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TikTok star Sydney Towle, who shared her cancer journey online, dies aged 26 - Published Sydney Towle, a popular social media influencer who shared her experience living with a rare, aggressive form of cancer, has died at the age of 26. Towle's family announced her death, from co

* July payrolls likely up by 80,000 jobs, Reuters poll shows * Weekly jobless claims edge up; July layoffs at 2-year low * Iran tells Gulf states infrastructure could be targeted (Updated in New York afternoon time) By Karen Brettell NEW YORK, Aug 6 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury yiel

A lot of the AI work in biology has been focused on designing proteins. That’s partly because proteins do most of the business of life, catalyzing the interesting chemistry and structuring cells. So, figuring out how to make a new protein can mean directly tinkering with biochemi

AI - AI and ML How the famed USENIX Security conf is managing a flood of papers in the AI eraAI usage is evident but isn't yet a serious problem - AI and ML AMD acquires AI

Defense tech Hadrian announced on Thursday that it had raised a fresh $1.37 billion round at a valuation of $7.87 billion from a mile-long list of well-known investors. The lead investors in the round include WCM Investment Management, Washington Harbour Partners, Valor Equity Pa

Climate tech startup Mitti Labs has raised $9.5 Mn (around ₹90 Cr) in its Series A funding round led by Aramco Ventures. The round also saw participation from Godrej Industries Group, Cisco Foundation, Volta Circle and existing backer Lightspeed India. The US-based company, which

Trump denies US weapons shortage and says information 'leakers' being 'hunted down' - Published President Donald Trump has denied reports that the US is suffering a munitions shortage and vowed in a social media post to seek "long term jail sentences" for those suspected of leaki

(Bloomberg) -- The dollar is poised to have its best day in two weeks as oil prices advanced amid fading optimism over easing tensions in the Middle East. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index rose 0.2% Thursday, the most since July 23, following three days of declines. Brent rallied a

Companies that have borrowed from private-credit firms are increasingly deferring cash interest, a potential sign of weakness in a corner of the economy that’s drawn warnings of a crunch. The Boston Fed found that over the past four years “pay-in-kind” arrangements — in which int

Telecom executives are learning the same thing auto bosses and defense contractors figured out years ago: keep a close watch on what Elon Musk does, not just what he says. On SpaceX’s earnings call this week, the company confirmed Semafor’s earlier reporting that it planned to mo

Masa Son is at it again. The SoftBank CEO was the defining money-spinner of the 2010s, using borrowed money and financial sleight-of-hand to turn the Japanese telecom into a venture giant. Now he’s using the same playbook to double down on the AI boom. SoftBank disclosed in its e

Novo Nordisk’s CFO has spent the last few days on the phone trying to reassure investors that the GLP-leader hasn’t lost a step. The market isn’t buying it. Novo’s shares have fallen 15% this year, tumbling further this week after guidance missed analysts’ targets. Meanwhile, riv

Weekly quiz: Ed Sheeran got in trouble with the DVLA over which make of classic car? Published 6 August 2026 This week, Iran said it was in the final stages of a deal with Oman on the Strait of Hormuz, a Cambridge professor quit in a row over plagiarism, and Princess Eugenie g

AI - AI and ML How the famed USENIX Security conf is managing a flood of papers in the AI eraAI usage is evident but isn't yet a serious problem - AI and ML AMD acquires AI

Off the Wire Press Releases SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 6, 2026 — Domino Data Lab today announced its selection as a member of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Genesis Mission Consortium. In joining, Domino contributes to the united efforts of the DOE, its national laboratories, aca

Blue Origin provided its first substantive update this week on the cause of the catastrophic loss of the New Glenn rocket and most of its launch pad infrastructure at Cape Canaveral, Florida, in May. The space company’s chief executive, Dave Limp, said investigative work is conti

Off the Wire Press Releases SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 6, 2026 — Super Micro Computer, Inc. today announced the seventh annual Supermicro Open Storage Summit, a virtual event presented with theCUBE that will run from August 11 through September 3. The 12-session technical series brin

Before the mines, the drone strikes, and the tolls, the Strait of Hormuz functioned like a freeway, with two-mile-wide lanes for ships passing in either direction. A fifth of the world’s oil and LNG transited daily, alongside crucial foodstuffs, petrochemicals, and other goods, m

Off the Wire Press Releases Introducing Apache Fluss, a lakehouse-native streaming storage for real-time analytics and AI, and Apache Pony Mail, a web-based mail archive browser built to scale to millions of archived messages WILMINGTON, Del., Aug. 6, 2026 — The Apache Software F

