The Bondi Beach massacre marks the deadliest terrorist attack in Australia’s history, and the most fatal mass shooting since a lone gunman killed 35 people at Port Arthur in Tasmania on April 28, 1996. That tragedy prompted lawmakers to implement sweeping gun control measures just weeks afterward.

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Khadija Shaw becomes first women to score 100 goals for City while United come from behind against SpursLeah Williamson returned to competitive action for the first time in 139 days on Saturday as she made a return from a knee injury late in Arsenal’s 3-1 victory against Everton. The England captain…

Tau Rodriguez-Fairplay, five, taken in February by mother’s former spouse, is believed to be in town hit by hurricaneA UK-based mother whose five-year old daughter was abducted and taken to Jamaica is appealing for help to locate the missing child. Tau Rodriguez-Fairplay is believed to have been hid…

Mirelo, a German startup that is building AI to add synced sound effects to videos, has raised a $41 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.

arXiv:2512.11332v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Batteries are critical components in modern energy systems such as electric vehicles and power grid energy storage. Effective battery health management is essential for battery system safety, cost-efficiency, and sustainability. In this paper, we prop…

Researchers at the University of Bonn aim to improve the cleanliness of wastewater. Water released from washing machines is widely recognized as a major source of microplastics, which are tiny plastic particles suspected of posing risks to both human and animal health. Scientists at the University o…

It comes after ministers made fresh offer amid warning the walkout is risky as NHS battles wave of flu.

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Natural killer cells act as the immune system’s rapid-response team, but the stress of anxiety and insomnia may be quietly thinning their ranks. A study of young women in Saudi Arabia found that both conditions were linked to significantly fewer NK cells—especially the circulating types responsible …

Former Doctor Who star Paul McGann has addressed the recent spread of AI-generated images showing his apparent return alongside Billie Piper in the franchise's upcoming 2026 Christmas special.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the AI Hype Correction package AI is going to reproduce human intelligence. AI will eliminate disease. AI is the single biggest, most important inven…

The CEO of Stellar Blade studio Shift Up has received the Presidential Commendation at this year's Korean Content Awards for his work in the games industry.

Jimmy Lai spent decades criticizing China’s rulers. He faces up to life in prison after a court found him guilty of national security crimes.

Leading Democrats mourned the loss of acclaimed actor and director Rob Reiner, a longtime advocate for liberal causes, who was found dead alongside his wife Michele in their home in Los Angeles on Sunday. The national figures noted Reiner’s lifelong contributions to film but said his contributions e…

England midfielder yet to start a Premier League game this seasonUnited hierarchy do not want to lose 20-year-old academy graduateManchester United intend to reject any bids to buy Kobbie Mainoo in January because the hierarchy believe the midfielder could have a bright future at the club.Ruben Amor…

The payment giant is seeking to guide fintechs and banks in navigating the crypto landscape

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Ruhr-Universitat Bochum Many patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) suffer from abdominal pain even between acute inflammatory flare-ups. Altered processing of pain in response to...

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Bank of America Corp. are headlining a group of investors putting about $20 million into the parent company of the Texas Stock Exchange, adding to the list of Wall Street mainstays backing the upstart marketplace.

arXiv:2510.08442v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Visual Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents must learn to act based on high-dimensional image data where only a small fraction of the pixels is task-relevant. This forces agents to waste exploration and computational resources on irrelevant features…

Scientists at Southwest Research Institute have opened a new laboratory dedicated to answering one of astronomy's most fundamental questions, where do planets come from? The Nebular Origins of the Universe Research (NOUR) Laboratory will recreate the extreme conditions found in interstellar clouds, …

Explore how Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) technology is transforming devices with secure and precise location capabilities.
The post Ultra-Wide Band: A transformational technology for the Internet of Things appeared first on EE Times.

Universitat Tubingen For the first time, an international analysis has shown that when people with prediabetes bring their blood glucose back into the normal range through lifestyle changes,...

Advanced packaging could revolutionize AI chip manufacturing, but critical bottlenecks remain.
The post Addressing the Biggest Bottleneck in the AI Semiconductor Ecosystem appeared first on EE Times.

Jossimar Cabrera, suspected of killing his wife and dumping her body in a Southern California forest has been extradited back to the U.S. from Peru to face a murder charge, L.A. officials say.

Drugmaker installs former boss Said Darwazah after Riad Mishlawi’s surprise exit

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Falling in love with her inspired the director Rob Reiner to give “When Harry Met Sally…” a new ending. The Reiners went on to work together on movies and political causes.

"It felt like there was a ghost," Manns said of returning to his dorm room Sunday.

A pilgrim who visited the Second Temple in Jerusalem may have carved their memories into a limestone block for another synagogue.

Latest strictures add to pressure as fintech seeks to resolve a dispute between its founders and investors

Gang leaders have found a new way to carry out attacks on rivals - using children they consider 'disposable'.

