Ukraine in high-stakes phone call NBC NewsHaving Trump’s ear is the new frontline in the Russia-Ukraine war CNNWhat to expect from the Putin-Trump phone call to end the Ukraine war ‘bloodbath’ The IndependentTrump and Putin Set to Discuss Ukraine War in High-Stakes Call The New York TimesRussia-Ukraine war live: Trump to hold calls with Putin, Zelenskyy Al Jazeera Source link #Trump #set #implore #Putin #039bloodbath039 #Ukraine #highstakes #phone #call #NBC #News Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Walyalup (Fremantle Dockers) forward Michael Frederick reveals his personality change on the field this season Walyalup (Fremantle Dockers) forward Michael Frederick reveals his personality change on the field this season Michael Frederick is blessed with amazing skill and athleticism but despite his flair on the field, he’s a vastly different person off the field, and now he’s trying to bring a different personality to games. Source link #Walyalup #Fremantle #Dockers #Michael #Frederick #reveals #personality #change #field #season Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Jump in cyber attacks should put businesses on high alert Jump in cyber attacks should put businesses on high alert Cyber threats have been real and present for a long time – but the evidence suggests that there has been a renewed spike in attacks in recent times which make a robust cyber security position more critical than ever. In this year’s Nash Squared/Harvey Nash Digital Leadership Report (DLR), conducted amongst over 2,000 technology leaders around the world, 29% of respondents say their organisation has been subject to a major attack in the previous two years, a significant increase from 23% in 2023. This jump bucks a broadly downward trend seen over the last five years. Not since 2019 has the figure been this high. It’s a timely reminder that a strong, multi-layered cyber security approach is essential for all businesses. Quite simply, those organisations not investing in cyber security do so at their peril. The reality is that, both financially and reputationally, they are almost sure to pay the price one day. Proliferating threats The technology leaders we surveyed are in little doubt about the main threat – with 84% pointing to organised cyber-crime groups as public enemy number one. However, there has also been a jump in those citing foreign powers as a cyber danger, standing at 50% whereas in 2022 this was only 40%. Given the fraught and tense geopolitical climate in which we live, this is perhaps unsurprising. Meanwhile, the perceived insider threat has also grown, with 42% naming this as a concern compared to 34% in 2023. In short, there are growing cyber threats from multiple bad actors. The added challenge is that attack methods are becoming ever more sophisticated and varied, from ransomware and data theft to phishing attacks that increasingly utilise highly convincing AI-powered deepfake technology. This reinforces the need for zero trust and highlights the absolute importance that everyone in a business should exercise due caution, following clearly communicated security protocols. Strong identity and access management processes are critically important, along with 24/7 threat detection and robust – and regularly tested – incident response procedures. Cyber skills challenge Robust cyber defences depend on having a highly skilled cyber security team, but another clear concern is that finding cyber talent has become increasingly difficult. In this year’s DLR, cyber emerges as the third highest area of skills shortages. A third of technology leaders (33%) say they are struggling with a cyber skills shortage which is a significant rise from our last study when the figure was 27%. Only AI (51%) and Big Data (38%) come in higher. This challenge certainly rings true in terms of what we see in the market – businesses across sectors are struggling to find scarce cyber talent whether that’s at an operational level (cyber engineers), a more strategic level (cyber architects and analysts), or a leadership level (CISOs). Success factors – three key areas There are no quick fixes here, in what is an ongoing and ever-present battle to keep an organisation’s perimeters secure. But I believe there are three principles that can significantly aid businesses in the security endeavour. 