Off the Wire Press Releases RPI will lead one Phase I project and support a second, advancing AI applications in critical materials and particle accelerator research Aug. 6, 2026 — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) researchers will contribute to two projects selected by the

Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 6, 2026 — Dark energy — the invisible force accelerating the expansion of the universe — remains one of the deepest mysteries in modern science. Unlocking its nature requires not only powerful telescopes but the ability to transform vast streams o

Artificial Intelligence used to design brand new viruses - Published Artificial Intelligence has been used to design brand new viruses that are fully functional and can replicate in the laboratory, say US researchers. It is the first time whole genomes have been successfully desi

Shares of Airbnb Inc. declined on Thursday as investors awaited the company's second-quarter earnings report after the closing bell, with expectations running high given the stock's strong rally this year. At 12:55 p.m. EDT, Airbnb shares were down 1.91%, or $2.91, at $149.58. Th

Few automotive companies are as dependent on breakout hits as Ford. It’s almost as though it’s baked into the company’s DNA: From the Model T and the Taurus to the F-150 and the Explorer, Ford has lurched from one success to another. Recently, though, the automaker has been comin

Tinder isn’t the only major dating app turning away from the swipe and toward real-world events to attract Gen Z users who’ve grown tired of traditional online dating. On Wednesday, Bumble touted the early success of its newest app, Plans, designed to connect people “IRL” in low-

Suno announced plans to implement a new watermarking technology and download policy to limit the spread of spammy AI tracks and increase transparency. In a lengthy blog post, CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman laid out the company’s principles and the next steps for the company as

South Korea space agency shares Moon images after SpaceX rocket debris crash - Published South Korea's space agency has released images that show the Moon after part of a SpaceX rocket crashed into its surface on Wednesday. The Korean AeroSpace Administration (KASA) said lunar or

NetApp buys JetStream Software for its Azure-focussed VMware DR-as-a-Service offering NetApp is acquiring VMware DRaaS supplier JetStream Software for its disaster recovery and VM migration capabilities. This follows on from NetApp buying Data Pelago, with its Nucleus Universal D

OpenAI is removing limits on text-based chats for all users on ChatGPT, which recently crossed the 1 billion weekly user mark, the company announced today. The new GPT-5.6 Luna model will power this experience and will be the default model for Free and Go users, replacing GPT-5.5

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AI - AI and ML How the famed USENIX Security conf is managing a flood of papers in the AI eraAI usage is evident but isn't yet a serious problem - AI and ML AMD acquires AI

Gold and silver prices surrendered all of their intraday gains in Thursday's trade, 6 August, as investors booked profits following the recent rally driven by easing concerns over inflation and US interest rates amid signs of de-escalating tensions in the Middle East. After climb

Ahead of the commencement of the bidding for its public issue on August 7, logistics tech platform LEAP India has raised ₹743.6 Cr from anchor investors. The startup allotted 4.67 Cr equity shares to anchor investors at a price of ₹159 per share, the upper band of its price spect

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House Judiciary Committee Republicans sent a letter to the South Korea's Media and Communications Commission on Thursday expressing their concern over recently adopted online regulations they say could allow the government to censor free speech and attack opposing viewpoints. The

The parasitic fungi in the Cordyceps genus are a favorite subject of nature documentaries. They’ve also infiltrated popular culture via the zombie-apocalypse video game The Last of Us (2013) and its TV adaptation, in which a parasitic fungus mutates to infect humans. Scientists a

Off the Wire Press Releases Projects will accelerate innovation in critical scientific and engineering challenges Aug. 6, 2026 — Researchers at the University of Minnesota have had three projects selected for the U.S. Department of Energy’s inaugural Genesis Mission program, unde

Fox won't negotiate a new NFL media rights deal until closer to 2030, when its current contract with the league expires via an opt-out clause, Chief Executive Officer Lachlan Murdoch said during a Thursday earnings conference call. The NFL has held preliminary discussions with bo

Developers detest drudgery. The entire field of programming is proof of how hard people will work to automate away the boring tasks involved in building things. And, as vibe coding has proved, they’ve even managed to find ways to not do most of the work of putting products togeth

OpenAI is making a big change for ChatGPT users on its free and Go tiers: Starting next week, users on those tiers will be able to have unlimited text chats with the chatbot, according to OpenAI. Right now, you may run into rate limits if you do too many text chats on those tiers

Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng Clash Over AI Risks and Regulation at Ai4 AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng sparred over jobs, regulation, and AI’s future as infrastructure spending continues to surge. LAS VEGAS — Three influential AI researchers offered sh