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In a huge move for the industrial and construction industries, Spanish equipment manufacturer AUSA has introduced its first-ever electric rough-terrain forklift, per Electrek. Unveiled at the recent Bauma construction fair in Germany, the C151E is designed to bring the well-known benefits of electric vehicles into demanding job sites and represents a significant innovation in heavy‑duty material handling.

AUSA shared in a video all the specs of the C151E, including a 3,000-pound loading capacity, battery with up to 18.6 kilowatt-hours, digital display with diagnostics, all-in-one joystick, zero carbon pollution, and it’s nearly silent. AUSA said in a press release that the forklift is designed specifically for worksites with low pollution, like greenhouses and enclosed spaces.

Electrek reported that the forklift also charges incredibly quickly: “Even if you drive the battery to nearly nothing, the AUSA can be charged up during a lunch break or shift change and ready to work again as soon as you reach for it.”

There is a growing trend of electrifying necessary equipment in manufacturing industries. Another European Union company announced an all-new electric line of construction equipment in 2024. Australia and China are also seeing similar innovations.

Forklifts are indispensable across countless sectors, from agriculture and recycling to logistics and construction. Introducing electric models such as the C151E means smoother, more efficient operations and a great way to cut costs.

“It is an ideal tool for working in emission-free spaces such as greenhouses, municipal night works, enclosed spaces, etc.,” AUSA said, according to Electrek. Companies can expand their use, because electric assets are allowed where internal combustion isn’t.

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“You can earn more work, get a higher utilization rate, and maximize not only your fuel savings, but generate income you couldn’t generate without it,” Electrek explained.

Beyond financial savings, without tailpipe pollution, the forklift is also beneficial to the environment as well as the health of those operating it. Traditional diesel and gas-powered forklifts can negatively impact air quality and worker health, especially in enclosed spaces like warehouses, because of the release of carbon monoxide as well as known carcinogens.

Thanks to innovations like the C151E, it’s now easier than ever for companies to cut costs, protect worker health, and get the job done — without all the noise and fumes. It’s a win for business and a win for the environment.

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Gym Showdown Simulator is a virtual training-based auto-clicker game, and I’m having a lot of fun with it. Click your way into a stronger body with big muscles, take part in different competitions, and defeat other players to win them. Only the player with the best body will win in the Gym Showdown Simulator, so you should take every advantage you can get. The best way to get an advantage over other players is to use Gym Showdown Simulator codes, which give you free eggs, gems, and rare weapons. These freebies will make winning competitions easier.

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How to Redeem Gym Showdown Simulator Codes

Redeeming the codes for Gym Showdown Simulator is a lot simpler than building muscles. Here is how you can do it:

• Launch Gym Showdown Simulator in the Roblox Launcher.
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If you are looking for more codes for Gym Showdown Simulator, then you don’t need to go anywhere else. Our list above already contains all the currently active codes, and we update it regularly. So, you will always find only the active codes on this list, whenever you decide to pay us a visit. I would recommend to bookmark this post and visit us when you want to check for new codes.

But if you would rather check for codes yourself, then you must follow the official socials for the game. The best place is to join the Habit Games Discord server or follow @plaincamron on X. The developers have multiple games, so tracking one game can become a hassle. Keep an eye on the ‘game-news’ channel for any updates or codes.

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In recent years, North Korea has deployed thousands of so-called IT workers to infiltrate Western businesses, get paid salaries, and send money back to support the regime. As the schemes have become more successful, they have grown increasingly elaborate and employed new tactics to evade detection.

But this week, the United States Justice Department revealed one of its biggest operations to tackle IT workers to date. The DOJ says it has identified six Americans who allegedly helped enable the schemes and has arrested one of them. Law enforcement officials searched 29 “laptop farms” in 16 states and seized more than 200 computers, as well as web domains and financial accounts.

Meanwhile, a group of young cybercriminals has been causing chaos around the world, leaving grocery stores empty and temporarily grounding some flights in the wake of their crippling cyberattacks. After a quiet period in 2024, the Scattered Spider hackers have returned this year and are ruthlessly targeting retailers, insurers, and airlines.

