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World · The Guardian World

Video shows hundreds held captive after Nigeria mosque kidnapping

Gunmen ‌attacked worshippers in Dekara village on Friday taking women, children and older people An armed group has posted a video showing what ⁠residents said were about ⁠600 women, children and ​older people abducted in an attack on a mosque in Nigeria’s north-central Niger State last week. The video, posted on Facebook and WhatsApp, ⁠showed large groups of people seated in a forested area surrounded by armed men. Several children could be heard crying in the background. Continue reading...

Developers & Open Source · JetBrains Blog

Help AI Coding Agents Write Up-To-Date Code With Modern Golang Skills

TL;DR Why AI coding agents need modern Go skills AI coding agents can produce working Go code, but they typically rely on outdated patterns. Older syntax appears more often in their training data. Newer language features and standard library additions may also fall outside their training cutoff. The GoLand team created Modern Go Guidelines to […]

World · Deutsche Welle

Iran protest victim: 'They were shooting to kill'

DW spoke with several Iranians affected by a brutal crackdown at the hands of the Tehran's security forces during the height of massive public protests in January.

World · Deutsche Welle

Myanmar: Why Rohingya refugees can't return

Nine years after the Rohingya were driven from Myanmar, claims of progress on refugee returns have revived talk of repatriation.

Developers & Open Source · JetBrains Blog

How We Optimized the Qwen 3.6 Model for Our Junie Agent

A while ago, we launched a long-term project to enable users to run Junie entirely locally, with local inference, across a wide variety of hardware setups. After much anticipation, we recently released an initial version of Junie Local that works on a MacBook M5 with Qwen3.6-27B. In this blog post, I will share what it […]

Cybersecurity · SecurityWeek

Hired for One Job, Judged on Another: The CISO’s Real Problem

The skills that get a CISO hired are rarely the skills they are judged on later. Most security leaders are stuck in that gap. Closing it is the real job. The post Hired for One Job, Judged on Another: The CISO’s Real Problem appeared first on SecurityWeek .

World · BBC Middle East

Israel warns of 'forceful' response to kites flown from Gaza

Hamas says the kites found in Israeli border communities in recent days were launched by children in Gaza.

World · Al Jazeera

Algeria’s schools put Shakespeare before Molière in break from France

Algerian primary schools will begin teaching English before French for the first time, signalling a drift from France.

AI · TechCrunch AI

Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B

Hugging Face has reportedly been fielding acquisition offers that would value the company at around $13B. But with the founders' feeling of responsibility to community, doubts arise as to whether a sale will happen.

Startups & Funding · TechCrunch Startups

US nutrition startup Berry Street merges with India’s Healthify as GLP-1 trends upwards

Berry Street founder Noah Kotlove and Healthify founder Tushar Vashisht will act as co-CEOs of the new entity.

World · Al Jazeera

Rain and flooding from Typhoon Narra hits China and Vietnam

Rain and flooding from Typhoon Narra hits China and Vietnam

Society · BBC Technology

Twitch and Amazon face legal action over using livestreams to train AI

The lawsuit alleges Twitch used streamers' videos to train AI without their permission or proper compensation.

World · Al Jazeera

‘Barrel bomb mufti’ sentenced to life in Syria

‘Barrel bomb mufti’ sentenced to life in Syria

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Thomson Reuters trained its own AI model. Then it kept using Anthropic’s anyway.

Thomson Reuters has developed its own AI model for legal, tax and compliance work, trained on the company’s proprietary professional The post Thomson Reuters trained its own AI model. Then it kept using Anthropic’s anyway. appeared first on The New Stack .

Developers & Open Source · Docker Blog

MinIO End of Life: How to Stay Patched and Audit-Ready with Docker ELS

MinIO reached end of life in February 2026. Docker Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) keeps end-of-life software like it patched, compliant, and audit-ready for up to five years, covering versions upstream no longer supports all the way up to entire projects.

World · Al Jazeera

Saudi Arabia’s MBS visits Macron in France: What to expect

Saudi crown prince and French president are set to sign several agreements on health, transport and energy.

AI · The Decoder

Thomson Reuters bets $40M on owning its AI instead of renting from OpenAI or Anthropic

Thomson Reuters is launching "Thomson," its own language model built on Alibaba's Qwen, at a cost of about $40 million over two years. But the benchmarks only show top marks when the model can tap into the company's own content, like Westlaw. CTO Joel Hron makes the point that what matters isn't intelligence itself, but knowing which intelligence you need to own. The article Thomson Reuters bets $40M on owning its AI instead of renting from OpenAI or Anthropic appeared first on The Decoder .

World · BBC Europe

Crash involving coach carrying German students injures 16

Eight people, including the driver of a delivery van, are seriously hurt, police say.

World · BBC Europe

UK missiles offer may help Ukraine - but they are not what Zelensky needs most

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham is handing over blueprints so Kyiv can build its own long-range missiles.

World · Al Jazeera

Four arrested over fatal shooting of South African boxer Zolani Tete

Tete, who won world WBF flyweight and WBO bantamweight titles, was killed outside his home in Eastern Cape last week.

Cybersecurity · SecurityWeek

Uber Fined Nearly $1 Billion by Dutch Regulators Over Automated Suspensions of Driver Accounts

Dutch Data Protection Authority said it is imposing a fine of 825 million euros because Uber violated the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. The post Uber Fined Nearly $1 Billion by Dutch Regulators Over Automated Suspensions of Driver Accounts appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Business · CNBC Technology

Canada tariffs, Bessent's buyback funding, Scott Kirby's plans for United and more in Morning Squawk

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

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

WordlistLoader Delivers Amatera via ClickFix, SynkLoader Phishes Windows Passwords

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged two new malware families called WordlistLoader and SynkLoader that's used to deliver next-stage payloads and likely sell access to ransomware groups. According to findings from Gen Digital, WordlistLoader is being used to deliver Amatera Stealer (aka ACR Stealer or AcridRain Stealer) via ClearFake campaigns, which employ the ClickFix (aka FakeCaptcha)

World · Al Jazeera

South Korea says US cancelled upcoming joint marine exercises over Iran war

The cancellation follows Trump's surprise order last week to scale back a separate annual joint military drill.