Made in Vietnam: Hanoi cracks down on fake goods as US tariffs loom
By AFP Published June 18, 2025 Since the United States accused Vietnam of being a…
Empowering air quality research with secure, ML-driven predictive analytics
Air pollution remains one of Africa’s most pressing environmental health crises, causing widespread illness across the continent. Organizations like sensors.AFRICA have deployed hundreds of air quality sensors to address this challenge, but face a critical data problem: significant gaps in PM2.5 (particulate matter with diameter less than or equal to 2.5 micrometers) measurement records because…
Arti 1.5.0 released: | The Tor Project
Arti is our ongoing project to create a next-generation Tor implementation in Rust. We’re happy to announce the latest release, Arti 1.5.0. Arti 1.5.0 continues development on important client features, including Counter Galois Onion encryption, Conflux, flow control and congestion control, and onion service proof of work. It also includes significant backend work for Arti…
Meet Boti: The AI assistant transforming how the citizens of Buenos Aires access government information with Amazon Bedrock
This post is co-written with Julieta Rappan, Macarena Blasi, and María Candela Blanco from the Government of the City of Buenos Aires. The Government of the City of Buenos Aires continuously works to improve citizen services. In February 2019, it introduced an AI assistant named Boti available through WhatsApp, the most widely used messaging service…
4 Pixel 10 personalization tips from Google
2. Check Daily Hub for a quick look-ahead Daily Hub is a personalized digest in your Discover feed. Take a look to see what’s coming up on your calendar, relevant topics for you to deep dive on, recommended playlists and more. It’s also another place where you can find Magic Cue. Daily Hub will give…
How Amazon Finance built an AI assistant using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Kendra to support analysts for data discovery and business insights
Finance analysts across Amazon Finance face mounting complexity in financial planning and analysis processes. When working with vast datasets spanning multiple systems, data lakes, and business units, analysts encounter several critical challenges. First, they spend significant time manually browsing data catalogs and reconciling data from disparate sources, leaving less time for valuable analysis and insight…
NHS to lose out on new drugs, pharma firm Novartis warns
Pritti MistryBusiness reporter, BBC News PA Media NHS patients will lose access to new cutting-edge treatments because of skyrocketing costs, the pharmaceutical giant Novartis has claimed amid a row over drug pricing deals. The warning comes after talks over the cost of medicines for the UK between Health Secretary Wes Streeting and pharma firms broke…
Price of Mounjaro could be discounted in UK pharmacies
The company behind popular weight loss drug Mounjaro has offered a discounted deal to UK suppliers which is expected to limit the price increase to consumers from September. Earlier this month, Eli Lilly announced it was putting up the list price of the drug by as much as 170% which could have meant the cost…
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Increasing Searches for ZIP Files
I noticed recently that we have more and more requests for ZIP files in our web honeypot logs. Over the last year, we have had a substantial increase in these requests. Here are some of the most common URLs requested so far this year: url c …
Could a huge lunar telescope be our best chance of spotting aliens?
“In 2050 … the first 100 m-diameter telescope took shape in a crater on the lunar surface” Vladimir Vustyansky/NASA The All-Seeing Eye, which came into operation in the 2070s, was by far the largest and most powerful optical instrument ever built. Comprising eight telescopes built across the entire lunar surface, each with a 100-metre-diameter mirror,…
