AxiosRELIABLE 7.5geopolĂticaâ 48 fuentesđ bien sourcedSun, 23 Aug 2026 23:15:35
President Trump defended the expansion of data centers in an interview with his former fixer, Michael Cohen, that aired in full on Sunday.Why it matters: Trump's support comes as data centers face growing backlash in both red and blue states.What he's saying: Trump told Cohen during their interview âŚ
SCMPMIXED 6.5geopolĂticapro-PRCâ 6 fuentesđ datosTue, 25 Aug 2026 10:30:07
The usage of open-weight AI models from China hit a record high on a popular US web development platform, driven largely by DeepSeekâs latest lightweight model, as business demand for Anthropicâs cutting-edge Fable 5 stalls due to high costs.
Open-weight models accounted for 54 per cent of token volâŚ
As Damascus continues to rebuild after more than a decade of war â from the recent dissolution of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces to the United Statesâ removal of Syria from its sponsors of terrorism list â a top UN official warned the Security Council on Thursday that international supportâŚ
Just SecurityRELIABLE 8.0defensaâ 22 fuentesđ datosFri, 28 Aug 2026 12:17:26
Sign up to receive the Early Edition in your inbox here. A curated weekday guide to major news and developments over the last 24 hours. Hereâs todayâs news: IRAN WAR Iranian Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Mohsen Rezaei yesterday said Iran is compiling a list of conditions for reâŚ
Europe's landmark AI law has moved from an idea to enforcement. Why it matters: Brussels will soon learn whether it can turn its sweeping AI rulebook into regulation that companies can actually follow â and if it can become a global benchmark for AI standards.Driving the news: A major enforcement deâŚ
AxiosRELIABLE 7.5geopolĂticaâ 22 fuentesđ datosFri, 28 Aug 2026 18:20:59
Roughly 200 accounts from a suspected Chinese bot farm have quietly tried to influence Americans to oppose AI data centers on social media, X said Thursday night.Why it matters: The U.S. and China are racing to build the world's most advanced AI systems â and it appears Chinese propaganda has infiltâŚ
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is shaking up her team with several departures and new aides, sources tell Axios.Why it matters: The personnel changes come months before the progressive leader will decide whether to launch a presidential campaign. She's also weighing a run for Senate MinorityâŚ
Residents of Niger's capital Niamey on Saturday reported hearing gunfire near a military base at the international airport, which has been attacked by jihadists twice this year.
UN NewsGOLD 8.5DDHHâ 7 fuentesFri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00
Following a deadly spate of gang attacks on civilians in Haiti and amid reports of illicit weapons slipping into the Caribbean country, the Security Council has called an emergency meeting at 3pm (local time) to hear and discuss the latest developments. UN News app users can follow our coverage hereâŚ
WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Russian-speaking hackers used SpaceXâs AI coding assistant, Cursor, to help break in to a Belgian chemical company and at least six other firms earlier this year, according to data reviewed by Reuters and reports issued on Thursday by cybersecurity companies Gambit SecâŚ
NPRGOLD 9.0internacionalâ 18 fuentesđ datosWed, 26 Aug 2026 08:27:19
China's Xinhua News Agency said Thursday that mudslides in Tibet caused by a glacial collapse have left three people dead and 558 missing, while police in Nepal reported at least 162 were killed.
Test of US rhetoric will rest on whether nations such as India, China and Russia view economic threats as credibleTehran has vowed to retaliate against any country that cooperates with the US attempt to impose fresh sanctions against Iran in what the Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, has billed as âŚ
OpenAI on Wednesday revealed that reward hacking was a key driver behind the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered hack of Hugging Face last month, adding that it found evidence of misaligned behavior as early as late May.
The incident, the company said, took place during cybersecurity evaluations oâŚ
PhoronixRELIABLE 7.0tecnologĂaâ 14 fuentesđ datosSat, 29 Aug 2026 06:48:11
As an update to the May story about California's age verification law may end up exempting most Linux distributions, that AB-1856 bill has finally passed!..
Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Manchester Airports Group cyberattack, Carhartt breach data was partly fake, U.S. Bank responds to ransomware gangâs claims.
The post In Other News: Log4j RCE Scare, Minimus Shutdown, Iranian Hacker Sanctions appeared first on SecurityWeek.
MeduzaRELIABLE 7.5geopolĂticaanti-Kremlinâ 52 fuentesđ datosMon, 24 Aug 2026 15:32:18
Ozon shares dropped 12.7% to 2,600 rubles after the Moscow Exchangeâs main trading session opened. The exchangeâs benchmark index fell to 2,092 points at the start of trading, down 2% from the previous sessionâs close.
