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How Certis builds employee trust to scale security bots
Certis Group CEO Tian Beng Ng explains why fast AI decisions need human accountability, and why digital employees require the same oversight as staff.
CVE-2026-12954 | Mapster WP Maps Plugin up to 1.23.0 on WordPress my_profile_update acf-photo-gallery-groups input validation
A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Mapster WP Maps Plugin up to 1.23.0 on WordPress. This issue affects the function my_profile_update. The manipulation of the argument acf-photo-gallery-groups results in improper input validation. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-12954. It
Scientists solve mystery of black hole 'burps'; new study reveals when these cosmic objects launch powerful jets after eating stars
When a star strays too close to a supermassive black hole, gravity can tear the star apart in what astronomers call a tidal disruption event. Some of the debris gets swallowed, while the rest can be blasted back out in powerful jets, sometimes months or years after the star is destroyed.
As Medicaid Changes Near, Concerns Mount That People With Disabilities Will Lose Coverage
The law allows those who are deemed “medically frail” or who have “special medical needs” including individuals with physical, intellectual or ...
Falcons storm into CPL final after Shadab, Moqim spin web around Warriors
League table toppers Guyana Amazon Warriors were bundled out for just 76
Indonesia acquires first aircraft carrier amid military upgrade
Indonesia says vessel will be used to aid disaster relief across the archipelago.
AI systems don’t have a drive to survive. Here’s why
In controlled safety tests described earlier this year, researchers asked AI models to solve a series of simple math problems. Partway through the exercise, the instructors warned the bots that if they tried to solve the next problem, the computer environment they were operating in would be shut down. In some runs, the shutdown occurred as specified. In others, models interfered with the shutdown script and continued with the remaining problems. What explains this behavior? Do artificial inte
First Look at Ian McKellen’s Gandalf in Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum Revealed
Ian McKellen suits up as Gandalf once more in the first behind-the-scenes look at The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum.
Regulate and Standardize AI? Nope.
Regulate and Standardize AI? Nope.
Workspace Models: Lightweight Robotic Memory via Saliency-Driven Supervision
Complex robotic manipulation tasks frequently require a long-term memory of past events and actions. As conditioning on full histories renders policies prone to spurious correlations and degrades performance, many approaches to policy memory involve compressing historical information through expensive VLM queries in-the-loop to process only task-salient information. In this paper, we propose an alternative approach in which computationally intensive VLM queries are made during train-time to lear
The axion mass in the post-inflationary scenario in a minimal scaling model
We calculate the dark matter axion mass in the post-inflationary scenario in a minimal model with a set of classical field theory simulations on $12\,288^3$ grids. In the model, the Peccei-Quinn U(1) symmetry is broken by a complex scalar field at a temperature $f_{\rm a} \sim 10^{11}$ GeV, creating a string network. The strings become the boundaries of domain walls at the QCD transition, which draw the strings together and annihilate them. The decay of the strings and domain walls leaves behind
Dynamic Generalized Gromov-Wasserstein Optimal Transport
Gromov--Wasserstein optimal transport (GW-OT) extends classical optimal transport by introducing structure-aware transport cost. This is particularly relevant for spatial transcriptomics, where dynamical reconstruction should preserve tissue structure in addition to matching expression patterns. While static formulations have been widely used for such structure-aware alignment, a general dynamic formulation for reconstructing continuous trajectories is still missing. We introduce Travelling Pair
Did these players really need HIAs? The NRL is watching
The NRL hit two clubs with “please explain” notices last weekend seeking clarification on their handling of HIAs, as rivals grow increasingly frustrated at perceived abuse of the concussion protocol.
‘Just ask Grok’: How ISIL is using Big Tech’s AI to build bombs
Evidence shared exclusively with Al Jazeera ISIL supporters sharing ways to bypass AI safeguards.
Osaka Gas buys 5 per cent of Browse gas project from BP
The Japanese gas giant is buying the stake from 44.33 per cent holder BP, which is now run by Browse partner Woodside Energy’s former chief executive Meg O’Neill.
Quote of the day by Clint Eastwood: ‘Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form,’ a powerful life lesson in humility and staying open to new ideas
Clint Eastwood has spent decades playing characters who often say little but leave a lasting impression. Away from the screen, however, the actor and filmmaker has spoken about a very different kind of strength, knowing when to listen.
