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Listen to this article in summarized format Brent crude rose 1.1% to $101.69 per barrel as the market weighed supply constraints from a storm heading for US oil-producing regions and attacks by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis on Saudi Arabia. US crude increased 1.34% to $90.64 a barr

How clean is the air in your workplace? That’s the question Tanvi Thombre and Lakshya Saraf began investigating when they were engineering students who worked in their university makerspace. In fact, Thombre said via email that, while working in the space, they were “unknowingly

AI - Microsoft is about to let Copilot loose on your file system But don't worry, it's totally safe because the agents and models will (probably) be running locally. Routers never break right? - Microsoft N1Xes Intel in favor of Nvidia's shiny new SoCs in Surface Laptop Ultra Pov

Is it too early to look at Premier League table? - Published Just five games in, it might seem a bit early to pay much attention to the Premier League table - but it's probably more settled than you think. While it would be no surprise if Manchester City and Arsenal finish as the

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Boots sold in £7bn deal to Canadian billionaire family - Published Boots, the High Street pharmacy and retail chain, has been sold in an $8.9bn (£6.7bn) deal to Canada's billionaire Weston family. Wittington Investments, the holding company, confirmed it had agreed to buy the 177

There’s a new kind of AI influencer flooding social media feeds — and they’re not even pretending to look like real people. Higgsfield — which recently announced it hit a $1 billion run rate, and which boasts 30 million users — has updated its AI influencer tool, making it easier

Google has been ordered to halt work on two data centers it's developing in Finland, a month after the tech giant committed to investing $15 billion in artificial intelligence infrastructure in the country. Finnish Licensing and Supervision Agency, or LVV, on Tuesday issued a not

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A now-former officer with the Central Intelligence Agency has pleaded guilty to stealing almost $200 million, including hundreds of gold bars, as part of a fraudulent scheme masquerading as a top secret government program. The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday confirmed that

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday that its Board of Directors is scheduled to meet on Monday, 12 October 2026, to consider and approve the issuance of listed, rated, unsecured, and redeemable non-convertible debentures (NCDs). The proposed NCD

J.D.’s view The race in the West to become the top open-source AI model shifted into higher gear this week, as both Nvidia-backed Reflection AI and French lab Mistral unveiled new models they hope will break China’s open-source monopoly. The challenge looming over Beam and Le Cho

Claude Haiku 5.5 is now live in Devin. On FrontierCode 1.1, our proprietary benchmark that grades models on real-world engineering tasks based on quality and mergeability, Haiku 5.5 scores 58.4%. That puts it ahead of Sonnet 5 at about an eighth of the cost per task. Claude Haiku

Prompt caching, first introduced on SambaCloud with MiniMax M2.7, is now available for MiniMax M3. When requests share a stable prefix of at least 4,096 tokens, SambaCloud can serve that prefix from cache instead of recomputing it, with no code changes required. Cached tokens are

Meta announced Wednesday that it took action against 33.2 million pieces of child sexual exploitation content on Facebook and Instagram in the first half of 2026. At the same time, the company is rolling out new AI tools to find ads and accounts that may be used to secretly direc

They found two UGC formats that turned Instagram stalking into millions of views.

Here are the best OLED gaming monitor deals you can snag for Amazon Big Deal Days 2026 — beautiful monitors up to 39% off OLED gaming monitors are hot right now, and Prime Big Deal Days is an excellent time to be in the market. OLED panels are quickly becoming a must-have item fo

Nasuni has announced that AI Activate and Resilio 6.0 are generally available on the Nasuni File Data Platform, with Enterprise Search following later this quarter. Together with the content classification Nasuni picked up in its recent DryvIQ acquisition, the additions let AI to

Disney announced Wednesday that its streaming service Disney+ will air the upcoming Super Bowl in February. The 2027 championship game, as well as two Monday Night Football games leading up to the Super Bowl, will be available to all Disney+ subscribers in the U.S. Disney had pre

David’s view Prick up your ears, and you can hear it — the sound of many different kinds of Democrats grabbing credit for midterm victories that aren’t official yet. There’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, assessing that when (not if) Abdul El-Sayed wins his Senate race in Michigan, th

Tories united behind Badenoch - but party still needs to win over voters - Published It is Kemi Badenoch's Conservative Party now. Implicitly and explicitly, that was the message from the Tories' annual conference, which has wrapped up in Birmingham. It is a party very much unite

AI - Microsoft is about to let Copilot loose on your file system But don't worry, it's totally safe because the agents and models will (probably) be running locally. Routers never break right? - Microsoft N1Xes Intel in favor of Nvidia's shiny new SoCs in Surface Laptop Ultra Pov

DETROIT — Used vehicle prices are forecast to fall more than previously expected this year, as high gas prices and broader inflationary costs hit Americans' pocketbooks. Cox Automotive on Wednesday lowered its forecast for the company's Manheim Used Vehicle Value Index, from a 2%

