Several popular Samsung smart TV apps contain code that share the owner’s internet connection with strangers, potentially putting millions of Samsung smart TVs at risk of hijacking, according to new security research published on Monday. Some of these apps claim to have been installed on hundreds of millions of smart TVs in people’s homes, per…
New Zealand’s endangered bird, the Takahe, at the Zealandia Wildlife Sanctuary, in Wellington, New Zealand. — Reuters Australia warned on Monday against the risk of a wider spread of H5N1 bird flu after its first mass mortality episode among seabirds killed about 50 greater crested terns off the coast south of Adelaide. However, there is…
Fifa President Gianni Infantino attends the FIFA World Cup 2026 draw at the John F Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, US, on December 5, 2025. — Reuters Gianni Infantino’s hopes of extending his Fifa presidency may rest less on winning back soccer’s traditional powers than on calling in favours from the…
“The eating places ended up spending extra time smoothing over the issue they created,” says Michael Schatzberg, cofounder of Branded Hospitality, which invests in food-service-technology corporations. “Everybody was like, ‘That is the worst. Cease. Get the individuals again with the headsets.’” Branded Hospitality offered off its early AI-drive-thru investments. In 2024, Del Taco rolled back its…
Voters in three federal ridings are being courted this summer by candidates hoping to fill vacant seats in the House of Commons. There are actually four ridings without an MP right now, but only three byelections. Why didn’t Prime Minister Mark Carney call four? The answer is a bit complicated, but the bottom line is…
It’s so arduous for giant companies to get AI instruments working reliably that entire new organizations of forward-deployed engineers or FDEs— specialists who drop into an organization to get its AI techniques up and working — are springing as much as assist them. “AI, paradoxically, will increase the demand for skilled companies,” says Efrat Rapoport,…
Pakistan Test cricketer Mohammad Abbas. — ICC/File Pakistan captain Babar Azam said the decision to leave experienced fast bowler Mohammad Abbas out of the playing XI for the second and final Test against the West Indies was based solely on the playing conditions at Queen’s Park Oval. Abbas’ omission came as the biggest surprise when…
Alibaba’s Qwen team has made Qwen3.8-Max broadly available and confirmed that its open weights ship next week. A second checkpoint, Qwen3.8-27B, is also going open-weights. Qwen3.8-Max is a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model. It accepts text, image and video as input and returns text. Is it deployable Yes, but the deployable surface depends on which artifact you…
India have named seamer Auqib Nabi as Jasprit Bumrah’s replacement for the upcoming Test series against Sri Lanka India have named seamer Auqib Nabi as Jasprit Bumrah’s replacement for the upcoming Test series against Sri Lanka, with the 29-year-old receiving his maiden call-up to the national side. The Board of Control for Cricket in India…
Cogent AI team released Cogent VR-1, a reasoning model post-trained specifically for cybersecurity rather than picking up cyber capability as a side effect of general coding strength. It ships with two companions: IntrusionBench, a benchmark that scores agents on completed enterprise intrusions, and the Cogent AI Harness, a governed runtime for security agents. The launch…