New DOOGEE Smartwatch Has GPX Route Import and Track Back So You Never Get Lost Outdoors
The DOOGEE Anymoving M1 Pro is the company's new smartwatch with GPX offline navigation and Track Back, amongst other features.
Embedding Models Measure in Peculiar Ways
Embedding spaces define notions of semantic similarity and distance. We study whether those embeddings reflect physical measurements of mass, distance, time and volume, which admit a unique, objective notion of semantic equivalence and distance. We find that physical measurement is only weakly modeled in the embedding space, and that instead quite peculiar measurement patterns can be observed. Further analysis indicates that embedding representations of physical measurements are strongly influen
Variable aperture is cool, but as a photographer, the reason I want an iPhone 18 Pro is this hidden anti-AI camera tool
The iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max don't just get more camera controls; there's a built-in tool for authenticating an image in an era of AI slop
Should Primary Care Take on a Greater Role in the Care of ADHD? | Psychology Today
Primary care already plays a leading role in mental health care for common mental health conditions (e.g., anxiety and depression) in many countries.
GdS: 'There's no time' - Amorim has Cardinale's backing but turning point is needed
The alarm bells are not ringing for Gerry Cardinale just yet, but Ruben Amorim hopes that Sunday's game against Lecce brings a turning point.
One killed, four injured in shooting at a school in southern Philippines: Reuters citing local officials
One killed, four injured in shooting at a school in southern Philippines: Reuters citing local officials
STARLUX Airlines projects triple-digit passenger growth in 2026 - BusinessWorld Online
Taiwan’s STARLUX Airlines said that it is projecting ‘triple-digit’ passenger growth in 2026, up from approximately 75% recorded a year earlier, as it expands services in the Philippines. “From 2025 to 2026, we achieved record growth of around 75% compared to last year,” STARLUX Airlines Manager Jan
Malay Mail’s Top 10 picks: ‘Chelot’ keeps box office crown, ‘Kudrat 1968’ shoots to Netflix No. 1
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 18 — Fresh off Malaysia Day, there was plenty to celebrate, with the festive mood also reflected on the entertainment front as local content made its presence...
The billionaire who can’t stop writing essays that freak out the world
“If you’re explaining, you’re losing,” Ronald Reagan is credited with saying. Silicon Valley disagrees, led by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.
CVE-2026-15275 wpexpertsio Multi Store Locator Pro Plugin AJAX sql injection
A vulnerability has been found in wpexpertsio Multi Store Locator Pro Plugin up to 4.5.1 on WordPress. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-15275.
1,00,000-ton US aircraft carrier returns to fleet after major upgrade
The Nimitz-class nuclear-powered carrier spent about 18 months undergoing a Docked Planned Incremental Availability.
T2 estimation from MOLLI acquisitions
Cardiac T1 and T2 quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a technique that provides characterization of a multitude of myocardial pathologies. However, each parameter requires its own specialized acquisition sequence, which may be time-consuming. In this work, we demonstrate that MOLLI, an acquisition sequence commonly used to perform T1 mapping, is also sensitive to T2, and can also be used for myocardial T2 mapping. Although MOLLI is not designed for T2 mapping, its signal evolution i
Congratulations to WWE World Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns!
Roman Reigns continues to assert his dominance as the WWE World Heavyweight Champion on Monday Night RAW. The OTC has now hit yet another milestone as the titleholder.
Nigerian police probe death in custody of 37 illegal mining suspects
Officials blame disease outbreak for deaths as survivor suggests they suffocated.
