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Thursday, 12 November 2026
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This summer, with its scarce rainfall and repeated heat waves, witnessed one of the most severe droughts in Europe since 1540.
Robbie Whelan, Josh Dawsey, Amrith Ramkumar, reporting for The Wall Street Journal in the aftermath of the NYT’s scoop that Huang was having an affair with an Nvidia vice president too: Nvidia’s board is preparing to oust CEO Jensen Huang after he had two extramarital
CHIANG MAI, Thailand — Global wildlife trade regulator CITES has lifted trade sanctions against Laos, opening the door for the Southeast Asian nation to resume trade of long-tailed macaques and other species.
The dollar closed in decline on Wednesday (11), and the Brazilian stock exchange advanced, in a session marked by the repercussions of the government's fiscal adjustment package and the positive performance of international markets.
O dólar fechou em queda nesta quarta-feira (11), e a bolsa brasileira avançou, em uma sessão marcada pela repercussão do pacote de ajuste fiscal do governo e pelo desempenho positivo dos mercados internacionais.
Automatic translation by Bittrees-hosted AI. The source link opens the original publication.By Kiley Price Cacti are among the toughest plants on the planet, withstanding scorching temperatures and parched conditions that would wilt a more sensitive sprout.
The latest global State of Wildfires report, co-led by the University of East Anglia, shows that the extreme fire-prone weather experienced across Spain and Portugal in 2025 was three times more likely due to human-caused climate change, and the area burned was three times larger.
In today’s newsletter: US intelligence reportedly believes the former tech executive was recruited by Beijing, raising questions about the security of the AI industry and Trump’s close ties to Nvidia chief Jensen Huang Good morning.
ASEAN is set to open its final leaders summit of the year on Sunday (Nov 15), with India's Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump expected to attend.
With wars raging in Ukraine and across the Middle East, commentators increasingly ask whether we're sliding toward a third world war.
World Health Organization says more than 320,000 people have been displaced in Yemen fighting since August 1.
Ryan Mac, Tripp Mickle, and Georgia Gee, reporting for The New York Times: Jensen Huang, the leader of Nvidia who is under investigation for an affair with a woman who U.S.
The message, repeated in the corridors and on stage, reflects efforts to capture the attention of governments in the face of crises that have relegated global warming to the end of the list of priorities.
A mensagem, repetida nos corredores e no palco, reflecte os esforços para captar a atenção dos governos, face a crises que relegaram o aquecimento global para o fim da lista de prioridades.
Automatic translation by Bittrees-hosted AI. The source link opens the original publication.Stock markets in India and Pakistan have rallied following the US midterms, buoyed by hopes of easing tensions with Iran and lower oil prices.
But humanitarian agencies are highlighting another urgent consequence of climate disruption: growing food insecurity.
As the COP31 climate summit gets under way this week in Turkey, experts are calling for zero-waste solutions to tackle Africa's growing waste crisis.
Insider Brief Orange Quantum Systems (OrangeQS) has appointed Raj Badoni as Chief Commercial Officer to lead its commercial strategy, market development and customer and partner relationships.
Nvidia's board is meeting to decide whether to oust CEO Jensen Huang, as the AI chip giant grapples with reports of two extramarital affairs involving its longtime leader.
Schools were evacuated across Italy on Wednesday following a series of hoax bomb threats.
Just in time for the Latin America International Championships, The Pokémon Company has released a new limited-time distribution event for Pokémon Champions (thanks, Serebii).
Coach Zinédine Zidane will have to do without his captain, Kylian Mbappé, this Thursday as Les Bleus take on Italy in the Nations League.
Switching a home’s heating, cooling, and other energy-intensive loads from fossil fuels to electricity could drastically reduce planet-warming emissions.
Around 2.4 million workers receive the meal allowance via a bank card, a universe for whom the IRS exemption is expected to rise again in 2027 automatically depending on the updating of the subsidy in the State.
Cerca de 2,4 milhões de trabalhadores recebem o subsídio de refeição através de cartão bancário, universo para quem a isenção de IRS deverá voltar a subir em 2027 automaticamente em função da atualização do subsídio no Estado.
Automatic translation by Bittrees-hosted AI. The source link opens the original publication.The humble cactus is an icon of resiliency.
Nothing really exists in isolation. Almost every part of our lives exists in a network. Consciousness arises from what neurons do together, life from what genes and proteins do together, society from what we do together. When researchers began mapping real-world networks in the 1990s – from the World Wide Web to Hollywood actors linked by films – they found that wildly different systems shared architectural features that their components alone could not explain. This suggested common organizing principles for how networks form and develop. In this episode, two of the pioneers of network scienc
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) reads his 2022 Bits About Money essay demystifying financial leverage, starting from the balance sheet math that lets you work out in your head how big a drop in asset value wipes out a firm’s equity: add one to the leverage ratio and take the reciprocal. A firm levered ten to one is gone after a loss of about 9%. He walks through how brokerages manage customer leverage with margin calls, and why paying down the loan lowers your risk more than depositing the same amount in shares. He then tells the story of a whale’s account blowing up on the DeFi lending protocol So
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s extramarital relationship with a woman named Alice Huang, whom US intelligence reportedly identified as a Chinese intelligence asset, is one of the biggest stories in the world right now. Bloomberg News tech reporter Mackenzie Hawkins has been paying close attention to Megaspeed, the Singapore-based neocloud that Alice Huang was a former executive at — and one of Nvidia’s largest buyers of chips in Southeast Asia. Hawkins is an expert when it comes to the geopolitics of chips, and she tells us that the story that blew up in the last week has been brewing for a while.
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Bird and bat droppings might not sound precious, but guano was once so prized it shaped agriculture, trade and even warfare. Professor Adam Rutherford and Jessica Fostekew explore the surprising story of this pongy but remarkable substance, joined by ecologist Kate Jones, ornithologist Tim Birkhead and comedian Zoe Lyons. From vast seabird colonies off the coast of Peru to bat-filled caves in the tropics, they discover how guano became one of humanity's most valuable natural resources, powering farming booms, helping to drive the production of gunpowder and sustaining entire ecosystems. Along
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