A teen road-trip yarn with a twist, exploring the lure of religious fundamentalism and a rot at the core of the British state. In 2015, the UK-born Shamima Begum fled to Syria with a desire to join Islamic State, a decision which resulted in much knee-jerk vilification in the national media. It also led those more empathetic towards the enigmas...
Throughout these performances something chameleonic about Mortensen as an actor materialises. There’s a softness to the way he carries himself as Tom Stall and yet, when he plays the Russian mobster Nikolai in Eastern Promises, his features seem sharper and more threatening. That sense of a changed self desperately clawing towards the surface plays out through more internal ways in each story; the...
The idea of hiring your “first critical engineer” is getting a serious reality check at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, taking place October 27–29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. Join Lauri Moore, partner at Bessemer Venture Partners; David Cramer, co-founder and chief product officer at Sentry; and Zach Lloyd, founder and CEO of Warp, on the Builders Stage for a candid conversation...
A data spill from an unsecured cloud server has exposed hundreds of thousands of sensitive bank transfer documents in India, revealing account numbers, transaction figures, and individuals’ contact details. Researchers at cybersecurity firm UpGuard discovered in late August a publicly accessible Amazon-hosted storage server containing 273,000 PDF documents relating to bank transfers of Indian customers. The exposed files contained completed...
The $100 billion partnership between Nvidia and OpenAI, announced Monday, represents – for now – the latest mega-deal reshaping the AI infrastructure landscape. The agreement involves non-voting shares tied to massive chip purchases and enough computing power for more than 5 million U.S. households, deepening the relationship between two of AI’s most powerful players. Meanwhile, Google Cloud is placing a...
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 24 September 2025 Genome editors are molecular machines that can rewrite the genetic code in cells, but sometimes they produce errors in the form of unintended sequence insertions or deletions, collectively known as indel errors. Genome editors have now been engineered that make up to 60-fold fewer indel errors than previous ones did. Source link...
FBI: 'Anti-ICE' message appeared on ammunition from Dallas ICE facility shootingA detainee has died and two others are critically injured after a rooftop sniper opened fire at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) centre in Dallas, Texas, officials say.The gunman fired indiscriminately at the ICE facility and at a nearby unmarked van, law enforcement officials say, before dying from a...
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- Effective immediately, Virginia officials will begin inspecting and evaluating inhalable hemp products sold across the state. On Wednesday, Sept. 24, the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) announced that its Office of Hemp Enforcement is working with retailers to inspect and evaluate any inhalable hemp products they sell, per a press release. The office...
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The Rev. Wes Granberg-Michaelson has spent decades following a spiritual practice that at first seemed foreign to him, having been raised as a conservative evangelical. Once an aide to former Republican Sen. Mark Hatfield and later an executive at the World Council of Churches, Granberg-Michaelson was inspired by an ecumenical church in the nation’s capital to start...
As a wound heals, it goes through several stages: clotting to stop bleeding, immune system response, scabbing, and scarring. A wearable device called "a-Heal," designed by engineers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, aims to optimize each stage of the process. The system uses a tiny camera and AI to detect the stage of healing and deliver a treatment...
