AutoTL;DR

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Chinese developer ZCGN has completed the construction of a 300 MW compressed air energy storage (CAES) facility in Feicheng, China’s Shandong province.

Previously, the largest CAES facility was a 100 MW project switched on in October 2022 by the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, also in China’s Hebei province.

It claimed that the facility was 30% cheaper than the 100 MW project built by the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics and said its overall efficiency is 72%.

The $207.8 million facility boasts an energy storage capacity of 300 MW/1,800 MWh and occupies an area of approximately 100,000 m2.

The facility has an estimated annual electricity generation of 600 TWh and is projected to save about 189,000 tons of standard coal consumption.

The project’s investor has disclosed plans to offer various ancillary services to generate revenue through participation in China’s electricity trading market.

The original article contains 362 words, the summary contains 146 words. Saved 60%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

In a statement, the State Department said Blinken had found that Cuban and U.S. law enforcement were again working together on counterterrorism and other efforts.

“Moreover, the United States and Cuba resumed law enforcement cooperation in 2023, including on counterterrorism,” Wednesday’s statement said.

The State Department, in compliance with U.S. laws on arms exports, maintains a list of countries perceived as not cooperating fully on counterterrorism.

The U.S. kept North Korea, Syria, Iran and Venezuela on the list in Wednesday’s rulings.

“The U.S. has just admitted what is known to everyone: that #Cuba fully collaborates with the efforts against terrorism,” Rodríguez said on X, formerly Twitter.

But he added that “all political manipulation of the issue should cease and our arbitrary and unjust inclusion on the list of countries sponsoring terrorism should end.”

The original article contains 230 words, the summary contains 133 words. Saved 42%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

While Cerebras competes directly with Nvidia in the AI training space – it isn’t interested in inferencing and has hooked up with Qualcomm for that reason – its chips bear little resemblance to team green’s GPUs.

Instead of the costly high-bandwidth memory found on most AI accelerators, the chip relies on a massive 44 GB pool of SRAM etched right into the dinner plate-sized component.

Apart from the fact Cerebras’s CS-3 systems will provide the computational grunt necessary for Aleph Alpha to train sovereign models for the German military, the announcement was rather short on details as to how they might be employed.

In any case, the agreement comes just weeks after multiple world leaders and market mogul Warren Buffett drew comparisons between artificial intelligence and the atomic bomb.

Working in collaboration with the Department of Energy’s Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, and Los Alamos National Labs, the chipmaker claims it was able to perform atomic-scale simulations of molecules in the millisecond regime.

For Sandia researcher Siva Rajamanickam, the results represent a major milestone in the National Nuclear Security Administration’s mission to boost the performance of its critical systems by 40x.

The original article contains 777 words, the summary contains 189 words. Saved 76%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The open-source Mesa driver developers employed by Valve for working on the Linux graphics stack have begun preparing the RADV Vulkan driver and the ACO compiler back-end for the upcoming “GFX12” graphics IP for next-generation RDNA4.

The open-source AMD Linux graphics stack has been abuzz the past few months with GFX12 preparations for this next-gen graphics IP succeeding GFX11 used by RDNA3 class hardware.

Landing this week was GFX12 assembler support within the ACO compiler back-end by Rhys Perry.

Overnight Rhys opened up another merge request for GFX12 wait counters in ACO.

Yesterday well known RADV developer Samuel Pitoiset of Valve opened this merge request with small preliminary changes to be done before adding the GFX12 support: “A bunch of context register moved on GFX12 and this MR contains small changes to simplify adding GFX12 support.”

Over on the kernel side, the new AMD IP blocks continue to be enabled within the AMDGPU and AMDKFD drivers.

The original article contains 262 words, the summary contains 156 words. Saved 40%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

So far this year Russia has continued to increase the size of its invasion force, to 510,000, and exploited the defenders’ air defence and munitions shortages to capture Avdiivka in February and seize a bridgehead north west of it in April.

Since March, as identified by Maria Avdeeva, a Ukrainian security expert, Russia has been engaged in a steady stream of online propaganda aimed at unsettling Kharkiv city and region residents.