Does Training on Future Data Pay? Look-Ahead Bias in Forecasting with Pretrained Models
We examine whether post-origin training information inflates the measured accuracy and economic value of financial forecasts. We evaluate five sets of financial time-series foundation models, each comprising independently trained annual vintages under U.S., global, and factor-augmented training environments, across 14 equity markets and four forecast horizons. Rolling comparisons vary the annual vintage for a fixed forecast; fixed-vintage comparisons hold the vintage fixed as target windows move
Boy George defends Ed Sheeran in social media rant
Boy George has claimed Ed Sheeran was right to get "rid" of Macklemore from his tour.The 65-year-old pop star shared a rant on social media after being tricked into thinking an old clip of the singer-songwriter performing solo was a new video following the rapper's departure from his US shows.He wro
High-end GPUs may be slowing China's AI compute expansion
China's wide gap in token costs stems largely from domestic companies' difficulty in accessing Nvidia high-end GPUs, forcing them to squeeze more value from each token to recoup costs. But supply-chain sources say the scale of China and US AI compute investment may actually be roughly comparable, de
Coding Agents with an Obstacle-Aware Harness for Safe Robot Manipulation
Coding agents have emerged as a promising paradigm for robot manipulation: a language model writes the robot controller as a program, and agents built in this way now operate robots without robot-specific training.Whether this paradigm is also safe, however, has not been asked. We evaluate coding agent under a safety constraint, where each task pairs a manipulation goal with an obstacle the robot must not touch. The agent pursues the goal but collides with the obstacle in most cases, treating ta
Scientists turned discarded fish scales into flexible biodegradable plastic film that breaks down in soil within 8 weeks
Scientists have turned discarded fish scales into a plastic-like material that can break down naturally in soil, Cyclo. Plas 2, the material is made from collagen fish scales and chitosan, creating a thin, flexible, translucent film.
Scott Power: ASX healthcare rises as Morgans dissects FY26 reporting season | Stockhead
The ASX healthcare sector finished higher for week ending September 18, 2026 as Morgans released its report analysing FY26 reporting season.
True colours revealed as NFL coach rips Melbourne game
He stuck to the script in Australia but only waited a week to tell everyone what he really thought.
Canada's top general is up for a senior NATO post. Will Trump get in her way?
Canada's Gen. Jennie Carignan faces Germany's Gen. Carsten Breuer on Saturday in a secret-ballot contest to chair NATO's Military Committee. A victory would make Carignan the first woman to hold the post and return Canada to the chair after nearly two decades, amid Ottawa's push for deeper ties with
Everyone thought AI would replace junior engineers. We’re hiring more of them
The biggest hiring myth in tech is that AI is making junior engineers obsolete. The logic seems sound: AI can write code, so why hire people to write more of it? Junior engineers have always learned on the job, fixing bugs and shipping small features until they build real judgment. Now that coding agents can handle much of that work, companies assume they can cut off the bottom rungs of the career ladder. At Snowflake, we’re making the opposite bet. Snowflake is a data and artificial intellig
Zack Snyder’s Favorite DC Movie Out of the 4 He Directed Isn’t Surprising at All
Zack Snyder picks his best DC movie of all time from his filmography in a recent podcast. Here are the details.
Chinese AI startup Moonshot launches Kimi for finance
Moonshot said Kimi can also access the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the St. Louis Fed’s FRED database.
CVE-2026-13471 LatePoint Plugin Abilities API execute resource injection
A flaw has been found in LatePoint Plugin up to 5.6.3 on WordPress. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-13471.
Spacetime Dynamics of Altermagnetic Magnons
Distinguishing altermagnetism from conventional ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism typically relies on momentum-space probes. Here, we show that the real-space spreading of a localized spin excitation provides a distinctive dynamical fingerprint of altermagnetic order. Using linear spin-wave theory on a two-dimensional checkerboard lattice with nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor couplings J_1 and J_2, we demonstrate that finite J_2 produces direction-dependent magnon group velocities
A Mathematical Model of Motivated Emotional Mind - Cognitive Embodied System
This article presents a mathematical model of the Motivated Emotional Mind cognitive architecture developed for embodied intelligent systems. Such a system learns to maintain its homeostasis through a generalized form of reinforcement learning based on its internal motivations, termed motivated learning (ML). The principal contribution of this article is a rigorous formalization of the re-entrant loop integrating feedforward processing, lateral interactions, and feedback pathways, together with
5 Things Sami Zayn Can Do on SmackDown Tonight After Becoming The Undisputed WWE Champion
Sami Zayn has once again reached the top of WWE, and this time, he will walk into Friday Night SmackDown as the Undisputed WWE Champion.
Philippines school shooting leaves at least two dead
The country's third deadly school shooting incident since June also leaves at least eight people injured.
