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Chemical Discharge Suspected in Major Fish Kill More than ten tonnes of fish have died at Raa Cheruvu, a lake in the Boduppal Circle of the Medchal constituency, after chemicals were released into the water overnight, with residents discovering the scale of the kill the following morning. Suspected Source Near Mallapur Industrial Area Vangari Saikumar, … Read more

Pollen Robotics, the Bordeaux-based team now part of Hugging Face, is taking pre-orders for Microduck, a 25-centimeter bipedal robot in which walking, sitting, kicking, roller-skating, and standing back up after a fall are all neural policies trained in a physics simulator and exported to the hardware. The price is $399. An open training loop, not … Read more

In Uttarakhand’s Jhabrera assembly constituency, 35 people listed as applicants in 1,657 objections to the draft electoral roll say they never filed the applications and that their names, EPIC numbers and signatures were used without their knowledge. Most of the voters targeted for deletion were Muslim. In affidavits submitted to the Haridwar district administration on … Read more

Modern processors stay fast in part by guessing. Rather than waiting to learn which direction a program will branch, a chip predicts the likely path and races ahead. When the guess is right, time is saved. When it is wrong, the work is discarded, but traces of it remain. Since the Spectre vulnerability was disclosed … Read more

A new hardware attack from University of Toronto researchers cuts the time to obtain a root shell on a compromised host from roughly 22 hours to about 1.1 minutes, defeating the error-correcting code protection NVIDIA has been recommending as the primary Rowhammer defense. The attack, called GPUThor, will be presented at the ACM Conference on … Read more

Four Naga civilians killed in an ambush in Manipur’s Kangpokpi district were retrieved on Friday morning, a day after the attack, officials said. The victims were attacked by armed assailants in a vehicle in an isolated area between Makui Ashang and Thanamba Naga villages around 8.30 am on Thursday. One person was also injured in … Read more

Public services across Punjab were thrown into disarray as more than three lakh government employees and over 3.5 lakh pensioners went on a statewide strike, pressing the Bhagwant Mann-led AAP government to release pending dearness allowance, implement the Old Pension Scheme, regularise contractual workers and address other long-pending service demands. The agitation, called under the … Read more

A control program written by Anthropic’s Claude restored a critical laser system on QuEra Computing’s quantum hardware in seconds, recovering from 695 of 700 simulated and real-world faults without a false success report, according to the Boston-based company. The work was carried out through a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard, or MHS, a … Read more

A security researcher has shown that the cryptographic chain underpinning C2PA content credentials can be broken on Android devices, using publicly available tooling and a vulnerability that remains unpatched on Google’s flagship Pixel phones. David Buchanan, who publishes research under the handle retr0id, detailed the attack in a write-up released in late August. The findings … Read more

SHILLONG, Aug 27: Local contractors in Meghalaya have threatened a state-wide stir after PHE Minister Marcuise Marak told the Assembly that firms in the state are “incapable” of handling the Rs 850-crore New Shillong Water Supply Scheme. Contractors Demand Apology The Khasi Jaintia Government Contractors and Suppliers Association (KJGC&SA) has demanded an apology from the … Read more