Turning Warnings into Action: AI for Proactive Disaster Resilience
A new system leverages generative AI to move beyond simply alerting communities to providing tailored, actionable recommendations that improve preparedness and response.
A new system leverages generative AI to move beyond simply alerting communities to providing tailored, actionable recommendations that improve preparedness and response.
Such jest might suggest that the global audience has presumably become as desensitized to these fiery trade orations as one is to a certain professor’s monotonous lecture. When today’s alarm turns out to be as empty as a time-worn warning ring perched high on a hill-audiences merely anticipated the specter to retreat ultimately.

In the second episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, called “Hard Salt Beef,” the story includes a scene showing Ser Arlan of Pennytree leaving a cabin to relieve himself outside.
Cybersecurity experts found a database, wide open on the internet, containing those usernames and passwords-an invitation for the curious, the careless, and the greedy to sample the world’s secrets.

Okay, so this new Game of Thrones prequel is definitely leaning into comedy way more than House of the Dragon, and episode two of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms doubled down on that. While the adventures of Dunk and Egg are providing plenty of laughs, I think the real standout so far is Lyonel Baratheon – or as everyone’s quickly calling him, the Laughing Storm! Actor Daniel Ings recently talked about how he specifically wanted to bring a sense of playful chaos to the role, even before his character became the instant fan favorite he is now, and it totally works. He’s absolutely killing it at the Ashford Tourney!

Beyond the biggest hits, there are many other exciting anime series coming in 2026 that fans are eagerly awaiting. These upcoming shows, while perhaps lesser known, promise to be excellent and quickly gain popularity within the anime community.

Collect your mittens, folks! A colossal chunk of ice named a winter storm decided to play havoc with the United States. And as any snooty winter visitor might, it brought along a suitably suave cherry of Arctic chill, turning everything upside down. Planes skidded off the sky, and lights danced out of homes, leaving more than 800,000 whippanauts in the chilly dark.

A new three-part documentary series called Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model, directed by Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan, will be released on February 16th.

For years, most social media has been free, but that’s changing. We’re starting to see platforms find ways to make money, like X, formerly known as Twitter, which now charges a fee for account verification – a feature that used to be free for well-known users.

Popular shows like Daredevil: Born Again are being revived, and fan favorites like Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock, Jon Bernthal as the Punisher, and Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones are returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Essentially, the stories of the former Defenders are getting a fresh start, and this creates opportunities to connect the current Marvel narrative with its past.