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⁠France ​was threatened ​by Russian hybrid attacks in the ​past ‌few ⁠weeks, French ‌President Emmanuel Macron said on ⁠Friday. “In recent weeks, the ​threat – particularly ‌the Russian hybrid threat – facing Europeans ‌and France ​has intensified,” Macron told reporters after meeting ​in Paris ​with political party ​leaders to ​discuss recent developments in the international situation. Macron said that the threat posed by Russia’s shadow operations was growing across Europe, and he had ordered measures to protect France’s critical infrastructure from increasing Russian “hybrid attacks”. Read moreRussia seizes assets of Swiss food giant Nestle and three French firms France’s interior minister had met regional prefects to step…

If AI lab PrismML isn’t on your radar yet, it should be — not because it’s raised gobs of money (it hasn’t yet, just a $22.25 million seed round), but because of the technical minds involved and the potentially industry-changing tech it’s developing. PrismML is betting that capable, high-performing, reasoning large language models don’t, in fact, have to be large. It is making reasoning models so small they can fit on PCs and smartphones. (It’s even rumored to be in talks with Apple, though CEO Babak Hassibi declined to comment on that to TechCrunch.) On Thursday, PrismML released Bonsai 2…

Fast-growing companies often have no shortage of security recommendations for protecting Google Workspace. The harder question is determining which controls will actually make the greatest difference when security teams have limited time and resources. On September 23, 2026, BleepingComputer will host a live webinar titled “Breach autopsy: How fast-growing companies are breached through Google Workspace” with Material Security. The webinar will feature Rajan Kapoor, Vice President of Security at Material Security, and Rick Fitzgerald, President of Fireside Consulting LLC, examining real, publicly documented Google Workspace breaches and what organizations can learn from them. Rather than working through another lengthy security…

In brief Documents unsealed Thursday come from the New York Times’ copyright suit against OpenAI and Microsoft. A 2023 Microsoft memo warned the public would see models “hoovering up” their work as “theft of unprecedented proportions.” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified that anything paywalled should be licensed by whoever wants to use it. Microsoft employees discussed whether OpenAI’s use of news articles amounted to “the largest theft of labor in human history,” and could set off a “doom loop” that degraded the models they were building, according to court documents unsealed on Thursday and reported by the New York Times.The…

A honeycomb-shaped pattern in marine sediments has befuddled scientists for more than 150 years, but a new study points to a potential culprit. The formations, known as Paleodictyon, are probably burrows created by arthropods, possibly a crustacean subgroup that includes the roly-poly, researchers report August 12 in Earth-Science Reviews. The work challenges previous hypotheses about Paleodictyon, particularly that they were created by wormlike creatures. “Our study addresses one of paleontology’s most enduring enigmas,” says Andrea Baucon, a paleontologist at the University of Cagliari in Sardinia, Italy. Sign up for our newsletter We summarize the week’s scientific breakthroughs every Thursday. …

On Sept. 8, five infant orangutans were found in an Indian forest, thousands of kilometers from their native range, raising questions about where they came from, how they got there, and who moved them.The Sumatran (Pongo abelii) and Tapanuli orangutans (Pongo tapanuliensis) are both found only in Indonesia, on the island of Sumatra.The Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) is found only in Indonesian and Malaysian Borneo; the island is shared between the two countries and Brunei.The government of Indonesia has engaged its counterparts in India in a bid to identify the animals and return them to Indonesia.See All Key Ideas…

An approval in principle (AiP) from Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore (BV), part of Bureau Veritas Group, is paving the way for Belgian shipping company Exmar to breathe life into its floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) concept, which is based on the conversion of an existing membrane-type LNG carrier. FLNG; Source: Exmar Exmar has been awarded AiP by Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore for its FLNG conversion design, which is created to enable offshore gas processing, liquefaction and LNG storage based on a membrane-type LNG carrier with an effective LNG storage capacity of approximately 170,000 cubic meters (cbm) and a…

If you have seen the headlines of the major investigation we recently published, “The Dominican Baseball Factory,” you may have wondered: Why is ProPublica, with its serious-sounding mission of accountability and its focus on abuses of power, reporting on baseball? The answer would be: Exactly. Baseball fans have long marveled at how the Dominican Republic, a tiny island nation with a population akin to Ohio, has produced so many brilliant players — roughly 10% of the major league. Major League Baseball and the owners of its 30 teams have regularly harvested bumper crops of sluggers to build their rosters and…

Reading the extracts from Earl Spencer’s book about his sister Diana, and the king’s two-footed takedown of it, it’s hard to escape the idea that Spencer and the Windsors are just elite content creators now. This entire thing is basically indistinguishable from a blockbuster influencer war, and I honestly won’t be happy till the king puts out a shade TikTok of him driving round the Sandringham estate in sunglasses captioned: “Threatening to release the receipts but never actually releasing the receipts … kinda chic.” Soundtrack: Mariah Carey’s Obsessed.Meanwhile, perhaps trying to disguise his full descent into the algorithm mines, Charles…

Claim: In late summer 2026, new laws went into effect requiring any individual under 5 feet, 2 inches to use a booster seat when driving or riding in cars, regardless of age. Rating: In late summer 2026, social media posts claimed that new laws had gone into effect requiring all car drivers and passengers below a certain height to use a booster seat, regardless of their age.  The details changed from post to post (archived), and varied from state to state, but the most common version of the rumor suggested the law applies to anyone under 5 feet, 2 inches in…