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A federal jury in Texas recently ruled in favor of a man who sued Bexar County and its sheriff over allegations that the agency ran what the plaintiff’s attorneys called an “unconstitutional traffic stop scheme” enabled by “AI-powered” license plate readers. Late last month, plai

CTERA announced CTERA Forward Deployed Engineering on October 6, a service that places CTERA engineers inside customer environments to put specific AI use cases into production on the customer’s own unstructured file data. Each engagement is tied to a defined business outcome, ru

Starting on October 9th, anyone using Google Gemini on a free plan will be limited to the Flash Lite model. Free users can currently choose from Gemini Flash Lite, Flash, and Pro, but now you’ll need a $4.99/month Google AI Plus subscription to access the standard Flash model. Ho

Dell Technologies Turns Enterprise Data Into Trusted Context for AI Agents Dell AI Data Platform, the data foundation of the Dell AI Factory, expands with new data orchestration and storage capabilities - Unified Semantic Layer and Enterprise Knowledge Graph give eve

Under anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the federal health department is undertaking an agency-wide effort to focus on injuries claimed to be related to vaccines. In a press announcement Thursday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) laid out four

Weekly quiz: How long did it take for Glastonbury tickets to sell out? Published 7 hours ago This week, student protests continued to rock France, Donald Trump angered opponents by saying Iran could "take out" LA or San Diego, and the Celebrity Traitors returned for more misdi

Published October 8, 2026. Ranked on our current cross-platform client suite; systems tested on earlier suite versions are noted in Also Tested. Every mini PC ranked on this page has been through the StorageReview lab. We run the same client suite on every one: PCMark 10, Geekben

Protesters blame 'vulture funds' for Spain's housing crisis - Published Pierina Nicuray, a 21-year-old university graduate, has spent a week camped out in Madrid's Puerta del Sol square. Like many of the hundreds of others who have pitched their tents here to protest at Spain's h

Analysts at Jefferies estimate aggregate treasury gains in the fiscal second quarter to be ₹5,500 crore, down 58% from ₹13,100 crore a year earlier. Sequentially, this income is expected to be 23% lower compared with ₹7,100 crore in the June quarter. The benchmark 10-year governm

The News Three is a trend, and the leaks about Texas Senate nominee Ken Paxton’s campaign have more than hit that threshold. On Thursday the Texas Tribune published audio of Paxton saying the US needs to “suck it up” and cut federal programs, more drips from the same fundraiser t

Ticket rises and more TV packages - why is price of sport increasing? - Published At least £115 to watch a day of the Ashes in Birmingham - unless you are an Edgbaston member. A minimum of £255 for a standard seat at the Wimbledon singles finals. Prices starting from £289 for gen

Harry says he 'slipped into depression' after leaving UK - Published The Duke of Sussex has said he "slipped into depression for about two weeks" after relocating to Canada in 2019 ahead of his move to the US. Prince Harry, who recently returned to the UK with his wife Meghan and

Bankers believe this has had an unintended consequence for the currency: Making it expensive for overseas funds to buy rupee-denominated assets due to high hedging costs. In effect, this could be seen as partially counter-productive as a tool that's intended to give the rupee a f

The U.S. Department of Labor announced it would suspend Microsoft and Adobe from its Permanent Labor Certification program on Thursday, Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling said, as the Trump administration continues to take aim at immigration and foreign hiring programs ahead of Nov

(Bloomberg) -- US Treasuries rose after an auction of 30-year debt drew solid demand as long-dated yields edge away from their highest levels in more than two decades. The gains sent yields lower across maturities on Thursday, with those on 30-year bonds down by six basis points

(Updates to mid-afternoon trading) * Indexes down: Dow 0.07%, S&P 0.61%, Nasdaq 1.37% * Crude spikes due to supply concerns * Starbucks dips on reports of Chipotle takeover * Palantir gains after Goldman upgrade to 'buy' By Stephen Culp and Tharuniyaa Lakshmi NEW YORK, Oct 8 (Reu

Writing about quantum entanglement is always a challenge. There are so many clichés to avoid: It’s mysterious, ghostly, spooky, and weird. Entanglement is none of those things, and yet it is also all of those things—a superposition of clichés, you might say. So, having gotten all

Artificial Intelligence Pay-per-inference for AI agents: How BlockRun and Incarna use Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments When an AI agent runs, it often needs to buy something to finish a task: a model inference, an API response, access web content, or a call to another agent. The

The NVIDIA KGMON team placed second in the KDD Cup 2026 Data Agents competition with a system built around a simple idea of making an agent’s harness smaller, clearer, and easier to verify. The competition asked agents to answer natural-language questions over heterogeneous data

It’s a great time to be alive if you follow tech news and love messy drama. We’re not just getting a Nathan Fielder documentary about Elizabeth Holmes this fall. Netflix’s “The Altruists,” which follows Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison through the scandal that crushed FTX a

