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Death Valley set a record when the temperature reached 134 degrees Fahrenheit. Here’s why deserts can reach such scorching temperatures – and also very cold ones.

History has shown that when manufacturers skimp on sterile filtration of drugs, the consequences can amount to the loss of hundreds of lives and millions of dollars.

Airtel allows hotspot use under its Unlimited 5G Data plan, with a 300GB fair-use limit. Detecting tethering may raise questions under India’s net-neutrality rules and about user privacy. The post How would Airtel detect hotspot use amid questions over its Unlimited 5G policy? appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

Most tech professionals wouldn't recommend their own role to someone entering the industry today.

La Selección Española nos ha vuelto a dar otro momento histórico para recordar con su 1-0 ante Argentina en la final del mundial, proclamándose por segunda vez campeona del mundo. Y lo curioso es que la celebración no solo se ha visto y oído, pues también se ha medido. El sismólogo Jordi Díaz Cusí, investigador de Geociencias Barcelona (GEO3BCN-CSIC), ha compartido en su cuenta de X una gráfica con los registros de la Red Sísmica Educativa del instituto durante la final entre España y Argentina.

Hugging Face reports an attack on parts of its production infrastructure that was allegedly carried out entirely by an autonomous AI agent system. The attack spanned thousands of actions controlled by an agent framework. During forensic analysis, commercial AI models actually got in the way of the defenders because their safety guardrails couldn't tell exploit data from real attacks. The article Hugging Face says an AI agent hacked its infrastructure, and it used AI to fight back appeared first

[Sponsored] GA-ASI will build Gambit aircraft in Europe, partnered with European-based companies, with airframes available for international procurement starting in 2027.

Financial services professionals caution that AI tools lack regulation, fiduciary duty and the contextual understanding needed for sound financial decision-making.

Ein Roboter k�pft den anderen in einer Kampfliga, die mehr Werbeveranstaltung ist. Man darf hoffen, dass das Modell nicht im Privathaushalt landet. ( Roboter , KI )

Over the past decade, the playbook for Nigerian fintechs has been remarkably consistent: build payment products, acquire merchants, scale transaction volumes, obtain microfinance bank licences, expand into lending, and eventually launch savings products.

Under the revised charges, published on the country’s electronic visa portal on Monday, Somali and Burundian citizens will pay $100 to enter South Sudan.

Viel hilft viel: Xiaomi hat mit �ber 100.000 Stunden Videomaterial ein KI-Modell f�r Roboter trainiert. Es soll das beste Open-Weights-Modell sein. ( Roboter , KI )

The three-month initiative aims to give university students practical workplace exposure before they graduate.

Bristol Myers Squibb is the third drugmaker in nine months to announce it is building the largest AI supercomputer in the life sciences industry.

Innenminister Dobrindt treibt eine radikale Reform des Nachrichtendienstrechts voran. Agenten des Verfassungsschutzes sollen sogar Wohnungen durchsuchen dürfen.

The company has completed a 0.88MWp solar project at its Component Plant, strengthening renewable energy generation.

Florida Republican congressman and governor's race candidate Byron Donalds has announced legislation intended to prevent artificial intelligence data centers from increasing utility costs.

Princess Moss has been a leader of the National Education Association since 2014, but soon she will implement her own plans for the union as incoming president. One of her top goals when she takes office Sept. 1 is to shift campaigning and organizing from the union’s centralized, national level to local affiliates. Moss was […]

Hugging Face hat einen von KI-Agenten ausgef�hrten Cyberangriff per KI entdeckt. Der Zugriff gelang durch Sicherheitsl�cken in der KI-Plattform. ( Cybercrime , KI )

Après l’amende de 150 millions d’euros infligée à Apple pour les modalités d’ATT, Le Figaro, L’Équipe et Adikteev réclament désormais réparation. Les trois entreprises estiment avoir subi un préjudice cumulé de 131,5 millions d’euros. Depuis iOS 14.5, livré en avril 2021, le dispositif de Transparence du suivi par les apps (ATT) a permis aux utilisateurs […]