Also this week, we’ve detailed how LGBTIQ+ organizations in El Salvador are helping activists chronicle attacks against their community and better protect themselves against state surveillance.

And there’s more. Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. Click the headlines to read the full stories. And stay safe out there.

Cell-site simulators, often known as stingrays or IMSI catchers, are some of the most stealthy and powerful surveillance tools in operation today. The devices, which impersonate cell towers and intercept communications, can collect call metadata, location information, and other traffic about what you do on your devices. They’ve increasingly been used by law enforcement and immigration officials.

However, according to reporting from Android Authority and Ars Technica, upcoming hardware advances has led to Google upping its efforts to combat the potential snooping. Starting in Android 16, compatible devices will be able to identify when networks request device identifiers, such as device or SIM IDs, and issue alerts when you are connecting to a non-encrypted cell network. Examples of alerts show warnings that “calls, messages, and data are vulnerable to interception” when connected to insecure networks. There will also be notifications when you move back to an encrypted network. An option to turn on these notifications appears on a mobile network security settings page alongside the option to avoid 2G networks, which could help block some IMSI catchers from connecting to your device. However, while the settings will reportedly be available in Android 16, it may take some time for Android devices to widely use the required hardware.

Ahead of the presidential election last November, Iran-linked hackers attacked Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and stole scores of emails in an apparent bid to influence the election results. Some of the emails were distributed to journalists and the Biden campaign. This week, following the Israel-Iran conflict and US intervention with “bunker-buster” bombs, the hackers behind the email compromise reemerged, telling Reuters that they may disclose or sell more of the stolen emails.

The cybercriminals claimed they had stolen 100 GB of emails, including some from Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff. The cache of emails also allegedly includes those from Lindsey Halligan, a Trump lawyer, adviser Roger Stone, and adult film star Stormy Daniels. The hackers, who have used the name Robert, told Reuters they wanted to “broadcast this matter.” It is unclear whether they will act upon the threats.

In response, US officials claimed that the threat from the hackers was a “calculated smear campaign” by a foreign power. “A hostile foreign adversary is threatening to illegally exploit purportedly stolen and unverified material in an effort to distract, discredit, and divide,” Marci McCarthy, a spokesperson for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said in a statement.

Over the past few years, Chinese hacker group Salt Typhoon has been on a hacking rampage against US telecoms networks, successfully breaking into at least nine firms and gaining access to Americans’ texts and calls. Brett Leatherman, the recently appointed leader of the FBI’s cyber division, tells Cyberscoop that the Chinese hackers are now “largely contained” and lying “dormant” in the networks. The groups have not been kicked out of networks, Leatherman said, since the longer they are in the systems there are more ways they can find to “create points of persistence.” “Right now, we’re very focused on resilience and deterrence and providing significant support to victims,” Leatherman said.

Deepfake platforms that allow people to create nonconsensual, often illegal, harmful images of women without clothes on have boomed in recent years. Now a former whistleblower and leaked documents from one of the largest so-called “nudify” apps, Clothoff, claims the service has a multimillion-euro budget and is planning an aggressive expansion where it will create nonconsensual explicit images of celebrities and influencers, according to reporting by German publication Der Spiegel. The alleged expansion has a marketing budget of €150,000 (around $176,000) per country to promote the images of celebrities and influencers, according to the report. It says more than “three dozen people” work for Clothoff, and the publication identified some of the potential key operators of the platform. Documents exposed online also revealed customer email addresses. A spokesperson who claimed to represent Clothoff denied there were more than 30 people as part of the central team and told Der Spiegel it does not have a multimillion-euro budget.

The risk of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) was found to increase as a result of exposure to the urinary dialkyl phosphate (DAP) metabolites in organophosphorus pesticides (OPPs), according to a new Chinese study.¹ The authors, led by first author Yu-Xin Jiang, MD, are from the Department of Ophthalmology, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; the National Clinical Research Center for Eye Diseases; the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Fundus Diseases; and the Engineering Center for Visual Science and Photomedicine, all in Shanghai, China.