1. Upskilling and training Firstly, while it may be hard to find external cyber talent on the open market, there is much that can be done internally to upskill and cross-skill the existing team. This could be through a programme of internal or external training, or a combination of both. Building your institutional knowledge and capabilities in-house can have a powerful effect. By investing in your team, it can also increase motivation and loyalty – no small spin-off benefit. But organisations shouldn’t confine their focus to the cyber and/or technology teams – there should be a programme of awareness and education for all staff across the enterprise, which should be regularly refreshed and repeated. Security is everyone’s responsibility. Often, it is heading off those small incidents of poor practice or carelessness that prevents a much larger incident from taking place. 2. Managed services Secondly, dependent on the size of the organisation, it may be worthwhile exploring what managed services are available. Contracting with a managed service provider (MSP) to conduct your monitoring and threat detection or your security testing, for example, may be an investment worth making. An MSP may also be able to implement new security features and defences that you lack the internal know-how or experience to do in-house. 3. Alternative resourcing models Seeking a business partner that deeply understands both the talent market and your business while also being clear about which areas you want to strengthen can open up routes to accessing a wider talent pool. Such partners can also help you find passive talent (people not actively looking but who may be interested in moving roles if the conditions are right). More broadly, they can advise you on alternative resourcing models – such as considering employing fractional, part-time or contractor talent to bolster your team. It is not uncommon now, for example, for large organisations to employ multiple CISOs, some on a fractional basis. This helps with knowledge and intelligence sharing and creates wider perspectives on both threats and solutions. Cyber security is a daily battle against an array of sophisticated threats. 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JPMorgan downgrades this streaming giant JPMorgan downgrades this streaming giant Netflix could be due for a slowdown, according to JPMorgan. The firm downgraded the streaming giant to neutral from overweight. The bank did raise its price target to $1,220 from $1,150, but that only implies upside of roughly 2% from Friday’s close. “To be clear, there’s no change to our long-term bullish view on NFLX’s streaming leadership position & the company’s potential to effectively become global TV over time,” analyst Doug Anmuth said. “However, more near-term, following significant stock price appreciation & outperformance, we believe the risk/reward in NFLX shares is becoming more balanced.” NFLX YTD mountain Netflix stock in 2025. Netflix has surged nearly 34% in 2025, compared to a 1.3% gain for the S & P 500 . With the stock hovering near its all-time high, the analyst thinks any potential upside to the company’s 2025 outlook is already priced in. Shares hit a record high last week, reaching an intraday high of $1,196.50. Those gains come as investors fret over global trade tensions after President Donald Trump unveiled a slew of broad tariffs on imported goods. Wall Street has sought protection in Netflix as worries persist, but Anmuth said they could begin moving elsewhere. “NFLX shares have been defensive, but if tariff & macro concerns continue to ease, we would expect rotation into other Internet names & parts of the market that have been more vulnerable & pressured,” the analyst said. “Summer months are seasonally slower for NFLX, & post last week’s Upfront the near-term catalyst path may be quieter, despite compelling 3Q content,” he said. Netflix shares were down more than 2% in the premarket after the downgrade. Despite the rating change, most analysts remain bullish on the stock. LSEG data shows that 38 of 51 analysts covering Netflix rate it a buy or strong buy. the remaining 13 have a hold rating on it. Source link #JPMorgan #downgrades #streaming #giant Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Residents fury at 280ft ‘eyesore’ ******** supermarket unit built near homes Residents fury at 280ft ‘eyesore’ ******** supermarket unit built near homes Residents are fuming about living next door to a “giant fridge” after a 280ft ******** supermarket warehouse was built towering over their homes and gardens. Angry homeowners in Nechells, Birmingham, say they wake each day to see the huge metal frame which looms over their properties growing ******* and *******. The “eyesore” structure will eventually be a 87m (285ft) x 35m (114ft) cold storage unit at Wing Yip – the ***’s biggest ******** supermarket chain. But locals claim they were never consulted about the plans and have been left angry by the “monster” size of the warehouse which overlooks their homes. Source link #Residents #fury #280ft #eyesore #******** #supermarket #unit #built #homes Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Samsung is finally bringing Nvidia G-Sync and AMD FreeSync Premium Pro to its OLED TVs Samsung is finally bringing Nvidia G-Sync and AMD FreeSync Premium Pro to its OLED TVs Samsung has finally announced that its 2025 OLED TV line-up will feature compatibility for Nvidia G-Sync, in what could be a major upgrade for gaming on the big screen. Samsung says that, paired with Motion Xcelerator technology, it will deliver improved visuals and clarity for players. Nvidia G-sync synchronizes the display refresh rate with your GPU’s frame rate to reduce screen tearing and stuttering. Samsung says that when paired with its Motion Xcelerator technology, with support for up to 165Hz, it will deliver “exceptionally fluid visuals and sharp clarity during fast-paced action scenes.” Kevin Lee, Executive Vice President of the Visual Display Customer Experience Team at Samsung Electronics, says the 2025 OLED range from Samsung would “deliver elite-level performance for even the most competitive players.” You may like Today’s news also heralds the inclusion of AMD FreeSync Premium Pro into the line-up, building on the support for FreeSync that Samsung has offered for a number of years. The highest tier of AMD’s FreeSync tech, Premium Pro is the only offering to deliver AMD FreeSync HDR, as well as a 120Hz max refresh rate in 4K, the latter is also available for FreeSync Premium. Samsung says Premium Pro’s inclusion will increase compatibility and adaptive sync performance across more GPUs. As Samsung notes, FreeSync Premium Pro and G-Sync support join its Auto Low Latency Mode and Samsung Gaming Hub to form an impressive core suite of gaming features. Samsung’s 2025 OLED TVs will also introduce a new AI Auto Game Mode that can analyze game genres and scene content to make real-time picture and sound optimizations, allegedly eliminating the need for manual adjustments. Get Tom’s Hardware’s best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. A new Game Bar will let users make on-the-fly changes without exiting their game. Enthusiasts and purists probably won’t be replacing their best gaming monitor with a Samsung OLED TV anytime soon, but the announced improvements are great news for those who want a quick cloud gaming session on the big green. Samsung’s G-Sync compatibility feature will be available starting on the S95F, with subsequent rollout to additional models in the 2025 OLED line-up later this year. Source link #Samsung #finally #bringing #Nvidia #GSync #AMD #FreeSync #Premium #Pro #OLED #TVs Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

NJ Transit strike comes to an end with agreement between union and managers NJ Transit strike comes to an end with agreement between union and managers The New Jersey Transit rail strike will end after the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and NJ Transit managers reached a tentative agreement Sunday. Trains will resume running on their regular schedules Tuesday, NJ Transit President and CEO Kris Kolluri said, ending the first strike at NJ Transit in over 40 years. Kolluri urged commuters to work from home Monday until full service picks up again Tuesday. NJ Transit buses will run as normal Monday. Kolluri said the company has a lot to do to ready the railway for safe passage after no use, including checking the railroads, pre-positioning equipment, conducting safety inspections and calling engineers back into work. “This is an extraordinarily complex operation,” Kolluri said. “We will never compromise the safety of our riders. For us, it is better to get it right and do it methodically than to rush and try to meet some artificial deadline.” New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy lauded transit managers’ efforts at the negotiating table, saying he thought the deal “landed in a really good place.” “They have poured hour after countless hour into reaching an agreement that is both fair to NJ Transit’s employees while also being affordable for our state’s commuters and taxpayers,” he said at a news conference Sunday evening. The locomotive union said the strike, which began at 12:01 a.m. Friday, was a result of pay disputes, as 450 of its members who work for NJ Transit walked off the job. It brought the country’s third-largest transit system, which services 350,000 riders, to a halt. It shut down NJ Transit trains, which carry around 100,000 riders each day. Talks between the union and NJ Transit officials had continued through the weekend. The terms of the deal will now be sent to the 450 union members who work for the company. A ratification vote by the union and by NJ Transit is expected to follow, the union said. Tom Haas, the union’s general