In the 1770s, Captain Cook released pigs and goats in New Zealand to feed future sailors. Their descendants still threaten the country’s native forests today | World News

When Captain James Cook sailed through New Zealand’s Marlborough Sounds during his second and third voyages in the 1770s, he deliberately released pigs and goats into the bush, hoping to establish a self-sustaining source of meat for future European sailors who might pass through the region. Cook could not have known that these animals would…

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How an extortion bid ended in gun battle that killed 4 gangsters in Gurgaon; over 60 rounds fired during encounter | Gurgaon News

GURGAON: In one of the most high-profile and sensational police encounters in Haryana in recent years, four alleged shooters linked to fugitive gangster Deepak Nandal were killed and a fifth was critically injured after a fierce gun battle with the Gurgaon Police Crime Branch in Sushant Lok Phase-2 on Thursday evening. Three policemen also sustained…

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Read letter that has Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Sam Altman and many other CEOs of biggest American technology companies saying: ‘This has our full support’

A coalition of 25 leading technology companies and organisations has published a joint letter titled Open Weights and American AI Leadership recently, is urging policymakers to embrace open-weight AI models. The letter argues that America’s AI leadership depends not on a single frontier model but on building a strong, open ecosystem that diffuses across industries….

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‘I am a scapegoat’: Nathan Cofnas says he got ‘death threats’ after exposing Jason Arday plagiarism

Nathan Cofnas (L), who exposed Cambridge professor Jason Arday’s plagiarism, suspended by Ghent University. A day after Ghent University suspended him, US academic Nathan Cofnas has said he was made a “scapegoat” after he brought plagiarism allegations against late former Cambridge professor Jason Arday into the spotlight.Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Cofnas said he…

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At 20, Finnish immigrant Maggie Walz arrived in Michigan with just $7; in 1903 she claimed 160 acres on a Lake Huron island and the colony she founded grew to five settlements with around 1,000 people

Maggie Walz Photo credit: National Park Service Born Margareeta Johanna Konttra Niiranen in Tornio, Finland, in 1861, Maggie Walz came to the United States at the age of 20 with almost nothing, just $7 in her pocket and a determination to build a new life. According to the National Park Service (NPS), Walz arrived in…

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