The investigators pointed out that AMD is a multifactorial disease resulting from aging, genetic susceptibility, lifestyle habits, and environmental exposures, which make the pathogenesis of AMD highly intractable to prediction and interpretation. Considering that patient responses to current intravitreal treatments vary and complications are associated with treatment,² early prevention of AMD from exposure to numerous risk factors is the most effective and feasible measure.

“Among all factors, the adverse effects from environmental chemical exposures on AMD have been heatedly discussed in population-based epidemiologic studies. For example, several researchers have emphasized the impacts of heavy metals,³ air pollutants,⁴ and radiation⁵ exposure on the development of AMD. OPPs, a group of organophosphate or phosphate sulfide esters, are prevalent insecticides commonly applied worldwide in agricultural, residential, and commercial settings with the advantages of cost-effectiveness and high efficacy in controlling pests and preventing insect-borne diseases.⁶ Nevertheless, the persistent non-biodegradable nature and propensity of residue accumulation in soil and water bodies, in conjunction with multiple routes of human exposure to OPPs, for instance, ingestion, inhalation, and skin contact, have raised public attention to concern about their toxic effects on human health and ecosystems,⁷” they said.

The OPPs can be swiftly absorbed, metabolized, and eliminated as urinary DAP metabolites from the body, commonly used as biomarkers in cohort studies.⁸

Previous research has identified that OPPs are relevant to diverse diseases, including cancer,⁹ central nervous system disorders (Parkinson’s disease ¹⁰and depression),¹¹ sleep problems,¹² diabetes,¹³ hypertension,¹⁴ sex hormone function,¹⁵ and atopic diseases.¹⁶

The investigators identified patients from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey¹⁷ between 2005 and 2008. Urinary DAP metabolites were used to construct a machine learning (ML) model for AMD prediction, they explained.

They used interpretability pipelines, ie, permutation feature importance (PFI), partial dependence plot (PDP), and SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP), to analyze the effects of exposure features to prediction outcomes.

Exposure effects

The authors reported that of the 1,845 patients in the study, 137 had been diagnosed with AMD. Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis evaluated Random Forests as the best ML model with its optimal predictive performance among 11 models. PFI and SHAP analyses indicated that DAP metabolites were of significant contribution weights in AMD risk prediction, higher than most of the sociodemographic covariates. Shapley values and waterfall plots of randomly selected AMD individuals emphasized the predictive capacity of ML with high accuracy and sensitivity in each case. The relationships and interactions visualized by graphical plots and supported by statistical measures showed the indispensable effects of six DAP metabolites to the prediction of AMD risk, the investigators reported.

The authors believe this study yields a novel insight into the link between environmental factors and health outcomes.

The study concluded, “Urinary DAP metabolites of OPPs exposure are associated with AMD risk, and ML algorithms show excellent generalizability and differentiability in the course of AMD risk prediction.”

References

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Positive Grid has announced the launch of Spark NEO, a wireless guitar rig that’s built directly into a pair of over-ear headphones. Designed to deliver a personal audio experience, Spark NEO includes Positive Grid’s award-winning guitar amp technology with a pair of true wireless Bluetooth headphones so you can practise in private.

Spark NEO headphones have all the usual audio capabilities as well as AI-powered guitar tone customization. The headphones provide a private and convenient way to stream audio over Bluetooth while playing guitar.

Using custom-designed 40mm drivers and an ultra-lightweight bio-fiber diaphragm, the Spark NEO delivers a balanced sound to suit most styles of music. For guitarists, it offers advanced tone-shaping tools, giving the freedom to play anywhere without disturbing others.

The included wireless transmitter instantly pairs any guitar with the Spark NEO headphones, while a built-in 1/4″ input can also support traditional guitar cables for those who don’t want to go wireless.

