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Fire erupts at Dubai airport following drone attack

Al Jazeera

Could Iran be using China's BeiDou system? Footage shows a fire burning near Dubai International Airport after a drone ignited a fuel tank, according to authorities in the UAE. Civil defence crews say the blaze is under control. What is force majeure and why are some Gulf countries invoking it?


How to quickly create professional presentations with AI

PCWorld

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Try Adobe Acrobat Studio for free today! Communication is a central part of any business or creative endeavour. Whether its sharing information between colleagues or highlighting the advantages of new products and services to customers, getting the messaging right is an essential part of success. Traditionally, this could involve hours of painstaking work, preparing documents and then replicating their data into slides for presentations.


Immature men are to blame for Britain's 'missing babies', report warns - because they delay responsibilities until later in life

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Secret of the booming Florida county desired by families that's seeing influx of residents Conniving couple whose greedy'pervert' plot'drove innocent disabled man to suicide' given stunningly short sentences I've FINALLY found something that works on my rosacea: This new anti-ageing treatment beloved of celebrities really is a game-changer Insufferable blowhard Stephen Colbert is being taken out like the trash... and thank God! What he's done is so diabolical: MAUREEN CALLAHAN Mass cancellations as Southwest Airlines pulls out of two of America's biggest airports Extramarital sex with witches, cursed bloodlines and possessed politicians: DC's chief exorcist reveals the potent stench of evil among America's elite We were the picture-perfect family of faith. The evil of sex was drilled into me... then finally I gave in to every depraved urge Trump says he's not ready to make a deal with Iran despite them asking for a ceasefire: 'The terms aren't good enough yet!' JFK Jr's mortifying night of phone sex... day Sarah Jessica Parker ditched her underwear to seduce him in public... and the girlfriend he REALLY wanted to marry: All the women before Carolyn Kim Jong Un is joined by his heir-apparent teenage daughter for'invasion rehearsal' drills Obama Center asks for 100 unpaid volunteers despite hiring the former president's'close friend' as CEO on $740K Insane moment NYC cab plows into pedestrians... and the miracle that saved them from death Angelina Jolie and George Clooney lead stars who have fled the US for France as Paris is dubbed'Frollywood' Harry Styles kisses male SNL star in wild opening monologue as he confronts woke'queerbaiting' claims head on Truth about'super secretive' Michael B. Jordan's love life... and real reason he is perpetually single: Years of private'heartache' and'loneliness' laid bare America's most expensive ZIP codes revealed - and the surprising state that dominates the list I looked like a monster after a car accident burned off my face... but a pioneering face transplant gave me my life back. Immature men are to blame for Britain's'missing babies', report warns - because they delay responsibilities until later in life Britain's'missing babies' can be blamed on immature men who are delaying responsibilities until later in life, according to a report. Research from the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) think tank predicts around 600,000 young women may miss out on motherhood partly because men don't feel ready for children until they get older. In the report, called Baby Bust, the organisation says there are a range of reasons for falling birth rates including the cost of childcare, wanting to move into a larger house, prioritising a career or not finding the right partner.


These aren't AI firms, they're defense contractors. We can't let them hide behind their models

The Guardian

We can't let them hide behind their models From Gaza to Iran, the pattern is the same: precision weapons, chosen blindness, and dead children. There is an Israeli military strategy called the "fog procedure". First used during the second intifada, it's an unofficial rule that requires soldiers guarding military posts in conditions of low visibility to shoot bursts of gunfire into the darkness, on the theory that an invisible threat might be lurking. It's violence licensed by blindness. Shoot into the darkness and call it deterrence. With the dawn of AI warfare, that same logic of chosen blindness has been refined, systematized, and handed off to a machine.


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A Block Coordinate Ascent Algorithm for Mean-Variance Optimization

Neural Information Processing Systems

Risk management in dynamic decision problems is a primary concern in many fields, including financial investment, autonomous driving, and healthcare. The mean-variance function is one of the most widely used objective functions in risk management due to its simplicity and interpretability. Existing algorithms for mean-variance optimization are based on multi-time-scale stochastic approximation, whose learning rate schedules are often hard to tune, and have only asymptotic convergence proof. In this paper, we develop a model-free policy search framework for mean-variance optimization with finite-sample error bound analysis (to local optima). Our starting point is a reformulation of the original mean-variance function with its Fenchel dual, from which we propose a stochastic block coordinate ascent policy search algorithm. Both the asymptotic convergence guarantee of the last iteration's solution and the convergence rate of the randomly picked solution are provided, and their applicability is demonstrated on several benchmark domains.


Inferring Networks From Random Walk-Based Node Similarities

Neural Information Processing Systems

Digital presence in the world of online social media entails significant privacy risks. In this work we consider a privacy threat to a social network in which an attacker has access to a subset of random walk-based node similarities, such as effective resistances (i.e., commute times) or personalized PageRank scores. Using these similarities, the attacker seeks to infer as much information as possible about the network, including unknown pairwise node similarities and edges. For the effective resistance metric, we show that with just a small subset of measurements, one can learn a large fraction of edges in a social network. We also show that it is possible to learn a graph which accurately matches the underlying network on all other effective resistances.


Iran-linked hackers target US medical tech company

FOX News

Iran-linked hackers claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on Stryker Corporation, disrupting the medical technology company's Microsoft environment and wiping devices.


Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Review: The Privacy Screen

WIRED

Now I wish every smartphone had a built-in privacy display. Privacy Display is very useful. Some AI features are useless. Did you privately ask ChatGPT how to bring up nonmonogamy with your husband? Your commuting neighbor on the train snuck a glance at your phone, guffawed internally, and blasted it on X with a satisfied smirk.


A Hacker Accidentally Broke Into the FBI's Epstein Files

WIRED

Plus: A porn-quitting app exposed the masturbation habits of hundreds of thousands of users, Russian hackers are trying to take over people's Signal accounts, and more. The United States and Israel's war with Iran has now been ongoing for two weeks, and the bombs continue to fall. But many of Iran's missiles are failing to hit their targets. WIRED's team in the Middle East detailed how countries in the Gulf region are intercepting these weapons . Of course, the international conflict is not just happening in the physical realm.