chairman at NJ Transit, said the agreement would boost hourly pay higher than the April proposal by NJ Transit, which the union rejected, and higher still than where the proposal had stood Thursday night. The union has said its members were the lowest-paid locomotive engineers at any major passenger railroad in the country. It said NJ Transit engineers haven’t had raises in the last five years. “We’re just looking for some sort of equal pay for equal work,” a striking locomotive engineer, who would not give NBC News his name under the union’s rules, said Friday. The man said Amtrak and the Long Island Railroad pay around $10 an hour more. Murphy said the offer to the union before the strike was pay similar to that of engineers for the Long Island Railroad. Mark Wallace, the locomotive union’s national president, said the union had “the full support of our national union, as well as the Teamsters.” “We also appreciated the outpouring of support we received from NJ Transit passengers and the labor community who know that NJ Transit’s locomotive engineers keep the trains moving and went years without a raise,” Wallace said. He also thanked Congress for not interfering with the strike, which it is able to do under the Railway Labor Act. “This should be a lesson for other railroad disputes. Nothing would have been gained by kicking the can down the road. Allowing strikes to happen encourages settlement rather than stonewalling,” Wallace added. Late Thursday, before the strike deadline, Murphy and Kolluri said they wanted a fair agreement for the union but added that they couldn’t agree to a deal that might have been better than those of other unions in the NJ Transit system, because it would cause those unions to demand the same. “It turns from something that is maybe a single-digit million or a low double-digit million fiscal reality into a nine-digit fiscal reality — and that’s something that NJ Transit can’t bear,” Murphy said at the time. Source link #Transit #strike #agreement #union #managers Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content] For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

2 Dead and Child Missing After Train Strikes Pedestrians in Ohio – The New York Times 2 Dead and Child Missing After Train Strikes Pedestrians in Ohio – The New York Times 2 Dead and Child Missing After Train Strikes Pedestrians in Ohio The New York TimesTwo people killed, baby injured, 5-year-old missing after being struck by train in Fremont WTOLFort Wayne family struck by train in Ohio, 2 killed WANE 152 dead, toddler hurt, young child missing after train hits pedestrians in Fremont WTVGUpdate: 2 killed in Fremont train collision Sandusky Register Source link #Dead #Child #Missing #Train #Strikes #Pedestrians #Ohio #York #Times Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

Nvidia announces new tech to keep it at the center of AI development Nvidia announces new tech to keep it at the center of AI development Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks during the Computex conference in Taipei, Taiwan, on Monday, May 19, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a slew of announcements and revealed new products on Monday that are aimed at keeping the company at the center of artificial intelligence development and computing. One of the most notable announcements was its new “NVLink Fusion” program, which will allow customers and partners to use non-Nvidia central processing units and graphics processing units together with Nvidia’s products and its NVLink. Until now, NVLink was closed to chips made by Nvidia. NVLink is a technology developed by Nvidia to connect and exchange data between its GPUs and CPUs. “NV link fusion is so that you can build semi-custom AI infrastructure, not just semi-custom chips,” Huang said at the Computex 2025 in Taiwan, Asia’s biggest electronics conference. According to Huang, NVLink Fusion allows for AI infrastructures to combine Nvidia processors with different CPUs and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). “In any case, you have the benefit of using the NV link infrastructure and the NV link ecosystem.” Nvidia announced Monday that AI chipmaking partners for NVLink Fusion already include MediaTek, Marvell, Alchip, Astera Labs, Synopsys and Cadence. Under NVLink Fusion, Nvidia customers like Fujitsu and Qualcomm Technologies will also be able to connect their own third-party CPUs with Nvidia’s GPUs in AI data centers, it added. According to Ray Wang, a Washington-based semiconductor and technology analyst, the NVLink represents Nvidia’s plans to capture a share of data centers based on ASICs, which have traditionally been seen as Nvidia competitors. While Nvidia holds a dominant position