Video: Man kills eight relatives in Montana gun attack
A man killed eight relatives at a family home in the US state of Montana.
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Rescuers search for hundreds missing in Nepal-Tibet flash floods
Nepal’s army and police force has joined rescuers searching for hundreds of people still missing after flash floods.
Apple announces September iPhone launch event
Apple's next launch event will take place on September 9th at 1PM ET. Invites to the event, which has a "Surprise and shine" tagline, were sent out on Wednesday. The event will take place at the Steve Jobs Theater in Apple Park, but there will also be a livestream on Apple's website. September's show could […]
Tim Curry has died
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The Economics of Agent Optimization: Four ways to lower the cost
Microsoft Foundry gives you four levers that act on every request, before a single line of agent logic changes. The post The Economics of Agent Optimization: Four ways to lower the cost appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .
Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents
Particle’s new podcast intelligence platform transcribes and analyzes more than 130,000 podcasts, making their conversations searchable on the web and accessible to AI agents through an API and MCP.
Court blocks Trump FCC order that could flood broadcast TV with more election ads
Republicans demanded that parties and fundraising committees be given lowest ad rates.
Nimbus Manticore Expands Toolset With TWOSTROKE-Like Backdoor and SSH Tunneler
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered additional infrastructure and previously undocumented malware associated with Nimbus Manticore, an Iranian state-sponsored hacking group affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Group-IB, in a new analysis published today, described the cyber espionage actor as among the most active Iranian APT groups in 2026. Nimbus Manticore (aka
Volvo’s cars will warn one another about hazards in the road
Volvo is updating three of its electric vehicles with new hazard alerts to warn drivers when there are animals or vulnerable road users ahead. The new connected safety features are based on Volvo's cars talking to one another, as opposed to crowdsourced alert systems used by popular navigation tools like Google Maps and Waze. The […]
AI Speeds Up Malware Development, Not Its Success Rate: Analysis
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 analyzed 405 AI-linked malware samples and found only 12 reached production endpoints. The post AI Speeds Up Malware Development, Not Its Success Rate: Analysis appeared first on SecurityWeek .
South African police arrest two Thai men for allegedly smuggling parrot eggs
Bird eggs intercepted in homemade incubators at Johannesburg airport as officials try to halt wildlife trafficking South African police have arrested two Thai nationals in separate incidents for allegedly attempting to smuggle endangered parrot eggs out of the country as authorities try to stem the tide of wildlife trafficking. A 50-year-old Thai national was arrested at OR Tambo international airport in Johannesburg on 20 August, carrying 50 bird eggs in a homemade incubator in a hand-luggage bag, South Africa’s environment ministry said in a statement . Continue reading...
v0.33.1-rc0: MLX: Qwen3.8 Flash Next support (#18032)
MLX: Qwen3.8 Flash Next support review comments
Xbox boss 'thinking about affordability' of next-gen console
In an exclusive interview with the BBC, Asha Sharma also discusses giving gamers digital versions of games they own.
Researchers get two genetic codes to work at the same time
Messing with the genetic code might have gotten a bit easier to do.
Ex-Meta scientists want to bring visual AI to the factory floor
Perceptron offers an AI model that it says can help machines navigate the world while also providing in-depth visual intelligence.
Why a Christian group is suing the Dutch government for West Bank trade ban
The Israeli Product Centre says it has not been given enough time to sell off its stock.
Will Trump's latest beef plan make your hamburger cheaper? Not much, experts say
The proposal comes weeks before the midterm elections, when food prices and the cost of living are expected to be major issues on voters' minds.
Frankfurt Airport worker dies after malaria infection
An unusual cluster of malaria cases at Frankfurt Airport infected six employees, one fatally. It is thought to have been caused by a mosquito brought in on an aircraft.
Saxony-Anhalt a state dominated by the Chemical industry and a strong AfD
Saxony-Anhalt is a structurally weak, predominantly rural state. Could it become the first German state to be governed by the far-right AfD?
Chrome Beta for Android Update
Hi everyone! We've just released Chrome Beta 153 (153.0.8010.11) for Android. It's now available on Google Play . You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log . For details on new features, check out the Chromium blog , and for details on web platform updates, check here . If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug . Chrome Release Team Google Chrome
Israel extends campaign against UNRWA to advance West Bank annexation
Raid on UNRWA centre exposes Israel's strategic push to erase refugee rights, seal West Bank annexation, analysts say.
Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, targeting "ultimate cost efficiency"
Alibaba's Qwen team is previewing the Qwen4 architecture with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a mixture-of-experts model that activates just 6 out of 125 billion parameters per token. At one-ninth the training cost, it beats much larger competitors like DeepSeek-V4-Flash and Claude Opus 4.6 on coding and office benchmarks, adding more pricing pressure on OpenAI and Anthropic. The article Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, targeting "ultimate cost efficiency" appeared first on The Decoder .
Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs to mitigate harms from AI
Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, but there are a few ideas in here we hadn't heard before.
Flight attendant’s breast cancer was occupational disease, court rules
Sophie Lainault, who worked for Air France, wins legal case linking illness to more than 12,600 hours on flights A flight attendant in France has succeeded in having her breast cancer recognised as an occupational disease, a first for the country’s aviation industry, her lawyer and a trade union said. The ruling, which recognised that Sophie Lainault, a former flight attendant for Air France , had frequently worked at night and been exposed to passive smoking, could pave the way for similar claims, the lawyer and the CFDT union said. Continue reading...