Apple on Tuesday began showing off a new round of smart-home products, including an iPad-like device called the HomeView, which is meant to hang on walls or sit on tabletops and will showcase its Siri virtual assistant, upgraded with AI. The HomeView, which costs from US$299 and ships next month, is Apple’s latest entry into…
A person was shot by ICE officers Thursday afternoon in an Upper Manhattan neighborhood, three law enforcement sources familiar with the matter said. The shooting happened during an ICE enforcement operation along Marble Hill Avenue around 4 p.m., those sources said. One source said the person shot was apparently in a vehicle when at least…
A jury in Vermont, US has convicted Jason Eaton of three counts of attempted second-degree murder for the November 2023 shooting of three Palestinian college students. The verdict follows a week-long trial where jurors rejected Eaton’s insanity defence. Published On 22 Sep 202622 Sep 2026 Share Attempted murder for the man who shot three Palestinians…
In an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday, one of the two U.S. Air Force officers whose fighter jet was shot down over Iran in April detailed his harrowing ordeal, including plummeting to the ground with a damaged parachute. The Defense Department has not identified the Air Force colonel by name. “60 Minutes”…
In April, an American F-15E fighter jet was shot down over Iran, stranding two Air Force officers who were eventually rescued by U.S. Special Forces. One of them exclusively speaks with 60 Minutes’ Norah O’Donnell after evading capture behind enemy lines.
Jose Mourinho is back for a second spell at Real Madrid who, he says, didn’t need Barcelona’s new signing Rodri. Published On 19 Aug 202619 Aug 2026 Jose Mourinho is confident Real Madrid will be fine without Rodri despite admitting the club made “a very good offer” to try to sign the Spain captain. Rodri…
Outgoing Nedbank COO Mfundo Nkuhlu. Outgoing Nedbank chief operating officer (COO) Mfundo Nkuhlu says the bank’s years-long investment in modernising its technology infrastructure has positioned it to embrace artificial intelligence (AI), as digital capabilities become central to the future of banking. Speaking to ITWeb following the announcement of his retirement after more than two decades…
Vaccines have been reliably and affordably protecting people from diseases worldwide for centuries. Until the COVID-19 pandemic, however, vaccine development was still a long and idiosyncratic process. Traditionally, researchers had to tailor manufacturing processes and facilities for each vaccine candidate, and the scientific knowledge gained from one vaccine was often not directly transferable to another….
The wife of Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy was shot on Sunday night in Northern Virginia, allegedly by their son, authorities said. Loudon County Sheriff’s deputies found a woman “suffering from multiple gunshot wounds” in the 2000 block of Northpark Drive in the Washington D.C. suburb of Ashburn, officials said. Elijah Zion Bieniemy,…
This event is the latest in a string of worrying and weird examples of AI agents going rogue. In recent research, the UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) found frontier AI models are so fixated on completing tasks they “cheated” in tests to achieve their goals. The research from AISI came with this worrying warning: “A…
