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Australian banks warned frontier AI could create larger, faster cyber attacks

Australian banks warned frontier AI could create larger, faster cyber attacks

Published by Sam Flores

SYDNEY, April 30 : Australia’s financial system regulator said on Thursday the country’s banks were not keeping pace with AI industry developments, warning frontier AI systems such as Anthropic’s Mythos had the potential to lead to larger and faster cyber attacks. In a letter to banks, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) said most of the industry’s information security practices were struggling to match the rate of change in AI. The regulator said the speed of AI development could pose a growing threat to Australia’s financial services. “It also warns frontier AI models such as Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, which could enhance the discovery of vulnerabilities by bad actors, are expected to further increase the probability, speed and scale of cyber attacks,” APRA said in a statement referencing a review that it had conducted. Anthropic did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.  Potential risks posed by Mythos, which has high-level coding capabilities, have given it a potentially unprecedented ability to identify cybersecurity vulnerabilities, experts have warned. Anthropic has launched ​Claude Mythos Preview under …

LG Sound Suite Review: Big Sound for Larger Rooms

LG Sound Suite Review: Big Sound for Larger Rooms

Published by skeptic

Setup was relatively quick and painless. You just have to unbox four speakers, a soundbar, and a subwoofer, attach their power cables, and plug in everything. Pairing happens through the LG ThinQ app, which allows you to set up the Sound Suite system and tune it to exactly where you’re sitting in the room using your cell phone’s microphone. You can also set up each speaker to play music and group it with any other LG smart speakers you might have around your home, like the more affordable $250 M5 bookshelf speaker, to create a whole-home system. Once all the components were synced, I plugged the soundbar into the C5 OLED via HDMI, and was able to easily control everything via the TV remote’s volume and mute buttons. More in-depth settings had to happen in the app, but if you’re anything like me, this won’t become a regular chore. You’ll set it how you like it once and move on. While the pairing functionality with the LG TV was nice, it’s not required–the eARC port …

Blocked access to Christian holy site is a symptom of a larger problem

Blocked access to Christian holy site is a symptom of a larger problem

Published by Sam Flores

(RNS) — On Palm Sunday last month, Israel blocked the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, along with the official guardian of the church and two priests, from entering Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, one of the holiest sites for Christianity. The incident, which drew international condemnation, marked the first time in centuries that officials from the Roman Catholic Church were prevented from celebrating Palm Sunday Mass at the church, which holds the tomb where Christians believe Jesus rose on Easter. Israel said it blocked their entrance for security reasons due to the Iran war and later apologized. But the incident, described as a “grave precedent,” is not novel in a city that has witnessed a spike in anti-Christian attacks in recent years. The following day, (March 30), the Jerusalem-based Rossing Center for Education and Dialogue released its 2025 annual report on attacks against Christians in East Jerusalem and Israel. The report highlights a 40% spike in documented cases of attacks on Christians in 2025, compared to 2024. The report from the inter-religious Rossing organization documents …

Larger, More Spacious 2027 Kia Seltos Debuts With New Hybrid Variant

Larger, More Spacious 2027 Kia Seltos Debuts With New Hybrid Variant

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Kia’s combustion-powered Seltos has grown up and glowed up with more space and bigger tech inside. Antuan Goodwin Antuan started out in the automotive industry the old-fashioned way, by turning wrenches in a driveway and picking up speeding tickets. He now has nearly 20 years of expertise and experience behind the wheel of hundreds of cars, including electric, hybrid, plug-in hybrid, hydrogen, and traditional combustion vehicles. For each car he tests, Antuan covers more than 200 miles behind the wheel and evaluates driving dynamics; acceleration and braking performance; range; and efficiency. Antuan’s goal is to use his extensive car knowledge to educate CNET readers and help with their next car-related buying decision. Whether you’re EV-curious, an EV-enthusiast or a combustion-car loyalist, Antuan will bring you the unbiased advice, reviews, best lists and news you need. You can reach Antuan at antuan.goodwin@cnet.com Source link

Why larger airports suffer more during the DHS shutdown

Why larger airports suffer more during the DHS shutdown

Published by Sam Flores

Large airports are bearing the brunt of the partial government shutdown, as soaring absentee rates among Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers strain security operations and drive long lines at major hubs. Call-out rates for TSA officers have surged nationwide as the shutdown stretches into its fifth week, with little sign of meaningful progress in Congress… Source link

Alibaba’s Qwen 3.5 397B-A17 beats its larger trillion-parameter model — at a fraction of the cost

Alibaba’s Qwen 3.5 397B-A17 beats its larger trillion-parameter model — at a fraction of the cost