Dfat minister Matt Thistlethwaite says staff are liaising with Kathmandu to find 35 missing Australians, and plans to send emergency team to the regionGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian government is urgently seeking information on the welfare of at least 35 AuâŚ
SCMPMIXED 6.5geopolĂticapro-PRCâ 2 fuentesSat, 29 Aug 2026 06:00:16
China is being urged to use human translators to refine AI renderings of its political messaging, amid concerns that literal translations could make Beijingâs language sound more threatening abroad.
An article in a state-affiliated academic newspaper said the country should strengthen its translatioâŚ
SCMPMIXED 6.5geopolĂticapro-PRCâ 10 fuentesđ datosSat, 29 Aug 2026 09:20:52
Singapore state investor Temasek, the â majority shareholder of Singapore Airlines , on Saturday backed the airlineâs investment in Air India, as scrutiny grows over its stake in the loss-making Indian carrier.
Air Indiaâs request for about US$1.5 billion in fresh equity from owners Tata Sons and SinâŚ
MeduzaRELIABLE 7.5geopolĂticaanti-Kremlinâ 9 fuentesFri, 28 Aug 2026 01:54:43
A law enforcement source told the Russian state news agency TASS that Moscowâs Tverskoy Court has ordered the pretrial detention of the son of Anna Kameneva, an associate professor at Moscow State Universityâs Higher School of State Audit. He has been charged with murdering his mother.
MeduzaRELIABLE 7.5geopolĂticaanti-Kremlinâ 4 fuentesFri, 28 Aug 2026 19:25:05
Businessman Ilya Traber has been released from Moscowâs Lefortovo pretrial detention center, the St. Petersburg-based news outlet Fontanka reported. An investigator ordered his release after his health declined sharply, according to the outlet.
MeduzaRELIABLE 7.5geopolĂticaanti-Kremlinâ 22 fuentesđ datosFri, 28 Aug 2026 19:31:32
A 24-year-old Russian woman is a suspect in the bombing of a car belonging to a lieutenant colonel with a St. Petersburg unit of Russiaâs Air Force and Air Defense, the local news outlet Fontanka said, without disclosing its source. The suspect has not been named.
MeduzaRELIABLE 7.5geopolĂticaanti-Kremlinâ 17 fuentesđ datosFri, 28 Aug 2026 19:36:58
Shoppers on the Ozon marketplace ordered dual-use and military-purpose goods worth more than 25 billion rubles between August 2025 and July 2026, the independent Russian news outlet Verstka said, citing data it obtained from the marketplaceâs internal analytics.
MeduzaRELIABLE 7.5geopolĂticaanti-Kremlinâ 4 fuentesFri, 28 Aug 2026 21:02:16
The Prosecutor Generalâs Office has filed a lawsuit with the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region against Elena Vasilyeva, who owns 45% of the St. Petersburg Oil Terminal (PNT), according to the St. Petersburg-based news outlet Fontanka.
Shreya Ahuja is searching for her parents after devastating floods struck Nepal. She is calling for international help and communications access as her family waits for news.
Pacific leaders will launch the first call for proposals next week for a new regional fund designed to swiftly channel climate finance to local communities
The post Pacific islands seek backing for new regional fund ahead of COP31 appeared first on Climate Home News.
A strong push for a drought protocol by African countries failed in contentious talks, with negotiations postponed for another two years
The post Despite African walkout, fractious land COP ends without drought deal appeared first on Climate Home News.
Nature, Published online: 28 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02733-9Nature talks to specialists about the changes coming to Facebook and Instagram, and whether thereâs evidence they will help.
NODALMIXED 6.0LATAMleftâ 10 fuentesđ bien sourcedđ datosFri, 28 Aug 2026 12:03:43
MoscĂş confirma visita del director de la CIA El jefe del Servicio de Espionaje Exterior (SVR) de Rusia, Serguei Narishkin, asegurĂł hoy (27.08.2026) haber tratado asuntos ÂŤdelicadosÂť con el jefe de la Agencia Central de Inteligencia de EE.UU. (CIA), John Ratcliffe, quien realizĂł el martes (25.08.202âŚ
Rich Mogull, chief analyst with the Cloud Security Alliance, joins the Dark Reading News Desk with what defenders need to take away from AI agents escaping their environments to launch attacks.
The official in charge of President Trump's ceasefire plan for Gaza criticized Israel for its attacks on the Palestinian territory and warned that the alternative to the U.S. proposal is the next war.