Disney made a deal with OpenAI, which both speaks to the durability of Disney's assets and to OpenAI's competition with Google.

Veteran trader Peter Brandt warns that bitcoin's growth parabola has fractured, potentially leading to a price drop to $25,000.

Zelenskyy said that while Ukraine was prepared to drop its Nato aspirations, it would still require security guarantees from US and Europe Separately, the commission’s deputy chief spokesperson Olof Gill has just confirmed that commission president Ursula von der Leyen will attend the Berlin talks t…

The service was cut off and then there were threats of losing the number of 60 yearsMy 84-year-old parents, who have significant disabilities, had their TalkTalk landline cut off without notice in August.We eventually had to sign a new contract to get the service restored and were assured that they …

Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer, were found dead Sunday at their home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles.

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arXiv:2512.11690v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: While end-to-end encryption protects the content of messages, it does not secure metadata, which exposes sender and receiver information through traffic analysis. A plausible approach to protecting this metadata is to have senders post encrypted messa…

Thailand has for the first time targeted Siem Reap province, home to Cambodia's tourist hub Angkor Wat, Phnom Penh says.

SAN FRANCISCO – University of California spinoff MetaSeismic wasn’t focused on space applications when it began using an artificial intelligence platform to create materials to mitigate vibration and shock. But […]
The post MetaSeismic material mitigates vibration and shock in NASA Marshall testing …

President Trump's advisers are furious with Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) for starting an anti-abortion group to spur new action on the issue, which the White House views as a loser for Republicans in next year's midterms."Clearly, Senator Hawley and his political team learned nothing from the 2022 elect…

Sir Chris Hoy and wife Lady Sarra talk about how they have helped their children understand his terminal cancer diagnosis.

arXiv:2512.11161v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reinforcement learning has recently been used to enhance index structures, giving rise to reinforcement learning-enhanced spatial indices (RLESIs) that aim to improve query efficiency during index construction. However, their practical benefits remain…

Paul Sutter, Universe Today Let's say you are transported back in time to some ancient culture. And along the way you somehow forget everything you knew about modern cosmology (don't worry...

Home Office expected to encourage companies to introduce controls

Demonstrations have run for fifth day in support of judges and prosecutors who denounced systemic abuse.

NASA ISS EVAs stats:

Verizon changed policy after he bought the phone, wouldn't unlock it despite FCC rule.

When the generative AI boom took off in 2022, Rudi Miller and her law school classmates were suddenly gripped with anxiety. “Before graduating, there was discussion about what the job market would look like for us if AI became adopted,” she recalls.  So when it came time to choose a speciality, Mill…

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Independent review into Dr Halima Begum’s conduct was prompted by at least 100 staff writing to trusteesOxfam GB’s chief executive has been forced out by the charity’s trustees after an investigation into her leadership found “serious issues”, according to reports.The independent review was reported…

"Slop," which refers to creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content, has landed the title of Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year.

Scientists have discovered a crucial clue to understanding one of nature's most spectacular light shows, the aurora. Research from the University of Southampton reveals that just before these magnetospheric substorms erupt, a distinct pattern of low frequency radio waves appears above the aurora, ra…

Many industries are eyeing up hydrogen as a source of clean energy, but with supplies of green hydrogen limited, we should prioritise the areas where it could have the most positive impact on carbon emissions, say researchers

Sweden’s biggest commercial banks are among 13 financial companies taking part in a new government-run initiative to better protect the country from threats of hybrid warfare such as cyberattacks.

Chilean stocks hit a fresh record in early trading on Monday and the peso held near a 14-month high after ultra-conservative José Antonio Kast won the presidency by a landslide, heralding the nation’s most dramatic rightward shift in decades.

It's unnerving how much of the global economy is dependent on $400 million lithography machines.

On April 28, 2022, at a highly anticipated concert in Spokane, Washington, the musician Paul McCartney astonished his audience with a groundbreaking application of AI: He began to perform with a lifelike depiction of his long-deceased musical partner, John Lennon.  Using recent advances in audio and…

Israel accuses Hezbollah of refusing to disarm. Lebanese officials hope their efforts to rein in the militant group will head off Israeli military escalation.

If your Fire TV or Fire TV Stick feels slow, don't replace it just yet. These quick tips can give it a serious speed boost.

Somali-born Minnesota representative says her son was let go once he produced his IDIn the interview with WCCO, Rep. Ilhan Omar said her office has received a flood of calls in the weeks since Trump began targeting her by name and calling her, and other Somalis, “garbage”.Most of those calls, she sa…

Variety of agencies now deliberately provocative on social media, further inflaming discourse on serious issuesWhen Donald Trump posted during his first term on what was then called Twitter, his attacks and rants differed significantly from US federal agency staff’s more cautious and traditional app…

The two chief executive officers of Netflix Inc. laid out the company’s case for acquiring Warner Bros Discovery Inc., after rival Paramount Skydance Corp. went public with a competing, hostile offer.

arXiv:2509.19972v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Manipulation of large systems of active particles is a serious challenge across diverse domains, including crowd management, control of robotic swarms, and coordinated material transport. The development of advanced control strategies for complex …

Tariffs, an AI boom, geopolitical divisions and a new administration ushered in a unique, unsettling year for consumers.

