Published September 9, 2025 In the 1970s, adidas and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar inked their partnership with one of basketball’s first signature sneakers “and in the process changed the sporting landscape forever”. Fast forward to today and it’s time for a refresh with the German sportswear giant collaborating with UK-based designer Grace Wales Bonner for an extra-special capsule…
Published September 9, 2025 Digital global fashion retailer ASOS has signed an agreement with the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) union “to protect transport workers’ rights and enhance the safety, resilience and sustainability of its supply chains”. ASOS The “legally-binding” agreement “builds on ASOS’ long-standing leadership in embedding human rights across its business and supply…
Faarea Masud & Connie BowkerBBC News Mitchum Mitchum has apologised after customers were left with “burning armpits” A well-known deodorant brand has apologised and recalled some of its roll-on products after customers were reportedly left with itchy, burning armpits. Consumers of Mitchum’s 48-hour roll-on anti-perspirant and deodorant complained on social media of being left with…
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has released an open source model that performs advanced reasoning as well as the best offerings from both the United States and China—one of the strongest signs so far that the nation’s big investments in artificial intelligence are starting to pay off. The new model, K2 Think, comes from researchers…
Security teams struggle with visibility into behaviors inside their running containers. Qualys is today announcing general availability of Container Runtime Security (CRS) to provide industry-leading visibility for running containers using an approach that is container-engine agnostic and layered into the container image. This provides runtime visibility and enforcement in containers through policy-based control of system…
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly central to technology, powering everything from facial recognition to language translation. But as AI models grow more complex, they consume vast amounts of electricity — posing challenges for energy efficiency and sustainability. A new chip developed by researchers at the University of Florida could help address this issue by…
Humans could learn a thing or two from orangutans when it comes to maintaining a balanced, protein-filled diet. Great apes native to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia, orangutans are marvels of adaptation to the vagaries of food supply in the wild, according to an international team of researchers led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick…
Security teams struggle with visibility into behaviors inside their running containers. Qualys is today announcing general availability of Container Runtime Security (CRS) to provide industry-leading visibility for running containers using an approach that is container-engine agnostic and layered into the container image. This provides runtime visibility and enforcement in containers through policy-based control of system…
A team of astronomers has detected for the first time a growing planet outside our solar system, embedded in a cleared gap of a multi-ringed disk of dust and gas. The team, led by University of Arizona astronomer Laird Close and Richelle van Capelleveen, an astronomy graduate student at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands, discovered…
It’s my favorite AI story as of late, probably because it captures so well the chaos that can unfold when people actually use AI the way tech companies have all but told them to. As the writer of the story, Laurie Clarke, points out, it’s not a total pipe dream that AI could be therapeutically…
