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Man jailed after threatening to kill son's teacher in French village - Published A man has been given a six-month jail term in France after he threatened to kill a female primary school teacher who had disciplined his son at a village primary school. He was sentenced after a fast

d-Matrix will put its next-generation Raptor inference XPUs into NVIDIA’s MGX rack architecture using NVLink Fusion, under a collaboration with NVIDIA that the company describes as a multi-year product roadmap. The first product is a d-Matrix rack built on the MGX reference desig

America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts Your company chooses your health insurance, and you have to live with it. For the first time in decades, one of healthcare’s stickiest markets is opening up as premiums keep rising, consumers expect more, and AI makes a different kind o

Teacher sexually abused pupils at multiple schools - Published A teacher has been found guilty of sexually abusing a 16-year-old boy after previously admitting offences against two teenage girls. Former PE teacher Bronwen James, 30, of Chippenham, Wiltshire, admitted nine sexual

Off the Wire Press Releases Sept. 10, 2026 — A new European collaborative project, RItrain-DIGIT (Advancing Digital Competencies in European Research Infrastructures) has officially launched to bridge the digital skills gap within Europe’s Research Infrastructures (RIs). Funded u

US airport security weighs major changes 25 years after 9/11 - Published Americans will soon be able to see their loved ones off at airport gates, restoring airport policies that were put in place in the wake of 9/11. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced tha

Introducing the Google Cloud Developer Plugin for AI Coding Agents Jonathan Lee Content Strategist Agent skills fit well alongside documentation and remote MCP servers as ways of enabling the success of your AI workflows. They reduce context window usage for certain use cases, an

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Meta is beginning to win over Wall Street following Tuesday’s launch of its new AI app, Muse. The tech giant’s push into agentic AI is also a hot topic on X among industry players. Now, early numbers offer better insight into how popular Muse actually is among its target market o

Broadcom Rides Rocketing Trend For Custom AI Accelerators Back in March, when looking out into the future of the custom XPU and networking ASIC chips as well as the other chippery that Broadcom sells that goes into AI clusters, I posited that Broadcom, more than AMD or Intel, mig

It’s the hot new thing in tech, and it’s where all the jobs are. Students who don’t learn to use it fall behind. And to help them catch up in time, its creators are graciously providing the resources and curriculum for learning it, often pro bono. Schools are catching on to Big T

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Treasury yields hit multiyear highs on Thursday as traders digested U.S. oil prices crossing $100 per barrel again, overshadowing a tame inflation report. A closely watched bond buyback program went off as planned, though with the Treasury Department purchasing even fewer securit

Nintendo of America puts tariff refunds towards 'customer appreciation' sale, but no refunds to Switch 2 buyers — offers 30% off games and accessories from September 13 to 26 The sale is "our way of saying thank you to Nintendo players." Nintendo of America got its tariff refund

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Off the Wire Press Releases SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 10, 2026 — d-Matrix today announced a new collaboration with NVIDIA that includes a multi-year product roadmap, providing d-Matrix XPUs entry into the widely deployed NVIDIA AI factory ecosystem. The centerpiece of the collab

For some investors, uncertainty in the bond market and a relentless rise in rates driven by inflation, geopolitical concerns and other factors is enough to throw in the towel, or at least significantly limit their exposure to fixed income. While many advisors and strategists said

Eaton is getting ready to ship the kind of PDU that didn’t need to exist five years ago. The HDXL Rack PDU G4, arriving in the fourth quarter of 2026, delivers 56-81kW from a single zero-U unit, with 24 outlets, 21 branch breakers, and a 100A corded or 140A terminal-block input.