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderationâs Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice â or go straight to the RSS feed. To get extended episodâŚ
Over the past two years, Belgium's anti-piracy blocklist has grown past 1,500 domains. This week the government's anti-piracy department expanded its effort, ordering domain registrars and a registry to hand over names, bank accounts, crypto wallets and connection logs linked to pirate site operatorâŚ
WIREDRELIABLE 8.0tecnologĂacenter-leftâ 7 fuentesFri, 28 Aug 2026 09:30:00
Influential right-wing conspiracy theorists and MAGA-aligned pundits are falsely claiming that the Covid vaccine killed Dolly Parton, the vaccination advocate and philanthropist.
Australia has passed a law requiring major tech platforms such as Google and Meta to strike deals with Australian news publishers or pay a levy on their advertising revenue.
On this weekâs show Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James Wilson discuss the weekâs cybersecurity news.
They cover:
GitHub announced a possible breach
CISA leaks important creds, keys in public repo
Awful vulnerability in Bitlocker renders it useless without a PIN
So. Many. Patches.
PoliâŚ
On this weekâs show special guest co-host Andy Boyd joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to discuss the weekâs cybersecurity news. Andy is the CEO of REDLattice, which makes the Paragon âintelligence collection and reconnaissanceâ solution.
They cover:
Adversaries are tracking US troop locationsâŚ
Ugh:
A tractor-trailer rollover sent a truckload of squid spilling into a Rhode Island roadway, leaving a stench as they sat in the road for hours in the summer heat. Local authorities have dubbed it the âSquidpocalypse of â26.â
That would be twenty tons of squid.
As usual, you can also use this squâŚ
Omdia's Theresa Lanowitz talks with the Dark Reading News Desk about the potential â and risks â of using agentic AI for penetration testing, red teaming, and other practices.
Book was removed for review earlier this month following complaint but reinstated after petition and State Library letter to Waverley councilFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA Sydney library has returned to its borrowingâŚ
The $134,000 cost of the statue of the former Victorian premier has been heavily criticised by the Liberal oppositionGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Carroll government in Victoria has cancelled controversial plans for a statue of former Labor premier Daniel Andrews.WorâŚ
A plug-in solar kit that costs about $1,000 âpays for itself in three yearsâ, one expert saysGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMillions of Australians could be saving up to $370 a year on energy bills and doing their bit for the climate crisis if Labor followed the UKâs leadâŚ
Unpopular new policy comes as midterms loom and control of Congress could be decided by several Michigan racesEvery day $1bn worth of goods crosses the river dividing Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, two largely blue-collar US and Canadian cities that have come to act as one in the creation âŚ
MeduzaRELIABLE 7.5geopolĂticaanti-Kremlinâ 13 fuentesWed, 26 Aug 2026 22:01:41
The Gazprom Arena stadium in St. Petersburg is in talks with the organizers of Kanye Westâs (also known as Ye) concerts, the venueâs press service told the Telegram news channel Ostorozhno Novosti and the news outlet Bumaga.
While Firefox 152+ already offers experimental JPEG-XL support, Mozilla formally announced today their plans for officially shipping JPEG-XL image format support in the Firefox web browser...
At FOSSY 2026, several people from the
Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC),
which organizes the conference, gave a presentation about an ongoing
violation of the Affero General Public
License version 3 (AGPLv3). Bradley KĂźhn, Karen Sandler, and Denver
Gingerich spoke about different aspects of the vâŚ
The Asahi Linux crew working to bring Linux support to Apple Silicon hardware is out today with a new status update on their initiatives, largely around Apple M3 bring-up as well as some M4/M5 achievements...
It seems like the PayPal app now refuses to run on GrapheneOS. I don't know if it's only because I have enabled the PayPal card for contacless NFC payments, but when opening the app it crashes with the following exception: com.paypal.oslo.app.rasp.RootDetectionSecurityException: Security policy violâŚ
Just SecurityRELIABLE 8.0defensaâ 22 fuentesđ datosWed, 26 Aug 2026 12:11:47
Sign up to receive the Early Edition in your inbox here. A curated weekday guide to major news and developments over the last 24 hours. Hereâs todayâs news: IRAN WAR U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told several of his foreign counterparts in recent days that âfor the time beingâ the United âŚ
Just SecurityRELIABLE 8.0defensaâ 22 fuentesđ datosThu, 27 Aug 2026 12:03:21
Sign up to receive the Early Edition in your inbox here. A curated weekday guide to major news and developments over the last 24 hours. Hereâs todayâs news: IRAN WAR Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani will visit Tehran today to relaunch diâŚ
Even if the AI investment boom turns out to have been a bubble, the Big Tech companies that have cornered the cloud infrastructure market will emerge as strong as ever, or even stronger. That is why Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are in a league of their own, even compared to other giants like Meta aâŚ
The disagreements between the Nobel laureate economist Daron Acemoglu and his opponents are consequentialâand so are the opponents. But rather than engage in good faith with Acemoglu's arguments, the venerable British news magazine recently stooped to bibulous calumny by unnamed critics of his work.
