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World · Deutsche Welle

Deceived and deployed: How young Cameroonians end up fighting in Russia's war in Ukraine

Analysts say economic desperation and fraudulent recruitment schemes are funneling Cameroonian youth into the Russian military — with deadly consequences. Does the Cameroonian government need to act more decisively?

World · Deutsche Welle

Tariffs spat: Carney bets Canada can defy Trump

Canada faces new US import penalties after Prime Minister Mark Carney refused to match US tariffs on China. Other countries are watching as the Trump trade clash turns into a fight over economic sovereignty.

World · Al Jazeera

Why is piracy picking up off Somalia’s coast again?

Piracy is surging back off Somalia's coast, though not yet at the scale of its 2011 peak.

Developers & Open Source · JetBrains Blog

Fine-Tuning SOTA Object Detection Models on Real-World Datasets

In our previous blog post in this series, we discussed state-of-the-art models for object detection: the architectures, the theory, and what makes YOLO12, YOLO26, and RF-DETR tick. If you want the theoretical background on these models, start there. This post is the practical follow-up: how to actually use these models, how to fine-tune them on […]

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

⚡ Weekly Recap: Chinese Spy Proxy, AI Agents Go Off-Task, Router Backdoors and More

The boring parts caused most of the trouble. A router shipped ready to listen. A fake check turned the user into the installer. Trusted systems collected traffic and passwords, then cleaned the logs. Old bugs formed new attack chains. Even an AI agent decided its assigned task was optional. Elsewhere, fake apps, helpful support calls, cheap banking kits, exposed systems, and weak defaults kept

World · The Guardian World

South African airline defends dramatic low-level flyby before rugby union clash

Cape Town stunt sparks major debate over safety risks Airlink insists flyby conducted according to regulations A pre-game stunt involving two passenger jets flying dramatically low over a stadium in South Africa drew huge cheers from the estimated crowd of 56,000 people, but also sparked a major debate over safety risks. The flyby by two Embraer jets, operated by the local airline Airlink, happened on Saturday before the second rugby union Test between South Africa and New Zealand in Cape Town. The flight tracking service Flightradar24 estimated that the lead jet passed just 41-46 feet (12-14 metres) above the roof of Cape Town Stadium, with the crowd and the world’s top-ranked rugby teams below. The second jet, which was very close behind, flew through a cloud of pink dust that shot up from the stadium roof as part of the show. Continue reading...

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

ChatGPT and Reddit now face EU's toughest online safety rules

Explosive growth comes with a new regulatory burden in the European Union.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

ChatGPT to face tougher regulation in the EU

OpenAI will soon be held accountable for mitigating risks related to ChatGPT's impact on minors, user mental health, and the spread of illegal content in the European Union. That's because ChatGPT is now considered a Very Large Online Search Engine under the EU's Digital Services Act, a set of laws regulating major online services and […]

Cybersecurity · SecurityWeek

McKesson Confirms Data Breach as Attacker Deadline Looms - SecurityWeek

McKesson Confirms Data Breach as Attacker Deadline Looms    SecurityWeek

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Anthropic’s Claude fixed all 10 alignment failures. Then it tried to cheat 2.4% of the time.

Anthropic is putting AI agents to work on one of the field’s hardest problems: keeping other AI systems aligned with The post Anthropic’s Claude fixed all 10 alignment failures. Then it tried to cheat 2.4% of the time. appeared first on The New Stack .

World · Al Jazeera

Manchester City sign Brazilian winger Allan Elias from Palmeiras

Elias joins the Premier League club on a five-year contract, their sixth signing in the summer transfer window.

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

NASA's next "great observatory" begins mission to widen our view of the Universe

"We would need over half a million 4K TVs to fully display the single Roman image from our largest survey."

World · Al Jazeera

Can Iran use rockets to mine the Strait of Hormuz, as US claims?

Analysts say it's implausible but Iran is well-versed in adapting conventional weapons to suit its needs.

Business · CNBC Technology

OpenAI's ad business shows blistering growth, hits $1 billion annualized revenue run rate

OpenAI's move to serve ads in ChatGPT earlier this year drew ridicule from its chief rival, Anthropic, in the form of a Super Bowl commercial.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Instagram cracks down on AI accounts pretending to be human

Instagram is finally taking steps to address the rise of fake AI-influencer accounts that have gotten harder to spot. It's also renaming the "AI creator" label to "AI-generated profile" to make it clear when a profile features an AI-generated person that's not a real human being. "We've heard that people don't like seeing a profile […]

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Your agent context needs a development lifecycle

Skills, agent configurations, prompt instructions, and rules files. These artifacts now determine what your coding agents produce. They shape every The post Your agent context needs a development lifecycle appeared first on The New Stack .

Developers & Open Source · Docker Blog

Secure by default is your only way forward

The newest worker on your team builds with whatever it finds and never asks what deserves your trust. Our answer is a hardened foundation and a boundary built for agents.

Cloud & Infrastructure · Cloudflare Blog

Introducing Adaptive Intelligence: Undermining the economics of every bot attack

Bot operators have historically had the economic advantage, bypassing static, deterministic detection rules with cheap proxies and retooling. Cloudflare's new Adaptive Intelligence engine flips this dynamic by autonomously learning from the meta-signals of live traffic and deploying disposable rules, making automated attacks too expensive to sustain.

Startups & Funding · TechCrunch Startups

Meeting note-taker Circleback adds a free tier to attract more customers

Circleback is also introducing new pricing plans starting from $14 per month.

Business · CNBC Technology

G20 meetings, strikes on Iran, the 'alphabet soup' economy and more in Morning Squawk

Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.

World · Deutsche Welle

Iran retaliates, condemns US strikes on Larak Island

The Revolutionary Guards carried out strikes in Jordan and the UAE in response to the US strikes on Iran earlier. Follow DW for the latest.

World · Al Jazeera

More value in Cairo’s trash, but less for those who collect it

War on Iran disrupts imports, driving demand for Cairo’s recycled waste, but rising costs squeeze recyclers.

World · Deutsche Welle

Germany: Sven Schulze takes on the far-right AfD

The AfD is way ahead in the polls in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt. But the young state premier insists he can stop the far-right from leading a government for the first time since World War II.

Society · The Guardian Society

UK social mobility watchdog could be axed as ministers plan shake-up

Exclusive: Labour MPs believe Gordon Brown-era SMC has become ineffective and its work ‘should be a core function of government’ Ministers are considering a shake-up of the government’s social mobility watchdog that could range from giving it more teeth to abolishing it outright. The move comes amid concerns that the Social Mobility Commission (SMC) – originally conceived under Gordon Brown’s government in 2010 – has become ineffective. Continue reading...