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The holiday season is fully in the rear view mirror and real life is here to stay. But that doesn’t mean the time for gifts is over — especially ones for yourself. You can still take advantage of great January sales on some awesome tech products.Take the Apple Mac mini M4, which is down to $500 from $599. The 17 percent discount gives you 16GB of RAM and 256GB of SSD for only about $20 more than the computer’s Black Friday sale. Its beefier models are also on sale: opting for 512GB of SSD will cost you $690, down from…
The US has accused South Africa’s defence ministry of refusing to obey orders from its own government to send home Iranian warships that have been conducting naval exercises in the African country’s waters. “South Africa can’t lecture the world on ‘justice’ while cozying up to Iran,” it said in a statement.In response, South Africa’s defence ministry said it was launching an inquiry to get to the root of these “serious allegations”.Washington has criticised South Africa for inviting Iran at a time when a brutal crackdown against protests was happening in the Middle Eastern country. It said the South African military’s…
Lucy WilliamsonBashmaq border crossing, Iraqi KurdistanFred Scott/BBCPeople and traffic still regularly cross the Iran-Iraq borderAt the border crossing from Iran into Iraqi Kurdistan, the stern face of Iran’s former supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, peers down at the trickle of Iranians leaving the territory.Thick snowflakes confetti the lorries and pedestrians arriving at this remote mountain pass.Metres away, just beyond the border post, an Iranian flag flutters in the snow.Iran has shut down the internet and blocked phone calls into the country, but its borders are still open.Inside the arrivals hall, we find dozens of men, women and children – many arriving…
Image generated by Google Gemini The Go programming language team has issued security updates for Go 1.25.6 and Go 1.24.12 to address six vulnerabilities. These issues range from denial-of-service attacks and memory exhaustion to toolchain flaws that could enable arbitrary code execution in certain developer environments. The patched issues span core standard library components including archive/zip and net/http, as well as security-sensitive areas of the crypto/tls stack. Two of the most serious weaknesses affect the Go toolchain itself, where crafted inputs could lead to command execution when building or fetching dependencies under specific conditions. The releases follow Go’s PRIVATE track…
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has unveiled a London taskforce on artificial intelligence (AI) and the future of work, during his annual Mansion House speech. Recognising the need for urgent action to prevent mass unemployment in London, he also announced free AI training for Londoners. Khan warned that unless urgent action is taken, the advent of AI would cause immense damage to the capital. He called for a collaborative effort to shape the AI revolution and harness the potential positives to ensure it benefits rather than damages society. A poll by City Hall found that over half of London…
Apple’s next-gen Siri is still far off, but this week the company announced that it’ll be using Google’s Gemini AI for its new foundation models. In this episode, Devindra and Engadget’s Igor Bonifacic discuss why Apple teamed up with Google again, instead of OpenAI or Anthropic. Also, they chat about Meta’s Reality Lab layoffs, which is refocusing the company on AI hardware like its smart glasses.Subscribe!TopicsMeta announces 1000+ layoffs, closes 3 VR studios as it shifts focus to AI hardware – 2:12Gemini can now pull context from the rest of your Google apps including photos and Youtube history – 12:31Framework…
65-year-old Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s last shah has been a prominent voice calling for protests to continue in the country.Human rights groups say around 2,500 people have been killed in two weeks, as the authoritarian regime attempts to quash the demonstrations. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump has not ruled out military action against the country over its violent crackdown.But who is Pahlavi, and what support does he enjoy among Iranians?
In an exclusive interview with the BBC, the former shadow justice secretary says Reform UK are the only party who can fix Britain.
The outlandish DS No4 Taylor Made concept previews how DS will make its range-topping variants stand out better – and the first of these will be a sportier version of its mid-sized hatchback. The concept, designed in partnership with DS Formula E driver Taylor Barnard (hence the name) and unveiled at the Brussels motor show, is based on the standard EV but sits lower, has a wider track and gains a host of aero modifications. Asked about the concept’s chances of making production, product boss Audrey Amer told Autocar that “we are not going to do this one” but added: “On DS 7 we…
Image: Freepik Apple is reportedly preparing to shake up its smartphone lineup in a way we haven’t seen in years, moving toward a future where “islands” disappear and screens fold in half. Below is a roundup of the most talked-about iPhone 18 rumors so far, based strictly on recent reports from multiple outlets. iPhone 18 display sizes may stay the same, but the cutout might not According to a leak shared by well-known tipster Digital Chat Station and reported by 9to5Mac, Apple is expected to keep screen sizes unchanged across the iPhone 18 lineup. That means the iPhone 18, iPhone Air…