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Isometric fantasy fashion parade Lost Ark is one of those games that's at slightly different points in different regions. The Korean version runs ahead of the western one, essentially, meaning that players of the Amazon Games published version over here usually have some idea of what they're getting: and one of the most anticipated additions has been the addition of a new class, the Artist. The Artist is a young woman who, in the Korean version, favors extremely short skirts. And it appears that Amazon considers some of the Artist's Korean skins to be, well, just a bit too thirsty. "Nothing gameplay-related will change for the Artist Class, but some skins will be modified to better fit Western norms", reads the official announcement. "Specifically, skins with short skirts will have shorts added underneath the skirt, and other skins will have adjusted pant lengths or tights added." This class itself summons monsters by painting them, though I think they can also just whack monsters with their brush. The Artist is a support-leaning playstyle with damage on the low side but a whole bunch of ways to buff and heal the party, and the developers say it's the first of a new class category called specialists, with another example to arrive later in the year.The Korean version also began a Witcher crossover event back in November, which the western version will be receiving in January. Geralt, Ciri, Yennefer, Triss, and Dandelion are all coming to the game with "voiceover work from the game's original actors", along with a new event set on an island called White Wolf's Haven. There will also be a bunch of Witcher-themed cosmetics (clothes being the game's true endgame), and QoL improvements to the guild systems and guild PvP. February will see the one-year anniversary of the game's launch in the west, and is going to be celebrated with a series of quests set on the continent of Rowen. After completing these questlines players can choose a faction to compete in open-world PvP and the war over the continent begins, leading up to a new type of PvP activity being added in March. This is a 96-player (48vs48) battle with bases to capture and secondary objectives, which are held at certain times during the week. April and the Artist is as far as this 2023 roadmap goes, which doesn't quite seem to fulfil the brief but there we are. The Witcher's Kaer Morhen background art is pretty sweet, and in the runup to the collab Lost Ark players are getting the Summoner class and endgame Brelshaza legion raid, among many other goodies. As for Geralt, the man belongs in a tub but he's bloody everywhere these days. The Witcher crossovers include Monster Hunter World, Soulcalibur 6, and soon enough he'll be turning up in Fortnite Chapter 4. https://www.pcgamer.com/amazons-adding-shorts-and-tights-to-a-new-lost-ark-class-to-dial-down-the-lewdness/

SK Hynix announced that it would demonstrate working GDDR6-AiM memory with computing capabilities at CES next month. The GDDR6 accelerator-in-memory technology is designed to speed up artificial intelligence and big data processing by bringing basic computational functions to memory chips. SK Hynix's GDDR6-AIM chips can process data in memory at 16 Gbps, which makes certain computations up to 16 times faster than other methods, according to the company. Such chips are designed for machine learning, high-performance computing, and big data computation and storage. Typically, these types of workloads may not always need truly serious compute performance, but transferring data from memory to a processor takes time and consumes loads of power, so it makes sense to process the data in memory. The memory maker says that its GDDR6-AiM chips run at 1.25V, and its usage reduces power consumption by 80% compared to applications that move data to the CPU and GPU. Such chips are designed to be drop-in compatible with existing GDDR6 memory controllers, so it should be possible to use them even on existing graphics cards to increase their performance in AI, ML, Big Data, and HPC workloads. SK Hynix completed the development of its GDDR6-AiM in early 2022 but so far has only demonstrated actual applications a limited number of times. Therefore, it will be particularly interesting to see what kind of device SK Hynix will show at the trade show. SK Hynix is not the only memory maker to experiment with processing-in-memory (PIM) technology. On various occasions, Samsung has demonstrated its HBM2 and GDDR6 memory with embedded processing for about two years. Meanwhile, PIM has yet to gain po[CENSORED]rity as many users prefer traditional CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs. In addition to GDDR6-AiM memory chips, SK Hynix plans to demonstrate its new HBM3 memory devices 'with the world's best specification for high-performance computing.' Chinese online retailers have already begun