Chinese beauty brands explore foreign M&A to spur growth

By Reuters Published June 11, 2025 ​Some of China’s top beauty brands such as Proya and S’Young are exploring acquisitions of smaller foreign rivals to expand their portfolios and replicate the success of global leaders like L’Oreal or Estée Lauder amid slowing growth at home. Proya While still relatively unknown internationally, these Chinese brands have…

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WordPress Frontend Login and Registration Blocks Plugin 1.0.7 – Privilege Escalation

# Exploit Title: WordPress Frontend Login and Registration Blocks Plugin 1.0.7 – Privilege Escalation # Google Dork: inurl:/wp-content/plugins/frontend-login-and-registration-blocks/ # Date: 2025-05-12 # Exploit Author: Md Shoriful Islam (RootHarpy) # Vendor Homepage: https://wordpress.org/plugins/frontend-login-and-registration-blocks/ # Software Link: https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/frontend-login-and-registration-blocks.1.0.7.zip # Version: <= 1.0.7 # Tested on: Ubuntu 22.04 + WordPress 6.5.2 # CVE : CVE-2025-3605 import requests …

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Scientists just took a big step toward the quantum internet

A Danish-German research collaboration with participation of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) aims to develop new quantum light sources and technology for scalable quantum networks based on the rare-earth element erbium. The project EQUAL (Erbium-based silicon quantum light sources) is funded by the Innovation Fund Denmark with 40 million Danish crowns (about 5.3 million euros). It…

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Impel enhances automotive dealership customer experience with fine-tuned LLMs on Amazon SageMaker

This post is co-written with Tatia Tsmindashvili, Ana Kolkhidashvili, Guram Dentoshvili, Dachi Choladze from Impel. Impel transforms automotive retail through an AI-powered customer lifecycle management solution that drives dealership operations and customer interactions. Their core product, Sales AI, provides all-day personalized customer engagement, handling vehicle-specific questions and automotive trade-in and financing inquiries. By replacing their…

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COS artwork project elevates London, Paris and Helsinki stores

H&M Group’s London-based COS brand has launched a collaboration with another London-based business, interior design specialist Studio Ashby under founder and creative director Sophie Ashby, to unveil a curated selection of artworks by mainly British women artists.  The London installation Displayed in “reimagined store environments” on the city’s Regent Street, as well as Rue Tronchet…

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