New Linux tech compresses memory in RAM, as RAM, for 452x speedup — new CRAM method offers giant boost to compressed memory reads The new method allows access using standard memory semantics instead of as a block device, drastically improving performance. A new compression model,

Eckert free to stay as Southampton boss as Spygate ban suspended - Published Tonda Eckert is free to continue as Southampton manager after being given a suspended ban for his role in the Spygate scandal. A Football Association (FA) independent regulatory commission handed the Ger

The News Whatever happened to “abundance,” the pro-growth movement that many Democrats were going to hitch a ride on this election cycle? They did embrace its ideas. They just don’t use the “a-word” that much. In ads and across swing districts, Democrats are running on having “bu

The currency isn’t far from its all-time low of 96.96 to a dollar – hit on May 20 – having lost 7% so far this year. The currency ended at 96.7750, 0.4% down as against the previous close of 96.42. The central bank, which bumped up both FY27 inflation and growth projections, rais

Xinnor released xiRAID Classic 4.4.1 on October 7 with discard support, so the file system’s notice that a block is free now passes through the RAID layer to the NVMe drives underneath. The target is read-intensive NVMe SSDs, which ship with less spare capacity than mixed-use or

AI - Microsoft is about to let Copilot loose on your file system But don't worry, it's totally safe because the agents and models will (probably) be running locally. Routers never break right? - Microsoft N1Xes Intel in favor of Nvidia's shiny new SoCs in Surface Laptop Ultra Pov

Sensex lost 429 points to close below 72,639 while Nifty 50 dropped more than 173 points to end the session near 22,603. Broader markets were mixed, with Nifty Midcap 100 in the red and Nifty Smallcap 100 in the green. Also read | RBI hikes rate, but analysts see shift to ‘calibr

Israelis demand accountability over 7 October failures three years after attacks - Published As the sky began to lighten over Israel's border with Gaza on Wednesday, the people of Kfar Aza moved silently towards the armoury at the centre of the kibbutz. It was there, shortly afte

Upgrade to Wi-Fi 6E or Wi-Fi 7 with these stellar savings — TP-Link Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 routers get big discounts We've rounded up three TP-Link wireless routers ranging from Wi-Fi 6E to Wi-Fi 7, including mesh offerings. Amazon Prime Big Deals Day 2026 is here, and we're alread

AI factories are some of the most complex operations in the world, combining GPUs, CPUs, switches, DPUs, and SuperNICs alongside schedulers, orchestration services, security controls, and a rapidly changing software stack. Deploying this infrastructure effectively is a challenge.

OpenAI is bringing new tools to ChatGPT for Teens, a mode for teens introduced in August with safeguards and break reminders, to help users with the college application process. ChatGPT is getting college planning tools ChatGPT’s new College Planner tool will help users keep trac

Introducing Google Cloud’s U4 compute: Enabling ultra-low latency trading Disha Chopra Product Manager, Google Cloud Yarden Halperin Product Manager, Google Cloud In capital markets, operational success is built on predictable performance and low latency, where even tiny variatio

Ola Electric Mobility, in its post-market-hours filing on Wednesday, said its board has fixed the issue price for the proposed rights issue at ₹27 per equity share, including a premium of ₹17 per rights equity share. This represents a 26% discount to the stock’s Wednesday closing

Artificial Intelligence Beyond hours saved: Building the business case for agentic automation Agentic automation, software that reasons and adapts to complete tasks, is showing up on AI center of excellence (AI CoE) roadmaps. But the standard way companies justify automation inve

Dive Brief: - Just days after reworking the deal terms, Bed Bath & Beyond parent company Neighborhood Intelligence has called off its acquisition of real estate platform Fathom Holdings. - The boards of both companies determined that the deal “at current valuations would not appr

Artificial Intelligence How Qlik built grounded, enterprise-scale AI with Amazon Bedrock Building grounded AI on Amazon Bedrock, Qlik Answers tackles a common enterprise problem: employees aren’t short on data. They are short on a fast way to ask a real question of it and get an

Does it feel like people are perhaps a little grumpier or more on edge these days? It’s not like it’s without reason. There are wars. The climate is going haywire. Someone just died of plague. Scientific research is under attack. Machines keep stealing humans’ work. The media is

Artificial Intelligence Automate remediation post AWS DevOps Agent investigation Reducing the time between incident detection, investigation, and remediation is a critical priority for organizations running production workloads on AWS. When an issue arises, on-call engineers ofte

AMD ROCm 10.1, released October 5, puts its weight on the path between storage and the GPU. Checkpoint files, key-value caches, and model weights now routinely outgrow accelerator memory, and when they do, the time spent moving data starts to govern iteration time more than the m