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US Marines stationed around the Persian Gulf have been receiving WhatsApp messages from strangers suggesting they call home and make their final goodbyes.The messages, which began arriving on Monday, came signed by the Iran-linked Handala hacking group, that has spent much of 2026 attacking US and Israeli targets.According to media reports, messages sent to marines at Naval Support Activity Bahrain read:”Your identities are fully known to our missile units, and every move you make is under our surveillance. Very soon, you will be targeted by our Shahed drones and Kheibar and Ghadeer missiles… We suggest you call your families now…

Following one of the toughest years in its modern history, Ford Motor Co. is recalibrating its sustainability strategy — focusing on hybrids rather than plug-in electric vehicles, building a new “Universal EV Platform” and creating a new line of business for battery energy storage. Ford is “evolving our electrified vehicle strategy to match changing customer needs and market conditions,” Executive Chairman Bill Ford and CEO Jim Farley wrote in Ford’s 2026 Integrated Sustainability and Financial Report, released on April 30. That evolution features a buffet product strategy that includes hybrids, “extended-range electric vehicles” (which have a small gas motor that…

10/11/17 2:20 PM · 1 min read In this quick tutorial I’ll show you how to get all the possible values for a Swift enum type with a generic solution written in Swift. From Swift 4.2 you can simply conform to the CaseIterable protocol, and you’ll get the allCases static property for free. If you are reading this blog post in 2023, you should definitely upgrade your Swift language version to the latest. 🎉enum ABC: String, CaseIterable { case a, b, c } print(ABC.allCases.map { $0.rawValue }) If you are targeting below Swift 4.2, feel free to use the following method.The…

We’re heading into a summer of software unveilings, but Apple has 15+ new hardware products rumored to launch later in the year—including multiple iPads. Here’s the latest on new iPads to expect. #1: iPad mini with OLED display The iPad mini might not be the most popular model, but it does have its enthusiastic fans. And later this year, a new iPad mini is rumored to launch that brings at least one big change. Reporting from several sources, including Bloomberg, has said the next iPad mini will gain an OLED display. The current iPad mini’s LCD has been one of…

A new epitaxial mechanism enables ultra-high quality Ag films on Cu substrates Shapes (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Olga Korneeva) It is straightforward to produce polycrystalline metal films on wafers but producing single‑crystal metal films is far more challenging. Because single crystals have no grain boundaries (the joints between differently oriented crystal regions in polycrystalline materials), they offer much better electrical performance: higher conductivity, lower resistive losses, improved high‑frequency behaviour (important for high‑speed communication and 5G), and reduced noise for quantum technologies. As a result, methods for reliably producing single‑crystal films are highly sought after.  Single‑crystal silver and copper films are particularly valuable. Silver is an…

Once a team adopts AI coding assistants, the first gains show up at the individual level: one developer can draft, modify, and refactor code much faster than before. But delivery speed is rarely limited by typing. When you look at the full delivery lifecycle, from requirements through release, new friction appears: Ambiguous requirements become code quickly, and misunderstandings scale with them. Reviews have to process more change, and inconsistency becomes easier to introduce. More integration and testing issues surface because “generated” doesn’t mean “aligned.” Production risk is harder to reason about when the volume of change rises. So yes, local…

Many Duck Creek programs are discovering that the hardest part in modernization begins after go-live. As insurers move into continuous releases, cloud operations, and AI-enabled delivery, the key question is whether the organizations can absorb change at the pace the platform and ecosystem now demand. As insurers move beyond implementation to steady-state operations, the more important issue becomes clear: do insurers have the operating model required to manage continuous change, govern Artificial Intelligence (AI) at scale, and convert platform investment into measurable business outcomes? This shift is fundamentally changing the narrative. What was once a configuration-led transformation is now a…

When it comes to AI models, size matters.Even though some artificial-intelligence experts warn that scaling up large language models (LLMs) is hitting diminishing performance returns, companies are still coming out with ever larger AI tools. Meta’s latest Llama release had a staggering 2 trillion parameters that define the model.As models grow in size, their capabilities increase. But so do the energy demands and the time it takes to run the models, which increases their carbon footprint. To mitigate these issues, people have turned to smaller, less capable models and using lower-precision numbers whenever possible for the model parameters.But there is…

Rogers Communications, Canada’s largest cable and mobile operator, is reportedly preparing to offer voluntary buyouts for about 10,000 eligible employees, or roughly half of its workforce.That move, first reported by The Global and Mail (subscription required), ties into a broader cost-cutting effort, which includes a decision to slash capital spending this year by about 30%. Rogers will make buyout offers to eligible employees across its business units and in corporate function areas. However, on-air talent, Sportsnet employees and Toronto Blue Jays employees and unionized workers will not be eligible, reported CBC News. “We are taking steps to adjust our cost structure to…

This is the first in a series of posts on group-equivariant convolutional neural networks (GCNNs). Today, we keep it short, high-level, and conceptual; examples and implementations will follow. In looking at GCNNs, we are resuming a topic we first wrote about in 2021: Geometric Deep Learning, a principled, math-driven approach to network design that, since then, has only risen in scope and impact. From alchemy to science: Geometric Deep Learning in two minutes In a nutshell, Geometric Deep Learning is all about deriving network structure from two things: the domain, and the task. The posts will go into a lot…