in GPUs used for general AI training, many competitors see room for expansion in chips designed for more specific applications. Some of Nvidia’s largest competitors in AI computing — which are also some of its biggest customers — include cloud providers such as Google, Microsoft and Amazon, all of which are building their own custom processors. NVLink Fusion “consolidates NVIDIA as the center of next-generation AI factories—even when those systems aren’t built entirely with NVIDIA chips,” Wang said, noting that it opens opportunities for Nvidia to serve customers who aren’t building fully Nvidia-based systems, but are looking to integrate some of its GPUs. “If widely adopted, NVLink Fusion could broaden NVIDIA’s industry footprint by fostering deeper collaboration with custom CPU developers and ASIC designers in building the AI infrastructure of the future,” Wang said. However, NVLink Fusion does risk lowering demand for Nvidia’s CPU by allowing Nvidia customers to use alternatives, according to Rolf Bulk, an equity research analyst at New Street Research. Nevertheless, “at the system level, the added flexibility improves the competitiveness of Nvidia’s GPU-based solutions versus alternative emerging architectures, helping Nvidia to maintain its position at the center of AI computing,” he said. Nvidia’s competitors Broadcom, AMD, and Intel are so far absent from the NVLink Fusion ecosystem. Other updates Huang opened his keynote speech with an update on Nvidia’s next-generation of Grace Blackwell systems for AI workloads. The company’s “GB300,” to be released in the third quarter of this year, will offer higher overall system performance, he said. On Monday, Nvidia also announced the new NVIDIA DGX Cloud Lepton, an AI platform with a compute marketplace that Nvidia said will connect the world’s AI developers with tens of thousands of GPUs from a global network of cloud providers. “DGX Cloud Lepton helps address the critical challenge of securing reliable, high-performance GPU resources by unifying access to cloud AI services and GPU capacity across the NVIDIA compute ecosystem,” the company said in a press release. In his speech, Huang also announced plans for a new office in Taiwan, where it will also be building an AI supercomputer project with Taiwan’s Foxconn, officially known as Hon Hai Technology Group, the world’s largest electronics manufacturer. “We are delighted to partner with Foxconn and Taiwan to help build Taiwan’s AI infrastructure, and to support TSMC and other leading companies to advance innovation in the age of AI and robotics,” Huang said. Source link #Nvidia #announces #tech #center #development Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

September Born impresses in second trial, warming up for winter three-year-old feature raid September Born impresses in second trial, warming up for winter three-year-old feature raid Classy colt September Born continued his ascendance towards a racing preparation with a dynamic victory at Monday’s Lark Hill trials, defeating the multiply Group-placed Miss Skyhigh in a 950m heat. The imposing son of Playing God sat midfield, bang on the back of capable type Hell I Am in a three-wide position. Cornering at the 450m, Brad Parnham eased the three-year-old four wide to chase down early leader Pompey and the youngster’s big engine clicked into gear, making sustained progress down the outside. With 200m to go, he had mastered Pompey but now had Miss Skyhigh making inroads after finding a run against the rail. Despite the mare’s electric burst, September Born kept up the gallop to score by a long neck with only half a length separating three Grant and Alana Williams-trained runners behind (Miss Skyhigh, Pompey and Hell I Am). It was September Born’s second trial in as many weeks after he closed off in style behind stablemate Bustler at Belmont, showing noticeable physical progression from his previous preparation which featured a Fairetha Stakes win last November. After that trial, trainer Neville Parnham reported the entire to have come through the trial well but was ‘extremely gross’ and had a ‘high heart rate’, necessitating the need for Monday’******-out. He will now aim the untapped sort at a campaign of ‘two or three runs’, beginning in an $80,000 three-year-old set weights and penalties event over 1200m on May 31. He will then look to emulate his full-sister Kay Cee by winning the Raconteur Stakes (1400m) and Belmont Guineas (1600m) on June 14 and 28 respectively. Earlier, Quokka winning duo Bernie Miller and Pat Carbery combined to salute in the fourth heat with a clever showing from two-year-old Forever Elite. Among the last to leave the gates, the daughter of Maschino quickly recovered along the fence