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The argument over Britain’s zero-emission vehicle mandate is being presented as a balance between household costs and climate commitments. It is more usefully read as a question about certainty — and about who carries the cost of the transition.
The Islamic names Al-‘Aleem (The All-Knowing) and Al-Khabeer (The All-Aware) are sometimes treated as abstract theology. They are anything but. Together they describe a Creator whose knowledge encompasses everything — seen and unseen, present and future.
The joint venture between crypto exchange OKX and NYSE parent Intercontinental Exchange will begin round-the-clock trading of tokenized securities on Nov. 23. That much is clear.
Nvidia board prepares to oust CEO Jensen Huang — The WSJ reports the board is moving to oust Huang after he admitted to an affair with a woman accused of being a Chinese agent.
Iran’s parliament speaker Ghalibaf said the Strait of Hormuz will “never return” to its pre-war status, as Tehran awaits a US response to seven conditions. This is not a negotiating stance — it is a declaration that the world’s most critical energy chokepoint has fundamentally c…
Mu is an open runtime for personal assistants. It brings together agents, connected services, accounts, permissions and persistent history. You can run it yourself or use a hosted instance, then access it through a web, mobile, desktop or command-line client.
A new startup called Plurai is applying the end-to-end approach that got self-driving cars on roads to the problem of AI agent reliability. The idea is simple: instead of stitching together separate modules for planning, reasoning and tool use, train a single neural network end-…
Russia-Ukraine talks yield prisoner exchange deal — Two days of US-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi ended with an agreement for a large-scale prisoner swap.
The Trump administration has taken equity positions in 41 private companies — from critical minerals to AI — justifying the deals as essential for national security. But with Democrats set to control the House and Senate in January, those arrangements face an unprecedented wave …
CoreWeave shares jumped 16% in premarket trading after the neocloud provider beat Q3 estimates and raised its full-year guidance, easing fears that the post-midterm political landscape might slow AI spending. As one analyst put it, the outlook for AI buildout mattered far more t…
Seven months into Project Glasswing, Anthropic’s flagship AI vulnerability research initiative, the numbers tell a sobering story. VulnCheck has tracked 442 CVEs attributable to the project — roughly 0.5% of all CVEs published this year — with only two identified as exploited in…
Britain is prepared to discuss financial contributions to EU infrastructure funds in exchange for access to the bloc’s electricity market, Europe minister Hamish Falconer confirmed. It is a pragmatic step toward a post-Brexit reset that lowers consumer bills through more efficie…
French intelligence has tied the IRGC-linked unit Shahid Kaveh to a campaign targeting French infrastructure — including an incident involving internet-connected refrigerators — through front groups that pose as vigilante hackers. The unit takes its name from “shahid” (martyr), …
MARA Holdings, the largest publicly traded Bitcoin miner, sold 13,597 BTC worth $1.1 billion in the six weeks after the third quarter — and says it is nowhere near done.
Saudi Arabia downs Houthi missiles after pipeline attack — Saudi forces intercepted two missiles over Riyadh after reporting damage to its key east-west pipeline.
The Houthi attack on Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline and subsequent missile interception over Riyadh represent the most significant escalation in the Yemen conflict this year, with direct implications for energy security and peace talks.
Google used its cloud blog to announce TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max — its eighth generation of custom AI chips, and the fourth new TPU system this year. The headline is speed. The story is supply.
Palantir has been caught using WhatsApp messages to press a health minister to extend its AI platform into NHS GP records — data specifically excluded from its existing contract. The Guardian’s exclusive shows the US company lobbying former minister Zubir Ahmed between July 2025…
Payments Canada today launched the Real-Time Rail (RTR), a national system that lets financial service providers clear and settle payments in seconds, around the clock. After years of delays, the infrastructure is finally live — and it arrives at a moment when Canada can least a…
The Zcash network is barely settling into its new rhythm and developers already want to push harder. Just days after the NU7 upgrade cut block time from 75 seconds to 25 — a threefold improvement — Dev Ojha and Evan Forbes have proposed shrinking the window further to 20 seconds…