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Chinese national rescued from Nepal tunnel 10 days after flash flood

KATHMANDU: A Chinese national was pulled alive from a tunnel in Nepal on Saturday, authorities said, 10 days after a wall of ice, rock and mud tore through a Himalayan valley, killing more than 1,300 people. The Nepali army said Lu Haitao was rescued from inside a 225-meter tunnel at the Upper Trishuli-1 Hydropower Project.

Culture

College football season opens with new coaches, eligibility chaos and a Top 25 showdown

The grand opening of the college football season has arrived. There is only one game between two Associated Press Top 25 teams and that comes on Sunday night, with No. 24 Louisville facing No.

  • Louisville and Mississippi, Top 25 teams, clash on Sunday
  • Clemson and LSU, ranked 11th and 24th, face off again
  • New coaches and eligibility rules add complexity to season

Culture

How Women Are Shaping Drag Racing

Drag racing has outpaced Formula 1, NASCAR and IndyCar on inclusivity, offering a model for sports that still treat women competing at the highest level as a novelty, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Adam…

AI

Presentation: A Few Predicted Talks From QConAI 2030

Meryem Arik discusses her predictions for software engineering in 2030. She explains how token spend management, parallel agent infrastructure, and non-technical builders will reshape IT.

  • Meryem Arik predicts token spend management will be crucial in software engineering.
  • She anticipates parallel agent infrastructure becoming a key infrastructure trend.
  • Arik discusses the shift from coding to product leadership in AI engineering.

AI

OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website

Plus: Tens of millions of US and Canadian drivers’ licenses go up for sale on the dark web, the US military finally tries to tackle the risk online ad data poses to troops, and more.

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