Reformist Pezeshkian Wins Iran’s Presidential Runoff Election, Besting Hard-Liner Jalili
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian won Iran’s runoff presidential election Saturday, besting hard-liner Saeed Jalili by promising to reach out to the West and ease enforcement on the country’s mandatory headscarf law after years of sanctions and protests squeezing the...
Liz Truss, Shortest-Serving Prime Minister In British History, Loses Seat In U.K. Election
Former U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss lost her seat in Thursday’s general election as the center-right Conservative Party faced a crushing defeat at the polls after 14 years of governing Britain. Truss, who had held the member of Parliament for South West Norfolk since 2010,...
Beryl Moves Over Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula As Texas Officials Urge Coastal Residents To Prepare
TULUM, Mexico (AP) — Beryl moved into the the Gulf of Mexico Friday and took aim at the south Texas coast after battering Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Texas officials issued disaster declarations and urge coastal residents to prepare as the storm headed their way. Beryl hit...
5 Things To Know About Britain’s New Prime Minister
Labour leader Keir Starmer will soon move into 10 Downing St. as Britain’s new prime minister after his party won Thursday’s U.K. general election in a landslide. While his party has been dominating the polls for the past two years, Starmer, the man set to...
Trump Ally And Brexit Champion Nigel Farage Wins Seat In Blow To U.K. Conservatives
Nigel Farage, an ally of former President Donald Trump, won his race in Clacton, an English seaside town, in Thursday’s U.K. general election, becoming a member of parliament for the first time in his political career. Farage, the leader of the right-wing populist Reform UK...
CISA Report Finds Most Open-Source Projects Contain Memory-Unsafe Code
More than half of open-source projects contain code written in a memory-unsafe language, a report from the U.S.’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has found. Memory-unsafe means the code allows for operations that can corrupt memory, leading to vulnerabilities like buffer overflows, use-after-free and memory...
Some Open Source Software Licences are Only ‘Open-ish,’ Says Thoughtworks
It has been estimated 90% of organisations use some form of open source software, and if they needed to go and code it again themselves, it would cost USD $9 trillion. This makes open source a huge global economic resource. However, some tools have shifted...
Australian Organizations are Fascinated With Copilot for Microsoft 365, But Will They Avoid The “Gotchas”?
The interest in Microsoft Copilot is high, with many major Australian organizations signing on to be part of Microsoft’s early access and pre-launch testing process. According to Microsoft, 70% of Copilot users say they are more productive, and overall, there’s a 29% increase in speed...
5 Best QuickBooks Self-Employed/Solopreneur Alternatives
Best overall alternative: Wave Accounting Best free plan for small businesses: Zoho Books Best for freelancers: Xero Best for service-based businesses: FreshBooks Best budget option runner-up: ZipBooks Intuit QuickBooks is a household name, but its Solopreneur edition can be pricey and complicated. Fortunately, lots of...
AWS Custom Silicon Chips Range a Sign of What’s Coming to APAC Cloud Computing
The surge in AI computing has resulted in delays to the supply of AI-capable chips, as demand has outstripped supply. Global giants Microsoft, Google and AWS are ramping up custom silicon production to reduce dependence on the dominant suppliers of GPUs, NVIDIA and AMD. As...
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