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GTA 6 release date confirmed for November 19: Pre-load, New Zealand early access, PC update and £1 million car
Rockstar Games has confirmed November 19, 2026, as the GTA 6 release date, with digital pre-loading starting November 10 for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Ahead of launch, reports detail New Zealand's early access, the unconfirmed PC version and a real-life GTA-inspired Grotti Cheetah.
Who is Alice Huang and why is her relationship with Nvidia’s CEO under scrutiny?
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang has admitted to having an extramarital affair as the chipmaker investigates reported allegations that a Chinese businesswoman close to him may have been working for Beijing’s intelligence services. Beijing has rejected the espionage claims as “baseless”, while Nvidia has said it had no reason to believe company secrets or US national security were compromised. The controversy wiped about US$190 billion off the chipmaker’s market value in a single day. US...
A Future We Share | New Hope Takes Flight in Indonesia's Fields
Farming is incredibly hard work, but could new technology bring young people back to the fields?
Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels are projected to decrease by 0.4% in 2026, promising study reveals
The relentless rise in the world's carbon emissions may finally be slowing, according to a major new report.
Baby it's cold INSIDE! Scientists create the coldest temperature ever recorded in the lab - reaching just 10 trillionths of a degree above absolute zero
Scientists aboard China's Tiangong space station have chilled a cloud of atoms to just 9.7 picokelvin, the coldest temperature ever measured.
Meta Launches Muse Ember AI Model for Coding and Automated Tasks
Meta's Muse Ember is designed to help developers build AI agents that can handle routine work without relying on larger models for every step. It can process text, images, audio and video, and supports a context window of up to 1 million tokens. Meta has also published benchmark results comparing it with models from Anthropic and OpenAI. Developers can access Muse Emb...
BGMI 4.7 Update Release Date Announced; to Feature Norse Mythology-Inspired Arctic Chronicles Mode
Krafton India announced the release date of the BGMI 4.7 update on Tuesday. The upcoming update is confirmed to bring a new winter-themed experience to Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI). The experience is called Arctic Chronicles and draws inspiration from Jormungandr, the colossal serpent from Norse mythology, and will transform parts of the battleground across Erang...
China's 'impossible to ignore' tech rise on display at Web Summit in Lisbon
One of Europe's biggest annual tech events, the Web Summit, kicked off in the Portuguese capital this week with the biggest ever delegation of Chinese business leaders and policymakers. FRANCE 24's Charles Pellegrin talks to Dr. Dan Wang, China Director at Eurasia Group, about EU-China tech relations, the climate of suspicion created by the spying scandal at Nvidia, and what the EU's quest for tech sovereignty could mean for China.
Apple Patches iMessage Group Chat Privacy Flaws and Bluetooth Pairing Vulnerabilities
An iMessage flaw could let a remote attacker join a group chat and receive its messages, Apple said yesterday, and it released updates to fix it. The updates also fix a separate iMessage flaw that could let someone added to a group access messages sent before they joined. As of today, other updates released yesterday for the iPhone XS, XS Max and XR, the iPad (7th generation) and some Apple
Russian Turla Hackers Use New Cereal Malware to Steal Emails From Government Exchange Servers
The Russia-aligned state-sponsored threat actor known as Turla (aka Snake) is wielding a previously undocumented cyber espionage toolset called Cereal that's used to break into victims' Microsoft Exchange servers with an aim to surreptitiously collect emails. According to an ESET report shared with The Hacker News ahead of publication, the sophisticated and modular tool is designed for