Recent attacks on Riyadh’s airport and Saudi Aramco’s headquarters have exposed gaps in the kingdom’s air defenses. Israeli technology and intelligence could help, but political barriers complicate cooperation. Houthi attacks on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport on October 8, 10, and 11 kil
Gov. JB Pritzker's office says the Illinois Accountability Commission is being highlighted as a national model by a new project documenting federal immigration enforcement conduct.
A national project called Disappeared in America is highlighting Illinois' Accountability Commission, which Gov. JB Pritzker created to investigate federal immigration enforcement conduct.
The UNESCO Kabul Office has announced expanded efforts to protect Afghanistan’s 12th-century Minaret of Jam, which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2002 and added to the List of World Heritage in Danger that same year. UNESCO and the Aga Khan Cultural Service, with support from the Int
Illinois State Police say sleep suffocation is the leading cause of reported child deaths in the state and is urging families to follow safe sleep practices.
By Toby Sterling and Nathan Vifflin AMSTERDAM, Oct 15 (Reuters) – In April, computer chip equipment maker ASML’s CEO Christophe Fouquet told shareholders that Europe’s most valuable company would avoid becoming the chip industry’s bottleneck “by all possible means”. Six months later, Fouquet acknowl
The alternative high school inside the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice's Monarch Youth Center in Lincoln has been named Nelson Mandela Academy after a monthslong, student-led process.
Iowa's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate stayed at 3.2 percent in September for the fifth straight month as employers added 1,800 jobs, Iowa Workforce Development said.
By Will Dunham Oct 15 (Reuters) – The bones of a Neanderthal from a cave in Iraq’s Kurdistan region are offering evidence of both violence and compassion in the closest evolutionary cousins of our species, exhibiting a wound apparently from a fatal spear attack as well as signs of an earlier nonfata
James Talarico’s admission that he was simply being “provocative” when claiming “God is nonbinary” highlights a cynical approach to faith in modern politics. For many traditional and Christian voters in Texas, reducing sacred theological concepts to trendy, progressive identity politics isn’t just u
(SRN NEWS)-A growing number of people on the Continent who were baptized in the Catholic Church as children are now declaring themselves non-religious and are demanding that the church erase their baptismal records. The claim is that the records violate the European Union’s data-protection law and t
(SRN NEWS)-Those two states are trying to recover from Hurricane Isaias, which made landfall last weekend. Samaritan’s Purse is leading the charge and says “Two of our Disaster Relief Units—a tractor trailer filled with tools and equipment— are in Florida and Alabama. Volunteers are helping to cut f
(SRN NEWS)-The Family Research Council is urging Christians all across the nation to be in prayer for America, the candidates and election workers in the run up to November 3rd. The FRC says anyone who downloads the Stand Firm app can join in daily prayer with other believers and can hear messages f
By Yantoultra Ngui, Kane Wu and Clare Jim HONG KONG, Oct 15 (Reuters) – A market selloff is forcing companies driving the global AI boom to delay fundraising plans or pay more for capital as investors demand proof they can absorb rising interest rates and computing-power costs. The shift comes as in
By Andrea Shalal BANGKOK, Oct 15 (Reuters) – The United States wants its global partners to rename artificial intelligence as “super intelligence,” convinced that the new moniker better reflects the emerging technology, a top US Treasury official told Reuters in an interview on Thursday. Treasury Un
Oct 15 (Reuters) – European physics research centre CERN and Mistral AI have signed a statement of intent to establish a long-term strategic partnership to develop foundation models for scientific discovery, the two organisations said on Thursday. The partners aim to build a ‘Large Physics Model’, t
(Corrects dateline to Oct 15 from Oct 14) Oct 15 (Reuters) – AI cloud firm CoreWeave’s shares and bonds slumped further on Thursday despite CEO assurances about its strong deal backlog, in one of the deepest crises of investor confidence yet in an AI build-out increasingly fueled by borrowing. The c
Oct 15 (Reuters) – India’s Tech Mahindra on Thursday beat second-quarter revenue expectations, as steady growth in its manufacturing communication verticals and a weak rupee helped. Consolidated revenue rose 15.6% to 161.80 billion rupees ($1.70 billion) year-on-year. Analysts, on average, expected
By Amanda Cooper LONDON, Oct 15 (Reuters) – The cost of insuring against the risk of potential US tech defaults has hit record levels in the latest sign of credit stress building in the so-called AI trade, especially for data centres dependent on future revenue. Although shares in companies driving
Oct 15 (Reuters) – Venture Global said on Thursday it had signed deals with GE Vernova and Baker Hughes to support up to 16 new power generation units, advancing plans to develop off-grid power capacity that could support AI data centers and its LNG operations. The rapid growth of data centers has f
Oct 15 (Reuters) – Ramp said on Thursday it had raised $1.85 billion in a primary financing round that valued the financial technology company at $60 billion. The funding round was led by Dragoneer Investment Group and co-led by Thrive Capital, Founders Fund, Sands Capital and Avenir Growth. Founded
BENGALURU, Oct 15 (Reuters) – Wipro, India’s fourth-largest IT company, reported higher-than-expected second-quarter revenue on Thursday, helped by a revival in spending by its European clients and artificial intelligence unlocking new revenue streams. The company’s consolidated revenue rose 9.1% to
By Leo Marchandon Oct 15 (Reuters) – Canadian AI lab Cohere said on Thursday it had signed a letter of intent to buy AISLE, a San Francisco-based cybersecurity startup that uses AI to detect vulnerabilities in software. The tie-up would add cybersecurity to the business entity Cohere is assembling t
MUMBAI, Oct 15 (Reuters) – Indian authorities have asked Bollywood actor Imran Khan to leave the country by the end of the month, saying he breached immigration laws after joining a protest against the election commission chief, local media reported on Thursday. • Khan, 43, is a US citizen, the Indi
BUCHAREST, Oct 15 (Reuters) – Rescuers were searching for eight missing crew on Thursday from one of two chemical tankers that caught fire overnight inside Romanian territorial waters in the Black Sea, after Russian drones strayed into Romanian airspace, Romanian officials said. Romanian officials s
KYIV, Oct 14 (Reuters) – Ukraine has freed 16 villages from Russian forces in the eastern Donetsk region in its latest counteroffensive, a senior commander said on Wednesday, part of what he called a major frontline pushback amid increased Russian air attacks elsewhere. Kyiv’s Third Army Corps has w
By Laurie Chen SHENZHEN, Oct 15 (Reuters) – At the offices of Chinese startup DexForce, a screen shows a virtual robot placing objects on a table. It repeats the task as the angle of its arms, the colour of the table and the objects themselves change. DexForce, based in the southern tech hub of Shen
Oct 15 (Reuters) – Ladbrokes owner Entain reported a 2% rise in third-quarter net gaming revenue and reiterated its annual forecast on Thursday, as a strong showing in the UK and Ireland offset the impact from weaker performance in Brazil. Here are some details: • Brazil banned online gambling last
KYIV, Oct 15 (Reuters) – The central Ukrainian region of Kirovohrad was hit by the largest Russian attack on its territory during the war, killing three people and wounding another six overnight, the local governor said on Thursday. The region, a relatively infrequent target of bombardment, was hit
BUCHAREST, Oct 15 (Reuters) – Romania’s leftist Social Democrats said they will join the government of Prime Minister-designate Luca Niculescu while other parties pledged their votes, edging the country closer to ending a political crisis that has pressured its investment-grade rating. The Social De
