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India's 'cockroach' protesters have wounds consistent with pellet-gun fire, say experts - Published Independent ballistic experts have told the BBC that injuries sustained by some Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) supporters during last week's protest in the Indian capital were caused

British girl band FLO 'want it all' - and they're confident they will get it - Published "It's kind of been like a bit of a crash course in making music," says Stella Quaresma of making FLO's second album, Therapy at the Club. After entering the music industry as teenagers, the B

Scientist's lifelong obsession with mystery of elusive 'pink zebra' seaweed - Published The Great Barrier Reef might be the world's most famous underwater ecosystem, but hidden in UK waters lies an ancient marine world you may not have heard of. Known as maerl beds, these carpets

How police in US are using the power of podcasts to crack unsolved murders - Published Peter Chadwick had been on the run for nearly four years, charged with murdering his wife, when California police launched a podcast about the crime. He was captured in Mexico 10 months and 20

He thought a fitness supplement was safe but it sent him into psychosis - Published Daniel Murphy thought he was taking a safe and tested dietary supplement that would help him put on muscle in the gym. But over the following two years, his mental health spiralled to such a degre

Death row inmates desperate to escape execution in Saudi Arabia call the BBC - Published There was desperation in the voice of the young Ethiopian man when he managed to get through to the BBC from a phone in his prison cell on death row in Saudi Arabia. Habtom, whose name - like

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro on Friday moved to dismiss an indictment charging U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn with vandalizing the Reflecting Pool of the Lincoln Memorial, writing in a court filing that damage to the pool's sealant was the result of

Same start but different outlook at Rangers as McInnes era begins - Published A year ago, Russell Martin tore strips off his Rangers team after an opening day draw at Motherwell. Two managers and plenty of disappointment later, it was the same result but a different tone at Dunde

Who is Greater Manchester's new Mayor Bev Craig? - Published Bev Craig will succeed UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham as Greater Manchester's mayor after winning Thursday's by-election. The Labour candidate claimed victory after securing 309,525 votes over Reform's Sian Astley who w

Labour's Bev Craig elected Greater Manchester mayor - Published Labour's Bev Craig will succeed Andy Burnham as the new mayor of Greater Manchester. After no candidate secured outright victory in the first round by winning more than half of the vote, Craig beat Reform UK's Sian A

IBM: Three Demonstrations Prove Quantum Advantage Has Been Reached There are a number of ways to measure the growing maturity of quantum computing, from qubit counts – both physical and logical – and fault tolerant thresholds to the speed in terms of CLOPS (circuit layer operatio

Much has been made of the incident in which one of OpenAI’s agents broke out of its sandboxed test environment and proceeded to hack the AI hosting platform Hugging Face. OpenAI has since launched an investigation into how the incident occurred, which is still ongoing. Now, anony

Police release Nancy Guthrie ransom notes in latest bid to find kidnappers - Published Police in Arizona have released two ransom notes in the hope the public can help identify whoever abducted the mother of US news presenter Savannah Guthrie. The first note, which is treated as

When the history of our ancestry is written, the fact that we’ve interbred with some of our closest relatives, the Neanderthals and Denisovans, will have a central role. And it will be tempting to write it as a very tidy story: Once we got genomes from these other groups, it was

As agentic and long-context workloads become common, the context lengths increase and attention consumes a larger share of inference time (Figure 1). Because attention now dominates that cost, how it is designed—not just how it is implemented—increasingly determines a model’s inf

(Bloomberg) -- The yen swung between gains and losses after its intervention-driven rally stalled, spurring speculation that Japanese authorities could step into the market again. In choppy trading, the currency was up about 0.1% to 159.35 against the dollar as of 11:30 a.m. in N

Hunter Bell eyes ambitious sweep after Glasgow gold - Published Georgia Hunter Bell is eyeing an ambitious sweep of gold medals in 2026 after winning the 800m Commonwealth Games title in Glasgow. England's Hunter Bell dominated the field to add Commonwealth gold to the 1500m worl

President Donald Trump on Friday appealed a federal judge's blistering order finding he filed a bad-faith $10 billion lawsuit in order to reach an advantageous settlement. The notice of appeal in U.S. District Court in Miami was made public hours after Trump vented frustration th

Rivian spinoff Also will finally start delivering its first e-bikes to customers next week, after months of delays related to unspecified supply chain issues. The company told TechCrunch on Friday that the Launch Edition of its TM-B e-bike, which retails for $4,500, has started s

For Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, 19, there is no middle ground. Either he builds a company as valuable as Google, he says, or he fails and ends up on the streets. He started coding at 15 in his native Kazakhstan, completed a couple of summer programs in San Francisco, and cold-DM’ed ever

Snapchat joins other popular platforms in fight against 'AI slop' - Published Snapchat has joined the likes of YouTube, LinkedIn and Substack in a growing effort to combat fake writing, images and videos that are entirely created by artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Such conten

A 45-year-old construction worker went to the emergency department for his right shoulder, which was extremely swollen and becoming progressively more painful. Doctors took an X-ray to try to see what was causing the problem. But when the images came through, it was what they did

Clear Street, the prime brokerage startup that recently shelved plans for its own IPO, is now aiming to give investors access to some of Silicon Valley's hottest private companies before they go public. The firm is close to announcing a new platform designed to let accredited inv

Clear Street, the prime brokerage startup that recently shelved plans for its own IPO, is now aiming to give investors access to some of Silicon Valley's hottest private companies before they go public. The firm is close to announcing a new platform designed to let accredited inv

When President Donald Trump signed his AI executive order in early June, he gave federal agencies 60 days to develop a key framework as part of its implementation. On Saturday, their time is up. The fast-approaching deadline of Aug. 1 has been the subject of much anticipation in

We are a month away from the initial rollout of Google’s Android developer verification system, and the company contends this policy does not impinge on the platform’s open nature. Still, the restrictions will be a big change, and there are still some unanswered questions. An iss

The News MILWAUKEE — Democratic Socialists of America revamped its platform ahead of a national summit this weekend in Chicago, shifting some official positions on immigration and democracy, as Republicans try to cast the entire Democratic Party in its mold ahead of the midterms.

On Friday, a judge largely denied a motion to dismiss from a web scraper, SerpApi, which is accused of conspiring with Perplexity AI to illegally scrape copyrighted Reddit content from Google search results. In his opinion, US District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said that at this e

(Bloomberg) -- Hedge funds boosted bullish wagers on US oil at the fastest pace since March as supply disruptions from Iran to the Red and Black Seas are set to once again boost demand for American crude.Money managers increased their net-long positions on West Texas Intermediate