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by Sarah Kuta Last updated: 11:25 AM ET, Tue August 5, 2025 Hurtigruten is launching a new concept in Norway to help combat overtourism.Called “Open Village,” the program includes exclusive, community-led experiences to immerse guests in everyday life in three remote coastal villages: Træna, Bessaker and Sæbø. Hurtigruten has collaborated closely with locals to create the concept, which includes an array of thoughtfully designed and sustainably managed experiences on its Signature Line voyages between May and September.“As some of Europe’s best-known destinations struggle with the pressures of overtourism, our approach is deliberately different: slower, more meaningful travel rooted in genuine…

After months of beta testing, newsletter platform Ghost has shipped a new version of its software, Ghost 6, that allows its publishers to share their long-form content natively with the broader open social web. That means in addition to publishing their newsletters to the web, RSS, and sending them out via email, Ghost’s users can also natively connect with services like the decentralized X rival Mastodon; Meta’s Threads; Flipboard; WordPress sites that have integrated with ActivityPub, Surf, and WriteFreely; and others. While Ghost also mentions the ability to publish to Bluesky as a part of this release, that’s made possible…

Facebook Tweet Email Link As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the first use of a nuclear weapon on the Japanese city of Hiroshima near the end of World War II, the planet is closer to seeing them used again than it has been in decades, experts and survivors are warning. At the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Wednesday morning, dignitaries and the dwindling number of survivors were set to commemorate the moment a US B-29 bomber dropped the atomic weapon known as “Little Boy” on August 6, 1945. Three days later the nearby city of Nagasaki was destroyed…

Diane Petras, CTIE, an industry veteran of almost 40 years, will retire from her position as president of The Travel Institute at the end this year.“I’m able to let go and leave because things are truly the best they’ve ever been for The Travel Institute,” Petras said, adding that she viewed her role beyond that of a job but rather as “passion and a calling.” Petras joined The Travel Institute in the 1990s as a volunteer, with responsibilities that included managing its annual training conferences and serving on the organization’s national advisory board. In 2010, she was appointed chief operating…

Linda Yaccarino’s next role after departing X as CEO will be another chief executive role at eMed Population Health, an AI startup building a tech platform for patients using GLP-1s. Yaccarino was a longtime advertising executive at NBCUniversal but left to join X as CEO for two years, where she managed to have a positive impact on the social network’s troubled ad revenue model, despite her and Elon Musk’s shared approach to minimizing content moderation. Though Yaccarino does not have experience in health tech, eMed said in a press release that they sought her out for her “undeniable ability to…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Hong Kong  —  Zane Li was nine years old when he got a baby sister – and her arrival plunged the family in a small city in eastern China into crippling debt. Under China’s stringent one-child policy at the time, Li’s parents were fined 100,000 yuan (about $13,900) for having a second child – nearly three times their annual income from selling fish at the local market. “We were barely able to survive,” Li recalled. The then third grader was forced to grow up overnight, taking on most of the housework and spending school holidays helping…

LARGO, Fla. (AP) — Dozens of people gathered Tuesday evening at a funeral service for famed wrestler Hulk Hogan, who died last month at 71.The private service was held at the same church where Hogan, whose real name was Terry Bollea, was baptized in 2023. He died after suffering a heart attack July 24 at his home in Clearwater, according to the Pinellas County medical examiner.Hogan previously had leukemia and atrial fibrillation, an irregular heart rhythm, the examiner’s report said. His death was declared to be natural.The service was heavily patrolled by church security and Largo police officers, including K-9…

A Spirit Airlines pilot was recently arrested at New Orleans Louis Armstrong International Airport (MSY) on stalking charges in Kansas, according to reports.Authorities arrested 40-year-old Dominic A. Cipolla of Kansas City, Missouri, on July 17 at the New Orleans airport in connection with charges for allegedly stalking two people who, according to court documents, are minors, The Guardian reports. The charges were filed at the Johnson County Courthouse in Olathe, Kansas.Cipolla was held in local jail as a fugitive, according to The Guardian, before being transferred to Johnson County jail, where he posted a $12,500 bond and was released. Spirit…

Sam Altman’s blowtorch to his competitors is so hot, it even includes a new partnership with Amazon Web Services. As OpenAI announced two open-weight reasoning models with capabilities on par with its o-series, Amazon announced that the new models would become available on AWS on Tuesday. This is the first time that OpenAI models will be offered by AWS, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. They will be available as a model choice with Amazon AI services Bedrock and SageMaker AI. While anyone can download the models via Hugging Face, Amazon is offering these models with OpenAI’s full knowledge and approval,…

Facebook Tweet Email Link AP  —  Nigerian customs said they seized more than 1,600 parrots and canaries that were being transported from Lagos international airport to Kuwait without a permit, in one the biggest wildlife trafficking seizures in years. The seizure is a sign of positive change in the fight against illegal wildlife trafficking, as Nigeria is a major hub in the global trade in protected species, Mark Ofua, West Africa spokesperson for the international non-governmental organization Wild Africa, told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Customs agents seized ring-necked parakeets and green and yellow fronted canaries, two protected species, at…