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Norwegian ocean services provider DeepOcean has completed subsea tie-in work using diverless technology for an oil and gas development tied back to an existing floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel in the UK sector of the North Sea. FPSO Anasuria; Source: AOC DeepOcean has completed a subsea construction and tie-in assignment at the Teal West offshore oil and gas development project on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) for Anasuria Operating Company (AOC), a UK-based firm jointly controlled by Ping Petroleum and Hibiscus Petroleum’s Anasuria Hibiscus UK. Located in the Central North Sea, the field has been developed as a subsea tie-back to the…

(udmurd_PL/Getty Images) Campaign fundraising in the 2026 Senate battlegrounds has become overwhelmingly nationalized, leaving most high-stakes candidates far more reliant on out-of-state donors than the voters they hope to represent. Continuing a decades-long retreat from locally sourced campaign money, an OpenSecrets analysis of 17 candidates across nine key battleground states shows that two-thirds of the $289 million in individual contributions raised through mid-July came from out-of-state donors. Fourteen candidates received the majority of their individual contributions from beyond their borders. “Most House and Senate races are fairly nationalized anyway,” Kenneth Miller, a University of Nevada Las Vegas political science professor…

Last month, South Korea finally abandoned the idea that has long organized Western policy toward North Korea. Unification Minister Chung Dong-young said South Korea would no longer insist on North Korea’s complete and immediate denuclearization as the starting point for diplomacy. Instead, it would restrict North Korea’s nuclear program through a three-step process: halt the production of new weapons, reduce the existing stockpile, and ultimately dismantle the arsenal. A nuclear-free peninsula remains Seoul’s long-term goal, but it is no longer the price of admission. Seoul’s announcement matters less as an offer to Pyongyang than as a signal to Washington, which—alongside Tokyo—is…

The court in Shenzhen city said it sentenced founder Xu Jiayin to life in prison and fined Evergrande Group and an affiliate more than $2 billion for fraud and other offences.While the verdict caps the fallout from Evergrande’s collapse, challenges posed by a stubborn slump in the once-booming property sector still loom large for China and its leaders.AFP breaks down Evergrande’s fall and what it means for the world’s number-two economy:Why did Evergrande collapse?Evergrande was once China’s leading property developer, propelled by decades of rapid urbanisation and rising living standards across the country.Listed in Hong Kong in 2009, the firm…

Organizations are embedding AI agents across the cyber stack, automating high-volume and repetitive tasks. This is not to replace human analysts, but to free them for the work that demands human judgment. Technology architecture matters too. Sprawling estates of disconnected security tools create operational and financial costs. Bringing logs, signals and alerts together in a unified platform can give teams a full, real-time picture of all activities and behaviors occurring across an IT architecture. The best of these platforms will incorporate AI capabilities to identify threats and automate analytical and management tasks, including reverse-engineering malware, compiling actionable case summaries and…

Every Sunday, the Kultgen-Popp family gathers on Zoom and yells at one another. From California and Texas, the adult siblings Chad Kultgen and Haley Popp try to convince their parents, Mary Lou and Bob Kultgen, that President Trump is evil. And from their living room in Oklahoma, their parents reject every argument.The family members lob contradictory headlines at one another, trading irreconcilable claims about the war in Iran, the Epstein files and other breaking news stories. These arguments always end with each exhausted family member saying, “I love you.” Then Chad, 50, who generally leads these debates, shares the video…

Results were not particularly impressive. With both organic and synthetic debris, the Poolease X1 was only typically able to collect 70 to 80 percent of leaves and other matter on the floor of my pool, leaving material scattered randomly all around. That’s better than I expected, but worse than it sounds. If your gardener left 20 percent of your lawn unmowed, you’d notice.With minimal clearance between the bottom of the robot and the floor, I also noticed several times that the robot was prone to getting stuck, namely on the circular floor drain, which has less than an inch of…

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been early in adopting artificial intelligence for 9 years. It published a national AI strategy in October 2017 and, days later, created a ministerial post to run it, making Omar Sultan Al Olama the world’s first minister of state for artificial intelligence at 27. In the years since, it has built the digital identity, sovereign cloud and data-sharing layers most governments are still procuring. Agentic AI in government is where that head start either pays off or does not.The test began this month. More than 100 federal officials attended a workshop to launch the…

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned federal agencies that threat actors are now exploiting a critical MLflow vulnerability. MLflow is an open-source AI engineering platform for large language models (LLMs) and agents backed by the Linux Foundation, with over 30 million monthly downloads, used by thousands of organizations to debug, evaluate, optimize, and monitor AI applications. Tracked as CVE-2026-64849, this critical DNS-rebinding server-side request forgery (SSRF) bypass in MLflow’s outbound webhook delivery was patched in version 3.15.0 and can be used by attackers without privileges to remotely access internal services or cloud metadata configurations on unpatched instances. “The…

US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded $517.2 million in net inflows on Wednesday, their largest single-day investment since May 4, pushing August net inflows to $1.47 billion.The funds have taken in about $1 billion since Monday, already their strongest weekly net inflow since the week ended Jan. 16, when they attracted about $1.42 billion.The inflows came as crypto prices rallied on Wednesday, alongside a US Treasury decision to expand buybacks of longer-dated government debt and renewed attention on crypto regulation after President Donald Trump urged Congress to advance the CLARITY Act at a White House event.“The Treasury signalling it’ll…