By Sudip Kar-Gupta PARIS (Reuters) - Defence and technology firm Thales unveiled new four-year targets on Thursday, predicting more than 25 billion euros ($26.34 billion) of revenues by 2028 as it reaps a decade of cyber investments. Europe's largest defence technology supplier, which has…

Siemens reported a drop in profit at its industrial business on Thursday and lowered its sales target for next year, citing geopolitical risks like trade conflicts and weak consumer demand. The German engineering group said its industrial profit fell 7% to 3.12 billion euros ($3.29 billion) in the…

In This Article: TAIPEI (Reuters) - Apple supplier Foxconn reported on Thursday a 14% rise in third-quarter net profit, driven by strong AI server demand. The Taiwanese company, the world's largest contract electronics maker, reported net profit for the July-September quarter rose to T$49.3…

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev lashes out at Emmanuel Macron and steps up defence of oil and gas as regional countries dominate guest list

Swedish games developer Embracer on Thursday posted a bigger-than-expected drop in second-quarter operating profit driven by game release delays in a seasonally softer quarter. The owner of the Tomb Raider franchise said its adjusted operating profit fell 33% to 1.2 billion Swedish crowns ($109.18…

Sen. Marco Rubio's nomination as secretary of state will see him become the world's most important diplomat.

Rachael Ray says she doesn't regret not having kids. John Lamparski/Getty Images for NYCWFF Rachael Ray says she doesn't regret not having kids even though she was "bashed for it" over the years. Instead, the celebrity chef said on her podcast that she prefers the company of her dog. And it's not…

Republicans will have at least the 218 votes needed to control the 435-seat House of Representatives, Edison projected, with nine races yet to be called.

Yves here. It appears there is a teeny bit of good news on the environment front, if you consider “less bad than promised” to be positive. Trump has promised that he would lower US energy prices via much more ambitious shale industry production. The shale industry has other ideas. By Irina Slav, a…

Russian Nuclear Weapons Are Keeping NATO Troops Out Of Ukraine: Top Admiral Authored by Kyle Anzalone via The Libertarian Institute, A top NATO military official said that NATO forces would have deployed to Ukraine to drive Russian soldiers from the country if Russia did not have nuclear…

BT’s Derek Cassidy helps us dive deep into the world of subsea cables and explains how they’re managed and protected. Read more: Cable ties: The geopolitical challenges of the internet under the sea

Major European stock markets traded mostly higher ahead of Eurostat's preliminary report on the Eurozone's gross domestic product (GDP). Eurostat will also release its report on industrial production ...

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Foxconn Precision Industry Co. Ltd. announced on Thursday that its net profit in the third quarter of the fiscal year 2024 observed an annual rise of about 14% to reach 46.09 billion New Taiwan dollar...

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Having killed several London policemen during a botched robbery in 1910, the members of a politically motivated gang of burglars went into hiding. When their location was revealed to authorities, 200 men were sent to surround the building. This prompted a wild gunfight now known as the Siege of Sidney Street. Though outmanned, the gang members possessed superior weapons and were only overtaken when their building caught fire. Why was Winston Churchill criticized for his role in the siege? Discuss

A discovery of absolutely epic proportions has just been revealed, but the corporate media in the United States almost entirely ignored it.  A team of scientists led by Dr. Irving Finkel has deciphered the oldest map in the world, and we are being told that it actually reveals the location of Noah’s Ark.  This is …

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”—James Madison Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Unadulterated power in any branch of government is a menace to freedom, but concentrated power across …

The Institute for Fiscal Studies says 30% of London's youth clubs closed between 2010 and 2019.

The Post Office is looking at closing up to 115 directly-owned branches nationally - 32 in London.

Eurostar is celebrating its 30th birthday but Kent commuters are still unable to use local stations.

Floods and torrential rain have not gone away and residents hail stories of heroism as the clean-up continues.

The special counsel has led two federal criminal cases against Donald Trump.

The huge dust storm - also known as a haboob - limited visibility and left many residents in the dark.

Residents of the mixed area of Aramoun express alarm after a strike on Wednesday kills eight people.

The criminal drug cartels in Mexico are reportedly rushing thousands of illegals across the southern U.WS. border in an effort to get as many criminal operatives inside the country as possible ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration. With more than 11 million illegals already having crossed into the U.S. thanks to Joe Biden’s disastrous border policies, […]

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President-elect Donald Trump has appointed successful businessmen Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to help ferret out and identify budget items to cut to save the U.S. treasury money. Trump has created a new initiative that is being called the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) according to reports on Tuesday. “I am pleased to announce that […]

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Leading AI systems are solving less than 2% of problems in a new advanced mathematics benchmark, revealing significant limitations in their reasoning capabilities, research group Epoch AI reported this week. The benchmark, called FrontierMath, consists of hundreds of original research-level mathematics problems developed in collaboration with over 60 mathematicians, including Fields Medalists Terence Tao and Timothy Gowers. While top AI models like GPT-4 and Gemini 1.5 Pro achieve over 90% accuracy on traditional math tests, they struggle with FrontierMath's problems, which span computational number theory to algebraic geometry and require complex reasoning. "These are extremely challenging. [...] The only way to solve them is by a combination of a semi-expert like a graduate student in a related field, maybe paired with some combination of a modern AI and lots of other algebra packages," Tao said. The problems are designed to be "guessproof," with large numerical answers or complex mathematical objects as solutions, making it nearly impossible to solve without proper mathematical reasoning. Further reading: New secret math benchmark stumps AI models and PhDs alike.

