China has established a substantial lead over the United States and other major economies in their readiness to build and deploy physical AI systems, according to a new study from robotics technology company OpenMind. The OpenMind Physical AI Readiness Index 2026 assesses 58 countries and 22 metropolitan clusters on their ability to build, power, supply […]
The Middle East premiere of Yemeni-Scottish filmmaker Sara Ishaq’s timely drama “The Station” will open the revamped Doha Film Festival, which will run Nov. 19–27 in the Qatari capital. The film centers on Layal, who runs a women-only gas station in Yemen which is a safe haven during the country’s civil war. “When Layal’s younger […]
Farmers fear they may not be able to carry out environmental work because they lost out on funding.
At multi-tenant SaaS scale, a monolithic edge worker creates deployment coupling and broad blast radius. The article presents a modular Cloudflare Workers architecture using service bindings, with image optimization as a worked example of per-tenant format negotiation and device-aware sizing. It covers multi-CDN differences, staged releases, configuration, and testing. By Chintan Tank
Shubnam was packing boxes for a move into a new home when their friend sent them an Instagram video. The footage had only been up for a few hours, but it was days old, recorded at a Delhi protest this spring against a bill that would have narrowed the legal recognition for transgender people in…
Brace yourself: It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the answers to a cybersecurity test. Next, they solved a prestigious math problem (or just stole from two top mathematicians’ answer sheets). Anthropic’s models have also hacked into other companies’ systems four times already. And that’s…
Nvidia has introduced Jetson Orin Nano 2, a new compact robotics computer designed to provide higher AI inference performance and lower power consumption for robots, drones, vision systems and other physical AI applications. The new module delivers 78 trillion operations per second of AI compute and features 8 GB of memory and an eight-core Arm […]
Higher energy prices due to the conflict in the Middle East and climate change could hit growth.
MIP London will not be returning in 2027, with organizers RX France instead launching a new event alongside the London Book Fair. Titled MIP Talks, the two-day conference will take place March 16-17, 2027 — concurrent to the book fair — with the aim of “bringing together leading voices from across the increasingly connected worlds […]
Attackers are exploiting a critical flaw in F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) that lets them run code on a BIG-IP system without logging in, F5 says. The flaw, CVE-2026-94127, affects only systems in which APM serves as an OAuth authorization server, issuing access tokens to applications. F5 disclosed it in an advisory on September 22 and has released engineering hotfixes.
A Chinese threat actor codenamed UTA0565 has been observed exploiting the recently disclosed Google Chrome-Microsoft Windows exploit chain as zero-days through fake websites. The attacks, detected on September 3 and 4, 2026, involved the chaining of two vulnerabilities in Chrome (CVE-2026-85046, CVE-2026-87491) and one impacting Windows Advanced Local Procedure Call (CVE-2026-85880) to break
بغداد اليوم - بغداد أعلن رئيس كتلة منتصرون النيابية النائب فالح الخزعلي، اليوم الأربعاء (23 أيلول 2026)، رفضه خضوع مناصب وزارة النفط للأهواء والرغبات السياسية، مؤكداً دعمه لموقف وزير النفط في رفض أي مرشح خلافاً للقانون. وقال الخزعلي في تغريدة له على منصة "إكس" تابعتها "بغداد اليوم": "ندعم السيد وزير النفط المحترم بعدم القبول بأي مرشح لأي منصب في وزارة النفط خلاف القانون". وأضاف أنه "يجب عدم القبول بعدنان جميلي ثاني في الوزارة"، مشدداً على أن "وزارة النفط هي وزارة العراق وليس الرغبات السياسية". وأشار رئيس كتلة منتصرون النيابية إلى أن "الوزارة مليئة بالكفاءات الفنية والإدارية التي تمتلك الخبرة والنزاهة لشغل المناصب".