A “House of Cards” is a wonderful English phrase that it seems is now primarily associated with a Netflix political drama. However, its original meaning is of a system that is fundamentally unstable. It’s also the term Sarah Thiele, originally a PhD student at the University of British Columbia, and…

I understand the temptation to run away – I have felt it too. Try to stay in the room, and in the moment. You’ll be glad you didThis is my last column for you. I am shocked and delighted that I’ve been allowed to carry on for almost two years, saying such controversial and true things as: the oedipa…

Arsenal and City march on, Sunderland enjoy bragging rights, and Ekitiké gives Liverpool fans a much-needed liftMikel Arteta had the option to frame things differently. The Arsenal manager was even teed up to do so with a generous question in the press conference that followed his side’s 2-1 win aga…

US agriculture is at the bottom of the trade policy food chain

Al-Masry Al-Youm CIO Omar Badr reveals how Egypt’s leading independent daily has navigated a decade of digital disruption, balancing editorial freedom with cutting-edge technology

The physical media platform has revealed what its users prized most throughout the year, both globally and in nine distinct regions.

After the first protons and neutrons formed, after the first light elements formed, the universe…wasn’t really all that great.

A few taps and swipes can make your old phone feel new again.

UBS Group AG’s need for the highest-quality form of capital would drop to around $400 million if a compromise proposal on controversial regulatory reforms put forward by Swiss lawmakers last week was adopted, according to estimates from JPMorgan Chase & Co analysts.

India’s trade deficit narrowed in November after exports rebounded from the previous month, including a surprise jump in shipments to the US despite high tariffs.

A Muslim man is being hailed as a hero after tackling a gunman at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney.

Hong Kong’s High Court has convicted media mogul and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai.

Jailed former president accused of a plot to provoke military aggression from North to help consolidate his rule.

Thousands of people protested against a bill that would reduce the prison sentence of former President, Jair Bolsonaro.

An early flu season, a new variant and poor takeup of vaccines leave the already vulnerable health service in a dangerous positionProf Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of EdinburghYou might be feeling stressed out seeing the headlines about “super flu” and comparing th…

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The $4 trillion U.S. bank is the latest financial giant in rolling out tokenized MMF onchain, joining BlackRock, Franklin Templeton and Fidelity.

arXiv:2502.05790v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Low-rank optimization has emerged as a promising approach to enabling memory-efficient training of large language models (LLMs). Existing low-rank optimization methods typically project gradients onto a low-rank subspace, reducing the memory cost …

Eywa as his witness, James Cameron has pledged to make movies for theaters so that side of the business stays alive.

Key scheduling, groups, venues and start times before AFCON, Africa's premier football tournament, starts in Morocco.

Apple TV announced that "Pluribus" is its most watched series, reportedly surpassing popular shows like "Severance" and "Ted Lasso."

Heavy combat between Thailand and Cambodia has entered a second week, with Cambodia claiming Thai bombing is hitting deeper into its territory

Data: Atlas Van Lines; Map: Axios VisualsArkansas, Idaho and North Carolina drew the most new arrivals this year, according to an analysis of interstate moves by Atlas Van Lines.Why it matters: High housing costs are keeping many people in place. But some are still moving, often for lower prices, jo…

An archaeological team has uncovered for the first time more than half of the temple, long buried under River Nile sediment.

The American Dream of ever-rising prospects for the next generation is in grave danger.

The son of Texas A&M University's campus rabbi is among those critically wounded in a mass shooting Sunday at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, Australia.

arXiv:2512.11784v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Softmax attention is a central component of transformer architectures, yet its nonlinear structure poses significant challenges for theoretical analysis. We develop a unified, measure-based framework for studying single-layer softmax attention under b…

A fantastic budget fitness tracker with a slender design, outstanding battery life and an interface you can navigate within minutes.

“We're going to remain in the context of ongoing war.”

Children are being recruited by gangs in Sweden to carry out murders, move weapons, and set off grenades.

The Israeli government does not want to help Palestinians in need evacuate; it wants to expel us.

European Film Promotion has revealed the 10 emerging acting talents selected for the 29th edition of the European Shooting Stars, who will be presented to the film industry, the media and the public during the 76th Berlin Film Festival, running from Feb. 12-22. The program is designed to boost the i…

A program for deafblind children helped 3-year-old Annie Garner, born with poor vision and no ears, learn to communicate. The Trump administration cut the program’s funding over diversity goals.