The gunshots rang out amid stopped midday traffic, panicking bystanders on a busy road in the Ukrainian Black Sea city of Odesa. Masked men wearing bulletproof vests pulled other men from a white minivan, throwing them to the pavement and pounding on them to make them stay still. The masked men were from Ukraine’s main…
New Zealand all-rounder Suzie Bates will retire from international cricket after this year’s Women’s T20 World Cup, ending an illustrious 20-year career on the world stage. The 38-year-old will be part of the White Ferns’ 15-member squad for the T20 World Cup taking place from 12 June to 5 July in England, where they will…
New Zealand all-rounder Suzie Bates will retire from international cricket after this year’s Women’s T20 World Cup, ending an illustrious 20-year career on the world stage. The 38-year-old will be part of the White Ferns’ 15-member squad for the T20 World Cup taking place from 12 June to 5 July in England, where they will…
Few brands are as vital to my everyday wardrobe as Rothy’s. Before trying my first pair of Rothy’s three years ago, I swore off flats and sandals as “comfortable footwear” altogether. But as soon as I slipped on the brand’s original Point flat, I quickly realized I might have to reconsider my stance on blister-prone…
Giant cephalopods may have rivaled marine reptiles as apex predators during the age of the dinosaurs Source link
In brief Hy3 preview is a 295 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with only 21 billion active parameters, making it cheaper to run than most rivals of similar capability. On SWE-bench Verified—a coding benchmark testing real GitHub bug fixes—it jumped from 53% (Hy2) to 74.4%, a 40% improvement over the previous generation. The model is already…
Since Ukraine attacked the refinery in Tuapse, starting a huge fire, residents have reported drops of dark, oily toxins falling from the sky. Source link
Giant octopuses may have ruled the oceans 100 million years ago, according to fossil evidence. Source link
OpenAI just announced its new GPT-5.5 model, which the company calls its “smartest and most intuitive to use model yet, and the next step toward a new way of getting work done on a computer.” OpenAI just released GPT-5.4 last month, but says that the new GPT-5.5 “excels” at tasks like writing and debugging code,…
An opportunity to join the staff of The Economist Source link