Iran’s IRGC says building underground sites for weapons production, storage | US-Israel war on Iran News
IRGC says underground military complexes allow missile production to continue even under heavy bombardment. Published On 7 Nov 20267 Nov 2026 Iran is building underground military complexes able to sustain weapons production and storage even under heavy bombardment, according to the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). IRGC spokesperson Hossein Mohebbi made a series of…
Ending the late nights: Inside the two-year build of PSET
Chris Wentworth, Chief Technology Officer at PSET. Anyone who has worked in a South African admissions office knows the season. Applications pour in, documents need checking and staff work late to get through them. PSET Chief Technology Officer Chris Wentworth says that is exactly the kind of problem the platform was built to solve. “With…
Why a wave of bomb threats is so difficult for Europe to contain
Irish airline Aer Lingus diverted its Dublin to Rome flight on Thursday morning following a hoax bomb threat. Gary Chalker | Moment Unreleased | Getty Images A spate of bomb threats against passenger flights has forced diversions, emergency landings and military escorts across European airspace this week, stoking fear among passengers and heaping pressure on…
Old Mutual’s Celiwe Ross on leading people through AI
Old Mutual’s Celiwe Ross AI is the defining technology of our era. At one extreme, it fuels fears of job losses, robot wars and computers ruling over human beings. At the other, it holds out hope: curing diseases such as cancer, bolstering global food security and even freeing people from the need to work. Old…
An election night of firsts, and a soccer legend steps off the international stage: The news quiz
Tom Gottlieb Tom Gottlieb is the deputy director of platforms for weekends for NBC News. Olivia Eckstine Olivia Eckstine is an intern with the NBC News Data / Graphics team. Lara Horwitz, Kim Walker, Mark Hodge, Josh Feldman and Amina Kilpatrick contributed.
Cyber threats target online learning platforms
Almost 63% of online learners across META were exposed to cyber incidents in the past year. (Image source: iStock) Nearly 63% of online learners across the Middle East, Turkiye and Africa (META) region say they faced cyber incidents in the past year, reveals new research. The study, conducted by Kaspersky, surveyed 1 864 respondents aged…
Paraguay’s President Santiago Peña impeached and under house arrest
Paraguay’s President Santiago Peña has been impeached and placed under house arrest after a bank collapse triggered a crisis that left more than half of the country’s population without access to their accounts. Peña was arrested on Friday minutes after lawmakers, including from his own party, unanimously voted to remove him from office following the…
AI has turned cybersecurity into an arms race
From hacked supermarket fridges and a record cryptocurrency theft at Binance to an emergency over flaws in widely used web software, companies worldwide are facing a wave of cyberthreats that executives say AI is accelerating and making more sophisticated. The surge is straining IT departments, with staff working overnight to patch software vulnerabilities, and is…
Pope Leo says he voted in U.S. election because he’s “proud to be an American”
Pope Leo XIV, who became the first sitting pontiff to vote in a U.S. election, said Friday he is “proud to be an American and to exercise my right” to vote. His remarks, made to reporters en route to Latin America for a 12-day trip, come after the Vatican confirmed the U.S.-born pontiff had voted…
CSIR algorithm puts DA Joburg vote off by six points
The CSIR’s projections for Wednesday’s elections are marginally off. (Image: Nicola Mawson | GenAI, Freepik and official images) The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research’s (CSIR’s) election prediction model came within 1.45 percentage points of Wednesday’s election results in Ekurhuleni and Tshwane, but underestimated the DA by 5.95 points in Johannesburg early this morning, with…
