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Canadian Joshua Kutryk and Crew-13 astronauts launch, heading to International Space Station

A Hacking Competition Shows the Power of China’s Approach to A.I.

The winner of a cybersecurity contest prevailed by relying on an ‘open weight’ Chinese model — another sign that available A.I. systems could already be too powerful to easily regulate.

Bluetongue restriction zone to be expanded across all of Scotland

The Scottish government said the decision will simplify trading for farmers, hauliers, and auction markets.

Are Europe's data centres hiding their water use?

Are Europe's data centers hiding their water use?Of the 186 large data centres operating in the Netherlands by late 2025, just 44 had published their electricity use. Only 47 shared water figures. And that's the good news: the Netherlands is among Europe's more transparent countries.The figures...

SpaceX set to send Google AI chips into space for data centers

SpaceX set to send Google AI chips into space for data centersAlphabet is set to launch its homegrown AI chips into orbit today-a significant step toward making orbital computing in space a reality board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.According to reports, the launch is scheduled for 11:15 am PT from...

China leads drone patent volume but US matches quality as start-ups drive innovation: study

Chinese and US firms are “neck-and-neck” in the quality battle for the next generation of drone patents, despite China having a lead in volume, a study published on Thursday shows. Chinese companies accounted for 44 per cent of the world’s drone patent filings in 2024, against 17 per cent for American firms, according to a report published by LexisNexis. Measured by value, however, US drone patents were on a par with China’s, leaving the two countries roughly even in total global patent asset...

Inside Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao’s Life After Prison

Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.

How Financial Services Companies Can Modernize Their Software Supply Chain

Every security leader at a bank, insurer, or asset manager has had a version of this conversation: Security wants to eliminate a class of vulnerabilities. Engineering explains what it would take to upgrade the platform where they live. Somebody prices out the regression testing. Somebody else raises the change-freeze calendar. The finding gets an exception, a compensating control, and a date

Trump's AI rebrand causes 'unprecedented' demand for Slovenian website names

The president wants AI to be called super intelligence - or SI - the same initials used by Slovenian domains.

Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 series launched in India, sale starts on October 7: Check price and specs

Samsung has launched the Galaxy Tab S12+ and Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra in India, with prices starting at ₹1,29,999. Both premium tablets feature 120Hz AMOLED displays, MediaTek Dimensity 9500 chips, Galaxy AI features and an S Pen in the box.

What’s Next for ‘Hard Fork’?

The podcast’s next chapter begins this week.

OpenAI Disrupts Reasoning Extraction Campaign Linked to Moonshot AI Associates

OpenAI on Wednesday said it identified and disrupted a coordinated distillation campaign that was designed to illicitly extract protected reasoning from its artificial intelligence (AI) models. A "core cluster of the activity," going back to the first week of July, has been attributed to individuals associated with Moonshot AI, a Chinese AI company based in Beijing. It did not cite any