Firmus withdraws ambitious Australian data-centre IPO after demand falters
The company abandoned its ASX listing plan after bankers repeatedly cut the proposed price and fundraising target during a difficult bookbuild.
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Python 3.15 arrives with thousands of community changes
The major language release incorporates 5,643 commits while carrying a warning for tkinter users considering macOS 27.
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US proposal would put a $100,000 price on graduate work program
Universities could face steep charges for international graduates using Optional Practical Training, with the government projecting participation could fall by as much as 44 percent.
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ICE shooting of man with child in New York car sparks protests
New York officials demanded answers after a federal immigration officer shot a Dominican man during an enforcement operation in Marble Hill.
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Apogee brings private AI summaries into the browser
The open-source extension processes articles, videos and documents locally through WebGPU, WebAssembly or a user-run model server.
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Fleeting turns fake meetings into a browser-based privacy shield
The web app plays synthetic workplace calls and can generate calendar invitations designed to make a user appear occupied.
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Navi Pillay awarded 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for advancing international law
The Norwegian Nobel Committee honoured the South African jurist's decades of work across apartheid-era advocacy, human rights leadership and international courts.
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Microsoft releases MXC framework for sandboxing untrusted code across major desktop platforms
Microsoft's open-source MXC project offers a common policy model and typed software kits for containing untrusted workloads on Windows, Linux and macOS.
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OpenTelemetry guidance urges products to make telemetry exports vendor-neutral
New OpenTelemetry project guidance recommends built-in OTLP export paths so customers can route logs, traces and metrics to the observability systems they choose.
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LIVE COVERAGEUS proposal would put a $100,000 price on graduate work program
Universities could face steep charges for international graduates using Optional Practical Training, with the government projecting participation could fall by as much as 44 percent.
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Tokyo records 34 consecutive rainy days, the longest streak since 1886
Japan's weather agency says the capital surpassed a 2019 record as September rainfall approached three times its usual level.
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Reserve Bank of Australia raises cash rate to 4.6 percent
The quarter-point increase takes Australia's benchmark to a 15-year high as energy disruption and technology demand add to inflation pressure.
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Wildlife theme selected for next Bank of England note series
Four native species will become the central images on redesigned sterling notes after a large public consultation.
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