Climate change made Ontario, N.W.T. fire conditions roughly twice as likely: report

The conditions underlying intense July wildfires in Ontario and Northwest Territories were made roughly twice as likely due to human-induced climate change, said a new report published Thursday. The report by an international team of scientists says what were once rare fire conditions are now increasingly likely today due to climate change, driven by the burning of…

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WhatsApp will get new chief as Meta faucets India’s CRED founder Kunal Shah, and invests 0M in startup

WhatsApp will get new chief as Meta faucets India’s CRED founder Kunal Shah, and invests $900M in startup

Meta is betting on India for WhatsApp’s subsequent chapter, naming entrepreneur Kunal Shah to guide the messaging app and succeed Will Cathcart, who’s stepping down after practically seven years on the helm to tackle a brand new product-building function on the firm. The transfer comes alongside a Meta-led $900 million financing for Indian fintech giant…

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XRPL Lending Specs Move Forward As Developers Refine XLS-66

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure XRP Ledger developers are refining XLS-66, a proposed standard for native lending on XRPL, and it could become one of the network’s more important DeFi-style upgrades if the specification keeps moving forward. The proposal describes on-chain, fixed-term, uncollateralized lending using Single Asset…

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NVIDIA AI Releases Molt: A PyTorch-Native Agentic Reinforcement Learning Framework

Agentic reinforcement learning research is constant algorithm modification. New estimators, new pipeline stages, new rollout schemes. In mainstream frameworks each change threads through layers of trainer, distributed backend, and rollout glue. That cost lands on the researcher at every iteration. Molt, from NVIDIA’s NeMo team, targets that cost directly. Its a PyTorch-native agentic RL framework…

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