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Contributed Article The BoGuan LLM is enabling millions of visitors to enjoy historically accurate experiences from China’s ancient capital Xi’an, situated in Shaanxi province, is one of the most celebrated cities in all of China. Internationally renowned as the home of the Terracotta Army, the city served as China’s capital for over 1,000 years under 13 different dynasties. Today, it is one of China’s largest domestic tourism destinations, attracting around 330 million visitors annually. With the rapid rise of AI, the way in which tourists interact with the city is changing. As generative AI becomes increasingly commonplace, tourists are beginning…

I keep seeing the same idea in conversations about agents: Detailed specs are old-world overhead now. Give the model a rough goal, let it explore, fix what comes back, move on. It sounds efficient but it also hides the cost.A simple prompt looks cheap and tempting because it gets implementation started right away. Then the correction loops start. You review output, clarify intent, ask for changes, rerun tests, find the next gap, and do it again. Someone still has to decide whether the result matches the real goal. That person becomes the oracle.At the other extreme, full formal specification is…

New York has paused state environmental approvals for large new data centre projects while it develops rules covering electricity demand, environmental effects, and infrastructure costs.As reported by Reuters, the moratorium will remain in place for up to one year and applies to new facilities and expansions capable of consuming at least 50MW. New York is the first US state to introduce a statewide pause covering data centre developments of this scale.The executive order identifies cloud computing, artificial intelligence, data storage, content delivery, and streaming among the services supported by the facilities covered by the measure. It directs the New York…

ESET researchers identified 11 old and forgotten UEFI shim bootloaders at versions 0.9 and below that can be used to bypass UEFI Secure Boot on any UEFI-based machine that trusts Microsoft’s Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 2011 third-party UEFI certificate authority (CA) certificate, regardless of the installed operating system (OS). Reported shims can be exploited to execute untrusted code during system boot, enabling attackers to deploy malicious UEFI bootkits (such as Bootkitty, HybridPetya, or BlackLotus) even on systems with UEFI Secure Boot enabled. We reported our findings to CERT/CC in February 2026, and the vulnerable UEFI applications were revoked on Microsoft’s…

Risk mitigation trumps cost savings as the top way for sustainability teams to create business value for their organizations, according to the 8th biennial survey of chief sustainability officers (CSOs) at publicly traded U.S. companies. More than 62 percent of the respondents said their ability to identify and offer strategies to address regulatory, supply chain and climate risks resonated with other members of the C-suite. Exhibit A: Spirits company Suntory in January 2025 appointed its chief sustainability officer, Kim Marotta, to head risk management. “What enterprise risk management has given me is the opportunity to see the big picture,” she…

I’m using UNNotificationSound.criticalSoundNamed with the Critical Alerts entitlement. I have two separate alarms that can each be active at the same time, each scheduling its own local notification on a repeating timer. Before switching to critical alerts, I played these with two AVAudioPlayer instances, and they overlapped fine. Now, using critical alert notifications instead, only one sound plays at a time — even when both are triggered around the same time. Is this expected? Does iOS only ever play one critical alert sound at a time per app (or system-wide), or is there a way to get two to play…

Indian Apple partner Tata Electronics was hacked by a ransomware group last month, and that resulted in the outing of a ton of internal company files, which some people have been sifting through ever since. Now a diagnostics log has been found in the files, and this confirms the much-rumored fact that the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max will have a main camera with variable aperture. The log also confirms that Apple is using a new sensor for the aforementioned devices’ main camera, namely Sony’s IMX905. Its pixel size remains identical to its predecessor’s at 1.22μm, which…

AI is generating code faster than teams can review it. Checkmarx, the leader in agentic application security, today addressed that gap by introducing self-healing application security: autonomous agents that detect, fix, and verify vulnerabilities as developers code. Key Takeaways Developer Assist now runs a continuous find-and-fix loop directly in AI coding tools through hooks, catching and fixing vulnerabilities as code is written with up to 70% less manual remediation effort. Triage and Remediation agents autonomously prioritize what’s already in the codebase and generate merge-ready fixes, cutting manual triage and accelerating developer productivity. Closing the Loop from Code to Backlog According…

By modelling measurement as a continuous stochastic process, this work offers a compelling alternative to discontinuous collapse processes Quantum space collapse (Courtesy: iStock/Floriana) Quantum mechanics has two seemingly competing rules. Firstly, a system evolving without measurement follows a continuous, deterministic evolution governed by the Schrödinger equation, with dynamics determined by a Hamiltonian. Secondly, when a measurement occurs, the wavefunction collapses, producing a sudden, discontinuous change that is not derived from a Hamiltonian. Several approaches attempt to reconcile these behaviours, including the Copenhagen interpretation (which does not explain the mechanism of collapse), decoherence theory (which does not provide a single definite outcome),…

Pure Telecom, Ireland’s high-speed broadband and telecoms provider, has announced the results of new research from its Connected Lives 2026 study, which reveals that Irish adults spend an estimated €1.95 billion on streaming subscriptions each year. The research also found that the average Irish streamer now watches 2 hours and 58 minutes of streamed content every day, up from 2 hours and 22 minutes last year. Over the course of a year, this equates to approximately 45 days of watching streamed video content. The research, carried out by Censuswide on behalf of Pure Telecom, surveyed 1,000 employees in the Republic…