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Facebook Tweet Email Link A zoo in northern Denmark is asking pet owners to donate their unwanted guinea pigs, rabbits, chickens and even small horses – not to put them on display but to feed them to the zoo’s predators. The Aalborg Zoo wrote in a Facebook post that it is trying to “imitate the natural food chain of the animals”. “Chickens, rabbits and guinea pigs form an important part of the diet of our predators,” it wrote in the post alongside an image of openmouthed, sharp-toothed lynx. “That way, nothing goes to waste — and we ensure natural behavior,…
Riviera Travel launched a new website, which was designed to simplify the booking process with a swath of enhanced tools for advisors and their clients, along with a “more intuitive and user-friendly interface,” the river cruise line said.Through the “Read More” function, users no longer need to navigate multiple pages. The site is also equipped with a blog section with frequently asked questions and tips, “providing valuable insights and expert guidance for travel advisors,” Riveria Travel said.Additionally, Riviera Explorer, the company’s new digital platform, which was unveiled in July, offers training videos that educate travel advisors on how to navigate…
Foxconn has sold the former GM factory it has owned for three years after failing to stand up any meaningful, large-scale electric vehicle production there. The pivot marks the second major failure of Foxconn to deliver on its promises to help revive U.S. manufacturing. The iPhone-maker once promised to build a giant LCD factory in Wisconsin — a project that Donald Trump called the “eighth wonder of the world” during his first term — and wound up underdelivering to an extreme degree. Foxconn says the buyer is an “existing business partner” named “Crescent Dune LLC,” an entity that was created…
Travelers might notice a spiffy new look the next time they board an Alaska Airlines plane. The Seattle-based carrier has been refreshing its Boeing 737-800 fleet, and it’s now unveiling the first look at the new interiors and first-class seats. In a recent LinkedIn post, Christopher Dela Rosa, Alaska’s cabin product director, shared a sneak peek inside the first Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-800—tail number N558AS—to receive the updated interior. Alaska took the aircraft on a quick test flight in early August to evaluate the renovated products. The new cabins have Recaro R5 seats in first class and Recaro R2 seats in…
Google’s AI-powered bug hunter has just reported its first batch of security vulnerabilities. Heather Adkins, Google’s vice president of security, announced Monday that its LLM-based vulnerability researcher Big Sleep found and reported 20 flaws in various popular open source software. Adkins said that Big Sleep, which is developed by the company’s AI department DeepMind as well as its elite team of hackers Project Zero, reported its first-ever vulnerabilities, mostly in open source software such as audio and video library FFmpeg and image-editing suite ImageMagick. Given that the vulnerabilities are not fixed yet, we don’t have details of their impact or…
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Post is launching a California tabloid newspaper and news site next year, the company announced Monday, bringing an assertive, irreverent and conservative-friendly fixture of the Big Apple media landscape to the Golden State. In the process, it is creating a 21st-century rarity: a new American newspaper with a robust print edition. Adding another title to Rupert Murdoch ‘s media empire, The California Post is setting out to cover politics, local news, business, entertainment and sports in the nation’s most populous state, while drawing and building on the venerable New York paper’s national coverage.…
Dribbble has permanently banned dozens of designers from its platform following a new effort to pivot to a marketplace and chase monetization. This includes one of the platform’s most well-known designers, Gleb Kuznetsov, founder of the San Francisco-based design studio Milkinside. Dribbble deleted his account with its over 210 million followers because he shared his contact information with prospective clients through the platform in violation of its new rules. Remarked Kuznetsov in a post on X, “I brought 100,000+ monthly users. 15 years of work. 12,000+ shots. All instantly deleted, because a client asked for my email. One warning. No appeal.” Fed up with the changes…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Eight people including an Irish missionary and a 3-year-old child remained missing Monday after gunmen stormed an orphanage in Haiti, the latest attack in an area controlled by a powerful collection of armed gangs. Authorities scrambled to relocate dozens of children and staff from the Saint-Hélène orphanage run by Nos Petits Frères et Sœurs, an international charity with offices in Mexico and France. The orphanage cares for more than 240 children, according to its website. Among those kidnapped early Sunday was Gena Heraty, an Irish missionary who has worked in Haiti since 1993 and oversaw the…
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs can’t go home from jail to await sentencing on his prostitution-related conviction, a judge said Monday, denying the rap and style mogul’s latest bid for bail.Combs has been behind bars since his September arrest. He faced federal charges of coercing girlfriends into having drug-fueled sex marathons with male sex workers while he watched and filmed them. He was acquitted last month of the top charges — racketeering and sex trafficking — while being convicted of two counts of a prostitution-related offense. In denying Combs’ $50 million bond proposal, Judge Arun Subramanian said the…
Royal Caribbean International has officially extended its pause on cruise visits to its private beach destination in Labadee, located on Haiti’s northern coast, citing safety concerns due to ongoing unrest in the countryThe cruise line announced that ships will not return to Labadee until at least October 2025, stretching a suspension that was already in place earlier this year. Labadee had previously been a popular stop on Royal Caribbean itineraries, but guests aboard upcoming voyages will now be rerouted as part of the cruise line’s response to the current situation in Haiti. “This decision was made out of an abundance…