There are four onboard and customizable guitar presets. Spark NEO makes it possible to play anywhere and be free from space limitations or noise constraints. When connecting to the free Spark app, users can unlock additional presets, amplifiers, effects, as well as advanced tone controls.

To ensure the headphones are easy to wear, ultra-soft and durable ear cups, along with advanced damping materials, tuned venting and precise port adjustments, provide a high level of passive noise isolation. This makes it easier to hear the music without being disturbed by unwanted sounds. Users can jam along to backing tracks or a favorite song without disturbing others.

Spark NEO creates a bridge between a traditional guitar and modern wireless technology. Unlike using generic headphones with a guitar amp, Spark NEO has extras available via the Spark App. This app extends the capabilities of Spark NEO by providing access to 33 amplifiers and 43 effects. Users can also access more than 100,000 tones on Positive Grid’s online ToneCloud.

Auto Chords helps players learn and jam to any song by displaying the chords in real time as the song plays. Customizable presets provide more creative possibilities when playing along with backing tracks or favorite songs.

Pricing and Availability:

Positive Grid’s Spark NEO will be available soon from Positive Grid’s website, Amazon and select retailers. The price will be $199 / £189 / €239 and includes headphones, wireless transmitter and full access to the Spark app.

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A major Meta update has introduced a built-in copyright check feature within the Facebook Reels composer, aiming to help creators avoid violations before publishing. This Meta update is also part of a broader strategy that includes the launch of a new AI division, Meta Superintelligence Labs, to drive cutting-edge advancements.

The new Meta update directly integrates copyright scanning into the Reels creation process on Facebook. Previously available only through Meta’s Business Suite, the tool now alerts creators to potential copyright issues while they build their content. This helps prevent common problems like reduced reach, lost ad income, and removed audio that often follow copyright violations.

Creators can choose to turn this feature on or off, but if enabled, it will scan the video before it goes live. If copyrighted material is detected, the video’s publication could be delayed for up to an hour, giving the user time to make edits. Even with the feature switched off, Meta will still perform checks after the content is published, meaning early detection remains the smarter choice.

As this Meta update rolls out to more users, it adds an extra layer of security for creators who depend on their videos for engagement and revenue. Meta’s goal is to make content creation on its platforms safer and more reliable.

Alongside this, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reorganized the company’s AI initiatives under the new Meta Superintelligence Labs, appointing Alexandr Wang, former CEO of Scale AI, as chief AI officer. This move comes after a lukewarm response to Meta’s Llama 4 AI model and aims to regain ground lost to competitors like Google, OpenAI, and China’s DeepSeek. The company plans to fast-track projects in artificial general intelligence and expand tools like Meta AI, image-to-video ad platforms, and smart glasses to boost future earnings.

With these steps, the latest Meta update underscores the company’s efforts to support content creators and reinforce its position in the AI space.

Fourth of July deals are still running this weekend and Amazon Prime Day is just around the corner, so there are plenty of discounts available to help you save money this weekend. But few items on offer will be quite as useful as this deal that gets you 12 reusable magnetic cable ties for just $10. These budget-friendly magnetic ties will make organizing your unruly desk cables a breeze.

You can get your new cable ties in any color you like, just so long as that happens to be black. But really, who looks at their cable ties anyway?

This pack of 12 cable ties includes strong magnets that can be attached to the side of your desk or just about anywhere else. That could be a real quality of life improvement if you’re forever dropping cables down the back of your desk.

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Each cable tie is made from a high-quality, soft silicone that is stretchy and designed not to damage any of your cables during use. They also sport a total of 11 different button holes, so you can make the cable ties just the right size for your needs.

Why this deal matters

Messy cables are a real eyesore, and nobody wants to deal with them. Thankfully, tidying them up is easier than ever and you won’t have to spend big to do it. This pack of 12 cable ties works out to be less than $1 each, so why haven’t you ordered yours yet?

Whether you’re surfing at the beach, biking on a trail or visiting a new city, getting your summer adventures on video can be a great way to capture the memories for later. But if you’re using an old camera or your smartphone, it can be tough to get good quality footage when you’re moving quickly (or even going underwater). Insta360 action cameras can solve that problem though. These cameras are made for fast-paced adventures and record video in stunning 4K or 8K resolution. 

