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It's not often you have the opportunity to photograph a low flying Whistling Kite at a beach as was this one near the Broome Bird Observatory.
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Despite the inclement looking weather, sun is coming. No-one is on Shelly Beach at Caloundra looking north but it will clear and what a beautiful walk. Typical of Pacific Ocean beaches in Australia. Just beyond the beach behind me, ringed by a wide rock platform is another long headland like the one in the distance. It is also a great place for exploring except on a very high tide. That headland marks the end of Moreton Bay and the open Pacific proper.
Camera settings still not reporting correctly, I hope flickr are onto it!
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The state department will revoke B1 and B2 visas issued between 2016 and 2026, whose holders have sought or are now seeking asylum
Donald Trump’s administration said on Monday it planned to revoke the non-immigrant visas of foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status in the US, marking its latest step in a sweeping immigration crackdown.
A state department spokesperson said it was coordinating with the Department of Homeland Security “to identify and revoke the non-immigrant visas of foreigners who have come to the United States claiming to be short-term visitors, but then file for asylum to stay here permanently”.
Continue reading...All family members should feel safe to raise concerns, ask questions and cover topics without fear of shutdown or reprimand
There have been multiple high-profile alleged incidents of sexual violence against women and girls in news headlines this month. Some of them involve teenage boys.
Families might find themselves having – or thinking they need to have – discussions with their children about consent and sexual violence.
There’s been so much in the news this week about [incident]. Have you seen it?
what have you heard about (a particular incident)?
how does it make you feel?
do you have any questions you’d like to ask?
Continue reading...After repairs to Hirosaki Castle in Aomori prefecture, officials employed a technique known as hikiya to move the structure more than two metres
To chants of “so-re, so-re”, about 1,800 people came together in northern Japan over the weekend to pull a 360-tonne castle keep a little more than two metres closer to its original resting place as part of ongoing renovations.
The keep – a fortified tower within a castle – had to be moved to repair a wall that was damaged in a major earthquake.
Continue reading...Far-right leader echoes ally Donald Trump and says operations to ‘track down illegal immigrants’ should begin this week, amid earthquake aftermath
Colombia’s far-right president, Abelardo de la Espriella, has announced a crackdown on immigrants, ordering authorities to detain and deport people who are in the country irregularly or have committed crimes.
In office for just over two weeks, the millionaire former lawyer made the announcement on Sunday as the country continued to grapple with the aftermath of a 7.4-magnitude earthquake on 10 August that killed more than 300 people and destroyed more than 30,000 homes.
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IBM has revealed it is working on a chip with processor cores that can execute instructions for its own mainframe chips and for the Arm architecture – and for the LinuxONE architecture too for good measure. Big Blue says the unnamed chip will be built on a two-nanometer technology node, include 11 high-performance cores operating at more than 5.7 GHz, plus AI inference accelerators for in-transaction fraud detection, a dedicated on-chip data processing unit for I/O acceleration, and a large cache architecture for demanding enterprise workloads. “Each processor core can natively execute Arm and IBM Z, or Arm and LinuxONE, instructions concurrently,” the computing veteran promises. In a blog post, IBM’s Vice President for the zSystems Ecosystem Meredith Stowell pointed out that “The Arm ecosystem includes more than 22 million developers worldwide and supports a rapidly growing portfolio of cloud-native, AI, analytics, infrastructure, and enterprise applications.” IBM’s Z platform is powerful and very well suited to demanding applications. But while mainframes are a big business for IBM, the overall market is small. Rocket Software, a vendor that provides mainframe modernization tools, yesterday told The Register that it is aware of 42 IBM mainframe users in Australia – and that the land down under is therefore a market it needs to prioritize. Commercial application vendors therefore won’t rush to prioritize z/OS and IBM knows it. Big Blue also knows that major hyperscalers have introduced their own Arm processors and that customers are flocking to them in part because almost all major open source infrastructure, cloud-native, and AI tools run on the architecture. George Cozma, an analyst at TechInsights, told The Register that while the mainframe market is “small in unit terms” it remains “strategically important.” “Customers do not casually replace these systems because core applications, decades of operational practice, and data gravity make migration expensive and risky,” he wrote. But while Z is important, the analyst feels it “sits outside the mainstream software targets that define modern cloud and AI infrastructure.” This new chip, Cozma said, represents “ending the platform’s historical isolation from the broader computing mainstream. While IBM Z’s core strengths – reliability, security, and virtualization – remain the gold standard for mission-critical operations, they are tethered to an architecture that has increasingly diverged from the modern software development lifecycle.” IBM is therefore trying to get the best of all possible worlds: continuity for the small group of ISVs that currently make mainframe products and their customers, expanded software choice for existing IBM customers that also makes Z a more interesting choice for the mainframe-curious, and the nine-nines resilience of the mainframe for more workloads. IBM suggested the new chip will arrive in 2028. Big Blue released its most recent generation of mainframes, the z17, in 2025, and typically delivers new models every three years. The chip therefore looks a good candidate to power z18 machines. One last thing: Cozma pointed out that IBM has form developing dual-architecture chips. “Back in the deep, dark annals of the mid-1990s, IBM developed the PowerPC 615, a chip that could run both PowerPC and x86 code, with the active ISA selected at boot,” he wrote. “The chip was reportedly intended for Apple during the clone era, but it was never sold publicly.” ®
Amazon has raised the prices of its hardware devices by as much as 60%, blaming "significant increases in memory and storage component costs." TechCrunch reports: The price explosion impacted Fire TVs, Echos, Kindles, and Eeros. One egregious example that's been cited is that of the Echo Dot, one of Amazon's cheapest smart speakers, the price of which jumped 60% overnight, from $49.99 to $79.99. Price-tracking sites like CamelCamelCamel show the stark uptick, which has previously hovered much lower. [...] The company also said that it would continue to offer occasional promotions to customers over the course of the next year. Amazon said in a statement: "The consumer electronics industry is facing significant increases in memory and storage component costs. After absorbing these increases for as long as we could, we recently adjusted pricing across our product lines."
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