listing Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti graphics cards for sale, but the bad news is that the pricing is almost identical to pre-cancellation RTX 4080 12GB model pricing. Online marketplaces like Taobao and Baidu have multiple listings of custom card designs from the likes of Colorful, Gigabyte, Inno3D, and MSI (no Nvidia reference models) at a range of prices (h/t to VideoCardz). Chinese retailer pricing for the ten different models spans from 7,199 RMB (~US$1,034) to 8,399 RMB (~US$1,206). Before its "un-launching," the RTX 4080 12GB has an official MSRP in China of 7,199 RMB. The RTX 4080 16GB model has an official Chinese MSRP of 9,499. However, since its launch, the RTX 4080 16GB’s street price in China has declined, and it is available now from approximately 8,499 RMB – uncomfortably close to some of the price tags on some of the new RTX 4070 Ti models. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sk-hynix-to-showcase-gddr6-aim-memory-next-month

There may have been no oxygen in the atmosphere of ancient Mars after all, a new study has found — but don't despair, there still could have been living creatures crawling on the planet's surface. When NASA's Curiosity rover found manganese oxide in Martian rocks in 2016, many planetary scientists rejoiced, believing that the mineral's presence was a significant hint of past concentrations of oxygen in the planet's atmosphere. The odds of past existence of life on Mars suddenly seemed higher, too, as oxygen is one of the key enablers of life on Earth. A new study based on laboratory experiments, however, has now concluded that not only were high concentrations of oxygen not necessary for the formation of the minerals, but that the expected composition of ancient Mars' atmosphere would have prevented oxygen-reliant reactions in the first place. Instead, the scientists said, copious amounts of manganese oxide could have formed on Mars simply in the presence of halogen elements, such as chlorine and bromine, which are found on the Red Planet in greater quantities than on Earth. "Oxidation does not necessitate the involvement of oxygen by definition," Kaushik Mitra, now a planetary geochemist at Stony Brook University in New York who led this study as part of his graduate research work at Washington University in St. Louis, said in a statement(opens in new tab). Oxidation is a chemical reaction in which a molecule or atom loses electrons. The reaction doesn't necessarily involve oxygen, but in many cases leads to the formation of oxides, such as manganese oxide found on Mars. "Earlier, we proposed viable oxidants on Mars, other than oxygen or via UV [ultraviolet] photooxidation, that help explain why the Red Planet is red," he said. "In the case of manganese, we just did not have a viable alternative to oxygen that could explain manganese oxides until now." Kaushik and his collaborators were inspired by observations of reactions occuring during chlorination of drinking water, which involves adding molecules containing chlorine into water to kill microorganisms through oxidation. The researchers decided to test whether oxidation could be occurring in the halogen-rich environment on Mars. In a laboratory, they created water samples with a composition similar to what might have been found on ancient Mars. When they submerged fragments of manganese minerals in the water, the scientists discovered that the manganese quickly dissolved, forming manganese oxide thousands to millions of times faster than in the presence of oxygen, the researchers said in the statement. The key to this stunning rate of oxidation, the scientists determined, was that the water contained chlorate and bromate, forms of the halogens chlorine and bromine that are common on Mars. Bromate was particularly efficient in turning manganese into manganese oxides, enabling the reaction to proceed at a speedy pace. That held true even when the water samples had high concentrations of carbon dioxide, which prohibited the formation of manganese oxides in the presence of only oxygen. This finding is key to disproving the theory about past abundance of oxygen in the atmosphere of Mars that emerged after Curiosity's discovery. Scientists also believe that the atmosphere of ancient Mars was rich in carbon dioxide, so because carbon dioxide blocked the reactions with oxygen, the idea that the formation of manganese oxides required high concentrations of atmospheric oxygen appeared to no longer hold water. https://www.space.com/ancient-mars-atmosphere-no-oxygen

Walkers in the UK have been warned not to rely on smartphones to find their way on hills and mountains, and instead learn to use a map and compass, amid an increase in calls to rescue services. On Christmas Day a walker became unwell and later died after getting into difficulty at Buckstones Jump, near Rydal, in the Lake District. Up until Boxing Day morning, rescue teams in the Lake District had attended 606 callouts in 2022, a figure they expected to rise to 620 by the end of the year. Numbers have risen significantly in the last 10 years, up from 432 incidents in 2012. Last year was their busiest, with 681 callouts. As more people explore the outdoors – many for the first time – experts urged people to understand how to use a map and compass as well as carry a torch and mobile battery backup on outings.The Lake District Search and Mountain Rescue Association said one in four callouts were “avoidable rescues” due to people getting lost or delayed through not having the necessary navigational skills. Richard Warren, the chair of LDSAMRA, said smartphones were a great resource for walkers and climbers but that variable phone signal and battery power, which drained rapidly in cold weather, could present problems if people relied on the entirely. “What we’re trying to avoid is people just relying on their mobile phones, and getting them to learn to use a map and compass.” He said mountain rescue teams were made up of volunteers, unpaid and on call throughout the year, including over Christmas. Paul Donovan, co-project lead of the safety campaign AdventureSmart UK, said while it was “fantastic” that more people were walking and engaging with nature, there was a national rise in incidents. “If they are reliant on their smartphone without any backup there’s a chance of something happening as a result.” There was nothing wrong with using Google Maps or OS maps, he added, but walkers and climbers were advised to carry a battery backup and learn to use a map and compass. “It’s something that’s been more obvious to us over the last 12 to 18 months as more are venturing into hills and Covid has changed the demographic of people venturing into hills and outdoors,” Donovan said. Before heading out, he urged people to ask themselves three questions: Do I have the right gear? Do I know what the weather will be like? Am I confident I have the knowledge and skills for the day? This month Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue Organisation, in Wales, reported 11 rescues, and Edale Mountain Rescue Team, in the Peak District, reported several incidents. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/27/walkers-upland-britain-told-not-rely-on-smartphones-rescuers-compass-maps

This must feel like the year that won’t end for former President Donald Trump, whose actions appear to be catching up with him in public, painful and expensive ways. Trump is infamous for escaping accountability, but he’s been put under the microscope in the second half of 2022 in a way that has complicated things for the 2024 contender. The FBI searched his Florida resort, where classified documents were seized. His business was found guilty of criminal tax fraud. Documents relating to his tax returns were released by House Democrats, who are expected to release his actual returns before turning over the committee gavel next year to Republicans, who won a smaller-than-expected majority under Trump’s influence. Many candidates Trump backed failed in key Senate races, costing Republicans a majority in that chamber. The former president himself hasn’t been charged with any crimes. But a special counsel has been appointed at the Justice Department to oversee two Trump-related investigations – surrounding the hoarding of documents at Mar-a-Lago and the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. Trump has railed against the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, and his most ardent supporters tried to stonewall it, but it’s hard to objectively dismiss its damning 800-page detailed report, which spells out his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and his role inspiring rioters to attack the Capitol. And though the committee’s criminal referrals of Trump to the Justice Department are largely symbolic, the former president still has to wait and see what comes of the DOJ’s own twin probes.In the meantime, there’s no sign that the former president – who launched his third nonconsecutive presidential bid last month – has done much to clear the GOP field, with other hopefuls mulling their options over the holidays. String of setbacks The ongoing end-of-year revelations chipping away at Trump’s facade of power include large developments like the January 6 committee report – and smaller details. Hidden in court documents is the inconvenient truth that even his loudest acolytes on Fox News knew his 2020 election fantasy was false. Sean Hannity, the Fox News opinion host, admitted he didn’t “for one second” believe the fraud claims he helped push. It might be nice for Fox viewers to hear that from Hannity, but the admission came off the air and in a deposition as part of Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the conservative network, according to the New York Times. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/27/politics/trump-2022-rough-year

China's partial reopening has been met with an outpouring of joy and relief from citizens -- both the hundreds of millions isolated inside the country for the past three years and those overseas separated from their loved ones. Authorities announced Monday that starting January 8, China will drop quarantine requirements for all international arrivals, its most significant move yet in transitioning away from its stringent zero-Covid policy. The border remains largely closed to foreigners, apart from a limited number of business or family visits -- though the government signaled Monday this could loosen, too. For many Chinese nationals abroad, who have been unable to return or unwilling to endure the lengthy quarantine, the news meant they could finally go home -- a bittersweet victory after much sacrifice. "Finally, everybody can (live) their normal life," said one Chinese national living in New York, who hasn't been home for four years. She called the separation "very painful," saying several of her family members and the beloved pet dog she grew up with had died during that time. Her family "missed (my graduation). They missed so many things," she said. "And I also missed so many things for my family. All my friends, they got married during the pandemic. Even some of them had babies. I feel like I missed everything, I missed the most important points in their lives."May Ma, 28, has been unable to go home for nearly three years while living in South Korea. The worst thing about the quarantine requirements had been worrying about her grandparents' health, and not knowing if she'd be able to return in time to say goodbye if anything were to happen, she said. Throughout the pandemic, "the scariest thing was ... not knowing where the end is, not knowing when I can go back," she said. "I definitely feel very happy, I can finally see the end." Those within China are also celebrating and anticipating outbound travel. Most have not left the country for several years and are now flooding booking sites to plan long-awaited vacations. Online searches for outbound flights and overseas hotels jumped to a three-year peak on Trip.com, a Chinese travel booking website, according to company data. Searches for po[CENSORED]r destinations increased tenfold within half an hour of the announcement, with many people searching for outbound group tours during the Lunar New Year holiday season in late January, data shows. Macao, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, South Korea, the United States and the United Kingdom were among the website's top 10 destinations with the fastest growth in search volume since the announcement. But the border relaxations have sparked concern among some as China fights its most severe wave of Covid infections since the pandemic began. https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/china-border-quarantine-travel-reax-intl-hnk/index.html

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There is a subset of Dwarf Fortress players who don't really play Dwarf Fortress. They don't manage a mini civilization, keeping their dwarves fed or doing battle with elves. They don't play the Adventure mode, either, to traverse their generated Dwarf Fortress world in a ground-level roguelike. They read. They are archeologists who use Dwarf Fortress's procedural generation systems to create a hundred or thousand or 10,000 years of simulated history and then pore over the stories that come from it. I've read paperback fantasy novels less interesting than the worlds Dwarf Fortress snaps into existence with a few megabytes of code and some CPU grunt behind it. Yet the history Dwarf Fortress can create now is rudimentary next to what Tarn and Zach Adams have planned. Their next huge undertaking, after some remaining upgrades to the Steam version and a few small but vital features, will be a magic and myth system they've been talking about for five years, and dreaming about since jotting down their first notes for Dwarf Fortress 20 years ago. "For a fantasy game, we don't have much [fantasy] now," says Tarn. "We have a little bit of interaction with gods, and we have necromancy. But the plan for the game, after we get through this Steam process and a few things, the big plan is to do procedural creation myths and then have those creation myths literally affect everything that comes after." For example: "If there were two worlds facing each other across a giant void… you'll get that," he says. "The magic systems will relate to what we generated in these creation myths in a way that's more how a novel feels. Everything makes sense and works together, and the maps will be able to change more." Alongside this fundamental overhaul to how Dwarf Fortress worlds are procedurally generated, Adams plans to develop tools for players to edit maps and myths themselves. Think of it like the difference between Survival and Creative modes in Minecraft. For years Dwarf Fortress has been focused on the survival aspect of simulating a Dwarven civilization, but with the myths & magic update, you'll be able to play god while literally creating and naming the gods your dwarves worship."The idea is that people can build their own worlds that they can share that are more static, and they can do more artistic work," Tarn says. "If you're making a Greek gods mod, you could put all the specific Greek gods, Zeus etc., and give them personalities that fit. Zeus would have some sliders set pretty far over in one direction or another, right? You can also work in the thunder stuff. "Then say you have a specific image of Olympus in your mind, you could just literally draw that in an editor. Even though the rest of the world may be generated, it'd have this static part glued on part of it that's part of your Greek gods mod. That'd be cool, right? And then you can travel there in Adventure mode." This update is likely still years away; the Adams brothers have a history of spending 2-3 years working on Dwarf Fortress's most complex updates. As Zach explains, the procedural generation aspect of the magic system itself isn't what's going to take so long to create; it's really rewriting how Dwarf Fortress's maps work that's the biggest obstacle. Currently the map is comprised of simple layers. Dig down far enough through the crust of the earth and you'll hit magma. Alongside magic the world's layers will no longer be perfectly stacked and horizontal so that they can do things like have forests that magically disappear under the light of a full moon, or teleport your dwarves to a fantasy pocket universe. https://www.pcgamer.com/future-dwarf-fortress-creative-mode-will-let-you-sculpt-whole-worlds-create-homemade-gods/

Gigabyte has quietly started to ship its Intel Arc graphics cards. Initially, GIgabyte will offer custom-designed Arc A310 and Arc A380 models for entry-level systems, though the manufacturer could eventually produce more advanced Arc A700-series products. The Intel Arc A380 and A770 16GB currently rank among the best graphics cards, based largely on their price to performance ratio and video features — you can also see how they stack up in our GPU benchmarks hierarchy. For now, Gigabyte's Arc graphics cards appear to only be available in Russia and Kazakhstan. Gigabyte currently has three graphics boards in its Intel Arc fleet: the Arc A310 WindForce 4GB with a dual-fan cooling system that will fit into compact PCs, the Arc A380 WindForce 6GB with the same dual-fan cooler, and the factory-overclocked Arc A380 Gaming OC 6GB with up to 2.45 GHz clocks and a huge triple-fan cooler that resembles those used on high-end graphics cards. Both Arc A380 boards feature an additional six-pin auxiliary PCIe power connector, potentially allowing overclocks beyond their original clocks. Gigabyte's Arc graphics cards cost between $141 and $193 without sales tax, depending on the model, which is more or less in line with prices for Intel's Arc A380 in the USA(opens in new tab).These three boards aren't listed at Gigabyte's official website yet, but they're available in stores like Citilink, DNS, Rino, and a number of others in Russia and Kazakhstan. It's pretty surprising that Gigabyte only sells its Intel Arc graphics boards in Russia and Kazakhstan, as these are relatively small but competitive markets. Perhaps the company is waiting to roll-out Arc A750 and Arc A770 offerings before addressing more demanding markets. If Gigabyte is indeed serious about using Intel's Arc GPUs, it should start selling Arc A750 and Arc A770 in the U.S. as currently such boards are only available from Intel, ASRock, and Acer here, so another supplier could find itself in a good position. It's also possible that Gigabyte doesn't want to upset its current relationship with AMD and Nvidia to ensure it has enough GPU allocation from them. There's also a question of how much demand there is for Intel's Arc products and the margins on those cards. In any case, now that Gigabyte's shipping Intel Arc add-in-boards, the company officially becomes the only company to offer solutions from all three of the large GPU companies. That's a big deal, for Gigabyte as well as Intel Arc. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gigabyte-quietly-starts-shipping-intel-arc-graphics-cards

After trekking this summer through a narrow, sand-lined pass, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover recently arrived in the “sulfate-bearing unit.” This long-sought region of Mount Sharp is enriched with abundant salty minerals. Scientists hypothesize that the minerals were left behind billions of years ago when the water dried up in streams and ponds. Assuming this hypothesis is correct, these minerals offer tantalizing clues as to how – and why – the Red Planet’s climate changed from being more Earth-like to the frozen desert it is today. Curiosity’s View of ‘Paraitepuy Pass’: NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this panorama while driving toward the center of this scene, an area that forms the narrow “Paraitepuy Pass” on Aug. 14, the 3,563rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Years before Curiosity landed in 2012, the minerals were spotted by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, so scientists have been waiting a long time to see this terrain up close. Soon after arriving, the rover discovered a diverse array of rock types and signs of past water, among them popcorn-textured nodules and salty minerals such as magnesium sulfate (Epsom salt is one kind), calcium sulfate (including gypsum), and sodium chloride (ordinary table salt).They selected a rock nicknamed “Canaima” for the mission’s 36th drill sample, and choosing was no easy task. Along with scientific considerations, the team had to factor in the rover hardware. Curiosity uses a percussive, or jackhammering, rotary drill at the end of its 7-foot (2-meter) arm to pulverize rock samples for analysis. Worn brakes on the arm recently led the team to conclude that some harder rocks may require too much hammering to drill safely. “As we do before every drill, we brushed away the dust and then poked the top surface of Canaima with the drill. The lack of scratch marks or indentations was an indication that it may prove difficult to drill,” said Curiosity’s new project manager, Kathya Zamora-Garcia of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “We paused to consider whether that posed any risk to our arm. With the new drilling algorithm, created to minimize the use of percussion, we felt comfortable collecting a sample of Canaima. As it turned out, no percussion was needed.” The mission’s scientists look forward to analyzing portions of the sample with the Chemical and Mineralogy instrument (CheMin) and the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument (SAM). Difficult Driving The journey to the sulfate-rich region took Curiosity through treacherous terrain, including, this past August, the sandy “Paraitepuy Pass,” which snakes between high hills. It took the rover more than a month to safely navigate in order to finally reach its destination. While sharp rocks can damage Curiosity’s wheels (which have plenty of life left in them), sand can be just as hazardous, potentially causing the rover to get stuck if the wheels lose traction. Rover drivers need to carefully navigate these areas. https://scitechdaily.com/tantalizing-science-and-dangerous-hazards-nasas-curiosity-mars-rover-reaches-long-awaited-salty-region/

False election fraud claims that Rudy Giuliani made when he was representing former President Donald Trump’s campaign in 2020 should make the former New York mayor liable for professional sanctions, an attorney disciplinary committee said Thursday. The decision by the hearing committee for the DC Bar’s Board on Professional Responsibility is preliminary and non-binding. After another round of hearings in front of the committee, the proceedings then move to the board and eventually to DC’s local court of appeals, the final arbiter on whether Giuliani should be sanctioned. But the committee’s decision represents a significant step forward in efforts to hold Trump attorneys accountable for their willingness to use the courts to promote his unsubstantiated voter fraud narrative.Robert Bernius, the chair of the hearing committee, said the DC Bar’s disciplinary counsel who brought the ethics charges, Hamilton Fox, had proven at least one of the charges with “clear and convincing evidence.” The hearing committee announced its finding after holding multiple days of trial-like proceedings, which featured the testimony of Giuliani and others who worked with him on the Trump campaign legal challenges after the 2020 election. The ethics charges that were brought by Fox focused on a lawsuit brought by the Trump campaign in Pennsylvania that sought to throw out hundreds of thousands of votes in the battleground state.Giuliani testified that, at first, he played only a limited role in crafting the lawsuit, contributing a few sentences aimed at setting the case up to be potentially consolidated with other lawsuits across the country that the Trump campaign was contemplating bringing. However, after other attorneys on the case sought to withdraw from it, Giuliani ultimately argued the case in front of a federal judge, claiming there there was “widespread, nationwide voter fraud” and that Democrats had plotted to steal the election in Pennsylvania. Much of the disciplinary proceedings focused on the amount of vetting of the voter fraud allegations Giuliani did before the lawsuit was filed. Giuliani contended that had the Pennsylvania lawsuit gone to discovery, his team would have been able to gather more evidence that would have supported the voter fraud claims. “You don’t start a lawsuit being able to prove – I mean, you’re very lucky when you do. You don’t start a lawsuit being able to prove, but being able to responsibly allege,” Giuliani, who also once served as Manhattan’s US attorney, said last week during a hearing. “I was responsibly alleging, based on the things that were told to me by other people. I wasn’t proving – I had a long way to go to prove.” His attorneys argued to the committee that Giuliani had a reasonable basis to believe that the claims in the lawsuit were true and that he was relying on what others working with the Trump campaign had told him about the allegations. Discussion of sanctions After the hearing committee announced its preliminary finding, the proceedings moved to a discussion of the sanctions Giuliani should face for the conduct. Fox said that the disciplinary office was recommending that Giuliani be disbarred. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/15/politics/rudy-giuliani-ethics-hearing

US President Joe Biden's administration rolled out new sanctions on Thursday targeting Russian-appointed proxies in Ukraine, more than 20 Russian governors, and a wealthy Russian oligarch who is believed to be close with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the State Department and the Treasury Department announced on Thursday. The Russian oligarch now under US sanctions is Vladimir Potanin, who US Secretary of State Antony Blinken described as “one of Russia’s wealthiest oligarchs and a close associate of President Putin.” The Biden administration also sanctioned Potanin's company — a bank that his company acquired this year — and three of his family members, Blinken said. The US additionally identified his yacht as blocked property. Blinken said that those targeted by the sanctions include 29 Russian heads of regions and governors, two of their family members, and an entity owned by one of the family members who was “helping to advance Russia’s invasion and control of Ukrainian territory.” The governors “oversee and enforce the conscription of citizens in response to Russia’s recent mobilization order," Blinken said. The US also went after Russians who have been put into positions of power in Ukrainian territory by the Kremlin.In the midst of power cuts and sub-freezing temperatures, Tony the gorilla is staying warm at Kyiv's zoo thanks to a new wood-burning stove. Tony, who is 47, is a po[CENSORED]r fixture at the zoo, whose animals would have been put at risk by the lack of heat as temperatures plunge. Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said two generators had been installed at the zoo to compensate for the loss of electricity during scheduled power cuts. "A modern wood-burning stove will be able to heat Tony's housing in the absence of electricity, heating and gas. A heating point was arranged for the unbreakable Tony," he said. Klitschko said 200 animals rescued from the war are wintering in Kyiv Zoo, including a tigress named Delilah from a private zoo in Kharkiv and rhinos and porcupines from Kherson. "Those are small zoos in that part of Ukraine where there is no heating at all, nothing. It is very difficult for those zoos now. Therefore, they ask us to shelter the animals. Otherwise they will die," he said.Brig. Gen. Oleksiy Hromov, deputy chief of the Ukrainian military's Main Operational Directorate, on Thursday said that Russia is stepping up production of munitions and would likely bolster its mobilization with migrants. Hromov said Russia is increasing munitions "by reducing the quality of products, as well as by activating the conclusion of agreements with other countries." He said Russia would likely tap into the large number of migrants from central Asia to shore up its mobilization. "Individuals with dual citizenship are allowed to perform military service in Russia during peacetime. These changes are primarily aimed at attracting migrant workers staying in Russia to military service," he said. Hromov estimated that about 2.7 million of the total number of migrants in Russia — the vast majority being from central Asia — are men of military age. Some context: In November, Russia announced that its “partial mobilization” of hundreds of thousands of citizens to fight in the country’s war on Ukraine was completed. The mobilization, first announced in late September, sparked protests — particularly in in ethnic minority regions — and an exodus of men from the country. Hromov also said that the Russian military presence has been growing in Belarus. "Russian units of the Second Motorized Rifle Division ... are undergoing training and combat coordination. ... The Kremlin uses the officers and training ground infrastructure of Belarus to restore the combat capability of existing units, as well as to train newly established military units," he said. Hromov said Russian tanks and aircraft had been moved to Belarus, likely to provide Russia with another route for its missile attacks. https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-12-15-22/index.html