KATHMANDU — Nepal’s long-held policy of harnessing hydroelectricity and using it for economic growth has met new challenges: potential catastrophic floods in the snow-fed rivers amid rising global temperatures. The Aug. 26 floods that originated on the Nepal-China border, and which knocked out around 10% of installed power from the national grid, has prompted a debate on whether Nepal should rethink its overall strategy or just adopt better-engineered plants. Amid this, the flood could jeopardize the country’s clean energy targets and push it to adopt more solar power. Immediate impacts The flashflood crippled a combined installed generation capacity of 281 megawatts, including a solar power

Chinese and Gulf state airlines are among those still using Russian airspace. Meanwhile, Russia says it will intensify its own attacks on Ukraine.

The Trump administration has intervened in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, making an argument in favor of the AI lab. The landmark lawsuit, filed in December 2023, alleging that OpenAI unlawfully trained its AI systems on articles from The New York Times and seeks to recoup "billions of dollars" in damages from both Microsoft and OpenAI. This week, the Trump administration filed a statement of interest in the case, supporting OpenAI's argument that it's fair use to train an AI model on copyrighted text. "The New York Times seeks to narrow fair-use doctrine to exclude the training of OpenAl's large language models (L … Read the full story at The Verge.

A reported shooting at Westwood Hills Elementary School in Waynesboro, Virginia, has been "contained," according to the Augusta County Sheriff’s Office. "All Westwood students, teachers, and staff are accounted for and are safe," Waynesboro Public Schools posted on social media, adding that the school was reuniting students and families at a designated location. "As a precautionary measure, all other Waynesboro Public Schools have been placed on lockdown," the post continued. "More information will be released when it becomes available. All schools are secure and safe at this time. Parents and guardians, please do not call 911 for additional information. We will relay it as soon as possible.

Tennis updates from Flushing Meadows, New York Email Daniel and follow us on TikTok and Bluesky And Nakashima breaks too – he’s hitting it hard off both wings and I wonder if he’s in the process of finding a new level. The first few times I watched him, I thought he had a bit of something and, real talk, I thought he’d be better by now than he is. But I really like what I’m seeing from him and, as we know, progress isn’t always linear. It’s a good start for Medvedev, Gorzy – who saved five match points in round one – tamely ceding serve to 15. Continue reading...

Big tech companies like Apple and Microsoft use devices, training and conferences for teachers and students to embed in schools. The New York Times' Natasha Singer discusses the impact in Coding Kids.

Ford reported its eighth consecutive month of year-over-year U.S. new vehicle sales declines in August.