Le Coq Sportif: The bid backed by Xavier Niel and Teddy Riner ‘hampered’, according to their lawyers
What’s going on with Le Coq Sportif? The singing gallinaceous sports brand, official supplier to…
The Trump Administration’s Foreign Aid Review: Status of PEPFAR
Starting on the first day of his second term, President Trump issued several executive actions that have fundamentally changed foreign assistance. These included: an executive order which called for a 90-day review of foreign aid; a subsequent “stop-work order” that froze all payments and services for work already underway; the dissolution of USAID, including the…
Buyer’s perspective: Le Bon Marché’s Jennifer Cuvillier analyses this season’s successful creative launches
Published October 16, 2025 After an intense month of fashion weeks- from New York and London to Milan and Paris- marked by numerous debuts at the helm of major houses, the fashion world is catching its breath. FashionNetwork.com sought to gauge buyers’ views on the season. Jennifer Cuvillier, style director at Le Bon Marché, notes…
New DShield Support Slack – SANS Internet Storm Center
This week, we set up a new Slack workspace for DShield.org. This workspace replaces the old workspace we originally configured back in 2016 or 2017. The workspace was originally configured as a free workspace to support the DShield.org community. Over the years, it has had a good following and a good amount of traffic. Sadly, we…
How ByteDance Made China’s Most Popular AI Chatbot
When Chinese AI startup DeepSeek became a global sensation in January, it not only shocked Silicon Valley but also startled ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company. The Chinese tech giant had already launched Doubao, its own flagship AI assistant app with tens of millions of users. But when DeepSeek became the best-known Chinese AI company overnight, no…
BBC Inside Science – Why do we love to play games?
Available for over a year Inside Science explores the science and maths of games: why we play them, how to win them and the rise of gamification in our lives – with a particular focus on The Traitors – in a special programme with a live audience at Green Man Festival in the Bannau Brycheiniog…
Giorgio Armani: Giuseppe Marsocci appointed Chief Executive Officer
Published October 16, 2025 Giorgio Armani has always valued executives who truly ’embrace’ a company’s vision and do not depart after just two or three years to chase the next highest bidder- each time with a lavish severance. The appointment, announced a short while ago, of Giuseppe Marsocci as CEO of the Armani Group with…
Berenberg says luxury boom is over as it downgrades LVMH
By Bloomberg Published October 16, 2025 The luxury sector’s three-decade boom is over, according to Berenberg analysts whose downgrade of LVMH coincided with the stock’s biggest surge since 2001. Inside the ‘House of Dior’ in Beverly Hills – FashionNetwork.com “Luxury is at an inflexion point,” the team led by Nick Anderson wrote in a note…
Denial of Fuzzing: Rust in the Windows kernel
Summary Check Point Research (CPR) identified a security vulnerability in January 2025 affecting the new Rust-based kernel component of the Graphics Device Interface (commonly known as GDI) in Windows. We promptly reported this issue to Microsoft and they fixed the vulnerability starting with OS Build 26100.4202 in the KB5058499 update preview released on May 28th 2025. In the following sections, we…
From poison to power: How lead exposure helped shape human intelligence
What made the modern human brain so different from that of our extinct relatives, such as Neanderthals? Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, along with an international team, have discovered that ancient hominids, including early humans and great apes, came into contact with lead far earlier than previously believed —…
All Windows 11 PCs Will Get These Advanced Copilot AI Features
Microsoft saved its most powerful AI tools for paying customers in the first phase of its AI evolution. Now, the company has announced a series of Copilot features coming to all Windows 11 PCs, including Voice, Copilot Vision, and Copilot Actions. Alongside the update, Microsoft is launching an ad campaign to expose people to these…