Staying home and focusing on work this summer? The brand has cameras to upgrade your remote workout set-up too. Most built-in laptop webcams and smartphone cameras don’t do much for your image quality, which makes it essential to have a dedicated camera that offers better clarity, smooth video, ease of use, and a few extra handy features. Insta360 offers several great options, and you can get them on sale now as part of a special Fourth of July weekend sale.

The brand is currently slashing prices on its AI-powered 4K webcams and other popular models like the Go series and X series cameras, with some options discounted by up to 47%. Snag these deals while you can and say goodbye to those 720p grains.

Some of our top picks from the sale include the Insta360 X4 camera. This portable option allows you to capture 360-degree video in up to 8K quality. You can use the Active HDR mode to maintain exceptional color accuracy, even for fast-paced action shots. Its FlowState Stabilization and 360-degree Horizon Lock features deliver smooth stabilization while you’re out exploring.

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If you are looking to improve the quality of your video calls, consider Insta360 Link 2C, which is available at a $49 discount with an on-page coupon. It offers detailed 4K visuals, an impressive low-light performance, a built-in auto-framing feature, and even AI noise cancelling. The standard Insta360 Link 2 is also on sale for 25% off right now and includes a 2-axis gimbal for added stabilization.

Or for some summer adventures, take a look at the X2 360 waterproof camera that can handle all those splashes and drops. It is waterproof up to 10 meters (33ft), and can be yours at a whopping 47% discount.

There is more to explore, but be sure to get your orders in before the deals expire or the stock runs out. We’ll also be covering all of the best Amazon Prime Day deals over the next week, so be sure to keep checking back for more deals.

Why this deal matters

Good quality cameras and webcams can transform your video conferencing, shooting, and streaming experience. Insta360 makes some of the best options on the market, and this summer sale lets you pick one for less.

Some of the best models are seeing significant discounts, and we don’t know if the promotions will change during next week’s Prime Day sale. 

Vincent Kompany has had far from an entirely fit squad for Bayern Munich at the FIFA Club World Cup due to the amount of injuries there currently are. In the defensive area of the pitch in particular, depth is rather thin as far as senior players are concerned. Alphonso Davies, Hiroki Ito, and Kim Min-jae are all currently out injured for the German Rekordmeister and Dayot Upamecano only just returned from a relatively lengthy injury layover that saw him miss a handful of matches toward the end of last season.

Going into the FIFA Club World Cup, before it was understood that Upamecano would be available on the bench against Auckland City and then likely start against Boca Juniors, there was the idea that Kompany would start with Leon Goretzka and Josip Stanišić at center back. However, that was also before Max Eberl agreed on a fee with Bayer Leverkusen to have new signing Jonathan Tah from the start of the tournament as opposed to from July 1st onward.

As a result and out of necessity, Stanišić has been deputized out of his natural position at left-back for most of the tournament; a task with which he has done quite well on the way to helping Bayern advance to the quarterfinals at the very least. Much like playing at right-back, the Croatian international recently explained that he actually does prefer left-back to center back in a way due to the more attacking freedom that he has there.

“When it comes to crossing, it’s easier with the right foot than with the left, but otherwise it’s not a big change. I also like playing left-back because I can be a bit more active there because as a center-back, you have more responsibility defensively and not as much to do going forward,” Stanišić told kicker ahead of the quarter final clash against Paris Saint-Germain in Atlanta, Georgia (via @iMiaSanMia).

As far as the upcoming season is concerned, Kompany might need to continue playing Stanišić at left-back with both Davies and Ito still out injured. It remains to be seen what more business could be done in the summer transfer window, though, but Bayern’s main focus remains on securing a deal for VfB Stuttgart’s Nick Woltemade and getting a winger to make up for not being able to get Florian Wirtz. They could still, however, do business in the defensive area of the pitch.