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World · Al Jazeera

Video shows dramatic eruption of volcano near Manila

Taal Volcano near the Philippine capital briefly erupted, sending a dark grey ash plume 4,000 metres above its crater.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

New York accuses TikTok of serving users ‘placebo’ safety features

New York is alleging that thousands of TikTok users, including kids and teens, were unknowingly given "ghost" versions of the platform's safety features rather than the working versions. Reuters reports the allegation is part of an "updated, sealed version" of New York's 2024 lawsuit against TikTok, which was "later ordered unsealed by a judge." According […]

Developers & Open Source · ollama/ollama Releases

v0.40.2

What's Changed README: add oxi to community integrations by @maziluiosif in #18739 server: hide duplicate and downgrade guards from list by @dhiltgen in #18874 New Contributors @maziluiosif made their first contribution in #18739 Full Changelog : v0.40.1...v0.40.2-rc0

World · Al Jazeera

UEFA details FIFA presidential candidate criteria in bid to oust Infantino

UEFA draws up qualities required for a candidate to run against FIFA President Gianni Infantino in March's election.

World · Deutsche Welle

US prosecutors add new torture charge against Maduro

US prosecutors have added a new charge to their case against deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, accusing the couple of conspiring to commit torture.

World · Deutsche Welle

EU pulls sponsorship from Disinfo2026 event in Lithuania

The EU's diplomatic service, Canada and host nation Lithuania all pulled support from a disinformation event in Vilnius. Amid reports of US pressure, the EU said it was "uncomfortable with the framing" of some panels.

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

Odyssey 3

A world model that simulates physics in real time Discussion | Link

Startups & Funding · TechCrunch Startups

A startup founder who served time in prison is looking to court an untapped market: ex-cons

Richard Bronson, a former Stratton Oakmont partner who served time in federal prison for securities violations, has launched Commissary Club, a startup that uses AI to help people leaving prison find jobs, housing, community, and even dates.

AI · NC Newsline

Commentary: Would your campus host credit card companies or Big Tobacco? Then why Big Tech? - NC Newsline

Commentary: Would your campus host credit card companies or Big Tobacco? Then why Big Tech?    NC Newsline

Cloud & Infrastructure · Data Center Dynamics

AI cloud company Boost Run secures $525.6m contract with Cohere - Data Center Dynamics

AI cloud company Boost Run secures $525.6m contract with Cohere    Data Center Dynamics

Society · The Atlantic

If You Want a Real Digital Commons, Build It Yourself - The Atlantic

If You Want a Real Digital Commons, Build It Yourself    The Atlantic

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

Amazon's new Alexa Tablets drop the Fire branding but are more Android than ever

Amazon killed its app store, so Google Play it is.

Business · CNBC Technology

Trump bought up to $25 million in Meta and millions in SpaceX debt in August

Trump disclosed 517 August trades, including up to $5 million in debt from SpaceX, a major Pentagon contractor and NASA launch provider.

Business · CNBC Technology

U.S. suspends Microsoft, Adobe from green-card labor program in foreign worker crackdown

Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling cited "multiple active federal investigations" around the two companies' involvement in the program Thursday.

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

You can outgrow vanilla Postgres without abandoning Postgres

For many data aficionados, Postgres is the way to store and manage relational data. It’s efficient, it’s straightforward, and it The post You can outgrow vanilla Postgres without abandoning Postgres appeared first on The New Stack .

World · Al Jazeera

Man City must ‘stick together’ after Premier League charges, says Haaland

Erling Haaland calls on Man City to unite as Premier League club appeals more than 100 charges of wrongdoing.

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Most AI incident tools still leave a key decision to humans

An AI SRE agent can help troubleshoot an incident. But can you trust it to decide on its own when The post Most AI incident tools still leave a key decision to humans appeared first on The New Stack .

Society · NPR Top Stories

The long-deployed USS Lincoln is returning home to San Diego

The USS Abraham Lincoln is returning home to San Diego Thursday after supporting the Iran war during a record long deployment of 265 uninterrupted days at sea that included reports of deteriorating conditions among its crew.

World · The Guardian World

Scientists discover 180,000 giant tortoises on one Seychelles island

Free-roaming Aldabra population far exceeds human population of Seychelles after decades-long recovery programme A survey of the world’s largest free-roaming giant tortoise population has discovered that the once endangered species is thriving. A population of Aldabra giant tortoises lives on an island in Seychelles called Aldabra Atoll. Continue reading...

Developers & Open Source · vercel/next.js Releases

v16.5.0-canary.4

Misc Changes docs: align function sidebar titles: #99858 Fix telemetry delivery on Node.js 24: #99842 [test] Authenticate deploy tests via VERCEL_TOKEN instead of shared auth.json: #99846 Replace deprecated React.FormEvent with SubmitEvent: #99821 turbo-tasks-fs: Don't print NotFound watcher errors: #99794 Revert "[ci] Increase deploy test concurrency to 8": #99840 Bump next in upgrade eval fixtures for CVE-2026-94483 : #99838 turbopack: don't report unactionable 'stopping failed' warnings: #99823 Credits Huge thanks to @aurorascharff , @devjiwonchoi , @eps1lon , @kassens , @sokra , @bgw , and @lukesandberg for helping!

World · The Guardian World

Ethiopia launches drone attack against Eritrean troops who crossed into Tigray

Government forces’ attack raises risk of internal conflict in Ethiopia that could trigger regional war Eritrean troops who crossed into Ethiopia’s Tigray region have come under drone attack from government forces, raising the risk that renewed internal conflict in Ethiopia could trigger an all-out regional war between the neighbouring countries. Military vehicles carrying soldiers drove across Eritrea’s southern border into Tigray on Wednesday, reaching the town of Adigrat 25 miles (40km) south, according to civilian witnesses, a militia commander and the conflict monitoring group Acled. Continue reading...

Cloud & Infrastructure · Bioengineer.org

Shark-Inspired Algorithm Tackles Edge-Cloud Task Offloading in Ultra-Dense IoT Networks - Bioengineer.org

Shark-Inspired Algorithm Tackles Edge-Cloud Task Offloading in Ultra-Dense IoT Networks    Bioengineer.org

Developers & Open Source · langchain-ai/langchain Releases

langchain-openai==1.7.0

Changes since langchain-openai==1.6.7 release(openai): 1.7.0 ( #41154 ) feat(openai): support decisions api ( #41125 ) chore(deps): bump langgraph-sdk from 0.4.4 to 0.4.6 in /libs/partners/openai ( #41096 ) chore(deps): bump langgraph-sdk from 0.4.2 to 0.4.4 in /libs/partners/openai ( #41072 ) chore(deps): bump pyjwt from 2.15.0 to 2.15.1 in /libs/partners/openai ( #40951 ) chore(deps): bump urllib3 from 2.7.0 to 2.8.0 in /libs/partners/openai ( #40952 )

Products & Consumer Tech · The Tech Buzz

Natura's $99 Smart Ring Brings AI Agents to Your Finger - The Tech Buzz

Natura's $99 Smart Ring Brings AI Agents to Your Finger    The Tech Buzz