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'The days of safety are over': Russian airports face record closures

Euronews

'The days of safety are over': Russian airports face record closures

Ukraine's drone campaign forced an average of 32 airport closures a day across 32 Russian airports including Moscow and St Petersburg, with summer totals already exceeding all of 2025, as Zelenskyy warned airlines and insurers that "the…

Euronews

DeepSeek says new Flash AI model beats Kimi K3 on cyber, coding benchmarks

South China Morning Post

DeepSeek says new Flash AI model beats Kimi K3 on cyber, coding benchmarks

DeepSeek has released its V4.1 Flash model, claiming it outperforms its previous flagship while cutting inference costs and boosting speeds – the latest salvo in China’s aggressive price-and-performance war. The Chinese artificial…

South China Morning Post

A Satellite Falling Out of Orbit Embarks on Its Final Mission

Wired

A Satellite Falling Out of Orbit Embarks on Its Final Mission

Before reentering our atmosphere, the telescopes onboard NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have been restarted to take their last observations.

Wired

The Trump phone just got a $250 price hike

The Trump phone just got a $250 price hike

Bad news if you didn't lock in a Trump phone at launch: It now costs $749, a $250 increase on its price at launch. The T1 Phone itself hasn't changed. Trump Mobile didn't announce the price increase, instead quietly changing its website…

TechRadar

AI’s overlooked storage opportunity

The AI infrastructure discussion is typically framed around the cost of data centers, the power requirements, and the compute needed to train and run models, including GPUs and high-performance storage. That’s hardly surprising given the…

TechRadar

AllAfrica

South Africa: Crime and Courts - Woman Nabbed As DJ Warras Murder Probe Heats Up

[Scrolla] Police arrested a 40-year-old woman in KwaZulu-Natal who they say helped locate DJ Warras before he was shot dead in Johannesburg. Major court cases involving Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, Cat Matlala and Shebe Maburna are also…

AllAfrica

Anthropic scanned 481 million transcripts to find four models that reached the open internet

Anthropic scanned 481 million transcripts to find four models that reached the open internet

Anthropic has published an account of four cybersecurity evaluations in which its models gained unauthorised access to the open internet, and disclosed that finding them required scanning roughly 481 million transcripts. The assessment was…

As Russians prepare to vote, anxiety over the war deepens

Straits Times

As Russians prepare to vote, anxiety over the war deepens

MOSCOW, Sept 10 - Yuri decided to stick shatter-resistant film onto the windows of his Moscow home in August after a drone blast blew shards of glass into his friend's apartment, causing minor injuries to those inside.

Straits Times

Nintendo’s latest Switch 2 update adds VRR support in TV mode

Nintendo’s latest Switch 2 update adds VRR support in TV mode

Nintendo always promised that the Switch 2 would support variable refresh rate (VRR) when docked, but the console launched without this key feature. A new 23.0.0 firmware update now adds VRR support to the Switch 2 when it's docked and in…

Christy Chen on why today’s chatbots aren’t built to help you know yourself

Christy Chen on why today’s chatbots aren’t built to help you know yourself

Christy Chen, founder of Cit Labs, argues that AI chatbots fail at emotional support not because the technology is incapable but because the models were optimized for engagement, trained on text that performs support rather than delivers…

Gander Welcomed Americans in 2001. Now, U.S.-Canada Tensions Hit Home

The New York Times

Gander Welcomed Americans in 2001. Now, U.S.-Canada Tensions Hit Home

The Newfoundland town welcomed thousands of frightened airline passengers on Sept. 11, but 25 years later, mixed emotions run through anniversary plans amid an escalating trade war.

The New York Times

Startup Founder Interview: SparkVox Turns Founder Recordings Into LinkedIn Content They Sound Like

Hacker Noon