Several major Linux distros hit by serious Sudo security flaws
Two flaws were first introduced in late 2013 They reside in the Sudo command-line utility…
Oscar de la Renta creative directors Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia to depart
Published September 17, 2025 Oscar de la Renta is parting ways with its creative directors Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia, with the design duo stepping down to focus on their fashion label, Monse. Fernando Garcia and Laura Kim – Monse The pair’s final collection for the New York-based luxury womenswear brand will be for Fall 2026,…
Hermes defeats class action again over hard-to-get Birkin bags
By Reuters Published September 17, 2025 French luxury brand Hermes has convinced a U.S. judge to dismiss for a second time a lawsuit alleging it violates antitrust law by forcing buyers to spend thousands of dollars on its products before they can purchase one of the fashion company’s famed Birkin handbags. See fashion showHermes –…
Next Memory’s solid perfumes win international award
Published September 17, 2025 The Portuguese brand Next Memory’s solid perfumes, handcrafted in Lisbon, have been recognised in the Best Fragrance Packaging category at the Marie Claire US Fragrance Awards 2025. The Portuguese brand’s solid perfumes were recognised in the Best Fragrance Packaging category at the Marie Claire US Fragrance Awards 2025 – DR Conceived…
AI on Screen’s first short film Sweetwater premieres
It’s been an inspiring few months since we first unveiled the AI on Screen short film program with Range Media Partners. What began as a bold concept — commissioning filmmakers to explore the complex relationship between humanity and AI — has rapidly transformed into “lights, camera, action,” a star-studded premiere and in-depth discussions with filmmakers….
ModaLisboa Base: Fast Talks – FashionNetwork USA
Published September 17, 2025 Fast Talks at MUDE – Museum of Design and Fashion – and ModaLisboa na Avenida are initiatives that extend Lisbon Fashion Week onto the city’s principal boulevard, often likened to Paris’s Champs-Élysées, where fashion and luxury are prominently represented by leading national and international names. Together, these initiatives expand the BASE…
Build Agentic Workflows with OpenAI GPT OSS on Amazon SageMaker AI and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
OpenAI has released two open-weight models, gpt-oss-120b (117 billion parameters) and gpt-oss-20b (21 billion parameters), both built with a Mixture of Experts (MoE) design and a 128K context window. These models are the leading open source models, according to Artificial Analysis benchmarks, and excel at reasoning and agentic workflows. With Amazon SageMaker AI, you can…
How to pick the right fertiliser for all your different plants
“For the vast majority of plants, a balanced, all-purpose fertiliser will be fine” Shutterstock/Encierro Wander into any garden centre and you will find a wall of fertilisers, where colourful bottles promise perfect results for everything from lawns and roses to tree ferns and Japanese acers. But do home gardeners really need them? Let’s look at…
“Sweetwater” short film explores new AI narratives
Michael Keaton Douglas: “The whole AI of it all was interesting to me, and then it got more interesting as we discussed things throughout filming… It’s not at all science fiction anymore. The one thing I wanted to do, and I think we did, was say, okay, but how does that apply to human emotion?…
Rising seas will threaten 1.5 million Australians by 2050, landmark climate report warns
EPA Australians are already living with the consequences of climate change One and a half million Australians living in coastal areas are at risk from rising sea levels by 2050, a landmark climate report has warned. Australia’s first National Climate Risk Assessment predicted more frequent and severe climate hazards like floods, cyclones, heatwaves, droughts and…
Chimps ‘lager a day’ in ripe fruit fuels drunken monkey theory
Elizabeth Dawson and Helen BriggsBBC climate and science team Aleksey Maro Understanding more about the diet of wild chimps could help explain human attraction to alcohol Wild chimpanzees have been found to consume the equivalent of a bottle of lager’s alcohol a day from eating ripened fruit, scientists say. They say this is evidence humans…
