October 2026

Scientists have uncovered a strange pattern in urban bird behavior: Across five European countries and 37 species, birds consistently fled sooner when approached by women than men. Researchers have no clear explanation for the difference, raising intriguing questions about how birds recognize and respond to humans.

Bengaluru-based eMudhra will exit its global SSL/TLS certificate business after a security incident prompted Google, Mozilla, and Apple to block affected certificates. The company said on Thursday that its board decided to exit the business, which contributes around 1% of its global revenue, and focus on enterprise software and other digital trust services. The decision

Workato opens AI agent building in Singapore with 50,000 free starting credits, giving Asian developers and businesses access to automation tools. The post Workato Brings AI Agent Builder to Singapore With 50,000 Free Credits appeared first on TechRepublic.

The Audacity is a fearless satire taking on Silicon Valley’s ‘egomaniac weirdos’. Its creator and stars talk ayahuasca ceremonies, mining kids for data – and punching CEOs Showrunner Jonathan Glatzer wanted the tagline of his latest TV creation to be: “We’re so fucked.” He laughs. “Sadly it got rejected by the network. Hey, maybe I

Pull up any random photo of billionaire Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and you’re likely to land on a facial expression expressing something between horror and deep consternation. There may be a simple explanation for that: he knows the truth about his company’s finances. New reporting by the Wall Street Journal revealed the mounting costs for

Step one in convincing people to live with robots with cameras on their faces? Disguise them as cute home decor.

Action State Group Inc. is launching a set of open-source tools designed to let businesses independently check records of what artificial intelligence agents did, addressing a trust problem as automated systems begin buying, selling and delegating work across corporate boundaries. The offering combines EvidenceBook, which preserves tamper-evident records, Terms Packs for evaluating agent behavior and

Ai2, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, today released a satellite map embedding model called OlmoEarth v1.3 and precomputed annual embeddings for the whole planet at various resolutions with a browser-based map-making tool. The model compresses a year of satellite observations into a numerical fingerprint for each 10-by-10-meter patch of ground at the smallest resolution,

New capability delivers fine-grained, cross-application access insights to AI assistants Delinea, the identity security platform that continuously controls what AI agents, humans, and machines can do and for how long, today announced Delinea Fastpath MCP Server, a new capability that connects access governance data to the AI assistants teams already use. Using the Model Context

Figure AI’s Figure 03 humanoid robot reportedly walked 348 miles in nine days. Here’s what the endurance test reveals about robot reliability. The post Figure AI’s Humanoid Robot Walks 348 Miles in Just 9 Days appeared first on TechRepublic.