The French president landed in Damascus on Monday evening. He's the first EU leader to visit the country since Bashar Assad's sudden downfall and the rise of former militant turned President Ahmed al-Sharaa.
A Vienna court has convicted two former Syrian security officials, including the former intelligence chief in Raqqa, for offenses including torture and sexual assault against opponents of Bashar Assad's regime.
Cloudflare is giving all customers granular AI bot controls. Site owners can now manage Search, Training, and Agent bots separately instead of blocking them all at once. Starting September 15, 2026, Training and Agent bots will be blocked by default on ad-supported pages. The article Cloudflare replaces its blanket AI bot block with granular controls for search, training, and agent crawlers appeared first on The Decoder .
Year-long mandate for action prompts fears of fresh disruption after resident doctors recently ended dispute Consultant doctors in England have voted for strikes over the next 12 months in pursuit of higher pay and a shorter working week, prompting fears of renewed disruption in the NHS. Consultants, who earn an average of £152,000, want ministers to agree a multi-year pay deal to address what they say is the 25% fall in the value of their salaries since 2008-09. Continue reading...
The United States of America recently turned 250 years old. What a spectacle! The fireworks were amazing, and millions of proud people celebrated across the nation - even around the world. France lit up the Eiffel Tower; Japan had fireworks. French fighter jets flew above New York City with trails of red, white, and blue […]
A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.
An Iranian hacking group affiliated with Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has been wielding a previously undocumented modular command-and-control (C2) framework dubbed Cavern (aka Cav3rn) targeting Israeli organizations. The activity, which has primarily singled out IT providers and government sectors, has been attributed to a threat cluster tracked by Check Point Research
Developers are paying closer attention to how much their AI coding tools cost them to run, and for good reason. The post Getting Claude Code to grunt in Caveman-speak might not save as many tokens as you think appeared first on The New Stack .
Zhipu AI is bringing GLM-5.2 to its ZCode development environment, pitching the model's long-context capabilities for complex coding tasks. New customers get a free five-day trial with up to 5 million tokens per day, and subscribers receive about 1.5 times more token quota through July 2026. The article Zhipu AI launches ZCode to challenge Claude Code and OpenAI Codex at a fraction of the cost appeared first on The Decoder .
AI trash-talkers love to rip on the technology for failing to produce meaningful business results, often pointing to studies like The post Why most AI projects fail: It’s infrastructure and people appeared first on The New Stack .
Tencent has released Hy3, an open-source language model with 295 billion parameters built on a mixture-of-experts architecture. Only 21 billion parameters are active at any given time. Tencent says Hy3 matches models two to five times its size while cutting its hallucination rate in half to 5.4 percent. The article Tencent releases Hy3 open-source model that allegedly matches models up to five times its active size appeared first on The Decoder .