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NOAA projects very strong El Niño through winter

Greenlogue/AP Federal climate forecasters say the strengthening El Niño has a greater than 90 per cent chance of becoming very strong during the Northern Hemisphere autumn and winter, increasing risks of disruptive rainfall, drought and heat across several regions. The US Climate Prediction Center said in its September assessment that El Niño had intensified during August, with sea-surface temperature anomalies exceeding 3C in the eastern equatorial Pacific. […]

Investigators uncover 9/11-style plan behind flydubai attack

Investigators examining the cockpit attack aboard a flydubai flight to Tel Aviv believe the co-pilot intended to kill the captain and crash the aircraft into a target in Israel in an attack modelled on September 11, 2001. A preliminary Israeli investigation has concluded that Hamam al-Hammami, a 29-year-old Omani national, planned to take control of Flight FZ1073 after incapacitating Captain Smit Machchhar and then deliberately strike a […]

Katherine Ryan returns to Dubai Comedy Festival

Katherine Ryan returns to Dubai Opera on October 12 as part of the Dubai Comedy Festival, bringing her sharp observational stand-up back to the city for a 9.30pm performance. The award-winning comedian, writer, actor and presenter will appear in the Main Auditorium, with tickets starting at Dh195. The show is open to audiences aged 16 and above and is presented by GME Events as part of the […]

Trump rebrand propels Slovenia’s .si domain registrations

Slovenia’s. si internet domain has recorded an extraordinary registration surge after US President Donald Trump moved to replace “artificial intelligence” with “super intelligence”, turning the country-code suffix into a sought-after shorthand for the technology sector. Register. si, Slovenia’s national domain registry, recorded 46,066 new. si domains in September, compared with 3,515 in August. Its published statistics showed more than 250,000. si domains registered by early October, a […]

Cloudflare unveils Clef models to rival Jev

Cloudflare has released two open-source artificial intelligence decision models, Clef and Clef-flash, mounting a direct challenge to TypeSafe AI’s Jev in the emerging market for fast, structured decisions inside software and autonomous-agent workflows. The company made both models available through Workers AI on October 1 and released their weights on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 licence. Clef has 27 billion parameters, while the latency-focused Clef-flash has […]

X pursues Bitcoin account operators over £207,384 payouts

X Internet Unlimited Company and X Corp have launched High Court proceedings against two Bitcoin-focused content creators and unidentified account operators, alleging they fraudulently obtained at least £207,384 through the social platform’s former Creator Revenue Sharing programme. The claim, filed on September 17 in the Business and Property Courts of England and Wales, names Vivek Kumar Sen and Zamyang Sherpa, both described in court papers as residents […]

Bitget probes breach with Mandiant and SlowMist

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget has published independent findings from Mandiant and SlowMist into its September 24 security breach, with both investigations tracing the intrusion to compromised third-party security products that enabled unauthorised access to the exchange’s wallet environment. The disclosure sharpens the explanation of an incident initially valued at about $351.6 million and later revised to approximately $387.5 million after additional on-chain tracing identified affected transactions involving Zcash […]

Etihad weighs legal response to Manchester City ruling

Etihad Airways is seeking legal advice on possible action after rejecting implications arising from an independent commission’s findings that Manchester City used improper commercial arrangements to breach Premier League financial rules. The Abu Dhabi airline, Manchester City’s principal commercial partner since 2009, said it “categorically rejects any finding, conclusion or implication” suggesting that it had ever participated in improper arrangements. Etihad said it was considering the legal […]

Manyika backs shared oversight of artificial intelligence

Google executive James Manyika has said artificial intelligence companies cannot be solely responsible for policing systems, arguing that regulation and public oversight are necessary alongside industry safeguards. Manyika, Google’s senior vice-president for Research, Labs, Technology & Society, said responsibility for managing AI’s risks must be shared among developers, governments and society. His comments come as debate intensifies in the United States over whether voluntary commitments by leading […]

AI assistants adopt softer faces as agents expand

Artificial intelligence companies are putting friendly faces on increasingly powerful software, turning personal agents into rounded, wide-eyed characters as the industry tries to make autonomous technology feel approachable. OpenAI this week unveiled Dots, persistent AI agents with their own cloud computers and access to connected apps. Users can personalise the agents, including giving them names, while OpenAI is positioning them as assistants capable of carrying out extended […]

Etihad explores legal options after Manchester City ruling

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Etihad Airways is seeking legal advice on possible action after rejecting implications arising from an independent commission’s findings that Manchester City breached Premier League financial rules. The Abu Dhabi airline, Manchester City’s principal sponsor since 2009, said it “categorically rejects any finding, conclusion or implication” suggesting that it had ever participated in improper commercial arrangements. It said it would obtain legal counsel on […]

