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The Daily Beast: “Salacious claims from Jeffrey Epstein that Bill Gates contracted an STD following ‘sex with Russian girls,’ and colluded with the disgraced financier on a plot to secretly slip his wife antibiotics, were revealed in the latest Epstein files release.” The New York Times. (Alternate URL) “A representative of the Gates Foundation said, ‘These claims — from a proven, disgruntled...
The City of Cape Town is seeking the National Director of Public Prosecutions’ approval to rollout its AI camera system.
Bosch’s Unlimited 10 combines key features from Dyson’s and Shark’s stick vacuums and packs some nice extras, but it can’t seem to keep debris inside.
Sinners, Wicked, and Die Hard are just a few of the movies you should be watching on Amazon Prime Video this week.
Want the image quality of a DSLR without the bulk? These WIRED picks do more with less.
We braved the cold to answer a modern dilemma: Can you keep your hands warm and use a smartphone at the same time?
Plus: AI agent OpenClaw gives cybersecurity experts the willies, China executes 11 scam compound bosses, a $40 million crypto theft has an unexpected alleged culprit, and more.
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Plus: Vivaldi browser shuns AI, Samsung has a new sustainable display, and Frankfurt Airport tests Auracast for gate announcements.
Researchers tell ‘human story’ about crisis during plague of Justinian, which killed millions in Byzantine empire
A US-led research team has verified the first Mediterranean mass grave of the world’s earliest recorded pandemic, providing stark new details about the plague of Justinian that killed millions of people in the Byzantine empire between the sixth and eighth centuries.
The findings,...
FNB has not provided an update on its fibre-to-the-home ambitions for more than a year.
Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.
Energy experts said that governors and legislatures have tools to keep electricity prices from rising further, and might even be able to lower them.
Lennart Poettering has left Microsoft to co-found Amutable, a new Berlin-based company aiming to bring cryptographically verifiable integrity and deterministic trust guarantees to Linux systems. He said in a post on Mastodon that his “role in upstream maintenance for the Linux kernel will continue as it always has.” Poettering will also continue to remain deeply involved in the systemd...
Ethereum traders are becoming more active on-chain, not by rotating out of risk but by leaning into it. Over recent sessions, leveraged positioning has increased across decentralized perpetual markets, pointing to a growing willingness to deploy capital directly through smart contract–based venues. This shift is unfolding alongside improving liquidity conditions, with HFDX seeing its liquidity […]
For traders stepping into on-chain perpetual futures for the first time, the learning curve can feel steep. While access to decentralized derivatives has improved significantly, understanding how trades behave once they are live remains the biggest challenge for beginners. Price movement, fees, and leverage tend to feel very different on-chain compared to spot markets or […]
TymeBank says one of the fastest-growing and most dangerous scams targeting South African consumers involves something many people have never heard of: RAT attacks.
Hong Kong (PinionNewswire) — Standard Chartered and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) jointly released the latest Standard Chartered Greater Bay Area Business Confidence Index (GBAI), which revealed the business sentiment for most companies in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) remained steady amid persistent external uncertainties in Q4-2025. Following a rebound in the previous […]
Hong Kong — The 19th Asian Financial Forum (AFF), jointly organised by the Hong Kong SAR (HKSAR) Government and Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), concluded successfully . The forum attracted an enthusiastic response, drawing over 4,000 leaders from governments and business sectors across over 60 countries and regions. Over the two-day forum (January 26-27),, […]
New York, USA (PinionNewswire) — Dream Companion, an emerging platform in AI-powered digital companionship, today announced the launch of its advanced NSFW AI Chat, designed to deliver deeply contextual, personalized conversations through long-term memory systems and adaptive AI models. The platform sets a new benchmark for nsfw ai chats by combining realism, continuity, and user-controlled […]
Researchers at the University of New South Wales are developing a “reverse solar panel” that generates small amounts of electricity at night by harvesting infrared heat radiated from Earth. “In the past, scientists have demonstrated that a ‘thermoradiative diode’ can convert infrared radiation directly into electricity; when used to convert heat from Earth, they exploit the temperature...