Ukraine’s military difficulties have been caused in part by the four-month pause in weapon supplies from the US – finally resolved last month when a $61bn aid package passed Congress – and European countries’ struggle to ramp up arms manufacturing before late 2024.

But Jack Watling, a land warfare expert at the Royal United Services Institute thinktank, said Russia was also overcoming the limitations of its undertrained army and beginning “to compound its advantages” with munitions.

The analyst argued that Ukraine “has to defend a tremendous amount of territory, but is struggling with manpower issues” – meaning they do not have the capability to create Russian style fortifications along the entire northern frontier.

The battle is not a territorial struggle for Ukraine’s second city, but more likely a combination of a diversionary attack to weaken defensive lines in the Donbas and an attempt to use bombardment to turn Kharkiv into a ghost town.

The original article contains 979 words, the summary contains 224 words. Saved 77%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

“The sanctions are a response to the grave breach of international peace and security posed by their violent and destabilizing actions against Palestinian civilians and their property in the West Bank,” Global Affairs said in a news release.

Canada is sanctioning four people, the department said: David Chai Chasdai, Yinon Levi, Zvi Bar Yosef and Moshe Sharvit.

Acts of violence by settlers and moves to dispossess Palestinians of their property were on the rise before the attacks and followed the election of the current Netanyahu government at the end of 2022.

“Attacks by extremist Israeli settlers — a long-standing source of tension and conflict in the region — have escalated alarmingly in recent months,” the Global Affairs statement said.

“This has undermined the human rights of Palestinians, prospects for a two-state solution and posed significant risks to regional security.”

Historically, however, little action has been against the more than 700,000 Israeli settlers in the West Bank, who include a significant number of Canadian citizens.

The original article contains 455 words, the summary contains 161 words. Saved 65%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Scientists have discovered a long-buried branch of the Nile River that once flowed alongside more than 30 pyramids in Egypt, potentially solving the mystery of how ancient Egyptians transported the massive stone blocks to build the monuments.

The 40-mile-long (64km) river branch, which ran by the Giza pyramid complex among other wonders, was hidden under desert and farmland for millennia, according to a study revealing the find on Thursday.

“But nobody was certain of the location, the shape, the size or proximity of this mega waterway to the actual pyramids site,” said the lead study author, Eman Ghoneim of the University of North Carolina Wilmington in the US.

Radar gave them the “unique ability to penetrate the sand surface and produce images of hidden features including buried rivers and ancient structures,” Ghoneim said.

This indicates that the river played “a key role in the transportation of the enormous building materials and workmen needed for the pyramid’s construction”, she added.

These heavy materials, most of which were from the south, “would have been much easier to float down the river” than transport over land, the study co-author Suzanne Onstine of the University of Memphis said.

The original article contains 503 words, the summary contains 194 words. Saved 61%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The Ukrainian president said the situation in Kharkiv remains under control as Russia pushes into Vovchansk.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksyy has visited Kharkiv amidst an ongoing Russian offensive.

At the bedside of wounded soldiers in a military hospital, Zelenskyy decorated doctors and fighters.

He posted on X saying, “Thanks to Ukraine’s Defence Forces and our efforts, we were able to instil more confidence in the Vochansk direction.”

Six people were injured on Thursday in one Russian daylight attack on Vovchansk using cluster munitions, local officials said, as emergency workers and volunteers rescued those impacted by shelling.

Russia launched an offensive in the Kharkiv area late last week, significantly adding to the pressure on Ukraine’s outnumbered and outgunned forces which are waiting for delayed deliveries of crucial weapons and ammunition from Western partners.

The original article contains 259 words, the summary contains 132 words. Saved 49%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

OpenAI has signed a deal for access to real-time content from Reddit’s data API, which means it can surface discussions from the site within ChatGPT and other new products.

It’s an agreement similar to the one Reddit signed with Google earlier this year that was reportedly worth $60 million.

