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10+ min ago (63+ words) Despite a recent alert indicating that an eruption of the Purace Volcano is likely in the coming days or weeks due to increased seismic activity and ash columns reaching up to 900 meters (nearly 3,000 feet), Indigenous people living near the Colombian volcano are not afraid. (AP Video shot by Marko Alvarez) Life goes on for Indigenous Colombians despite volcano eruption risk...

10+ min ago (650+ words) Apple just dropped iOS 26.2, and while most people are focused on the flashy updates to the system apps, there is a quieter change tucked away that might actually make a bigger difference in your daily life. Alongside the usual tweaks to Reminders, Podcasts, and Apple Music, this update adds a new option that lets your iPhone uses its own screen to scream for your attention. What happened: iOS 26.2 adds a new way to see notifications The update is live right now for supported iPhones, bringing a mixed bag of productivity and media upgrades. You get things like "Urgent" nudges in Reminders, AI writing your Podcast summaries, a cleaner News layout, and finally, offline lyrics in Apple Music. But buried deep in the menus is a new accessibility tool. For years, iOS has let you flash the camera's LED light when…...

15+ min ago (413+ words) It may be possible to watch a thousand sunsets and not see one like Saturday evening's in Washington, which set the western sky ablaze and included a fiery column of orange light that reached upward from the horizon, long, narrow and brilliant. Such blazing stripes, which seem to transform the circularity of the sun into an elongated shaft of flame, have been witnessed before. Although not an everyday sight, they have entered into the vocabulary of meteorologists and other sky watchers. They are called sun pillars. By apparent coincidence, and in possible defiance of the odds, Saturday's sun pillar was the second this week. Another was spotted on Tuesday. Sun pillars are created by the reflection of sunlight into an arrangement of six-sided ice crystals in the atmosphere. But they also seem sufficiently striking to demand a less technical explanation,…...

16+ min ago (294+ words) Delhi's air quality dipped further'on Sunday.'Keeping pollution levels firmly in the "severe' category. According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the AQI was recorded at 491 on Sunday morning, showing a worsening trend from Saturday. Visibility across the city remained low due to thick haze, as Stage IV of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) continued across Delhi and the National Capital Region. Bawana recorded the highest AQI at 497 at 7 am, followed by Narela at 492 and Okhla Phase 2 at 474. NSIT Dwarka reported an AQI of 411. Other areas also registered hazardous levels. Ashok Vihar and ITO at 483 each, Dilshad Garden at 495, Nehru Nagar at 479, Najafgarh at 408, and Shadipur at 411. PM2.5 remained the dominant pollutant in Anand Vihar, keeping the layer of toxic smog dense over the area. Meanwhile in view of the worsening air quality, the Delhi Government's Directorate of Education…...

17+ min ago (54+ words) I've been working with Python for quite a while now and feel pretty fluent with it " but let's be honest" Python always has something up its sleeve " So tell me " No beginner stuff please " I'm genuinely curious to see what even experienced Pythonistas miss sometimes. Drop your underrated Python knowledge below "...

20+ min ago (163+ words) KUCHING (Dec 14): Continuous rain is forecast in southern and parts of central Sarawak until Tuesday (Dec 16), said Malaysian Meteorological Department (MetMalaysia). In a notice issued today at around 12.25pm, MetMalaysia said the persisting weather condition affects Kuching, Serian, Samarahan, Sri Aman and Betong in southern Sarawak. In central Sarawak, the forecast covers Sarikei, [...] The post Continuous rain forecast in southern, parts of central Sarawak until Dec 16 appeared first on Borneo Post Online. KUCHING (Dec 14): Continuous rain is forecast in southern and parts of central Sarawak until Tuesday (Dec 16), said Malaysian Meteorological Department (MetMalaysia). In a notice issued today at around 12.25pm, MetMalaysia said the persisting weather condition affects Kuching, Serian, Samarahan, Sri Aman and Betong in southern Sarawak. In central Sarawak, the forecast covers Sarikei, Sibu and Mukah. Due to the prevailing weather, the Department of Irrigation and Drainage (DID) had earlier issued…...

21+ min ago (798+ words) In the rapidly evolving landscape of biomedical research, the enzyme glutamine: fructose-6-phosphate amidotransferase (GFAT) is emerging as a pivotal biomolecule intricately linked to the pathology of numerous diseases. A recent comprehensive review published in Cell Death Discovery by Yang, Chu, Chen, and colleagues (2025) sheds light on the multifaceted roles of GFAT and its potential [] In the rapidly evolving landscape of biomedical research, the enzyme glutamine: fructose-6-phosphate amidotransferase (GFAT) is emerging as a pivotal biomolecule intricately linked to the pathology of numerous diseases. A recent comprehensive review published in Cell Death Discovery by Yang, Chu, Chen, and colleagues (2025) sheds light on the multifaceted roles of GFAT and its potential as a therapeutic target, marking a breakthrough in our understanding of cellular metabolism and disease etiology. This enzyme, which catalyzes the first and rate-limiting step in the hexosamine biosynthetic pathway…...

23+ min ago (78+ words) We have a brief warm up for your Friday and Saturday before an arctic blast moves in Sunday into Monday bringing two First Alert Weather Days for cold temps. Cold Weather Advisory issued in advance of our FIRST ALERT WEATHER DAYS for dangerous cold FIRST ALERT WEATHER DAYS issued for bitter cold Monday and Tuesday Slightly cooler today behind a weak front that arrived overnight A few days of comfortable temps before an Arctic Blast arrives next week...

25+ min ago (1293+ words) In the rapid evolution of AI image generation technology, Alibaba's Tongyi-MAI team's Z-Image series models stand out with their efficient 6B parameter scale and photorealistic quality. However, the author recently observed on the Z-Image official blog that the original Z-Image-Base has been quietly renamed to Z-Image-Omni-Base (ModelScope and Hugging Face have not yet updated as of publication). This name change is not a simple label adjustment, but symbolizes a strategic shift in model architecture towards "omni" (omnipotent) pre-training: it emphasizes the ability to uniformly handle image generation and editing tasks, avoiding the complexity and performance loss of traditional models when switching tasks. Through the integration of omni pre-training pipelines for generation and editing data, this transformation means that Z-Image-Omni-Base goes further in parameter efficiency, supporting seamless multimodal applications such as cross-task use of LoRA adapters, thereby providing developers with more flexible…...

26+ min ago (1574+ words) CsvPath Framework includes CsvPath Validation Language. To save scarce ASCII, let's call it CVL. CVL is a document-oriented tabular data validation language like XSD, Schematron, DDL, and JSONQuery. You can use CVL to validate CSV, Excel, and JSONL files, as well as Pandas-type data frames in memory. The purpose of CVL within CsvPath Framework is to be the validation and upgrading capability within the larger data preboarding architecture. Also worth pointing out, CVL and all of the others mentioned, are declarative languages. By and large, you don't program them to follow a logical algorithm determined by you. Rather you declare what should happen or what you are testing and let the runtime figure out how to give you the desired results. So now we have a sense for what CsvPath Validation Language is and why it is important. A practical next…...