Toyota estimates factory automation could cost $6.4 billion per year from 2028
TOKYO, Sept 18 : Toyota Motor estimates it could cost 1 trillion yen ($6.4 billion) annually from 2028 to modernise its factories as the world's biggest carmaker accelerates automation and robotics deployment.Across the industry, automakers are turning to robotics to cut costs and address ageing inf
TikTok Star Mason Hull Fighting Child Porn Charges After Cops Say He Initially Confessed
TikToker Mason Hull is fighting back against criminal charges accusing him of buying child porn online, TMZ has learned. The 18-year-old content creator -- known for his Looksmaxxing content -- entered a not guilty plea to 15 counts of possession…
Amid mixed reception online for the Dyson Camerajet, we ask Dyson how it created the video toothbrush capturing everyone's attention
A camera in a toothbrush? Dyson's head of product development tells us how (and why)
AWS, Salesforce expand AI and zero-copy integrations
It also brings AWS agents into Slack, starting with AWS DevOps Agent, and expands Agentforce access to Bedrock models.
World's last known wild Chilean tree daisy gets a lifeline as conservationists use ropes to support its only survivor and two seedlings arrive at a Scottish garden
A rare tree daisy from Chile's Robinson Crusoe Island is receiving a new lifeline after two seedlings arrived at Logan Botanic Garden in south-west Scotland. Dendroseris neriifolia has been reduced to one known wild tree, which grows on a steep cliff and is supported by ropes to prevent it from fall
DWP autism and dyslexia update over new plan to track sickness absence
The DWP has faced questions over a new unit being set up to cut absence at work
How to get Camo Ammu-Nation Sweatsuit and $1 million in GTA Online weekly update
This week in the GTA Online weekly update, Rockstar Games is offering a new Camo Ammu-Nation Sweatsuit and $1,000,000. The rewards are part of this week's challenge related to Bunker Research.
In Yemen, war at home and in the region drives up prices
Families in Sanaa brace for higher food and transport costs after first fuel price increase in four years.
Using machine learning metrics to provide deeper insights into the performance of choice models
Machine learning (ML) techniques are increasingly drawing interest in the choice modelling (CM) field. The focus has primarily been on comparing the performance of these contrasting approaches or on improving behavioural insights for ML techniques, rather than translating ideas from one field into the other. In the present paper, we specifically focus on knowledge transfer from ML into CM in the context of model performance evaluation. In CM, model performance is typically evaluated using log-li
Zara Larsson criticises White House for using her song in deportation video
The White House removed Larsson's Midnight Sun from one of its reels after the artist called the clip "dehumanising".
Anthropic says Claude is now leading more than a quarter of its AI research
Anthropic said Claude now leads 26% of its AI research work, up from under 1% in March, as the industry tracks AI's ability to self-improvement.
GCash Owner Gets Approval for Up to $1.5 Billion Philippines IPO
The company behind GCash, the biggest mobile wallet app in the Philippines, received approval from the country’s stock exchange operator of an initial public offering of as much as 92.3 billion pesos ($1.47 billion), clearing the final regulatory hurdle for a record debut.
A Gaussian process coarse-grained potential for Na-montmorillonite
Hydraulic transport in compacted bentonite is diffusion-controlled and governed by the hydration and microstructure of sodium montmorillonite (Na-MMT). Experiments cannot resolve how platelet interactions govern pore structure, transport and stiffness, while existing coarse-grained models smooth hydration oscillations or require manual corrections. We develop a tabulated potential combining Morse interactions between platelet centre and edge sites with a Gaussian process regression correction tr
If your parent lived to 100, you may have inherited a surprising advantage - NJ.com
They should also include muscle-strengthening and balance activities when their health and abilities allow. People with medical conditions should ask ...
D.J. Moore injury: Bills wideout ruled out after injuring shoulder vs. Lions
The injury occurred during the second quarter of Buffalo's home opener
Australia targets student visas and backpackers in new migration crackdown
The government move comes after right-wing One Nation party surges in recent opinion polls
Beyond Linearity: Semiparametric Solutions to Contamination Bias with Multi-valued Treatments
We examine semiparametric solutions to contamination bias for nonbinary treatments. Deepening the discussion by Goldsmith-Pinkham et al. (2024), we detail how spline functions approximate conditional expectation and propensity score functions under weak functional-form assumptions. Reanalyzing 18 regressions across 11 studies, we compare standard linear regressions against parametric and semiparametric versions of three contamination-robust estimators. We document large point-estimate discrepanc
Johnny Marr guitars sell for more than £560k at auction
One instrument was used on the The Smiths' debut album and also appeared on the cover of Oasis's debut single.