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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 —…
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…
A group of scientists, including researchers from the University of Tokyo, has found evidence that liquid water once moved through the asteroid that eventually gave rise to the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu. Remarkably, this activity took place more than a billion years after the asteroid first formed. The discovery, which relies on microscopic rock samples collected…
When it comes to teeth, most vertebrates share the same basic blueprint. Regardless of their size, shape, or sharpness, teeth typically have the same genetic roots, similar physical makeup, and, almost always, a place in the jaw. That assumption, however, may no longer hold true. Scientists studying the spotted ratfish, a shark-like species found in…
“These glasses are unique to Australia and have recorded an ancient impact event we did not even know about,” Professor Jourdan said. in a crater but in tiny glass fragments found only in Australia. The discovery focuses on rare natural glass called tektites, which form when a meteorite hits Earth with enough force to melt…
