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India rolls out simplified labour codes to modernise outdated laws.India, home to the world’s second-largest workforce, is implementing its biggest labour changes in decades. The government has compressed dozens of laws into four simplified codes.It says the overhaul will attract investment. This will be vital after US President Donald Trump imposed 50 percent tariffs on Indian goods.The reforms include minimum wages, equal pay, and expanded social security. But unions say the codes will only strengthen employers’ control and accuse the government of “deceptive fraud”.So, will the changes increase India’s global competitiveness by streamlining rules? Or could they create new risks for workers and…

The cybersecurity training provider Hack The Box (HTB) has launched the HTB AI Range, designed to let organisations test autonomous AI security agents under realistic conditions, albeit with oversight from human cybersecurity professionals. Its goal is to help users assess how well AI, and mixed human–AI teams might defend infrastructure.Vulnerabilities in AI models add to those already present in traditional IT, so before agentic or AI-based cybersecurity tools can be deployed in anger, HTB is proposing a testing environment where AI agents and human defenders can work together under realistic pressure to measure their cybersecurity prowess.How HTB AI Range worksHTB…

Published On 3 Dec 20253 Dec 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareThe Islamic University of Gaza has taken an important step towards reopening amid the ceasefire that has paused Israel’s genocidal war on the enclave.The university resumed in-person classes on Saturday for the first time in two years, during which displacement, power cuts, and the destruction of university facilities made only limited attempts at online learning possible.The gradual return to in-person learning takes place inside buildings damaged by air strikes and partly reduced to rubble, after two years of forced interruption to studies by a conflict that has destroyed the enclave’s…

Thomson Reuters and Imperial College London have established a frontier AI research lab to overcome historic deployment challenges.Speed and scale have defined the current AI boom. But for enterprises, the primary obstacles to deployment are different: trust, accuracy, and lineage. Addressing these barriers, Thomson Reuters and Imperial College London have announced a five-year partnership to establish a joint ‘Frontier AI Research Lab’.With the involvement of both a corporate and academic leader, the initiative appears built to target the disconnect between high-level computer science and the pragmatic requirements of professional services. The lab will pursue academic research in AI, focusing on…

Barcelona produced an impressive comeback to beat Atletico Madrid 3-1 and move four points clear at the top of La Liga.Alex Baena fired Atletico ahead on Tuesday but Raphinha equalised for the champions before Dani Olmo and Ferran Torres slotted home to end the visitors’ run of 13 straight league games without defeat.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listBarca might have been more comfortable had Robert Lewandowski not ballooned a first half penalty over the bar.Real Madrid, second, visit Athletic Bilbao on Wednesday aiming to peg Barca back, while Diego Simeone’s Atletico are fourth, six points behind the Catalans.This…

Enterprise leaders are entering 2026 with an uncomfortable mix of volatility, optimism, and pressure to move faster on AI and quantum computing, according to a paper published by the IBM Institute for Business Value. Its findings are based on more than 1,000 C-suite executives and 8,500 employees and consumers.While only around a third of executives are optimistic about the global economy, more than four in five are confident about their own organisation’s performance in the year ahead.Executives expect to make faster decisions and are willing to redesign operating models, while employees are broadly positive about AI in their working lives.…

The Australian all-rounder ends a 13-year association with the world’s most popular and richest T20 cricket league.Published On 2 Dec 20252 Dec 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareAustralia all-rounder Glenn Maxwell has opted out of next month’s Indian Premier League (IPL) auctions in Abu Dhabi, ending a 13-season stint in the lucrative Twenty20 cricket competition.The explosive hitter was bought by Punjab Kings for 42 million rupees ($467,000) for last season but only returned with 48 runs and four wickets in seven games, and was released by the franchise in November.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listMaxwell, who has…

North American enterprises are now actively deploying agentic AI systems intended to reason, adapt, and act with complete autonomy.Data from Digitate’s three-year global programme indicates that, while adoption is universal across the board, regional maturity paths are diverging. North American firms are scaling toward full autonomy, whereas their European counterparts are prioritising governance frameworks and data stewardship to build long-term resilience.From utility to profitabilityThe story of enterprise automation has changed. In 2023, the primary objective for most IT leaders was cost reduction and the streamlining of routine tasks. By 2025, the focus has expanded. AI is no longer viewed solely…

Pope Leo has called for “coexistence” during the second day of his visit to Lebanon, gathering clerics from across the religious spectrum on both sides of a former civil war dividing line, and appealing for unity in a region fractured by violence.Standing in Martyrs’ Square on Monday, a site that once marked the “green line” dividing Muslim west and Christian east Beirut during the 1975–90 civil war, