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Residents have reported scraps with pets, traffic accidents and poop-covered lawns. The residents of a gated community in Argentina are struggling to get along with some unruly new neighbors: hundreds of the world's largest rodents. The capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris), also known as carpinchos, have been running rampant for weeks inside Nordelta, an affluent neighborhood north of Buenos Aires that is home to around 40,000 people. Local residents have reported that the robust rodents, which can reach over 4 feet (1.2 meters) long and weigh up to 174 pounds (79 kilograms), have been pooping in gardens, destroying flower beds, causing traffic accidents and allegedly biting pet dogs, although capybaras are not known to be aggressive toward humans or pets, according to Argentine newspaper La Nacion. However, environmentalists say the capybaras are not invading Nordelta but rather taking back their home from the multimillion-dollar development, which, in the late 1990s, was built on top of ecologically important wetlands surrounding the banks of the Paraná River, the second-largest river in South America. It's the other way round: Nordelta invaded the ecosystem of the carpinchos," Enrique Viale, a prominent Argentine environmental lawyer, told The Guardian. "Wealthy real-estate developers with government backing have to destroy nature in order to sell clients the dream of living in the wild," he added, "because the people who buy those homes want nature, but without the mosquitoes, snakes or carpinchos." Capybaras never completely disappeared from Nordelta after the community was completed, but their po[CENSORED]tion plummeted due to the loss of habitat and disturbance caused by construction. Now, after decades without any natural predators, such as jaguars, their po[CENSORED]tion is rising again, with a 17% increase in the past year. Currently, around 400 capybaras roam Nordelta, but experts think that, at the current rate, the po[CENSORED]tion could eventually reach around 3,000, according to La Nacion. Nordelta residents want officials to remove capybaras from the development and introduce new measures to stop the rodents from freely wandering around the 3,000-acre (1,214 hectare) community — for instance, by adding reinforced hedgerows and fencing, according to La Nacion. Some locals have also threatened to shoot the capybaras, although so far, none have been killed, according to The Guardian. In response, environmental activists have been protesting within Nordelta over the past week, many wearing mascot-like cardboard capybara headpieces, to call for the government to protect the capybaras and allow them to remain within their once-natural habitat, according to La Nacion. The capybaras have also become po[CENSORED]r among the Argentine public, particularly within Buenos Aires, with many poorer people seeing them as a symbol of a class war against the city's elite, who have destroyed an important ecosystem to separate themselves from the poorer communities, according to The Guardian. For example, Nordelta has changed the natural drainage systems provided by the wetlands and regularly causes flooding in the surrounding communities. "When there are extreme weather events, it is the poorer surrounding neighborhoods that end up flooded," Viale told The Guardian. "As always, it is the poor who end [up] paying the price.” Some experts believe that, because of the backlash from environmentalists and poorer communities, Nordelta residents will have to get used to their new neighbors rather than remove them. "Nordelta is an exceptionally rich wetland that should never have been touched," Sebastian di Martino, a biologist and conservation director at the Rewilding Argentina Foundation, told French news agency AFP. "Now that the damage has been done, the residents need to reach a certain level of coexistence with the carpinchos."

https://www.bbc.com/news One-year-old twin girls who were born conjoined at the back of their heads have seen each other for the first time after undergoing rare separation surgery in Israel. The 12-hour operation at the Soroka Medical Centre in the city of Beersheba last week took months of preparation, and included the scalp grafts for both. Dozens of experts from Israel and abroad were involved. The girls, who have not been named, are said to be recovering well. "They are breathing and eating on their own," Eldad Silberstein, the head of Soroka's plastic surgery department, told Israel's Channel 12 news. It is the first time such an operation, which has only been conducted 20 times worldwide, has been performed in Israel. Months before the surgery, inflatable silicone bags were inserted into their heads and periodically expanded to stretch skin. The new skin was then used to seal their heads after the skulls were reconstructed. Preparation also included the creation of a 3D virtual reality model of the twins, said Mickey Gideon, Soroka's chief neurosurgeon. "To our delight, everything went as we had hoped," he added. The girls, who were born in August 2020, are expected to lead completely normal lives.

The battle for web browser supremacy continues to rumble on as Microsoft Edge and Firefox scrap for users across the world. The latest global browser market share figures for August 2021 from Statcounter claim that Firefox has clawed back ground on its main rival, with its 3.55% share just behind Edge on 3.57%. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Google Chrome still leads the way with users across the world, taking 64.94% of the total market share, with Safari in second place on 18.75%. We've put together a list of the best anonymous browsers around These are the best VPN services on the market Also check out our roundup of the best proxy Edge vs Firefox The news marks the latest point in the tightly-fought battle between Mozilla and Microsoft as both scrap for market share. Microsoft Edge finally overtook Firefox back in June 2021 after months of growth, but the gap between the two browsers has closed in recent weeks. Safari, which dominates Apple's macOS devices, has seen a steady growth in recent months, perhaps aided by consumers and business workers alike upgrading their hardware and software ahead of a return to the office. The browser has now seen its market share increase for three months running. Elsewhere, Opera rounded out the top five, taking 2.17% market share in August 2021, and Internet Explorer's grim decline continued - although Statcounter found that 0.58% of users are still using the now incredibly outdated browser. Microsoft will now be hoping to pull away from Firefox as 2021 continues, with the launch of Windows 11 in October possibly set to send usage of Edge (which will ship as the pre-installed browser on the platform) to greater numbers than ever before. The browser is set to get a major makeover for the launch of Windows 11, with a redesigned interface bringing it into line with the new software's stripped-back design. Microsoft has also given Edge a host of upgrades for the browser, including a secure password generator, in-built price comparison tool, vertical tab bar and more. Check out our list of the best Windows 10 VPN around

AMD's recent launch of its Radeon RX 6600 XT GPU has prompted interest in a non-XT model, a Radeon RX 6600, and according to VideoCardz, who got a first look at renders of Gigabyte's Radeon RX 6600 non-XT GPU, we could soon see this SKU's existence. According to the information from VideoCardz, AMD is preparing to satisfy the middle-range graphics card market with the addition of Radeon RX 6600, a non-XT version of its bigger brother. And Gigabyte is among the first companies whose design for this card has been leaked. As these are leaked renders, take the news with a healthy dose of scepticism until we see the real thing. In the images below, you can see the Gigabyte RX 6600 Eagle graphics card, which features a design similar to its RX 6600 XT Eagle bigger brother with a slightly shorter PCB. Powered by an 8-pin PCIe connector, it is important to note that this design appears to be in a similar power range to the RX 6600 XT Eagle and it will likely require a very similar power supply for normal operations. As the large heatsink is cooled by a triple-fan set up, the cooling performance of this model could be on the better side. While we don't know the exact SKU that is powering the card, we are assuming that a Navi 23 XL chip version runs at its heart, with 1792 Streaming Processors (SP) backing it up. Infinity Cache could be exactly the same as its bigger brother, at 32MBs. And for the main memory, the renders state 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM, possibly running at 16 Gbps speeds. All of that should achieve a memory bandwidth of 256 GB/s on a 128-bit bus. As these are not representing official specifications, we are advising that all of the aforementioned information should be taken with a grain of salt. Until AMD officially uncovers more details about its mid-range product, we can not be completely sure of any further details.