At Meta, we’ve built a system that enhances ads recommendations by leveraging idle inference capacity in our fleet. Two elasticity levers in the system allow ads recommendation work to expand across opportunistic capacity, without compromising baseline performance. This post describes how we designed and now operate the system at Meta’s scale and how it drives significant advertiser value and capacity efficiency.

WASHINGTON >> The Pentagon has again quietly raised the number of U.S. service members killed and wounded during operations related to the Iran war amid widening criticism over the lack of transparency about the conflict’s human and operational costs.

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As Hawaii faces increasingly severe storms, rising costs of disaster recovery and the accelerating impacts of climate change, one of our greatest sources of resilience may be one of our oldest: indigenuity, the innovation and wisdom embodied in Indigenous knowledge and stewardship practices. Long before conservation became a profession, Native Hawaiians mastered sophisticated systems of stewardship that sustained abundant forests, fisheries and communities across these Islands for centuries. Over generations, the displacement of Indigenous stewardship, land conversion, landscape transformation and colonial practices weakened these relationships and contributed to the decline of many of Hawaii’s forests, wetlands, streams and reefs. Yet the knowledge itself never disappeared. And today, kanaka maoli and communities across the islands are showing us that aloha aina and indigenuity are not simply values from the past. They are living practices that can help restore the forests, wetlands, reefs and nearshore waters that nourish us physically, culturally and spiritually. These leaders, together with their ohana and allies, embrace the kuleana to malama aina with pride and humility. Organizations like The Nature Conservancy (TNC) are embracing these values through biocultural conservation. Together, we work toward shared goals, restoring lands and waters while nurturing the next generation of stewards. Across...

Experimental coastal erosion infrastructure began being installed near Kalaeloa Harbor on Tuesday — but it wasn’t a seawall, nor was it a sand dune or pile of rocks. It was the beginning of a new hybrid artificial reef. The reef, which will be made up of 60 engineered concrete reef structures, were specifically designed to absorb wave energy and attract coral and fish. It will be a “living breakwater” system that, if successful, could be replicated in other parts of the state vulnerable to coastal erosion. The project started around five years ago as a partnership between the University of Hawaii and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as DARPA, a division of the Department of Defense. It was first slated to be installed off Marine Corps Base Hawaii at Kaneohe Bay, but due to permitting issues was moved to the other side of the island off Kalaeloa Harbor. The Hawaii Department of Transportation will take over ownership of the project once the reef is installed, DARPA Biological Technologies Office Deputy Director Catherine Campbell told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. DARPA funded the $23 million project, and the first year of monitoring and maintaining the project, which is $900,000, will be funded...

Carlsberg Britvic’s decision to shut Marston’s Brewery marks another stage in cask beer’s transformation, argues Phil Mellows.

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Resellers, booking intermediaries and affiliates are excluded from the October 2026 change. How will Google verify the advertiser-domain link it now demands?

Resellers, booking intermediaries and affiliates are excluded from the October 2026 change. How will Google verify the advertiser-domain link it now demands?

WASHINGTON >> The Department of Homeland Security has proposed that international students pay at least $70,000 in training fees if they want to work in the country, according to a government notice p...

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