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JOHANNESBURG - Suspended Deputy National Police Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya is disputing where he was arrested in connection with allegations of sexual grooming and rape. Sibiya’s lawyers argue that he was arrested at a restaurant near The Grand in Sandton, rather than inside the strip club. But investigating officer Nokukhanya Ndlovu…

Huawei Pioneers a New Computing Architecture for the AI Era: Making One Million Processors Work as One Computer — Summary of Roundtable Meeting Between Eric Xu and International Media Outlets on September 17 SHANGHAI, CHINA – Media OutReach Newswire – 30 September 2026 – During HUAWEI CONNECT on September 17,…

Your averages are lying to you: Cloud systems fail at the tail, not the mean, and most teams are still watching the wrong number entirely. For most of computing history, performance was an engineering problem you could reason about at your desk. Profile the code, count the database calls, size…

Enterprise executives aren't jumping blindly onto trendy neoclouds. They're assessing maturity and making pragmatic workload-to-cloud pairings. Alternative clouds have emerged amid major cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, and often specialize in niche areas like AI-native computing, and sovereign and edge deployments, while professing to provide…

Russia's President Vladimir Putin speaks with reporters during the International United Cultures Forum in Saint Petersburg on Sept. 25, 2026. Photo by Alexander Kazakov/Pool/AFP via Getty Images Article content SAINT PETERSBURG — Russia is not preparing for “any kind” of conflict with Europe, President Vladimir Putin said Friday, following warnings…

Global Gallium Arsenide Devices Market: Strategic Trends and Commercial Opportunities The worldwide gallium arsenide (GaAs) devices market has entered a phase of accelerated expansion, underpinned by structural shifts in wireless infrastructure, defense modernization, and the emergence of new high-performance computing workloads. Valued at approximately 14.5 billion USD in 2025, the…

The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, says broad AI adoption could represent an underappreciated source of demand for digital assets.  In its latest research paper, “The Machine-Native Economy,” BlackRock said the rise of AI and machine-to-machine payments could increase demand for blockchains and other programmable payment infrastructure, including stablecoins and…

Screenshot of video from YouTube channel Novaya Gazeta Europa. Fair use.  Caption says “doctors advise us to choose Apple more often.” This post is part of Global Voices’ September 2026 Spotlight series, “ Protest in Democracy .” With this Spotlight, we seek to explore the many forms of protest, the…

Officials in Moscow have announced a new record victory for the Kremlin-controlled United Russia party in what the European Union dismissed as “sham elections” on September 21. The Central Election Commission said United Russia gained nearly 58 percent of the vote, winning 355 seats in the 450-seat State Duma in…

The research team. From left: Dr. Youngjun Lee, Postdoctoral Researcher (KAIST Institute of Information Electronics); Professor Jae-Gil Lee (School of Computing). Inset photos, from left: Dr. Doyoung Kim (Amazon); Dr. Junhyeok Kang (LG AI Research); Professor Hwanjun Song (Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, KAIST). < The research team. From…