operation
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The arrest followed a joint operation by the DFFE, the Green Scorpions - a specialised environmental enforcement unit - and various divisions of the police.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
FBI Director Kash Patel said the operation resulted in the disruption of a "global botnet and hacking platform used by Chinese state-sponsored hackers to target US critical infrastructure."
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
TWG Global — the holding company of Dodgers owner Mark Walter — rejected allegations of financial impropriety in the purchase and operation of the Dodgers and reiterated the team is not for sale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
About 850 seabird-restoration projects are in operation worldwide today, according to Audubon’s Seabird Restoration Database, and a good number of them are succeeding by adopting techniques pioneered and refined in Maine’s success story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Barker flew north with a crew of eight, including Felipe DeDiego from the Fielding operation.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
Medtronic, which like Boston Scientific makes heart valves and other cardiac devices, was hacked in April with no impact to operations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
"It is trained on more operations than most surgeons see or do in a lifetime and can act like an expert second pair of eyes," said Prof Hani Marcus, who helped carry out the procedure.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
"Over time, they fracture into smaller, harder-to-track pieces that pose hazards to vessels and resource operations."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
"So far, eight bodies have been found. Rescue operations are underway," Nepal police spokesman Abi Narayan Kafle told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
Yet this substanceless number threatens to undermine the simplest operations in mathematics, like multiplication and division.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Arithmetic
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The Number System
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The ACT Math Test: Number and Quantity
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