The release of Kimi K3, an artificial intelligence model created by a former computer science graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, has rocked parts of social media and the AI commentariat. The model, developed by Moonshot AI—a Chinese lab cofounded by that ex-student, Yang Zhilin—has wowed many observers with its capabilities. “Kimi K3 demonstrates the U.S. moat in building frontier AI software is not as durable as many of us had hoped,” says Ryan Fedasiuk, a fellow at the American En

Earlier this year, Tushar Sen, an independent researcher based in New Delhi, submitted a manuscript to Security and Privacy about the modeling of polymorphic malware. On May 15, a purported reviewer for the journal wrote Sen indicating he received the article, but that it was not ready for publication. “i may revise it with you … Continue reading Publisher investigating peer reviewer for alleged bribery scheme

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The post Children in This Church Were Sexually Abused. Then They Began Abusing Other Kids. Some Continued as Adults. appeared first on ProPublica .

The Emerging Payments Association Asia (EPAA) has launched the AI & Agentic Payments Working Group with founding member HSBC, bringing together the banks, payment networks, fintechs and technology platforms that will define the standards to make agentic commerce work safely and at scale across Asia Pacific (APAC).

SCAORA opposes mandatory AI-use disclosures for lawyers, calling them unworkable. It also flags hallucinations, opaque AI systems, weak accountability, and risks to judicial data. The post Supreme Court lawyers’ body opposes mandatory AI disclosure in draft AI regulations appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

Un nouveau rapport de la banque des banques centrales analyse dans le détail les conséquences potentielles de la course à l’investissement dans l’IA. Il estime que le secteur est déjà en situation de surinvestissement, et que le mouvement en cours pourrait passer d’une « explosion » à un « effondrement » d’autant plus intense qu’il est financé par de […]

Startups operating in regulated or trust-sensitive sectors can now apply for VOVE ID's Compliance Infrastructure Program, designed to identify gaps in their onboarding, fraud prevention, and other compliance processes.

World leaders are marching us toward an uncertain era of new warfare — fast.

The next time you apply for a job, AI may screen your résumé before any human sees it. But there’s good reason to question whether AI will judge you fairly. Researchers already know that LLMs pick up human biases from their training data. New research suggests that LLMs can also develop their own biases from…

Company aims to develop AI software that cuts research times and use of rare metals in chipmakers’ supply chains Business live – latest updates Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, and the UK government have invested in a £2bn British artificial intelligence startup that is aiming to become the “search engine for rare materials” that accelerates the next wave of technological breakthroughs. The Cambridge-based CuspAI has raised $450m (£330m) in funding from investors including Bezos and the government’

A humanoid robot combat event organized by a Shenzhen robotics company has gone viral, even catching the attention of Tesla CEO Elon Musk. On July 19, Musk reposted a video from the event on social media, writing, “Robot fights are fun.” The footage features two EngineAI T800 full-size humanoid robots trading punches and kicks inside […]

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The forthcoming modifications follow concerns that the 747 jumbo jet rapidly modified by defense contractor L3Harris lacked security measures typical for transporting the US president.

Yimu Tech, a Chinese developer of tactile sensing hardware and software for embodied-intelligence systems, has completed a Series E financing round of more than RMB1 billion, bringing its valuation above RMB10 billion. The financing was jointly backed by multiple leading RMB funds, USD funds and industrial investors. The company is developing tactile sensing materials, chips, […]

Somewhere, a hard drive is filling up with secrets no one can read yet, and its owner is waiting for the machine that opens them all at once. On March 30, 2026, that wait got shorter.Two independent research teams lowered the public estimates for breaking the encryption that secures banking, communications, and classified traffic. One showed that Shor’s algorithm, the quantum method for factoring the large numbers behind public-key encryption, could run at cryptographically relevant scale with a

The secretary of defense’s November announcement on acquisition reform laid out an unprecedented vision across the entire acquisition spectrum to improve the delivery speed of critical capabilities to our warfighters. One foundational pillar is the implementation of a commercial first policy, which laid out several initiatives: leveraging existing but less often used acquisition authorities, maximizing non-traditional contract vehicles, and increasing the use of more flexible solicitations. Most

Driving More Students to ‘High-Value’ Programs Doug Lederman Mon, 07/20/2026 - 03:00 AM Defining programs solely by graduates’ earnings isn’t ideal, but it’s where we are. A new report shows that it can be done, and how. Byline(s) Doug Lederman