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After a fiery feud with the president, in which Epstein-related claims flew far and fast, Donald Trump extended an olive branch to his prodigal son, Elon Musk

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: This year's newest iPhones included one momentous change that marked a new phase in the evolution of Apple Silicon: the Apple N1, Apple's first in-house chip made to handle local wireless connections. The N1 supports Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and the Thread smart home communication protocol, and it replaces the third-party wireless chips (mostly made by Broadcom) that Apple used in older iPhones. Apple claimed that the N1 would enable more reliable connectivity for local communication features like AirPlay and AirDrop but didn't say anything about how users could expect it to perform. But Ookla, the folks behind the SpeedTest app and website, have analyzed about five weeks' worth of users' testing data to get an idea of how the iPhone 17 lineup stacks up to the iPhone 16, as well as Android phones with Wi-Fi chips from Qualcomm, MediaTek, and others. While the N1 isn't at the top of the charts, Ookla says Apple's Wi-Fi chip "delivered higher download and upload speeds on Wi-Fi compared to the iPhone 16 across every studied percentile and virtually every region." The median download speed for the iPhone 17 series was 329.56Mbps, compared to 236.46Mbps for the iPhone 16; the upload speed also jumped from 73.68Mbps to 103.26Mbps. Ookla noted that the N1's best performance seemed to improve scores most of all in the bottom 10th percentile of performance tests, "implying Apple's custom silicon lifts the floor more than the ceiling." The iPhone 17 also didn't top Ookla's global performance charts -- Ookla found that the Pixel 10 Pro series slightly edges out the iPhone 17 in download speed, while a Xiaomi 15T Pro with MediaTek Wi-Fi silicon featured better upload speeds.

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Trainee health worker Ieuan Crump, 27, sexually assaulted two women while carrying out bladder scans at Grange Hospital, Cwmbran.

Larry Summers opened his Harvard class by admitting shame over his past ties to Jeffrey Epstein, just hours after the Ivy League opened its own investigation into him.

Nearly two weeks ago, I was chatting with my physiotherapist in my sitting room when something very strange and rather frightening happened.

Using AI to attack AI

updated  Malefactors are actively attacking internet-facing Ray clusters and abusing the open source AI framework to spread a self-replicating botnet that mines for cryptocurrency, steals data, and launches distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.…

Attackers may be joining the dots to enable unauthenticated RCE

Fortinet has confirmed that another flaw in its FortiWeb web application firewall has been exploited as a zero-day and issued a patch, just days after disclosing a critical bug in the same product that attackers had found and abused a month earlier.…

Eammon Homes gave GB News viewers a heartbreaking insight into his current health battles live on air before being abruptly cut off by bosses.

The Charity Commission will not investigate the East London Mosque Trust as it claims there is 'no evidence' that the charity is not operating for the 'public benefit'.

A health inspector in Denver, Colorado was seen pouring a gallon of bleach in food at a taco street vendor's stand on Saturday evening, sparking debate online about their actions.

Footage posted online shows long queues of vehicles inching along the white-out route, prompting police to warn drivers to avoid the road.

The president laughed boisterously from the stage at the US-Saudi Investment Forum at the Kennedy Center on Wednesday.

pbahra writes: Saudi Arabia is betting that the future of Hollywood won't be built in physical stages but in datacenters. In a push to anchor itself in next-generation film production, Riyadh-based Humain has led Luma AI's latest Series C round, backing the shift towards cloud-based, AI-generated video rather than traditional studio infrastructure.. Humain's announcement says the new investment will accelerate Luma's development of world models capable of learning from video, audio and language to generate photorealistic scenes, environments and characters on demand. Supporters argue this could upend film-making by pushing much of Hollywood's production pipeline into high-performance datacenters rather than physical sets.

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The arrests follow reports of cruelty and sexual abuse committed against eight victims when they were between five and 17 years old in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

In tonight's episode of the Channel 4 programme, Kevin McCloud and his co-presenters visited five exquisite homes across the UK, battling it out for a place on the shortlist.

The 75-year-old Canadian comedian and the 76-year-old acting legend beamed backstage at The Shed's Griffin Theater in Manhattan

Spencer Matthews' wife Vogue Williams has emerged as a high contender to become jungle favourite when she enters the I'm A Celebrity camp this week.

The singer, 51, delighted Spice Girls fans on Wednesday as she revealed the band are considering a reunion for their thirtieth anniversary next year.

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University have developed an oral treatment that could soon be used to destroy cancer cells and even prevent the disease from forming in the human body.

Nvidia blew past earnings expectations with soaring revenue and profit, easing fears of an AI bubble and reinforcing its position as the engine of the global AI boom. From a report: Nvidia's sales grew 62% year-over-year to $57 billion in the October quarter, ahead of the $54.9 billion Wall Street had projected, signaling that demand for AI chips remains strong even as more questions emerge about whether returns from the technology will keep up with the pace of AI infrastructure investments. It posted profits of $31.9 billion, up 65% from the year-ago quarter and also slightly above expectations. "Blackwell sales are off the charts, and cloud GPUs are sold out," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a statement, a message that echoes his earlier arguments that fears of an AI bubble are overblown. The company also posted stronger-than-expected sales guidance of around $65 billion for the fourth quarter, another indicator that the AI spending spree isn't slowing anytime soon.

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