EEE found in more Mass. mosquitoes, risk levels raised

EEE found in more Mass. mosquitoes, risk levels raised

Eastern equine encephalitis virus has been detected in additional mosquitoes in Massachusetts, prompting officials to raise the risk level in several communities, the state Department of Public Health said Wednesday. DPH said the infected mosquitoes were detected in samples collected on Sept. 11 in Sutton and Southbridge. The findings raise the EEE risk level to … Read more

OpenAI’s offer to stop web crawler comes too late

OpenAI’s offer to stop web crawler comes too late

Earlier this month, in response to mounting criticism around how OpenAI scoops up data to train ChatGPT, its groundbreaking chatbot, the company made it possible for websites to block it from scraping their content. A short piece of code would tell OpenAI to go away (and it would kindly obey). Since then, hundreds of sites … Read more

Traffic filters monitoring and evaluation plan published

Traffic filters monitoring and evaluation plan published

The monitoring and evaluation plan sets out how the council will measure the predicted impacts of the traffic filters, based on evidence. The filters will be implemented as a trial under an experimental traffic regulation order (ETRO), expected to begin in autumn 2024, after Network Rail’s work to improve Oxford rail station is completed and … Read more

How is Maine preparing roads for increasingly severe storms?

How is Maine preparing roads for increasingly severe storms?

The damage was extensive in Jay and other western Maine towns after nearly six inches of rain fell in only a few hours. The washouts crumbled some state and side roads, many of which are still being fixed. Richard asked the CBS13 I-Team: “It seems like we’re seeing more and more damage from recent storms. … Read more