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Banning AI in Law School: We've Seen This Before Preemptive regulation is the enemy of progress America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts This week the University of Chicago Law School announced a new policy regarding the use of AI in teaching law. The headlines read “AI strate

The Risk of Exposed Cloud Functions and How to Harden Mandiant Written by: Corné de Jong Introduction Mandiant security assessments frequently identify publicly exposed serverless applications that lack authentication, often as a result of specific business requirements. Serverle

A photography project in West Africa is using images to help coastal communities adapt to climate change — and hopefully prompt locals to lobby their leaders for support. The project in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Nigeria uses imagined climate-adapted photos of areas that have alre

Africa’s forests are gradually disappearing due to mine development, a new study suggests. Nearly 190,000 hectares of forest were converted to mines in Africa between 2001 and 2020, according to researchers at the universities of Cambridge and Sheffield. While that area — roughly

The University of Oxford began human trials of an Ebola vaccine, as the virus spread to two new provinces in the DR Congo, fueling fears the fast-moving outbreak is becoming harder to contain. The trial will be carried out on 50 healthy adults in Oxford, UK, against the new Bundi

South Africa is planning its biggest buildup of strategic oil reserves since the apartheid era, in a bid to shield its economy from global energy shocks. Africa’s largest economy once refined its own fuel, but is now wholly dependent on imported petrol, diesel, and jet fuel, leav

Africa’s largest oil refinery has moved to price its products in Nigeria in US dollars, which could increase inflationary pressures ahead of presidential elections in January. The Dangote Refinery in Lagos agreed in 2024 to set depot prices in the local currency following a gover

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on Wednesday announced a $24 million effort to help revive American shipbuilding, his latest move under the bank's $1.5 trillion security project aimed at bolstering industries critical to U.S. economic and national security. The figure includes $18

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This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Wednesday. If you start seeing drones in the sky, they might be part of Zipline's delivery fleet. Stock futures are higher this morning after a positive day on Wall Street. He

The News President Donald Trump may be posting and talking about the fresh assassination threat he faces from Iran — but in private, according to those closest to him, he rarely brings it up. Trump is still affected in his own way by the near-constant threats he faces as presiden

China’s economy expanded 4.3% year-on-year in Q2, the lowest rate since the end of 2022, as the Iran war, lackluster domestic demand, and a lingering real estate slump weighed on growth. Though the country’s exports have been churning along at an extraordinary pace — China shippe

PC gamer turns Steam games into cartridges with ingenious 2.5-inch SSD system — games are stored on 128GB drives alongside a script to auto-start the title once plugged in Video shows Steam Game Cartridge system in action. A PC gamer has created and demonstrated a handy Steam Gam

Mortgage rates rose last week to the highest level since August 2025, and that caused homebuyer demand for loans to pull back. Refinance demand, however, moved higher. Total mortgage application volume dropped 2.7% last week compared with the previous week, according to the Mortg

ASML raised its sales outlook, forecasting that AI-driven demand for computing power will continue to surge. The Dutch technology giant makes “extreme ultraviolet” lithography machines used to produce the world’s most advanced semiconductors, perhaps the most complicated objects

A three-year effort to map the oyster population in Abu Dhabi’s waters yielded more than expected, according to the emirate’s environmental agency. Using old pearl diver maps, firsthand knowledge, and modern survey data, as well as Hawksbill sea turtle tracking (the endangered tu

The collapse of the interim peace deal between the US and Iran is delaying any recovery in crucial economic sectors for Gulf countries, including aviation, energy, tourism, and real estate. Regional airlines have mostly recovered to pre-conflict capacity levels, but the EU’s avia

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AI software creation platform Emergent has raised $130 million in a Series C funding round led by Creaegis, with participation from Claypond, Sentinel Global, Khosla Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Lightspeed and Y Combinator. The fresh round values the company at $1.5 billion,

Palit officially announces RTX 3060 return with 'new' Infinity 2 OC launch — 2021 GPU with 12GB of VRAM is an AI crisis stopgap But should you buy one? Nvidia has just relaunched its five-year-old graphics card, the GeForce RTX 3060, in order to combat the component scarcity driv

Ukraine said it had struck 11 Russian vessels on the Sea of Azov, choking off a waterway that has become vital for Moscow. Russia ships vast amounts of oil, steel, and grain through the Kerch Strait to the Black Sea, but traffic has slowed to a trickle in recent days after Ukrain

U.S.-listed shares in Chinese conglomerate Alibaba rose 4% in premarket trading on Wednesday after confirming that its Qwen AI model will be integrated into Apple systems in China. "Qwen will be integrated into Apple Intelligence experiences within iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionO

Maternal and baby care brand Promom has raised Rs 30 crore in a funding round led by Fireside Ventures. The fresh funds will be used to focus on product innovation, expand offerings across the broader maternal and baby care ecosystem while increasing accessibility for mothers acr

Elon Musk's Starlink releases smaller and lighter V5 residential kit — offers speeds of up to 375 Mbps and almost half the power consumption of V4 You're losing about 25 Mbps from its theoretical top speed, but most residential users probably won't notice this. The SpaceX satelli

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