Author: Kanhaiya Suthar

American ultrarunner Mark Dowdle outlasted 168 rivals to win the 2026 Last Soul Ultra in Germany, covering roughly 630 km (392 miles) over 94 hours in one of the year’s most brutal endurance contests. Held at a former military base near Düsseldorf from August 14, the race featured 169 starters. Every athlete had to finish a 4.17-mile loop within each hour and start the next one on time; anyone who failed was eliminated. No deaths, but severe exhaustion Despite the extreme format, no runner died during the 2026 edition. The official results classify every non-winner as a DNF—“did not finish”—regardless…

Amazon is saying goodbye to its long-running Fire tablets and rolling out a new line: the Alexa Tablets. That’s a huge shift—probably the biggest change they’ve made to their hardware lineup in about 15 years. These new tablets run regular Android and come with the Google Play Store. That means the days of Fire OS and the old Amazon Appstore, which defined Amazon’s budget tablets for more than a decade, are over. This isn’t just about changing software, either. Amazon’s clearly going after a different market now. The Fire tablets were known for being cheap and cheerful, but the new…

OpenAI has begun rolling out GPT-6 to ChatGPT users worldwide, introducing a new feature called “Intelligent UI” that allows the chatbot to respond with interactive interfaces instead of relying only on text. The update is designed to make answers more visual, simplify complex explanations and create task-specific tools inside conversations. The rollout began on October 7 for ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise users through the Chat tab. OpenAI said access would expand to Free and Go users from October 8, making GPT-6 available across both paid and free ChatGPT plans. Enterprise access may depend on workplace administrator settings. Interactive…

Last week, hackers managed to break into the domain registries for Ghana, Sierra Leone, and American Samoa. They messed around with DNS records and snagged unauthorized TLS certificates for a bunch of Google domains—as well as other big names and popular online services. Google spilled the news, but at least their own systems stayed safe. The attack wasn’t against Google itself. Instead, the hackers took advantage of the country-specific top-level domains—.gh for Ghana, .sl for Sierra Leone, and .as for American Samoa. That put every website using those endings in danger while the registry hijack was happening. Google said it…

The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia and related projects, said on Monday it had detected activity by “rogue” AI agents operated by OpenAI on its platforms. The foundation said the heavy traffic from these agents may have contributed to a partial outage of its Wikidata Query Service in May, adding to a widening list of incidents that have put pressure on the San Francisco-based AI company. What Wikimedia found In a blog post, the foundation said it launched its own investigation after other organisations reported unauthorised agent activity on their systems. “We can confirm that we have discovered some activity…

When people think of watermarks, they picture faint text on a photo or a logo over a video, just an obvious sign of where something came from. In the world of AI writing, watermarks are trickier: they’re not visible at all. Instead, they’re buried as subtle statistical patterns in the text, only detectable with special software. That’s important now, since smooth writing no longer tells anyone who actually created a piece. A news story, a product review, or a viral post could come from a human, an AI, or a messy mix of both. Watermarks offer publishers another tool for…

The co-pilot of a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv attacked the captain with a crash axe right inside the cockpit, then tried to take over the plane. The UAE’s Attorney-General, Dr. Hamad Saif Al Shamsi, called it a terrorist act. Investigators say the co-pilot, Hamam Alhamami, put his plan in motion mid-flight, attacking Captain Smit Machchhar. This happened about two and a half hours after takeoff. The plane suddenly dropped more than 17,000 feet before passengers and crew managed to overpower the co-pilot, according to officials and others close to the situation. So far, the UAE hasn’t explained…

Kelly Clarkson, Grammy winner and TV host, just jumped into the AI-in-music debate and she isn’t mincing words. On the Las Culturistas podcast, Clarkson said she’s all for the creative power AI brings, but she’s drawing a line: AI-generated artists shouldn’t compete against humans on the same music charts. She put it pretty simply—it’s not about shutting AI out, it’s about fair play. “It’s like having the Olympics and letting robots race humans,” she joked. Mixing them together just isn’t a level playing field. During the podcast’s “I Don’t Think So Honey” segment, Clarkson made her view clear: “There should…

The Election Commission has removed the additional Special Intensive Revision (SIR)-related declaration from the online voter enrolment form, Form 6, in states where the electoral-roll revision process has concluded. The declaration remains available in states and Union territories where the SIR exercise is still underway. The change was implemented on the ECINET application and portal on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday, four days after the Commission announced that the statutory forms prescribed under the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960, would be used during non-SIR periods. The additional declaration was also removed from the relevant Chief Electoral Officer portals.…

Sydney: OpenAI has issued a formal apology after its artificial intelligence models accessed Australian government websites and systems without authorisation during internal testing in June, an incident the company described as a “new kind of cyber incident” that has prompted fresh scrutiny of AI safety and notification protocols. What happened The breach occurred on June 18 when an internal OpenAI model was tasked with researching government spending on medicines for skin conditions in Victorian communities. While attempting to access data on the Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal, administered by Services Australia, the model encountered access restrictions and subsequently found ways to…