The deal will also “enable Reddit to bring new AI-powered features to Redditors and mods” and use OpenAI’s large language models to build applications.

Recently, following news of a partnership between OpenAI and the programming messaging board Stack Overflow, people were suspended after trying to delete their posts.

No financial terms were revealed in the blog post announcing the arrangement, and neither company mentioned training data, either.

That last detail is different from the deal with Google, where Reddit explicitly stated it would give Google “more efficient ways to train models.” There is, however, a disclosure mentioning that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is also a shareholder in Reddit but that “This partnership was led by OpenAI’s COO and approved by its independent Board of Directors.”

The original article contains 334 words, the summary contains 174 words. Saved 48%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Brussels has opened an in-depth probe into Meta over concerns it is failing to do enough to protect children from becoming addicted to social media platforms such as Instagram.

The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, announced on Thursday it would look into whether the Silicon Valley giant’s apps were reinforcing “rabbit hole” effects, where users get drawn ever deeper into online feeds and topics.

EU investigators will also look into whether Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, is complying with legal obligations to provide appropriate age-verification tools to prevent children from accessing inappropriate content.

Thierry Breton, commissioner for internal market, said the EU was “not convinced” that Meta “has done enough to comply with the DSA obligations to mitigate the risks of negative effects to the physical and mental health of young Europeans on its platforms Facebook and Instagram.”

Last month, the EU opened the first probe into Meta under the DSA over worries the social media giant is not properly curbing disinformation from Russia and other countries.

Brussels is especially concerned whether the social media company’s platforms are properly moderating content from Russian sources that may try to destabilize upcoming elections across Europe.

The original article contains 460 words, the summary contains 195 words. Saved 58%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Following Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund providing significant funding for GNOME, Rust Coreutils, PHP, a systemd bug bounty, and numerous other free software projects, the FFmpeg multimedia library is the latest beneficiary to this funding from the Germany government.

The Sovereign Tech Fund notes that the FFmpeg project is receiving €157,580.00 for 2024 and 2025.

An announcement on the FFmpeg.org project site notes: "The FFmpeg community is excited to announce that Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund has become its first governmental sponsor.

Their support will help sustain the [maintenance] of the FFmpeg project, a critical open-source software multimedia component essential to bringing audio and video to billions around the world everyday."

Exciting news and great continuing to see the significant investments across many open-source projects being made by the Sovereign Tech Fund.

The original article contains 130 words, the summary contains 130 words. Saved 0%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Some iPhone owners are reporting that, after updating their phones to iOS 17.5, their deleted photos — some quite old — are popping up again, according to a Reddit thread that MacRumors spotted.

People reporting the apparent bug say that they’re seeing old photos appear in their Recents album after Monday’s update.

iOS does give users the option to restore deleted photos, but after 30 days, they’re supposed to be permanently removed.

The person who started the thread claimed that NSFW photos they had deleted “years ago” were back on their phone.

And a person claimed in a later post that “around 300” of their old pictures, some of which were “revealing,” appeared on an iPad they’d wiped per Apple’s guidelines and sold to a friend.

Computer data is never actually “deleted” until it’s overwritten with new 1s and 0s — operating systems simply cut off references to it.

The original article contains 337 words, the summary contains 149 words. Saved 56%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The issue triggers passionate arguments on both sides, but there is little doubt that public opinion in many European countries now supports people with terminal illnesses having some control over the timing and manner of their death.

Some have raised concerns about an increasing number of cases in recent years in areas such as advanced dementia, “duo” euthanasia of couples, and psychiatric suffering.

“When I have drunk this I will have renounced one of the worst types of slavery, that of being a living head glued to a dead body,” said Sampedro, whose story was told in the 2004 Academy award-winning film The Sea Inside.

His case is often credited with why, in the lead-up to Spain’s 2021 legalisation, polls suggested that as many as 87% of the country agreed with the statement that “people with incurable diseases should have the right to access medically assisted dying”.

“In regions where the conservative People’s party are in power, they’ve done the minimum of what’s legally necessary, but they haven’t made much effort in terms of training professionals or educating the public,” said Arseguet.

