By Bloomberg Published September 19, 2025 A former LVMH executive — dismissed after being accused of misconduct, including allegedly giving a colleague the middle finger — is suing the group’s wines and spirits subsidiary, Moët Hennessy, for €1.7 million ($2 million). He claims his firing was not due to management issues, but rather in retaliation…
Building an AI agent that can handle a real-life use case in production is a complex undertaking. Although creating a proof of concept demonstrates the potential, moving to production requires addressing scalability, security, observability, and operational concerns that don’t surface in development environments. This post explores how Amazon Bedrock AgentCore helps you transition your agentic applications…
An exoplanet orbiting a dwarf star 124 light-years from Earth made headlines around the world in April 2025. Researchers at the University of Cambridge reported that planet K2-18b could be a marine world with a deep, global ocean teeming with life. However, a study now shows that so-called sub-Neptunes such as K2-18b are highly unlikely…
By Reuters Published September 19, 2025 The Ferragamo family announced on Friday that it was not interested in any “extraordinary transactions” involving the eponymous luxury company. Ferragamo shares rise on takeover talk, but family rules out extraordinary deals – Reuters According to traders, low stock prices have triggered speculation about potential mergers or acquisitions, driving…
The ground-shaking that an earthquake generates is only a fraction of the total energy that a quake releases. A quake can also generate a flash of heat, along with a domino-like fracturing of underground rocks. But exactly how much energy goes into each of these three processes is exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to measure…
Two ambulance workers have been arrested over the deaths of six adults, police have said. The investigation was launched in 2023 and last year a man in his 30s, from West Wiltshire, was arrested on suspicion of six counts of gross negligence manslaughter and four counts of ill-treatment or wilful neglect by a care worker….
The Ig Nobel Prize honors research that first makes people laugh, then makes them think. Its 35th award ceremony possibly also makes people hungry: ISTA physicist Fabrizio Olmeda and colleagues researched the secret of a perfect cacio e pepe pasta sauce. They received the popular award for their findings on Thursday evening in Boston. Cacio…
An international team of authors led by Ilka Agricola, professor of mathematics at the University of Marburg, Germany, has investigated fraudulent practices in the publication of research results in mathematics on behalf of the German Mathematical Society (DMV) and the International Mathematical Union (IMU), documenting systematic fraud over many years. The results of the study…
The production and use of over 400 million tons of plastic each year has polluted beaches, rivers, and even the deepest parts of the ocean, reaching depths of up to 11,000 meters. In addition to visible environmental impacts, plastic contributes to climate change. It is estimated that plastic production generates 1.8 billion tons of greenhouse…
Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty, Melanie Stewart-Smith and Victoria FarncombeFame Under Fire podcast Getty Images Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, are planning to present photographic and scientific evidence to a US court to prove Mrs Macron is a woman. Their lawyer says the French president and Mrs Macron will present the documentation in a defamation suit they…
