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European pollution remains an environmental and public health concern despite continued efforts to curb its impact. The latest reports from the European Commission and the European Environment Agency (EEA) – Zero Pollution Monitoring and Outlook Report and the fourth Clean Air Outlook Report, highlighting progress in reducing European pollution. While certain improvements have been achieved, such as reducing the use of marine litter and pesticides, other contamination, including noise, microplastics and waste generation, persists to surprising levels. These findings highlight the urgent need for stronger policies and enforcement to achieve the EU’s ambitious 2030 zero pollution target. Jessika Roswall, the…
March 4, 2025Ravi LakshmananNetwork Security/Ransomware Internet service providers (ISPs) on the west coast of China and the US have been targeted by mass exploitation campaigns that deploy information stolen goods and cryptocurrency miners to compromised hosts. The findings came from the Splunk Threat Research team, who said the activity also led to the provision of various binaries that promote data delamination and provide a way to establish system persistence. The Cisco-owned company said in a technical report released last week. “The actor also moves and pivots using tools that rely primarily on scripting languages (such as Python and Powershell) to…
Venmo or Splitise is effectively a “debt collector” tool, requiring one person to pay the full invoice and ask for funds from another, but they are not cracking the invoice split at the moment of payment. The European startup CINO, which came up with exactly that product, has raised 3.5 million euros in a seed funding round led by London’s Balderton capital. The real-time shared payment app allows groups to split their invoices and pay stocks directly from their selected bank account or wallet. After leaving Tallinn, Estonia and operating in continental Europe since 2023, CINO will use this fund…
US President Donald Trump added on Sunday that his government will create a national strategic cryptographic preparation that includes five cryptocurrencies, making the United States the “crypto capital of the world.” In his statement on the true social network, Trump said the crypto working group set up after the inauguration in January is moving forward with creating a sanctuary and fulfilling the first promise he made to crypto lobbyists during his campaign. Following his Sunday announcement, the value of the nominated currencies, including Bitcoin, has skyrocketed after what had been a recession for weeks. The move, which took place before…
Large tech companies don’t sleep with Quantum Chips: Amazon Web Services introduced Ocelot. Microsoft, Majorana; and Google, Willow. But while all of these are considered breakthroughs, quantum startups often focus on more practical advances and are making progress. Founded in 2020, Dutch startup Quantware is one of these, claiming that the hardware it manufactures already powers quantum computers for customers in 20 countries. Its core product, Vio, focuses on scaling the bottlenecks of quantum processing units (QPUs). Everyone in the quantum computing field is striving for more Qubits equivalent to the bits, but integrating more qubits on a single chip…
These are important developments on the 1,104th day of Russia’s Ukrainian War.This is the situation for Tuesday, March 4th: Fineting The Ukrainian army said 46 of the 83 Russian drones had destroyed 46 Russian drones, which were released overnight. Another 31 drones were reportedly “lost” and were unable to reach their target. The drone attack at Odesa in Ukraine’s Black Sea Port damaged the region’s energy infrastructure and caused a disruption to the city’s electricity and heat supply, wrote Regional Governor Ole Kiper. Odesa Mayor Jennadi Torkanov said the attack knocked out three boiler factories. The Samara region governor said…
A third of such people live in two regions: Mena and Latin America and the Caribbean, researchers warn.Unless the government takes action, by 2050, almost 60% of all adults in the world and a third of all world adults will become overweight or obese by 2050, a new study says. A study published in the Lancet Medical Journal on Tuesday used data from 204 countries to paint a tough picture of what is described as one of the great health challenges of the century. “The unprecedented pandemic of overweight and obesity is a profound tragedy and a monumental social failure,”…
Taiwan’s Defense Minister Wellington Ku says it’s in the US “national interest” to maintain the status quo in Asia.Taiwan has said it is “impossible” for the US to retreat from the Asia-Pacific despite the US president’s doubts about its willingness to support Washington’s security commitment. “We certainly have a deep understanding that we are not only not able to speak about values, as we are aware of the rapidly changing, tricky international situation and not only cannot speak about the value,” Taiwan’s Defense Minister Wellington Ku told reporters Monday. “So we have to ask: Is it a central US national…
The Holy Month of Muslims in Ramadan has begun. The following month, Muslims observing fasting drink from dawn to dusk to refrain from achieving greater “takuwa,” or divine consciousness. This visual explanation will answer ten general questions about Ramadan and help you to better understand its importance and practice. 1. When is Ramadan this year? Ramadan begins with a sighting of a crescent moon. This year, fasting began on March 1st in many countries, including the Middle East, Australia, Indonesia, Nigeria and the Americas. Several other countries such as Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Pakistan and South Africa began observing Ramadan on…
DECATORS, Ga. (AP) – The sparkling eyes of camera ticket drivers speeding up the school zone along hundreds of Georgia roads outside Decatur, outside Atlanta.Supporters say cameras slow down drivers and provide constant enforcement where understaffed police stations are not equal. But some state lawmakers want to ban them by saying that cameras are about generating money for local governments and camera companies, and some use them at first glance.More than 20 states and the District of Columbia allow automated traffic cameras to issue speeding tickets, while more than 10 other states have banned them. However, it is rare for…