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Researchers exploring the deep waters of Fiordland have discovered an enormous black coral measuring 4 meters (13 feet) tall and 4.5 meters (15 feet) wide. The protected coral is estimated to be 300-400 years old and is believed to be among the largest black corals ever recorded in the waters of Aotearoa New Zealand. Professor James Bell, a marine biologist at Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington, described the find as “absolutely huge.” “It’s by far the largest black coral I’ve seen in my 25 years as a marine biologist. Most black corals we come across when we’re…

President Trump will take his first trip on the new Air Force One gifted by the Qatari government when he travels to North Dakota on Wednesday, a White House official confirmed to The Washington Times. The inaugural trip aboard the Boeing Co. 747-8 will be for a dedication ceremony at the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, one of several events Mr. Trump will join to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary. He will also fly to South Dakota next Friday to attend a fireworks show at Mount Rushmore. The president said last week the jet will lead a flyover involving other military planes…

Ex-Trump adviser turned critic John Bolton pleads guilty in classified information caseJohn Bolton, who served as Donald Trump’s national security adviser in his first administration before becoming an outspoken critic, has pleaded guilty in a federal court hearing in Maryland to one count of retaining classified national security information in a case that could send him to prison for up to five years.The charge is specifically related to diary entries about his work during Trump’s first term that he compiled for his memoir, which was deeply critical of Trump. Bolton was accused of transmitting some of these materials to two…

Europeans seem to have gotten over their antipathy toward Elon Musk.A year ago, Tesla sales in Europe were in free fall after Mr. Musk, the automaker’s chief executive, appeared to turn off car buyers with his vocal support for right-wing politicians in Britain and Europe and his role as President Trump’s cost-cutting czar.But in recent months Tesla’s sales across Europe have rebounded sharply amid a broader surge in electric vehicle sales, which now account for more than a fifth of new car purchases on the continent.Tesla’s vehicle sales rose 77 percent from January through May compared with a year earlier,…

SpaceX is set to be added to the Russell 1000 after Friday’s close, and it could join other major indexes in the days ahead. Source link

Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion, partly from the territory of Belarus, Ukraine has handled relations with its northern neighbor cautiously. It did not sever diplomatic relations and kept open lines of communication with President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, Belarus’s longtime autocrat.But since the beginning of this year, after a string of devastating Russian drone strikes in northwestern Ukraine near the border with Belarus, President Volodymyr Zelensky has taken a more confrontational approach.He ordered strikes early in the year against four signal relay stations in Belarus that, he says, are being used by Russia to direct drone attacks on Ukraine. In…

Amazon is poised to spend another $13 billion on AI infrastructure and cloud services in India.The commitment, revealed by CEO Andy Jassy after a June 25 meeting with Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in New Delhi, follows an earlier pledge by the company last year to invest $35 billion in the country.The latest funding will take the total investment committed to India from Amazon between 2026 and 2030 to $48 billion (with $21 billion dedicated to AI infrastructure), and $88 billion overall since 2010.Among the specific areas where Amazon will focus its spending is the expansion of AI data centers…

If you live with PMOS, you can lower your risk for type 2 diabetes by making lifestyle changes such as losing weight and exercising more.[2] Taking certain medications, like metformin or GLP-1 agonists, could help you manage PMOS, support weight loss, and improve insulin resistance.[7] Research has also suggested that an over-the-counter supplement called myo-inositol can help lower fasting insulin levels and improve overall insulin sensitivity.[12]Lifestyle ModificationsBeing active and eating a healthy diet can help you reduce your risk of insulin resistance with PMOS.If you have prediabetes, losing just 5 to 7 percent of your body weight can help prevent…

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 The Trump administration has asked OpenAI to limit its next model releaseIt wants to vet the first GPT 5.6 users before a wider launch. (Bloomberg $)+ OpenAI said each of the initial partners will be government-approved. (FT $)+ It’s the first US firm to be told to restrict an AI model before release. (Axios)+ Anthropic is also still feuding with Washington. (MIT Technology Review)2 Apple and Xbox have hiked prices, blaming AI-driven chip costsSome MacBooks, iPads, and Xboxes are going up in price by over 20%.…

A federal judge ordered the Justice Department Thursday to reveal more information from hundreds of thousands of recently released files about the case of late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein or provide a detailed explanation for why it could not do so. US District Judge Emmet Sullivan gave the DOJ until July 2 to turn over less-redacted versions of certain documents or show why that information could not be made public. He also ordered the Trump administration to publish a log of all redactions. Attorney General Todd Blanche “conceded that he is in violation of the Act” that “required the production of…