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Son of 102-year-old says father died after being 'pushed off stage' - Published A 102-year-old great-grandfather with dementia died days after he was allegedly pushed off stage in his local pub after making a noise complaint. Philip Ormerod, from Cwmbran, Torfaen, was taken to ho

What happens when you pit AI agents against each other? According to Anthropic’s testing, things get messy fast. On Thursday, Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team published new research examining how groups of AI agents behave when they encounter each other in the wild. The findings pro

Off the Wire Press Releases New FSU Quantum Initiative certificate will prepare students and professionals for careers in the rapidly expanding quantum workforce TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Aug. 13, 2026 — Florida State University is launching Florida’s first formal graduate-level credent

On Thursday, Flock announced plans to require all agencies with access to license plate reader data to use a safety tool that automatically detects abnormal activity and locks out cops who abuse their access to stalk people they know in their personal lives. Flock’s audit assista

Months after the markets regulator cleared its confidential IPO filing, B2B manufacturing startup Zetwerk has now filed its updated draft red herring prospectus (UDRHP) with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). As per its UDRHP, Zetwerk’s public issue comprises a fr

At FMS 2026, Microchip had a number of its data center connectivity solutions on display. That included a new family of Microchip Switchtec PCIe Gen6 switches with up to 160 lanes. We also saw the company’s XpressConnect PCIe Gen6 retimer chip working. There was even a cameo by a

Smart pet-feeder company Petlibro suffered an outage on Tuesday, giving users a harsh reminder of the risks of relying on smart devices. Petlibro makes pet feeders that connect to Wi-Fi and, for setup with Petlibro’s mobile companion app, Bluetooth. Users can set the feeders to a

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Microsoft's nemesis drops new zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability — attack grants system-level privileges, but it could already be patched The researcher's vendetta against Microsoft continues apace, but it seems like the company could be keeping up this time around Proli

Today, Instagram unveiled a refresh of its wordmark, accompanied by the usual bland corporate platitudes these kinds of announcements are always packaged with. Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri called it “leaner and more modern, with references to the original and the simplicity and

POWER POINT What I'm hearing from energy insiders What a difference a week makes. Since we last published Power Insider, U.S. crude oil dropped nearly $10 dollars per barrel before clawing back some of those declines. In the months since the Iran war began, oil has shifted 40% to

OpenAI has replaced chief revenue officer Denise Dresser after just nine months on the job, tapping Wiz president and chief operating officer Dali Rajic to take on frontier lab’s top sales job. The move comes as part of a broader shake-up in the organization in the last month, wh

Google is announcing a new Gemini model today, but it’s not the long-awaited 3.5 Pro. Gemini 3.7 Flash is now rolling out to replace 3.6 Flash, which itself was released only three weeks ago. This new “workhorse” model is supposedly the product of core optimizations and developer

Using BigQuery Graphs with measures for trusted agentic workloads Deepak Dayama Group Product Manager, Google Cloud Yun Zhang Software Development Manager When enterprises transition from using simple chat assistants to autonomous, agentic workloads, they quickly run into a hard

Liz’s view There’s always money in the banana stand sports team. Mark Walter controls a vast financial empire and is under federal investigation for undisclosed related-party transactions between its interlocking parts. Unwinding those transactions will require him to raise billi

Near-packaged optics (NPO) gains ground as the industry hedges against CPO's growing pains — analysts say volume for NPO silicon photonics products will extend until the end of the decade SemiAnalysis calls NPO the interim step between pluggable transceivers and true CPO. SemiAna

Off the Wire Press Releases NEW YORK, Aug. 13, 2026 — For decades, the distribution of quantum information has been confined to laboratory demonstrations because of the fragile nature of maintaining the fidelity of quantum entanglement across today’s deployed telecommunications f

Updated August 13, 2026: Initial publication. On the roadmap as hardware lands: GB300-class systems. Pick order is provisional pending final composite scoring. Every system ranked on this page has been through the StorageReview lab. We benchmark local AI performance directly: vLL

Updated August 13, 2026: The Laptop Battery Life Leaderboard is live with 27 lab-tested systems, joining Best Desktops for Local AI and the Storage Leaderboard. Workstation and business laptop leaderboards are in testing now. StorageReview Best is our family of living leaderboard

The War Between Open Source, Open Weight, And Closed AI Models Ask yourself these questions, assuming you have a serious medical condition and your doctors are going to be using GenAI to scan your images and test results to discover the breadth and depth of your condition and to

Weekly quiz: What was used to smuggle Donald Trump off Air Force One? - Published This week, millions of people across Europe gathered to watch the eclipse, an ancient Roman shipwreck was discovered off the coast of Sicily, and Cristiano Ronaldo married his long-time partner. But

Iran is set to join the BRICS New Development Bank, the country's central bank chief said Thursday, as Tehran seeks to shore up its economic alliances almost six months into its war with the U.S. and Israel. The BRICS alliance was set up in 2006 by founding members Brazil, Russia

Ford made a $2 billion bet two years ago when it closed its Louisville Assembly Plant in Kentucky and scrapped the assembly line system it had used for more than a century. Its goal was to transform the factory into one capable of making a new generation of affordable EVs. The au

LIV set to cancel season-ending Team Championship - Published LIV Golf players have been warned that the season-ending Team Championship later this month is set to be cancelled, BBC Sport has been told. Tickets for the event in Michigan cannot now be purchased online, with LIV's

Saplings: Unstable Ground Part II, a study of founders’ home lives and parental patterns. José Ferrera wanted his money. A week earlier, the farmhand had labored in the orchards of Luigi Giannini, picking fruit. Though he’d received some payment, he’d been stiffed by a dollar. Or

Databricks on Thursday said it closed a $5 billion funding round at a $190 billion valuation to invest in enterprise AI capabilities. The company said that it crossed $7 billion in revenue run rate and grew more than 80% year-over-year in its second quarter. CEO Ali Ghodsi told C

Databricks on Thursday said it closed a $5 billion funding round at a $190 billion valuation to invest in enterprise AI capabilities. The company said that it crossed $7 billion in revenue run rate and grew more than 80% year-over-year in its second quarter. CEO Ali Ghodsi told C

Dive Brief: - About four in ten (42%) of U.S. consumers say that AI tools extend the time it takes them to decide what to buy because AI displays more options to consider, according to a survey of over 1,800 customers in the U.S., U.K., Japan and France by performance marketing f

RAVEL and Strata Expanse have named RT-One as the first commercial customer of the AMPHIX AI Infrastructure Platform, a deployment model designed to validate enterprise AI infrastructure before permanent production sites are completed. AMPHIX combines site-ready land, resilient p

A Texas-based company with links to President Donald Trump has delayed plans to drill for oil in Greenland, after the Arctic island's government issued a "strong warning" to its joint venture partner for bringing equipment ashore without permission. Greenland Energy Co., a Nasdaq

Dive Brief: - Academy Sports and Outdoors is partnering with Instacart to offer same-day delivery of products across camping, fishing, team sports and other categories, Instacart said in a press release on Monday. - The sporting goods retailer is integrating more than 300 stores

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X is significantly expanding its open source codebase, which includes the app’s “For You” algorithm and its core ranking engine, and adding a feature that will let users see if their account or posts have been impacted by any of its ranking systems, the social network said on Thu

Suno is releasing Studio 2.0 with significant upgrades that push it closer to an actual digital audio workstation (DAW), rather than a bare-bones audio editor with generative AI features. The biggest addition is undoubtedly MIDI support. Suno says that MIDI was its most requested

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