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Microsoft's gaming division is developing prototypes for a handheld gaming device that won't launch for "a few years," gaming chief Phil Spencer said Wednesday. In an interview with Bloomberg, Spencer said that while Microsoft is actively working on prototypes, the company will first focus on improving its Xbox app performance on existing portable devices and establishing hardware partnerships. The gaming unit wants to be "informed by learning and what's happening now" before introducing its own device, Spencer said. "Longer term, I love us building devices," Spencer said, adding that Microsoft's team "could do some real innovative work."

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: OpenAI is preparing to launch a new artificial intelligence agent codenamed "Operator" that can use a computer to take actions on a person's behalf (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source), such as writing code or booking travel [...]. In a staff meeting on Wednesday, OpenAI's leadership announced plans to release the tool in January as a research preview and through the company's application programming interface for developers [...]. The one nearest completion will be a general-purpose tool that executes tasks in a web browser, one of the people said. OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman hinted at the shift to agents in response to a question last month during an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit. "We will have better and better models," Altman wrote. "But I think the thing that will feel like the next giant breakthrough will be agents." The move to release an agentic AI tool also comes as OpenAI and its competitors have seen diminishing returns from their costly efforts to develop more advanced AI models.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: There's a general consensus that we won't be able to consistently perform sophisticated quantum calculations without the development of error-corrected quantum computing, which is unlikely to arrive until the end of the decade. It's still an open question, however, whether we could perform limited but useful calculations at an earlier point. IBM is one of the companies that's betting the answer is yes, and on Wednesday, it announced a series of developments aimed at making that possible. On their own, none of the changes being announced are revolutionary. But collectively, changes across the hardware and software stacks have produced much more efficient and less error-prone operations. The net result is a system that supports the most complicated calculations yet on IBM's hardware, leaving the company optimistic that its users will find some calculations where quantum hardware provides an advantage. [...] Wednesday's announcement was based on the introduction of the second version of its Heron processor, which has 133 qubits. That's still beyond the capability of simulations on classical computers, should it be able to operate with sufficiently low errors. IBM VP Jay Gambetta told Ars that Revision 2 of Heron focused on getting rid of what are called TLS (two-level system) errors. "If you see this sort of defect, which can be a dipole or just some electronic structure that is caught on the surface, that is what we believe is limiting the coherence of our devices," Gambetta said. This happens because the defects can resonate at a frequency that interacts with a nearby qubit, causing the qubit to drop out of the quantum state needed to participate in calculations (called a loss of coherence). By making small adjustments to the frequency that the qubits are operating at, it's possible to avoid these problems. This can be done when the Heron chip is being calibrated before it's opened for general use. Separately, the company has done a rewrite of the software that controls the system during operations. "After learning from the community, seeing how to run larger circuits, [we were able to] almost better define what it should be and rewrite the whole stack towards that," Gambetta said. The result is a dramatic speed-up. "Something that took 122 hours now is down to a couple of hours," he told Ars. Since people are paying for time on this hardware, that's good for customers now. However, it could also pay off in the longer run, as some errors can occur randomly, so less time spent on a calculation can mean fewer errors. Despite all those improvements, errors are still likely during any significant calculations. While it continues to work toward developing error-corrected qubits, IBM is focusing on what it calls error mitigation, which it first detailed last year. [...] The problem here is that using the function is computationally difficult, and the difficulty increases with the qubit count. So, while it's still easier to do error mitigation calculations than simulate the quantum computer's behavior on the same hardware, there's still the risk of it becoming computationally intractable. But IBM has also taken the time to optimize that, too. "They've got algorithmic improvements, and the method that uses tensor methods [now] uses the GPU," Gambetta told Ars. "So I think it's a combination of both."

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Scottish Rugby loses £11.3m for the year ending 30 June 2024, despite generating a record £73.9m, which included revenue from a series of Taylor Swift concerts at Murrayfield.

BBC Sport previews Saturday's "box office" showdown between the Women's Super League's top two sides - Chelsea and Manchester City.

Neil Robertson claims a 6-4 win over world number one Judd Trump to move into the semi-finals of the Champion of Champions.

Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill says there is plenty of positivity in the camp ahead of the Nations League games against Belarus and Luxembourg.

Two-weight undisputed champion Katie Taylor speaks to BBC Sport's Sam Harris before her rematch against Amanda Serrano in Texas on Friday.

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2. Does Diabetes Impact Mental Well-being? 5 Key Insights You Need to Know, According To Doctor  HerZindagi English
3. 86% diabetics in India facing anxiety, depression; women more affected: Report  Gujarat Samachar
4. Diabetes affects mental well-being of more than 4 in 5 Indians living with conditions, IDF survey reveals  The Financial Express
5. Diabetes-related Depression: How to work your way around the two Ds  Mint

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2. India has the highest number of diabetic people in the world, even more than China: Report  The Economic Times
3. Why Lancet study on diabetes is a red flag: A quarter of diabetics globally are Indians  The Indian Express
4. 800 million diabetics worldwide and most aren't getting treatment, finds study  The Times of India
5. 800 mn people living with diabetes, rates double in 30 years: Study in Lancet  Firstpost

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