to be only four lengths from leader Leg Godt at the 600m. Cuddled into the straight by Carbery, he finally poked the filly’s head through a gap at the 200m and she quickened attractively, making smooth progress on Leg Godt instantaneously. Once shaken up nearing the 100m, Forever Elite steamed past the pace-maker and careered clear, scoring by a length and three quarters. It was the unraced youngster’s second trial after taking the eye in a Lark Hill trial when third to Arctic Snow two weeks previous. Her mother, Brave Queen, won just once over 900m at the Gold Coast on a Heavy 10-rated track in March 2010. Shifting to WA later that year, Brave Queen had six starts at Esperance and beat just seven runners home in all of those starts cumulatively. Camera IconSeptember Born wins at Lark Hill trial for jockey Brad Parnham Credit: Natasha Rawluk/Natasha / Western Racepix + Junk Yard Clyde, who posted a brilliant 29.47 win to be the fastest WA Derby heat winner on Saturday at Cannington, has drawn box eight in the final. Nominal pre-series favourite West On Sidney missed a start after placing third in his qualifier. Source link #September #Born #impresses #trial #warming #winter #threeyearold #feature #raid Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]

101st Airborne tapped as first unit to get new ****** Hawk replacement 101st Airborne tapped as first unit to get new ****** Hawk replacement The 101st Airborne Division will be the first unit to get the Army’s new tiltrotor aircraft. This week the Army announced that the 101st will get to use Bell’s V-280 Valor, a next-generation replacement for the aging H-60 ****** Hawk helicopter. The 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, the division’s attached aviation unit, will receive the aircraft, which recently was given its official mission-design series designator of the MV-75. The choice of the 101st “was based on their mission profile and theater demands,” Gen. James Mingus, the Army’s vice chief of staff, said during his remarks at the Army Aviation Association of America conference this week. “This decision makes sense, the 101st is a formation built to deploy rapidly and operate in austere conditions,” he continued. Bell’s V-280 Valor, was selected in 2022 as the winner of the Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft competition. The vertical take off and landing craft has two engines and is designed for both assault and transport purposes. According to the manufacturer, the aircraft is capable of a top speed of 280 knots (which led to its name) and has a range of 800 nautical miles, both greater than ****** Hawk. Beyond speed, the aircraft can also carry a greater number of soldiers and cargo than the ****** Hawk. Mingus said that the initial testing by the 101st Airborne Division will be used to shape MV-75 tactics and doctrine, per Janes. The Army operates roughly 2,000 ****** Hawk helicopters, which have been in use since the 1970s. The Army previously said it expects to field the MV-75 by 2030. According to TWZ, the MV-75 designation is an homage to the year 1775, the birth year of the U.S. Army. The Army is currently carrying out several events and projects commemorating its 250th birthday. The MV-75 aircraft. Photo courtesy Bell. Earlier this month U.S. Special Operations Command said that the V-280 was changed in development to allow it to carry more weight, with the intention of making it more easily convertible for use by special operations units. The Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment currently uses MH-60M variants of ****** Hawks, which require extensive modifications to be mission ready. The assignment comes as the Army is also aiming to shift how it uses its helicopter units. In late April, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth released a memo directing a major transformation of the overall U.S. Army. That included restructuring of commands, a greater focus on integrating tactics around drones, and a reshaping of helicopter units. Hegseth’s memo directed the Secretary of the Army to “reduce and restructure manned attack helicopter formations,” as well as design them to work in coordination with drone swarms. It’s unclear how testing on the MV-75 will play into that goal. The latest on Task & Purpose Army infantry officer calls new XM7 ‘unfit for use as a modern service rifle’ Attempted Fort Leavenworth prison break leaves military inmate tangled on fence This Army combat medic fought off an active shooter and rendered first aid This 53 aircraft ‘elephant walk’ has everything you’d need for a war in the Pacific Source link #101st #Airborne #tapped #unit #****** #Hawk #replacement Pelican News View the full article at [Hidden Content]