The 30-year fixed mortgage rate averaged 7.40%, the highest level since November 2023, mortgage finance agency Freddie Mac said on Thursday. That was up from 7.28% last week. The US-Israeli war with Iran is fanning inflation through higher energy prices, driving up longer-term Tr

We are buying 20 shares of FedEx at roughly $289 apiece. Following the trade, Jim Cramer's Charitable Trust will own 410 shares of FDX, increasing its weighting to about 2.98% from 2.84%. FedEx is our second buy of the day, following Kimberly-Clark on Thursday morning, as we look

They cast the wrong lead in “Good Will Hunting,” apparently, because it’s Ben Affleck who is the secret genius, as it turns out. The actor who earlier this year sold his AI filmmaking startup to Netflix for a reported $587 million has gone viral this week for demonstrating his un

Arena, which originated in 2023 as a research project at UC Berkeley that crowdsourced rankings of AI models, has raised a $200 million Series B round at a $3.1 billion valuation, it said on Thursday. This comes after the company said it reached $100 million in annualized run-rat

A little over a week ago, it was reported that OpenAI’s annualized revenue was approaching $70 billion, a figure that would have made it competitive with Anthropic’s reported run rate. Now, however, the AI lab is said to have told investors that the real revenue is some $20 billi

At a Google Cloud event on Thursday, the company announced it’s bringing its Gemini AI into the agentic age, with the launch of a unified agent that can not only answer questions but also get things done on the user’s behalf, all from a single interface. The move comes as AI tool

The 18-page filing, published by the US Office of Government Ethics, details 517 transactions completed during the month. Trump’s investment accounts have recorded thousands of transactions each quarter, involving tens of millions of dollars and shares of major companies whose bu

Adidas sues Australian label White Fox over four stripes design - Published Adidas is suing Australian label White Fox for selling and advertising clothes with a four-striped design, arguing it is "deceptively similar" to the German brand's distinct logo. The sportswear giant sai

AI - Nvidia found $1B under the couch to help secure American scientific computing dominance Commitment comes as GPUzilla prepares to fortify Uncle Sam's arsenal with at least seven AI-optimized supers - TSMC taps GlobalFoundries to bolster US silicon interposer production in $2B

President Donald Trump disclosed more than 500 securities transactions in August, including a purchase of up to $25 million in Meta stock and an investment of as much as $5 million in SpaceX debt two days before he signed a sweeping policy aimed at expanding U.S. commercial space

Anthropic updated its usage policy on Thursday, codifying new prohibitions on election interference, weapons software, and surveillance. But perhaps the most attention-getting change is a new prohibition against prolonged verbal abuse of the model, which is now expressly forbidde

When OpenAI released hundreds of claimed solutions to some of the world’s hardest math problems this week, the frontier lab said that it had consulted an advisory group of elite mathematicians to avoid the controversy that came with the last time one of its models solved a long-s

USA Today Co., along with the several local newspapers it owns, is suing OpenAI over claims that the company copied “hundreds of thousands” of articles to train its AI models, as reported earlier by Reuters. In a filing on Thursday, the publisher asks for damages of more than $25

If Elon Musk and SpaceXAI were going to back any Linux distro, it seems obvious they’d back Omarchy. Today it was announced that SpaceXAI would be joining the Omacom Foundation, which oversees Omarchy, as a Founding Corporate Patron and donating $1.5 million worth of Grok tokens

The ASUS ExpertCenter PN55 is the AMD side of ASUS’s commercial mini PC line, a 130 x 130 x 34mm box that puts a Ryzen AI 400 Series processor, two DDR5 SO-DIMM slots, two M.2 2280 slots, and dual 2.5GbE behind a fingerprint reader and a Copilot key. Our review unit runs the Ryze

Affordability is seen as one of voters' top issues heading into the 2026 midterm elections. And gas prices — one of the items where consumers are getting squeezed the most — are expected to remain elevated through Election Day. Speculators on prediction market platform Kalshi giv

President Donald Trump said Thursday that the U.S. will not attack Iran before the Nov. 3 midterm election, explicitly tying the timing of potential further military action to the domestic political calendar. "We will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the Midterm Electio

Domestic brokerage firm HDFC Securities, in its latest report, has maintained its ‘Buy’ rating on Honasa Consumer, the parent company of Mamaearth, with a target price of ₹550. The brokerage highlighted the company’s efforts to sustain strong growth across both Mamaearth and The

Two Latvian men arrested on suspicion of trespass at RAF base - Published Two Latvian men were arrested after a fence was breached at an RAF base used by the US military and Nato for intelligence operations, counter-terrorism police have said. The alert was raised when a Ministry

Permits, Not Power, Halt Google’s Finland Data Centers Google had secured access to Finland’s northern grid, but environmental rules are blocking site work at two facilities in its €13 billion data center expansion. Finland told Google to halt major site work at two planned data