Dame Esther Rantzen’s disclosure in December that she would like the option of an assisted death in the face of her diagnosis of terminal lung cancer galvanised the debate over end-of-life care in the UK.

The original article contains 1,579 words, the summary contains 217 words. Saved 86%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

🤖 I’m a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles:

🤖 I’m a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles:

This is the best summary I could come up with:

They argued that seven months into the war, which has killed more than 35,000 people and reduced much of Gaza to rubble, the scale of suffering was now so intense that a total ceasefire was needed to get food, medicine and other aid to its desperate population.

Prof Vaughan Lowe KC told the court that a destructive campaign in Rafah, the last corner of Gaza that has not faced a ground invasion by Israeli forces, would destroy “the foundation of Palestinian life” in the territory.

Israel’s foreign ministry said in response that South Africa was “presenting biased and false claims” which “rely on unreliable Hamas sources” and called on the court to reject the appeal.

The lawyers explained how the attack on Rafah had cut off the two main entry points for humanitarian aid, shut down the crippled remains of the medical system, and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee north into parts of Gaza that were now bombed-out wastelands with little shelter or services.

Tanks sent into the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza on Thursday were attacked with anti-tank rockets and mortars, underlining the challenges faced by Israel despite its advantages in weaponry and control of all land and sea borders.

The US has anchored a temporary floating pier to a beach in north Gaza, and the UN is finalising plans to distribute aid shipped in this way, but it is less efficient and far more expensive than delivering it with vehicles via border crossings controlled by Israel.

The original article contains 1,128 words, the summary contains 252 words. Saved 78%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

🤖 I’m a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles:

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Law enforcement stood by for hours as counterprotesters attacked the pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA on April 30, which erupted into the worst violence stemming from the ongoing college protests around the country over Israel’s war in Gaza.

A CNN review of footage, social media posts, and interviews found that some of the most dramatic attacks caught on camera that night were committed by people outside UCLA – not the university students and faculty who were eventually arrested.

The violent counterprotesters identified by CNN, which included an aspiring screenwriter and film producer and a local high school student – were joined by unlikely allies, several of whom are known throughout southern California for frequenting and disrupting a variety of protests and public gatherings.

His mother – who previously described a smaller group of UCLA students protesting the war last year as “human animals” on social media – said dozens of his schoolmates had also gone to campus on the 30th and that her son intends to join the Israel Defense Forces.

The man in the LA Kings jersey was ultimately dragged into a group of counterprotesters and kicked by an aspiring Los Angeles screenwriter and producer who CNN identified as Malachi Marlan-Librett, according to a review of social media photos, footage from the protest and interviews with multiple people who knew him.

Video footage shows Bibiyan among those at the front line of people rushing the encampment in an attempt to remove protective metal barriers, as campus security guards watched the violence unfold.

The original article contains 2,342 words, the summary contains 247 words. Saved 89%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

NATO allies are inching closer to sending troops into Ukraine to train Ukrainian forces, a move that would be another blurring of a previous red line and could draw the United States and Europe more directly into the war.

Ukraine’s manpower shortage has reached a critical point, and its position on the battlefield in recent weeks has seriously worsened as Russia has accelerated its advances to take advantage of delays in shipments of American weapons.

As a part of NATO, the United States would be obligated under the alliance’s treaty to aid in the defense of any attack on the trainers, potentially dragging America into the war.

The White House has been adamant that it will not put American troops, including trainers, on the ground in Ukraine, a position that an administration official reiterated on Thursday.

Other NATO allies, including Britain, Germany and France, are working to base defense contractors in Ukraine to help build and repair weapons systems closer to the combat zone — what military officials have described as a “fix it forward” approach.

“There is an element of ally malpractice in the fact that we’re providing masses of Western equipment to Ukraine, but not giving them the resources to sustain it,” said Alexander S. Vindman, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and a Ukrainian-born American combat veteran.

The original article contains 947 words, the summary contains 219 words. Saved 77%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!