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Alibaba dropped Qwen3.5 earlier this week, timed to coincide with the Lunar New Year, and the headline numbers alone are enough to make enterprise AI buyers stop and pay attention. The new flagship open-weight model — Qwen3.5-397B-A17B — packs 397 billion total parameters but activates only 17 billion per token. It is claiming benchmark wins against Alibaba’s own previous flagship, Qwen3-Max, a model the company itself has acknowledged exceeded one trillion parameters.  The release marks a meaningful moment in enterprise AI procurement. For IT leaders evaluating AI infrastructure for 2026, Qwen 3.5 presents a different kind of argument: that the model you can actually run, own, and control can now trade blows with the models you have to rent. A New Architecture Built for Speed at Scale The engineering story underneath Qwen3.5 starts with its ancestry. The model is a direct successor to last September’s experimental Qwen3-Next, an ultra-sparse MoE model that was previewed but widely regarded as half-trained. Qwen3.5 takes that architectural direction and scales it aggressively, jumping from 128 experts in the previous …

Larger left hippocampus predicts better response to antidepressant escitalopram

Larger left hippocampus predicts better response to antidepressant escitalopram

Published by José Betancourt

A study of individuals suffering from moderate to severe depression in Japan found that those with larger volumes of the left hippocampus region of the brain and greater leftward laterality were more likely to respond to treatment with escitalopram (i.e., to experience a reduction in depression symptoms). Also, the volume of the right hippocampus and the right hippocampal head of these individuals increased more in response to this medication. The paper was published in Translational Psychiatry. Major depressive disorder is a common mental health condition characterized by persistent low mood and loss of interest or pleasure in daily activities. It goes beyond normal sadness and significantly interferes with functioning at work, school, and in relationships. Core symptoms include depressed mood, anhedonia, fatigue, and feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt. Many individuals also experience changes in sleep, appetite, concentration, and psychomotor activity. Despite the large number of people worldwide suffering from depression, treatments for depression are still lacking. Studies indicate that at least 30% of people suffering from depression do not experience a remission of symptoms …

BOJ sees boost to inflation from weak yen becoming larger

BOJ sees boost to inflation from weak yen becoming larger

Published by Sam Flores

TOKYO, Jan 26 : A weak yen has an increasing impact on Japan’s inflation as firms actively pass on rising costs, the central bank said on Monday, signalling its vigilance over mounting price pressures that may warrant more rises in interest rates. In an analysis of a weak-yen shock, inflation was boosted in the first year from companies passing on rising import costs, the Bank of Japan said. The analysis was contained in the full version of the central bank’s quarterly outlook report. But an equally significant boost came three years after the shock, from “second-round” effects, such as the pass-through of labour costs, suggesting the impact on prices would become larger and more lasting than in the past, the report said. The analysis studied the inflation impact of a weak yen and didn’t directly reference the current level of the yen, which fell last week to its lowest dollar value since 2024 before rebounding. “Companies’ wage and price-setting behaviour is becoming more active, which heightens the chance Japan will sustain a mechanism in which …

Military Presence At Davos “Much Larger Than Usual” As Security Posture Signals Rising Threats

Military Presence At Davos “Much Larger Than Usual” As Security Posture Signals Rising Threats

Published by Jenni Sidey

The private jets are departing, $2,500 per night sex workers have cleared out, and European globalist elites spent the week annoyed by the America First message from President Trump and Elon Musk at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The rationale for California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s attendance remains unclear, but his presence and conduct were widely viewed as an embarrassment for the U.S. With the event concluded, attention now shifts to the weaponry deployed to protect heads of state and billionaires. On Thursday, Rebel News journalist Avi Yemini was boots on the ground in Davos, where he shared his observations of the military technologies deployed across the area, from the streets to helipads to the regional airport. “Remember, these are the ‘masters of the universe’ who tell us that our carbon footprint is going to destroy the planet and we’ve got to do everything to reduce it,” Yemini said. “Meanwhile, they’re flying on private jets into private helipads.” Yemini pointed out, “What I’ve noticed that’s different about Davos 2026 … is the security presence. This …

Mars may once have had a much larger moon

Mars may once have had a much larger moon

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The Gale crater on Mars ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy A Mars crater may have once contained water that sloshed back and forth as a tide came and went. If that is true, it follows that Mars must have had a moon that was massive enough to exert a gravitational pull on the planet’s seas sufficient enough to create tides. Neither of the two moons it currently possesses are big enough for the job. Suniti Karunatillake at Louisiana State University and his colleagues have found that traces of tidal activity seem to be preserved in thin layers within sedimentary rocks in Gale crater. They analysed the sediment layers to obtain the period of the tides and the properties of the moon that helped cause them. If it indeed existed, it was 15 to 18 times as massive as Phobos, the largest of the Red Planet’s two present moons. This would still make it hundreds of thousands of times less massive than Earth’s moon. Today’s two Martian moons may in fact be remnants of the larger moon. Karunatillake …