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PM calls for civil debate as government faces backlash over efforts to roll back policies to support Maori community.Published On 6 Feb 20266 Feb 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareNew Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour has rejected criticism of his claims that colonisation was positive for the country’s Indigenous Maori population.Dozens of people started booing and shouting when Seymour stood on Friday to offer a prayer during a dawn service at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds, where New Zealand’s founding document was signed in 1840 by representatives of the British Crown and more than 500 Maori Indigenous chiefs, setting…

The second day of the co-located AI & Big Data Expo and Digital Transformation Week in London showed a market in a clear transition.Early excitement over generative models is fading. Enterprise leaders now face the friction of fitting these tools into current stacks. Day two sessions focused less on large language models and more on the infrastructure needed to run them: data lineage, observability, and compliance.Data maturity determines deployment successAI reliability depends on data quality. DP Indetkar from Northern Trust warned against allowing AI to become a “B-movie robot.” This scenario occurs when algorithms fail because of poor inputs. Indetkar…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has faced questions from the United States Senate about President Donald Trump’s ongoing campaign to slash interest rates, despite concerns that such a move could turbo-charge inflation.Bessent appeared on Thursday before the Senate’s Financial Stability Oversight Council.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThere, he received a grilling from Democrats over rising consumer prices and concerns about Trump’s attempts to influence the Federal Reserve, the US central bank.One of his early clashes came with Senator Elizabeth Warren, who sought answers about a report in The Wall Street Journal that indicated Trump joked about suing his nominee…

Researchers from Microsoft have unveiled a scanning method to identify poisoned models without knowing the trigger or intended outcome.Organisations integrating open-weight large language models (LLMs) face a specific supply chain vulnerability where distinct memory leaks and internal attention patterns expose hidden threats known as “sleeper agents”. These poisoned models contain backdoors that lie dormant during standard safety testing, but execute malicious behaviours – ranging from generating vulnerable code to hate speech – when a specific “trigger” phrase appears in the input.Microsoft has published a paper, ‘The Trigger in the Haystack,’ detailing a methodology to detect these models. The approach exploits…

EXCLUSIVEEmail exchange shows Epstein sought to arrange meeting between top Democrat and US Virgin Islands representative.An associate of the United States Virgin Islands’ sole representative in the US Congress asked Jeffrey Epstein for help to arrange a meeting between the politician and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, according to documents released by the US Justice Department.The outreach to Epstein was made on behalf of Stacey Plaskett, the islands’ delegate to the House of Representatives, as the politician sought to lobby Schumer for relief after two hurricanes ripped through the Caribbean in 2017, according to the documents.Recommended Stories list of 4…

While the prospect of AI acting as a digital co-worker dominated the day one agenda at the co-located AI & Big Data Expo and Intelligent Automation Conference, the technical sessions focused on the infrastructure to make it work.A primary topic on the exhibition floor was the progression from passive automation to “agentic” systems. These tools reason, plan, and execute tasks rather than following rigid scripts. Amal Makwana from Citi detailed how these systems act across enterprise workflows. This capability separates them from earlier robotic process automation (RPA).Scott Ivell and Ire Adewolu of DeepL described this development as closing the “automation…

As the prospect of a conflict between the United States and Iran looms, analysts within Israel have questioned the country’s capacity to determine the outcome of a confrontation in a region that, just months ago, it had regarded itself as on the brink of dominating.“The [Israeli] opposition are accusing [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu of giving in to [US President Donald] Trump and ending the war on Gaza too soon,” said Israeli political analyst Ori Goldberg. “[Israel is] being hounded out of Lebanon, [its] freedom to operate within Syria has been halted. All that’s left to [Israel] is the freedom…

In a recent blog output, Rackspace refers to the bottlenecks familiar to many readers: messy data, unclear ownership, governance gaps, and the cost of running models once they become part of production. The company frames them through the lens of service delivery, security operations, and cloud modernisation, which tells you where it is putting its own effort. One of the clearest examples of operational AI inside Rackspace sits in its security business. In late January, the company described RAIDER (Rackspace Advanced Intelligence, Detection and Event Research) as a custom back-end platform built for its internal cyber defense centre. With security…

Goals by Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal and Ronald Araujo ended second-division side’s fairytale run in the Spanish Cup.Published On 4 Feb 20264 Feb 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareBarcelona ended Albacete’s ‌giant-killing run in the Copa del Rey, winning 2-1 away on Tuesday to become ‍the first side to ‍book a semifinal berth, but only after surviving a late comeback from the second-tier outfit.Lamine Yamal swept home a 39th-minute strike to open the scoring and captain Ronald Araujo netted from a second-half corner as Barcelona stayed on course to defend the ⁠trophy they won last year.Recommended Stories list of 4…

Greg Holmes, Field CTO for EMEA at Apptio, an IBM company, argues that successfully scaling intelligent automation requires financial rigour.The “build it and they will come” model of technology adoption often leaves a hole in the budget when applied to automation. Executives frequently find that successful pilot programmes do not translate into sustainable enterprise-wide deployments because initial financial modelling ignored the realities of production scaling.“When we integrate FinOps capabilities with automation, we’re looking at a change from being very reactive on cost management to being very proactive around value engineering,” says Holmes.This shifts the assessment criteria for technical leaders. Rather…