Microsoft confirmed its Defender for Office 365 Safe Links feature is incorrectly flagging legitimate Google search URLs as malicious, showing users 'not safe' warnings when they try to click them. The company said the problem stems from an inaccurate security classification and is generating false alerts for IT admins in Microsoft Sentinel and the Defender portal. Pasting the blocked links directly into a browser does not bypass the warning.
Netflix's Tudum top 10 for August 24-30 ranked Rockstar's nearly 30-minute GTA VI extended look as the most-watched movie, topping charts in 58 countries with 31.1 million views despite only a six-hour exclusivity deal. After that window closed, Rockstar posted the same footage to YouTube, where it has since drawn over 17.7 million views using a different counting method.
Acer has shown off a concept device called Project DualPlay Mini, an 8-inch Windows gaming handheld resembling its Predator Atlas 8 that can flip open and swivel its screen to reveal a small backlit keyboard underneath. The device runs on an Intel chip and uses a dual-fan cooling setup similar to the Atlas 8, but Acer has not detailed further specs since it remains a concept with no confirmed retail release.
A veteran executive coach with 25 years of experience reports a recurring pattern among leaders: traits that once fueled their rise can start to undercut their authority and influence when leaned on too heavily. The observation stems from direct coaching work aimed at building executive presence across many clients.
Dell introduced the Dell 14S at IFA 2026, a student-focused laptop offered in four colors—beige, pink, blue, and green—with configurations starting at 8GB RAM and 256GB storage, scalable to 16GB RAM and up to 1TB SSD. Positioned below the XPS 13, it includes HDMI, a headphone jack, a 1080p webcam with Windows Hello, and up to 23 hours of claimed battery life, running on Intel Core 5 or Core 7 chips rather than newer Panther Lake processors.
Eric Harshbarger, a mathematician at Auburn University, has finally solved a puzzle he began working on in 2012: designing a set of dice that lets five players roll simultaneously to decide turn order, with every player having an equal chance of winning and no possibility of a tie. The finished product, called the Go First Dice, took nearly 15 years to move from theoretical concept to a working physical set.
Consumer group Which? created a fake Booking.com listing for 10 Downing Street, complete with a bogus review mentioning Larry the cat, to test the platform's fraud detection. The listing remained live for two months before Booking.com removed it, despite obvious signs it was fraudulent.
Apple emailed developers announcing that universal macOS apps requiring macOS 13 or later can now be built as arm64-only, removing Intel compatibility. Developers must update build settings to arm64 and resubmit; Intel Mac users can still use the last compatible version of an app they already have.
The BESIII Collaboration measured the decay of lambda hyperons, in which a strange quark converts into an up quark, by exploiting quantum entanglement between the particle and its antimatter counterpart to 'tag' the event. This technique allowed them to determine a decay parameter that had eluded precise measurement for 35 years, and their result matches predictions from established physics theory.
Jason Arday, professor of sociology of education at the University of Cambridge, resigned on 5 August after facing allegations of research misconduct and what he described as relentless public attack going beyond normal academic criticism. Nine days later, following sustained media coverage of his professional and personal life, he died. Nature's editorial calls for reflection on how universities handle misconduct investigations and how the press covers such cases, particularly given the racism present in much of the coverage.
Researchers built CW-Net, an explainable version of a black-box machine learning planner (based on the DriveIRL architecture) used to evaluate self-driving vehicle trajectories. The system was trained on two large datasets of millions of driving scenarios labeled with human-understandable concepts, allowing it to justify its trajectory choices in terms people can interpret rather than as opaque scores.
Researchers outline how six transition form factors govern the semileptonic weak decay of hyperons, focusing on the Lambda baryon's decay into a proton, electron and antineutrino. They show that because scalar and pseudoscalar form factors are suppressed by lepton-to-hyperon mass ratios, the electron-antineutrino channel effectively depends on just four form factors and the CKM parameter Vus, allowing a simplified branching ratio formula.
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