Indonesian VP resigns over education qualification row
Indonesia’s Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka has resigned amid a dispute over his educational qualifications.
2,200-year-old gold bear figurine and surprising number of bones found in massive burial mound in Kazakhstan
The gold bear would have been worn on a headdress. (Image credit: Almaty City Administration) Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have discovered a unique gold bear figurine
The Grand Canyon is missing over a billion years of rocks. Now scientists know why.
More than a billion years of geological history is missing from the walls of the Grand Canyon, and now, scientists may know why. In the
‘The possibilities are truly breathtaking’: NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will take better images and last longer than experts predicted
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is nearing its final destination more than 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Earth, where it will soon
Australian teen missing in bush for six days rescued alive
The 17-year-old’s mum has joked that he is “grounded for life” and “never leaving the house again”.
Nigeria’s president launches re-election manifesto but can he regain voters’ trust?
For Nigerians to feel meaningful improvements, reforms will need to go beyond the promises outlined, analysts say.
Famed ship SS United States to be sunk off coast of Florida
Activists unsuccessfully fought for the historic liner to be preserved and turned into a museum, but it will now become the world’s largest artificial ocean
Transport workers in Chile block highways in protest over surging fuel prices
Hundreds of bus and lorry drivers are blocking traffic along major highway routes across the country.
The AI-Assisted Linux Driver for DisplayLink Gets Legal Notice
Before we dive into the matter, you first have to understand what DisplayLink is. It is a proprietary graphics transport technology that lets computers connect
Local AI Weekly #9: The Computer Says No
Three weeks ago, I wrote that if you can reverse engineer it, it’s open source. Looks like the frontier labs didn’t love that idea. Claude
Two killed in ‘devastating’ New York building collapse
At least two people have been killed after a “devastating” building collapse in Brooklyn, New York City’s mayor has said.
Nvidia preparing to oust CEO amid reports of a second affair
Nvidia is reportedly preparing to oust its CEO – after US media outlets claimed that Jensen Huang has had a second extramarital affair.
Microsoft turns on Claude by default in UK Copilot, The Register reports
Microsoft will switch on Anthropic’s Claude models by default for UK Copilot customers from 9 December, The Register reported. Anthropic processes that data in the
IBM plans to link two quantum chips into a 1,040-qubit system in 2027
IBM’s next quantum chip, Nighthawk r3, is designed to run 10,000 operations on 520 qubits. IBM plans to link two of them into a 1,040-qubit