In 2011, New York covered five acres of Lake George with more than 700 mats to suffocate invasive Asian clams; 97% died, but the invader later spread to 27 locations

Representative Image (AI-generated) When invasive Asian clams were discovered in Lake George, New York, in 2010, researchers moved quickly to test whether covering the lakebed could stop the species from spreading. According to a final report by the Darrin Fresh Water Institute at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, published through the Lake Champlain Basin Program, a large-scale…

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FDA suspends licences of Mumbai’s iconic Cafe Mondegar, 3 other outlets over safety violations | Mumbai News

Mumbai’s iconic Cafe Mondegar MUMBAI: The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday suspended the licences of Cafe Mondegar, a popular restaurant in Colaba, and three other food establishments in Mumbai after inspections found serious food safety and hygiene violations.The FDA inspected Cafe Mondegar at Metro House in Colaba on September 12 and found…

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Who is Jonathan Hunter Kramer? Pennsylvania man arrested with rifle, 190 rounds of fire in alleged IS-inspired plot | World News

Pennsylvania man Jonathan Hunter Kramer charged for allegedly plotting ISIS-inspired attack. A 21-year-old Pennsylvania man is facing federal terrorism-related charges after FBI agents arrested him with a semiautomatic rifle, rifle magazines and about 190 rounds of ammunition that prosecutors say were being acquired for a planned attack. Who is Jonathan Hunter Kramer? Jonathan Hunter Kramer,…

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Water kept leaking into his ground-floor home despite repeated fixes; after an 8-year legal fight, Maharashtra court orders first floor flat owner to allow repairs and split costs

The upstairs owner was no longer willing to let repair workers enter his flat. (Image for representative purpose only) Co-habiting in a housing society can come with its set of challenges. One such case is of a ground floor flat occupant who was constantly troubled by water leakage from the first floor, and the problem…

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OpenAI confirms joint safety efforts with Anthropic, Google DeepMind days after Sam Altman agrees with Dario Amodei’s 3800-word AI slowdown essay

OpenAI has confirmed that it is working with competitors Anthropic and Google DeepMind on artificial intelligence (AI) safety measures. The joint initiative aims to confront mounting alarm among lawmakers and the public that uncontrolled computing models present grave economic hazards and national security liabilities, reports Bloomberg. Speaking during a Washington press briefing on Tuesday (September…

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Microsoft may have ‘made fun’ of its key partner after swarm of Al agents hacked multiple online platforms

Microsoft has unveiled a strict internal safety draft that appears to take direct aim at the recent cybersecurity missteps of its key commercial partner, OpenAI, following revelations that swarms of rogue AI agents breached its network controls and hacked multiple third-party internet services. The tech giant framed its newly drafted code of conduct as a…

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Lalbaugcha Raja: How a broken market, struggling fishermen and a vow to Lord Ganesha created Mumbai’s most famous Ganpati

Lalbaugcha Raja idol ahead of Ganesh Chaturthi festival, at Lalbaug, in Mumbai Mumbai’s most famous Ganpati did not begin with a grand pandal or celebrity crowds. Its story began with a market that had shut down, families worried about their livelihood and a promise made to Lord Ganesha. In 1934, that promise took the form…

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A 1.2-million-sq-ft San Francisco mall was foreclosed and a buyer walked away; a new bid would add 6 basketball courts, 8 volleyball courts and a sports high school

San Francisco’s struggling downtown mall could get a second life as a major sports destination. The San Francisco Standard and San Francisco Chronicle report that Urban Land Development and TMG Partners have submitted a bid to transform the shuttered San Francisco Centre into a multilevel complex featuring six basketball courts, eight volleyball courts, retail, dining…

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Harry Potter star Johnny Flynn says private schools should be ‘burnt to the ground’ after ‘traumatic’ experience at Winchester’s Pilgrims’ School; therapy helped him understand ‘boarding school syndrome’ |

Harry Potter star Johnny Flynn opens up about his “traumatic” boarding school experience, saying therapy helped him understand “boarding school syndrome”. (Photo: Getty Images) British actor Johnny Flynn, 43, has opened up about his childhood and the bullying he experienced while studying at Winchester’s Pilgrims’ School. Flynn attended the boarding school from the age of…

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Mark Carney: Canada will be ‘stronger, more resilient, more independent’ after US trade war, Mark Carney says

File photo: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney (Picture credit: AP) Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday that Canada intends to emerge from its trade war with the United States as a more resilient and independent economy, while stressing that future cooperation with Washington must be based on respect for both countries’ sovereignty.“And to our…

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