Media Business Network unveils redesigned digital platform

Media Business Network has introduced a redesigned website aimed at simplifying access to its projects, services, news and business opportunities as the Dubai-based company sharpens its focus on content, public relations and hospitality-focused marketing distribution. The refreshed platform presents MBN’s activities around three principal business areas and provides a more structured route for clients, advertisers and media partners seeking information about the company’s operations. MBN said the […]

Flydubai halts Israel flights during FZ1073 investigation

Dubai-based flydubai has temporarily halted flights to and from Israel while authorities investigate the flight-deck altercation that forced its FZ1073 service to divert to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. The carrier announced the suspension after passengers from the Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight were taken onward following the emergency landing at Tabuk Airport. Flydubai said the measure was being taken in coordination with relevant authorities and would remain under review […]

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Foreign capital backs North American AI expansion

Foreign investors are taking a growing role in financing North America’s artificial intelligence infrastructure build-out as technology companies tap global pools of capital to meet spending approaching $1 trillion, according to JPMorgan Asset Management. Charles Wu, head of Asia-Pacific alternatives institutional client strategy at JPMorgan Asset Management, told the SuperReturn Asia conference in Singapore on Wednesday that banks and institutional investors from Asia, the Gulf and other […]

Tether creates $495 million batch of gold tokens

Tether has minted about $495 million of its gold-backed XAU₮ token, adding a large new batch of digital bullion as the market for tokenised gold expands. Blockchain analytics firm Arkham identified the issuance on September 29, saying Tether’s latest mint involved XAU₮ rather than its much larger dollar-linked USDT stablecoin. The transaction comprised roughly 119,670 XAU₮ and was valued at about $494.6 million at the time, based […]

OpenAI pursues $30 billion round at $1.4 trillion

OpenAI is seeking at least $30 billion in fresh capital at a valuation of about $1.4 trillion before the new investment, as the ChatGPT maker turns again to private markets after delaying plans for an initial public offering. Discussions with prospective investors remain at an early stage and terms could change, people familiar with the fundraising have said. Investor demand is driving the potential transaction as OpenAI […]

Paramount outlines $6 billion savings for Warner financing

Paramount Skydance Corp has told prospective lenders it expects to deliver more than $6 billion of annual cost savings within three years of completing its Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition, placing the synergy target at the centre of efforts to contain the combined company’s heavy debt burden. The company expects to capture about 30% of the projected savings during the first year after closing, rising to roughly 70% […]

MCP Python SDK patches high-risk OAuth credential flaw

Maintainers of the Model Context Protocol Python SDK have patched a high-severity OAuth weakness that could let a malicious MCP server steal authentication credentials and potentially take over accounts. The flaw affects the official Python implementation of MCP, an open protocol originally introduced by Anthropic to connect artificial-intelligence applications with external tools and data. The security advisory rates the vulnerability 7.5 out of 10 for unattended authentication […]

UK-Based Modest Fashion Label Alkareem London Builds Its Footprint on Dubai-Made Craftsmanship

A London-founded modest fashion label is positioning itself as a bridge between British retail and Gulf manufacturing traditions, with a business model built around UK design paired with ethical production in Dubai. Alkareem London was established in 2020 by a founder who was 19 years old at the time of launch. The brand’s premise, according to its own materials, grew out of a gap the founder identified […]

Pentagon confirms breach affecting more than three million

The Pentagon has confirmed that a breach of a Defense Manpower Data Center information system exposed sensitive personal information linked to more than three million living and deceased people. A US defence official said the incident affected 2.76 million living individuals and about 294,000 deceased people, establishing a clearer scale for an intrusion that exposed Social Security numbers and personnel information held by the department. The Defense […]

BotHelper RAT gives attackers live Windows screen access

Cybersecurity researchers have identified a previously undocumented Windows remote access trojan that can continuously stream an infected computer’s display to its operators while supporting command execution, downloads, clipboard monitoring and other remote-control functions. Point Wild’s Lat61 Threat Intelligence team named the malware BotHelper RAT after the Bot. Helper namespace found in its. NET assembly. Its analysis, published on September 24, traced a multi-stage infection chain beginning with […]

Polymarket adds 15-minute Bitcoin markets to US app

Polymarket has added 15-minute Bitcoin price markets to its US app, giving users a new way to trade contracts tied to whether the cryptocurrency rises or falls during successive quarter-hour windows. The contracts, listed as “BTC Up or Down: 15 min”, settle according to whether a specified Bitcoin reference price at the end of each 15-minute interval is greater than or equal to its level at the […]

MCP servers expose widening enterprise governance gaps

Model Context Protocol servers are opening significant gaps in enterprise security governance as artificial intelligence agents connect to infrastructure beyond established corporate controls, new research examining more than 15,000 published servers has found. OX Security analysed 15,465 MCP servers and 5,095 unique hostnames, finding that 15.6% of the hostnames resolved to infrastructure outside the United States. The researchers identified 19 in China and 18 in Russia, raising […]