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Taiwanese prosecutors charged nine people Monday, including one from Nvidia and two from Super Micro, for illegally exporting “high-end AI servers” to mainland China, adding another wave of turbulence in the AI rivalry between China and the United States. AI infrastructure, including advanced semiconductors mostly made in Taiwan, has become a key point of competition between the U.S. and China. Washington began imposing restrictions on Nvidia’s exports of advanced chips to China in 2022 and tightened them in subsequent years. In April 2025, the U.S. required licenses for exports of Nvidia’s H20 chips to China, before allowing some sales to…

In brief Alibaba’s Qwen team is set to release Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next on Wednesday, a Mixture-of-Experts model described as a preview of the Qwen4 architecture. The team’s pre-release briefing cites 125 billion total parameters with only 6 billion active per token. Hard benchmark scores haven’t been published yet, and the weights aren’t live on ModelScope as of this writing. Alibaba is set to release Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next on Wednesday, a 125-billion-parameter model that activates just 6 billion per token. The Qwen team framed it as a preview of the next-generation Qwen 4 architecture, not a finished flagship.There is no official information on…

Safe access to water is scarce across parts of Ituri province, which is the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.The Ebola virus is transmitted through direct contact with bodily fluids like blood, saliva and urine of an infected person. It is, therefore, crucial, in order to prevent the spread of the disease, to be able to wash regularly. Response teams also need access to water to clean equipment and areas used by patients.People sometimes use taps and showers installed at Ebola treatment centers to collect water, potentially increasing contact between healthy and infected…

DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Only one child rescued after fire breaks out in nursery at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital, Geo News reports.Published On 26 Aug 202626 Aug 2026At least 14 newborn babies have been killed after a fire broke out in the nursery of a government-run hospital in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, according to officials.The blaze started shortly before 07:00am local time (02:00 GMT) on Wednesday on the third floor of the Mother and Child Centre at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) Hospital.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listLocal broadcaster Geo TV put the death toll at…

Dan J. Sullivan, a retired teacher who is challenging the Republican senator Dan S. Sullivan of Alaska, won a spot on the general-election ballot on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press.His emergence from the state’s nonpartisan primary poses a headache for the incumbent.Dan J. Sullivan is not expected to wage a competitive general-election campaign. But Republicans have worried for months that some voters may confuse the two Sullivans in November, potentially depriving Senator Sullivan of votes and lifting his well-funded Democratic challenger, former Representative Mary Peltola, to victory.Senator Sullivan and Ms. Peltola easily earned spots on the general-election ballot; soon…

I’ve been hooked on smoothies in an almost superstitious way ever since college: A fruit smoothie is like a good luck charm, promising the health you feel you deserve despite all your other bad decisions. But in my more recent adult life, a good blender is the passport to taqueria salsas, Oaxacan-style mole, and all the delicate emulsions I once had to buy at restaurants and in jars.Well, Vitamix crushes the blender game, but usually comes with a price tag to match. Luckily Vitamix promo codes crop up at various points during the year, and we’re here to help you…

CISA is warning organizations that a recently patched Gitea vulnerability allowing remote code execution is being exploited in the wild.  Gitea is a widely used open source, self-hosted software development platform that provides Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, and CI/CD capabilities. Tracked as CVE-2026-60004, the exploited vulnerability was patched by Gitea developers in late July with the release of version 1.27.1. CISA added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog and instructed federal agencies to patch it by August 28. “Gitea contains a code injection vulnerability that allows an attacker with repository write access to send a…

Thirty-nine US state banking associations have formed the BankChain Alliance to build a nationwide, industry-owned blockchain network for banks, targeting a 2027 launch. On Tuesday, the alliance announced that the network intends to support smart payment tools, tokenized deposits, stablecoins and automated settlement. BankChain said it plans for the network to be interoperable with other blockchains and said it was selecting a technology partner. The participating associations represent thousands of financial institutions across the US. BankChain said it will invite banks nationwide to take ownership of stakes. However, the announcement did not mention individual banks that have committed to joining or disclose…

Farmers are asking people to be patient with the smell of manure as they spread it on their fields to prepare the land for next year’s crops.Muck-spreading is the process of distributing animal manure across farmland as a natural fertiliser and typically takes place twice a year, in spring and late summer.Although “it might smell a bit”, according to farmer Ben Clappison, from Cowlam, East Yorkshire, he says it is important as it helps improve the land and reduces the amount of chemical fertilisers.He says: “[It helps] to make everything a lot healthier and improve soil organic matter and really…

The study will recruit participants from two long-running birth cohort studies: Children of the 90s in south-west England and Born in Bradford in West Yorkshire.Thousands of volunteers will use a specialist app and detailed questionnaires to record symptoms, sleep, mood, energy levels and overall wellbeing.Participants will also provide menstrual fluid samples over three menstrual cycles using specially designed period pads. By linking those samples with long-term health information and genetic data already held by the cohort studies, researchers hope to uncover biological signals associated with heavy menstrual bleeding.They believe the findings could lead to earlier diagnosis, more personalised treatment plans…