This is todayâs edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of whatâs going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Kids issue If the desire to limit kidsâ use of technology was once a subcurrent, it has become a raging flood. Countries around the world are banâŚ
AxiosRELIABLE 7.5geopolĂticaâ 6 fuentesđ datosWed, 26 Aug 2026 01:15:59
A federal appeals court ruling Tuesday could erase a new midterm advantage for Republicans.Why it matters: The 2-1 ruling would block Republicans from using cash-rich party committees to buy more political TV ads at discounted rates.Republicans plan to appeal the decision, setting up another high-stâŚ
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries' long-standing tensions with his party's left flank resurfaced this week after news broke of his meeting with President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.Why it matters: Jeffries will have to make nice with the left next year if Democrats win back the House with âŚ
AxiosRELIABLE 7.5geopolĂticaâ 9 fuentesđ datosWed, 26 Aug 2026 16:55:14
Breakthroughs in AI are fueling hopes that more data and smarter models can provide a shortcut to self-driving vehicles. Waymo, after more than 15 years and 200 million driverless miles, says there is none.Why it matters: The answer could determine whether the AV race is a long, expensive slog that âŚ
AxiosRELIABLE 7.5geopolĂticaâ 20 fuentesWed, 26 Aug 2026 17:51:19
A federal judge removed a nationwide ban on President Trump's sweeping mail-in voting policy Wednesday after the Supreme Court cleared the way earlier this week.The big picture: The decision removes the last major legal obstacle to the administration's plan, though it does not end the court challengâŚ
Wildfires demand action on radically different timelines: during the crisis, before the next fire season and over the coming decades.Why it matters: Climate change is worsening the underlying risk, making everything from evacuation plans to forest management and cutting emissions part of the responsâŚ
The nation's old guard of Black leaders is still a key force for Democrats, but this year's primaries have revealed the rising influence of Black Gen Z voters who aren't swayed by their elders' seniority, civil rights credentials or endorsements.Driving the news: Michigan's Democratic primary for SeâŚ
Meta removed a network of Facebook and Instagram accounts tied to an Iran-based operation that used AI to target U.S. audiences with posts about American politics, the company first shared with Axios.Why it matters: The operation attracted thousands of followers and included accounts posing as everyâŚ
OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and more than 100 other companies warned Thursday that the organizations now only have months to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks. Why it matters: Hospitals, water treatment plants and other critical infrastructure will face a swarm of hacking thrâŚ
More than 400 travellers are said to be missing after flood on Tibet border, including 33 BritonsFlash floods on Nepal-Tibet border â latest updatesThirty-three British citizens including a 13-year-old girl are among more than 400 travellers missing after a flash flood on the Nepal-Tibet border, accâŚ
UN NewsGOLD 8.5DDHHâ 43 fuentesWed, 26 Aug 2026 12:00:00
Amid illegal Israeli settlement surges, continued attacks in Gaza and the West Bank alongside tensions throughout Occupied Palestinian Territory, the Security Council discussed the latest developments on Wednesday, with the UN Special Envoy stressing that âhuman dignity must be at the centre of all âŚ
FolhaRELIABLE 7.5LATAMcenter-leftđ datos26 Aug 2026 15:25:00 -030
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PhoronixRELIABLE 7.0tecnologĂaâ 2 fuentesđ datosThu, 27 Aug 2026 09:19:36
For those interested in making use of the recently released DeepSeek V4 Flash model, AMD developers have released Lemonade 11.8 that now makes it rather trivial to get DeepSeek V4 Flash up and running on AMD Ryzen AI+ Max "Strix Halo" systems...
Analysts say that weeks of Houthi attacks on Saudi targets have brought the kingdom and the Iranian-backed militia to the brink of full-blown conflict, and could open a new front in the Iran war.
SCMPMIXED 6.5geopolĂticapro-PRCâ 56 fuentesđ bien sourcedThu, 27 Aug 2026 10:12:26
Russian â foreign â ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova â said on Thursday that Russia could strike British military targets inside and outside Ukraine âin response to Ukrainian strikes on Russia using British missiles.
Zakharova called on Britain to back off what she called Londonâs hostile â stance oâŚ
MeduzaRELIABLE 7.5geopolĂticaanti-Kremlinđ datosWed, 26 Aug 2026 21:33:42
Leonid Bershidsky is one of Russiaâs best-known media executives. He was editor-in-chief of the newspaper Vedomosti in its early years and of the magazine Smart Money, launched the online outlet Slon.ru, and published the Russian editions of Newsweek and Forbes. He moved to Ukraine for work in 2012 âŚ