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A new assessment of the deadly floods in Nepal and Tibet says there were warning signs
“days before part of a glacier collapsed into a valley.”
The section of ice was about 3,000 feet wide, sending a fast-moving wall of water ice into breeze, some 80 miles downstream. NPR's Dia Hadid reports more than 1,200 people were killed and about 4,000 are still missing." The assessment was by a consortium that looks at risk data in the high mountains.
Scientists looked at publicly available satellite imagery and found melting had sped up on the glacier. A sign it was unstable and there was an indication of a crack in the bedrock. One report author, Jakob Steiner, told NPR that their rapid assessment showed its possible to develop an early warning system.
"We could have seen indications that things are changing and could have been at least alert." The report says there's still a risk of more flush flooding because it potentially unstable masses of rock and ice that remain on the glacier. Dia Hadid, NPR News
“The Trump administration's oil agreements with Venezuela are raising new questions about”
the country's political and economic future. The deal's deep in Washington's ties with acting president, Elsie Rodriguez, following the U.S. capture of her predecessor, Nicholas Maduro. On Otis reports on how, then as well as our responding. "People now, it's really quite jarring to see their current president cozying up to
Trump and to Chevron. Now critics claim that new oil deals are the result of Trump's gunboat diplomacy after removing Maduro and are therefore unconstitutional. But other say Venezuela needs the foreign investment.
The oil industry's interrible shape and is pumping just one-third of what was produced
back in the 1990s." John Otis reporting An international financial group is warning that artificial intelligence could pose new risks to global markets.
“Some PRs, Jennifer Gloughlin reports the warning came as world leaders wrapped up the G20 summit”
in Asheville, North Carolina this week. While the war in Ukraine and ongoing trade battles between the U.S. and Canada made headlines during the G20 summit this week, the looming danger of increasingly advanced AI models also featured heavily on the program ahead of the discussions, members of the Financial Stability Board, an international body that monitors global markets, warned that the speed
of digital attacks in the age of AI could undermine confidence in the stability of highly interconnected global financial systems. The author suggests firms will need to patch vulnerabilities much faster and prepare for the possibility of breaches impacting large swaths of the financial system at once. Meanwhile, tech companies urge global leaders not to restrict innovation, due to what they
described as theoretical harms, General Gloughlin and PR News. This is NPR News. Tributes are being paid to two-time Grammy-winning Jazz Singer, Cassandra Wilson. She died this week in our hometown of Jackson, Mississippi at the age of 70. Nate Chinan from Member Station, WRTI, has this appreciation.
She had a voice like no one else, a deep, dark, controlled, that could make you think of honey and smoke. And though she was a jazz singer, she favored material of all kinds, folk, rock, country, delta blues even a song made famous by the monkeys. That's a track from new moon daughter, which won Wilson one of her two Grammys for Best Jazz Vocal Album.
She was also an integral part of Wintin Marsalis' oratorio blood on the fields, which
was the first jazz work to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music.
In 2001, Time Magazine pronounced her "America's Best Singer" making no distinctions about genre. For NPR News, I'm Nate Chinan. New York City has announced that it's banning generative AI in elementary and middle school classrooms.
The one-year moratorium will apply from pre-K through eighth grade, including classroom tools that use the technology. Mayor Zoran Mamdoni says the city will use the next year to study AI's impact on kids. High school students will still be allowed to use the technology, but will have to complete AI literacy training twice a year.
The changes come as more school districts and states we consider how AI should be used in the classroom. This is NPR. Hey, what's your problem? No, seriously, are your grocery bills too high?
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