Almost a year to the day after Boualem Sansal was arrested, the Algerian president grants him a pardon.
Critical Dell Data Lakehouse Flaw Allows Remote Attackers to Escalate Privileges
Dell Technologies has disclosed a critical security vulnerability affecting its Data Lakehouse platform that could allow attackers with high-level privileges to escalate their access and compromise system integrity. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-46608,…
Fresh piracy fears threatens to torpedo shipping’s Red Sea relief
Piracy resurgence off Somalia and falling threat in Red Sea pose new challenges for shipowners and charterers
Shipping grapples with armed threats as a fresh front opens
Piracy resurgence off Somalia and falling threat in Red Sea pose new challenges for shipowners and charterers
Sources: Alibaba is renaming its AI app Tongyi to “Qwen”, aiming to make it more like ChatGPT, and adding agentic-AI shopping features for platforms like Taobao (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
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Sources: Alibaba is renaming its AI app Tongyi to “Qwen”, aiming to make it more like ChatGPT, and adding agentic-AI shopping features for platforms like Taobao — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is prepa…
Live: France marks ten years since the November 13 Paris attacks
France on Thursday marks the ten-year anniversary of the November 13 attacks in Paris that killed 130 people and left more than 400 wounded. The co-ordinated assault saw armed terrorists target restaurants, bars, the Bataclan music hall and the Stade …
UAE: Business bank accounts can now be opened in Dubai in just 5 days with the unified licence
Dubai has transformed business setup with the Dubai Unified Licence (DUL), cutting the average time to open a business bank account from 65 days to just five. Since 2024, over 3,000 accounts have been opened and 134,000 profiles updated. Integrated wit…
Iraqi prime minister’s coalition wins parliamentary elections
A coalition led by Iraq’s prime minister has won the country’s parliamentary elections, Baghdad’s electoral commission has said.
Baidu unveils two AI chips: the M100 for efficient MoE inference, launching in 2026, and the M300 for training super-large multimodal models, coming in 2027 (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
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Baidu unveils two AI chips: the M100 for efficient MoE inference, launching in 2026, and the M300 for training super-large multimodal models, coming in 2027 — The M100 and M300 provide ‘po…
Malcolm Turnbull accuses Liberals of ‘Trumpian campaign against renewables’ after party dumps net zero
Climate groups call backflip a ‘disaster’ while moderate Liberals worry about impact on winning back urban electoratesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Turnbull says his party’s decisio…