U.S. crude oil prices surged past $100 per barrel on Thursday, the highest level in more than three months as fighting has sharply escalated between Washington and Tehran this week. West Texas Intermediate futures gained 6.7% to close at $102.48 per barrel, the highest settle sin

A report due out Friday morning will be the last piece of the inflation puzzle the Federal Reserve will get before making its decision on interest rates next week. The Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the August consumer price index report at 8:30 a.m. If the Dow Jones con

More than 20 children killed in DR Congo school fire - Published At least 24 schoolchildren have died in a stampede as they tried to flee a fire that engulfed two schools in rebel-held Bukavu in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, officials there have said. Adults are also

Blackstone Inc is already reported to be in the fray to buy the stake from Fairfax, which is looking to exit from IIFL Finance as part of a plan to acquire IDBI Bank. Fairfax, set up by Indian-born Canadian billionaire Prem Watsa, currently holds a 13.7% stake in non-banking fina

Asus routers gain FCC's 'Conditional Approval' for sale in the US as TP-Link remains locked out — Asus's Wi-Fi 8 ambitions remain intact Upcoming Wi-Fi 8 products from Asus get the green light from the FCC 2026 has been a trying year for router manufacturers, as the Federal Commu

US military takes lighter touch toward new targets in boat strike campaign A year into its deadly sea-based campaign to stamp out “narco-trafficking,” the U.S. military is zeroing in on a new target — “floating refueling stations” — and taking a more human approach to sinking the

The European Space Agency is moving “full steam ahead” with development of a robotic mission to Venus after NASA officials determined they were unlikely to fulfill a commitment to provide a US-built radar instrument for the spacecraft, the mission’s project scientist said. The Eu

Watch Live at 9 a.m. ET on September 22 Three billion people remain offline, disconnected from the digital economy and the opportunities it creates. As the next wave of technology-led growth reshapes economies and global influence, The Next 3 Billion asks one of the defining ques

OpenAI is taking aim at some of Wall Street's most labor-intensive tasks with a new version of ChatGPT designed to research companies, analyze financial data and generate the presentations that investment bankers rely on. The product unveiled Thursday, called ChatGPT for Financia

OpenAI is taking aim at some of Wall Street's most labor-intensive tasks with a new version of ChatGPT designed to research companies, analyze financial data and generate the presentations that investment bankers rely on. The product unveiled Thursday, called ChatGPT for Financia

The policy, carrying an annual premium of ₹2 lakh for four years, was sold through the insurer's corporate agent, Canara Bank, with the customer's daughter shown as the annuitant. IRDAI found that the product permitted an entry age of 30-80 years while the proposer was 88. The re

Facing an uphill battle in the final weeks of an affordability-focused midterm election, President Donald Trump on Wednesday night made an audacious promise: Every adult American citizen will receive a $5,000 "dividend," but only if Republicans are victorious in November. While e

2030 Winter Olympics boss departs amid turmoil - Published Edgar Grospiron has left his position as president of the organising committee for the 2030 French Alps Winter Olympics just 18 months after his appointment. The departure of Grospiron, the 1992 Olympic moguls champion, w

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In his address at the Global Fintech Fest, Malhotra said trust in the financial system ultimately drives adoption and endurance, leading to transformational impact. "Every fintech in this room holds something which is much more valuable than the capital and that is the data. This

Four hurt and seven arrested in Bromley stabbing - Published Seven people have been arrested after four men were stabbed in south-east London, the Metropolitan Police has said. One of the men remains in a critical condition in hospital, while the other three are being treated for

As longer, more complex passwords have become a necessity, remembering all those strings of numbers, letters, and special characters has become nearly impossible. Password managers can solve that problem, but what happens when you want to move to a different login organizer? Sure

Four killed and 60 injured in Russian strike on shopping centre, Ukraine says - Published Ukrainian officials say four people were killed and 60 wounded when a Russian drone attacked a shopping mall in Pavlohrad, a city in Dnipropetrovsk region. Shops and vehicles were hit in the

Proxima Fusion is betting on a critical ingredient for its fusion reactors: superconducting tape. Proxima Fusion said Wednesday it plans to build a €140 million ($162.6 million) factory to produce fusion-grade high-temperature superconducting (HTS) tape, which will provide the st

The average rate on the popular 30-year fixed mortgage crossed over 7% on Thursday for the first time since May 2025, hitting 7.07%, according to Mortgage News Daily. That is an increase of 10 basis points from Wednesday. A basis point equals 0.01%. Mortgage rates loosely follow