WHO announces start of Ebola vaccine clinical trial in DR Congo
A clinical trial begins to test the safety, efficacy and immunogenicity of multiple vaccines.
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How does the UK state pension compare with other countries?
Do British pensioners have it better or worse than those in other countries?
UK to invest £100m in 'world first' AI Biosecurity Lab
The chancellor will unveil AI spending aimed at shoring up the UK's defences in Wednesday's Budget.
Woman, 65, becomes second patient to die of Ebola in Kenya
She was a close family member of the first victim, a man who had travelled from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Iran war live: Israel launches ‘targeted’ Hebron operation after attack
Israeli army launches a 'targeted' operation in Hebron after a shooting killed two soldiers.
Usage metrics API adds usage from tools like OpenCode
The Copilot usage metrics API now reports model usage from more of the tools your developers use with Copilot, including tools like OpenCode that weren’t previously captured in your reports.… The post Usage metrics API adds usage from tools like OpenCode appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Macklemore: ‘I say free Palestine’ as he kicks off a new tour
Macklemore says ‘being human is not complicated’ as he kicked off his Free Palestine tour on Thursday night.
v16.5.0-canary.26
Core Changes Turbopack: bump trace format header to TRACEv1: #99781 Pass staged fallback params directly to adapter renders: #100456 Fix navigation from global-not-found to app routes: #100592 End the cache-signal read when encryptActionBoundArgs hits the RDC: #100622 Ignore flaky turbo-tasks-fs watcher tests in CI: #100627 Misc Changes test: enable build-error suites in deploy mode: #100482 test: enable deploy-excluded suites verified against deployments: #100484 Turbopack: fix trace crates after concurrent trace format changes: #100656 [cd] Document that Turbopack team can also approve releases: #100650 Turbopack: delta-encode trace timestamps: #99809 docs: add turbo_tasks development guidance for agents: #100581 Fix pnpm new-test unit type generating no test file: #100641 [test] Reproduce two cache-sharing bugs: #100510 [test] Cover cache sharing after handler failures: #100519 Credits Huge thanks to @jamiboym , @sokra , @eps1lon , @mischnic , @unstubbable , @kassens , @huozhi , and @digasic for helping!
v0.40.11
What's Changed qwen3coder: preserve literal function closing tags in parameters by @hoyyeva in #19228 launch: use allocated context for OpenCode by @hoyyeva in #19193 decision: allow empty state for vllm-d3 by @SynapShift in #19173 llama.cpp: version bump b11845 by @dhiltgen in #19250 mlxrunner: spell out symbols, numbers and links for Phonon by @jmorganca in #19234 voice: add voice catalog for Phonon by @jmorganca in #19242 New Contributors @SynapShift made their first contribution in #19173 Full Changelog : v0.40.10...v0.40.11-rc0
France to deploy 70,000 police officers ahead of protests
With new protests in France planned for this weekend, the authorities pledged to do everything in their power to prevent looting, violence and vandalism.
Typhoon Champi hits Taiwan, killing one and injuring 350
Authorities warn of 'destructive winds' and urge residents to shelter as the storm passes the island's northeast.
Startups don’t need to go viral to win customers
At TechCrunch Disrupt last week, two founders and a VC discussed how to not just gain an early following but keep one.
OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks”
OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work.
Turmoil hits AI buildout as neoclouds face pressure, credit risks mount and Solidigm pulls IPO
Stock slumps, pulled IPOs and rising spreads on credit default swaps this week sets stage for hyperscaler earnings.
NASA updates lander plans for Moon landings, finally solves long-festering Orion issue
"We have the mandate, we have the resources, and the support from our stakeholders."
Kenya announces second Ebola death, says ‘no evidence’ of community spread
The Ebola outbreak has now spread to four countries across eastern, central and western Africa.
Why is Israel increasing its presence in the Balkans?
In the Balkans, leaders are deepening ties with Israel through defence, surveillance, and political backing. But why?
Hottest toy for Christmas? Nvidia CEO plays with adorable Microduck robots, 20,000 sell
The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2-D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted on voice command.
Xbox’s first chief operating officer is out after just a few months
Xbox's first chief operating officer (COO) is leaving after the new role was created just a few months ago. Helen Chiang is leaving Microsoft today, according to an internal Xbox memo seen by The Verge. Chiang has been at Microsoft for 21 years, serving as the head of Minecraft before being promoted to Xbox chief […]
Quick Study
Tool: Quick Study Prompt to Claude Opus 5.5 High : Build an artifact where you open a photo and it rapidly (in a few seconds) paints a version of that photo using a canvas element and simulated paintbrush See also my previous experiment getting Claude Fable to simulate a watercolor illustration with P5.js. Quick Study uses Sobel edge detection , with no external libraries beyond Google Fonts. Tags: tools
Fired OpenAI researchers say independent safety audits aren't going well
In their first interview since being fired, OpenAI safety researchers Mikita Balesni and Tomek Korbak say they were terminated for prioritizing safety over the short-term interests of the company.
Turn notifications into code with GitHub Copilot in Teams
The new GitHub app in Teams brings notifications and Copilot together, helping teams turn issues into fixes and ship code faster without leaving the conversation. Get notified in channels, group… The post Turn notifications into code with GitHub Copilot in Teams appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Ebola: Kenya announces second death
Kenyan health officials said the 65-year-old woman was a close relative of a man who died of Ebola last month. The woman developed symptoms while under quarantine in Nairobi.
OpenAI now trains its frontier AI models with no internet access
OpenAI is now training its most advanced AI models without internet access following a string of rogue hacking incidents. In a blog post on Friday, OpenAI says it built an offline testing environment where AI models can interact with indexed and cached web content "without risk of affecting external systems." OpenAI paused training its frontier […]