With or without authority to regulate heightened emissions, states plan to meet climate goals.

Counter-terrorism agencies are scrambling to maintain an advantage and thwart attacks as access to digital tools eases

Counter-terrorism authorities have, for years, characterized keeping up with terrorist organizations and their use of digital tools and social media apps as a game of Whac-a-Mole.

Jihadist terrorist groups such as Islamic State and its predecessor al-Qaida, or even the neo-Nazi group the Base, have leveraged digital tools to recruit, covertly finance via crypto, download weapons for 3D printing and spread tradecraft to its followers, all while leaving law enforcement and intelligence agencies playing catch up.

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Experts scrambling to understand losses in hives across the country are finally identifying the culprits. And the damage to farmed bees is a sign of trouble for wild bees too

Bret Adee is one of the largest beekeepers in the US, with 2 billion bees across 55,000 hives. The business has been in his family since the 1930s, and sends truckloads of bees across the country from South Dakota, pollinating crops such as almonds, onions, watermelons and cucumbers.

Last December, his bees were wintering in California when the weather turned cold. Bees grouped on top of hives trying to keep warm. “Every time I went out to the beehive there were less and less,” says Adee. “Then a week later, there’d be more dead ones to pick up … every week there is attrition, just continually going down.”

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The actor recently posted a photo of himself undergoing a £10,000 procedure at a London clinic that claims to remove microplastics, forever chemicals and herbicides from the blood. But how settled is the science around the health risks of microplastics? To find out, Ian Sample speaks to Dr Stephanie Wright, associate professor of environmental toxicology at Imperial College London’s school of public health. She explains what we know so far about the effects of microplastics in the body, why the science is still evolving, and what we can do to reduce our exposure

Are microplastics really in everything – even my brain?

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Here’s a breakdown of how original Switch titles work on Switch 2, explaining everything from free Switch 2 updates to inbuilt backwards compatibility and the paid Switch 2 Edition upgrades

Outside of the phenomenal Mario Kart World and next week’s Donkey Kong Bananza, there isn’t much new Nintendo software to keep early Switch 2 adopters occupied. Thankfully, Nintendo has seen fit to improve a heap of existing Nintendo Switch games on the shiny new system, both in the form of graphics-boosting free updates and more substantial paid reworks. The different options can be confusing, however, so here’s an explanation of how it all works.

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Those pirated video nasties won’t last forever

The UK police service is planning to launch a procurement to purchase tech and services worth up to £75 million ($102 million) in order to digitize its VHS archive.…

Memory from Korea, hard disks from Thailand, plenty of stuff from Japan

World War Fee  The Trump administration on Monday announced the tariff rates it will impose on fourteen nations starting on August 1st, and several big technology-producing nations made the list.…

Exclusive: Amazon office workers in New York requested to donate time over to Fresh delivery process during firm’s busiest time

Corporate employees of Amazon were asked on Monday to volunteer their time to the company’s warehouses to assist with grocery delivery as it heads into its annual discount spree known as Prime Day.

In a Slack message reviewed by the Guardian that went to thousands of white-collar workers in the New York City area from engineers to marketers, an Amazon area manager called for corporate “volunteers to help us out with Prime Day to deliver to customers on our biggest days yet”. It is not clear how many took up the offer.

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AI adoption in security: Top use cases and mistakes to avoid

Widespread implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in security presents a paradox. On one hand, it helps security experts combat advanced threats at scale. On the other hand, AI is also contributing to the scale of sophistication of adversaries' threat campaigns.

To fight fire with fire, organizations are increasingly automating security processes to make up for the uneven playing field on which they find themselves. In this landscape, AI in cybersecurity is necessary to move from reactive defenses to proactive protection. However, AI adoption isn’t without its challenges and considerations.

This article explores how AI is transforming security operations, the top-value use cases it’s delivering, and key mistakes to avoid when bringing AI into your security operations center (SOC).

We’re excited to announce that Elastic has achieved FedRAMP® High “In Process” status for Elastic Cloud Hosted on AWS GovCloud (US). This designation from the US Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Program Management Office builds on Elastic’s continued commitment to provide the US federal government with secure, compliant, and transparently priced technology solutions.

This milestone comes on the heels of Elastic and GSA’s June announcement of a volume-based discount buying program for US federal agencies. The program streamlines the procurement process, builds efficiencies of scale, and increases time to value.

1 https://www.fedramp.gov/understanding-baselines-and-impact-levels/