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Kylian Mbappe scores the only goal of France’s win in Turkiye, but Real Madrid striker immediately forced off by injury.Published On 25 Sep 202625 Sep 2026Kylian Mbappe scored the only goal of the game before having to come off grimacing with a knee injury, as France won 1-0 in Turkiye in the UEFA Nations League in new coach Zinedine Zidane’s first game in charge on Friday.The Real Madrid star was moved out to the left wing by his new coach after being used through the middle of the France attack under former coach Didier Deschamps at the recent World Cup,…

Anthropic will spend $11.6 billion over seven years on Akamai’s cloud infrastructure, Akamai said Thursday. That’s more than six times the size of a $1.8 billion deal between the two companies that Bloomberg reported in May. The commitment isn’t ironclad; according to Akamai’s securities filing, it depends on Akamai meeting certain delivery and service-availability requirements, and either company can end the agreement under certain conditions. The deal is the largest in Akamai’s history and continues Anthropic’s compute gobbling-streak. It also represents a bet on a less-hyped corner of AI infrastructure: CPUs. Demand for CPUs, the general-purpose chips that handle work…

Ravie LakshmananSep 24, 2026Cloud Security / Identity Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active TeamFiltration campaign codenamed UNK_CondorFiltration that has targeted over 5,700 accounts across 28 Microsoft 365 tenants. According to Proofpoint, the activity has primarily focused on Chilean retail and financial institutions. It originated from 1,487 unique AWS EC2 source IP addresses. “The campaign compromised 7 accounts – all of which were unmanaged functional or service accounts rather than individual employee accounts – highlighting a critical exposure gap around forgotten, non-human identities carrying default or unrotated passwords and no MFA [multi-factor authentication],” the enterprise security company said…

OG.com Markets is seeking US regulatory approval to offer perpetual futures tied to individual stocks, as trading platforms push to bring the popular derivatives product to US equity markets.In a Thursday filing with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), OG.com proposed new rules allowing it to list cash-settled single-stock futures that never expire and can trade 24 hours a day, five days a week.OG.com was recently spun out of crypto exchange Crypto.com as an independent prediction markets and derivatives platform valued at $5 billion. At the time, CEO Kris Marszalek said the platform planned to expand beyond prediction markets into…

Scientists have captured an unusually detailed view of a major tectonic system beneath the Pacific Northwest beginning to come apart. The discovery, reported in Science Advances, shows a subduction zone actively breaking into pieces. Subduction zones form where one tectonic plate is forced beneath another and pushed deep into Earth. They are responsible for some of the planet’s largest earthquakes, powerful volcanic eruptions, and long term changes to continents and ocean basins. Until now, however, scientists have had few opportunities to see clearly how one of these enormous systems reaches the end of its life. How a Subduction Zone Dies…

Scientists have described a species of tiger cat that was previously unknown to science. From Bolivia’s Yungas cloud forests, it is the first discovery of a living novel cat species in more than 100 years. The tilcayo (Leopardus tilcayo) takes its species name from the name locals already had for it. Paola Nogales-Ascarrunz, a National Geographic explorer who discovered the species and co-author of the Current Biology paper that describes it, said the name honors traditional knowledge in the region. The tilcayo is smaller than a domestic cat at 1.4 kilograms (3 pounds). It has rounded ears, a…

Japan’s exploration and production (E&P) company Inpex has moved to solidify its foothold in a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project off the northwest coast of Western Australia (WA), with its Australian subsidiaries taking steps to obtain an additional participating interest by exercising pre-emptive rights. Ichthys Explorer central processing facility (CPF); Source: Inpex Australia Inpex’s Australian subsidiaries have entered into agreements with subsidiaries of JERA to acquire 0.735% in the Ichthys LNG project, which will increase their interests in this project from 67.82% to 68.555%. The completion of the transaction is subject to the fulfilment of certain conditions, including approval by…

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at violent clashes across Ethiopia, the Vatican courting France, and a seven-day proposal to end the Iran war. Threats to Addis Ababa For nearly four years, Ethiopia has clung to a state of precarious peace, afraid to reignite a civil war that became one of the world’s deadliest conflicts in this century. But the country’s 2022 truce ultimately shattered this week, when the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF)—a powerful ethno-nationalist political and paramilitary organization that ruled Ethiopia for three decades until 2018—launched what its leaders called a “defensive” war to oust Prime…

The Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesperson, Max Wilkinson MP, told his party conference this week: “Before the [Brexit] referendum, not a single small boat crossed the Channel.”This just isn’t true.The government only publishes official data on small boat arrivals from 2018 onwards, and the number did rise substantially in the 2020s, after the UK left the EU. But there is plenty of evidence of crossings taking place before that, and before the referendum in June 2016.A 2020 report from the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration says that the Home Office “was aware of isolated cases of migrants arriving…

President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia has widened its attacks to target Ukraine’s data centres and internet providers, seeking to cause maximum disruption for ordinary people.”All this affects people’s ability to stay connected, study, work,” he said.On Friday a Russian drone hit a business centre in the capital Kyiv, killing four people and damaging a data centre. A separate attack killed a 14-year-old boy. Israel’s foreign ministry said he was an Israeli citizen.Russia confirmed it had targeted a data centre site, saying it was being used by Ukrainian military intelligence.About 100,000 households in Kyiv and the region suffered internet outages on…