Gigabyte UEFI Firmware Vulnerability Let Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code in the SMM Environment

Critical security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Gigabyte UEFI firmware that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code in System Management Mode (SMM), one of the most privileged execution environments in modern processors. The...

Shell receives environmental authorisation to drill off South Africa’s west coast

Shell has secured environmental authorisation to drill up to five deepwater wells off South Africa’s west coast, according to a report by Reuters. The approval follows the company’s application last year for drilling exploration or appraisal wells...

EXPERT REACTION: Landmark Australian Climate Case ruling

Today’s Federal Court decision in the Pabia Pabia v Commonwealth of Australia case saw Torres Strait Islanders asserting that the Commonwealth Government owed them a duty of care to prevent harm to their way of life from climate change....

NY’s climate plan is no longer achievable -- or affordable (Guest Opinion by Justin Wilcox)

Justin Wilcox, of Brighton, is executive director of Upstate United, a nonpartisan business and taxpayer advocacy coalition focused on growing the Upstate economy. The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), New York’s sweeping...

London urban oasis hosts artist’s multimedia investigation into plants’ resilience in the face of climate crisis

Wander away from Highgate’s busy high street, down an alley of houses still under construction, and you will reach an unlikely sight: a hidden meadow of poppies, daisies and lavender. A serpentine path leads through lush wildflower plantings and a...

Seaweed and wind turbines: the unlikely climate double act making waves in the North Sea

In a quiet corner of the North Sea, something remarkable is happening between the towering blades of offshore wind turbines: farmers are growing seaweed This week, the world’s first large-scale seaweed farm built inside a wind farm has completed...

Indigenous Australians lose climate change case against government

Paul Kabai (L) and Pabai Pabai, seen here after the Federal Court of Australia decision in Cairns, Australia on Tuesday. EPA/BRIAN CASSEY AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT July 15 (UPI) -- An Australian federal court ruled Tuesday that Indigenous...

Packing light? Easier said than done when heading for a cold climate

The temperature will range from 3°C to 9°C, but the sun can be strong and feel warmer, they advise. We’re going far north, but the southern region might be warmer. And I’m going to have a day in Copenhagen and one in Reykjavik as well, where the...

AWS Builds Agentic Integrated Developer Environment

Statue S.P.Q.R. IMP CAESAR Augustus PATRIAE PATER on street Via dei Fori Imperiali, Rome, Italygetty Beware the ides of March. So said the soothsayer, warning Julius Caesar of his impending assassination, which would come on the “ides” (15th,...

Ed Miliband gives scathing first annual Parliamentary address on climate and nature

Image: Maximilian Steyger/ DESNZ Miliband addressed the House of Commons on Monday (14 July), summarising the Met Office’s recent ‘State of the UK Climate’ report to colleagues before Parliament’s upcoming summer recess. The report highlights how...

[INTERVIEW] Governments’ use of digital technologies to threaten dissidents abroad creates climate of fear, oppression and insecurity, academic researcher says

Dr. Marcus Michaelsen, senior researcher at the University of Toronto-based Citizen Lab, said in an interview with the Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) that understanding transnational repression through digital technologies was essential for...

Trump admin says it won't publish major climate change reports on NASA website

The Trump administration on Monday took another step to make it harder to find major, legally mandated scientific assessments of how climate change is endangering the nation and its people. Earlier this month, the official government websites that...

Who’s Funding The Climate Debate? | Lord Matthew Ridley

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Kiro Development Environment Is A Big Shift In AWS Developer Strategy

New Kiro projects can leverage vibe or spec-based coding.AWS Over the past 12 months we have seen more activity in developer tools than in the previous 15 years. This is largely due to generative AI and its ability to automate application...

Outdated environment laws may hinder Australia's dreams

"To put it bluntly, there is no chance of Australia meeting stated targets for net zero, renewable energy, critical minerals development, housing and transport infrastructure without very high quality national laws."

Climate crisis: HSBC exits Net Zero Banking Alliance

HSBC has withdrawn from the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) following the departure of 17 other banks, according to a statement released last Friday. HSBC. File Photo: Tom Grundy/HKFP. The UK banking giant was a founding member of the UN-convened...

Environment Ministry defends new coal plant norms as ‘cost effective, climate coherent’

Representative image. File The Ministry of Environment and Forests said in a note on Monday (July 14, 2025) that its recent decision to exempt a majority of thermal power plants from installing flue gas desulphurisation (FGD) units was a...

China, EU hold high-level environment, climate dialogue

Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, and Teresa Ribera, Executive Vice President of the European Commission, hold the sixth China-EU...

AWS launches Kiro: a ‘spec coding’ developer environment integrated with AI agents

Amazon Web Services Inc. today launched a preview of a new development environment named Kiro, integrated with artificial intelligence agents for software engineers, which the company says will help them turn ideas into production-ready code. Now...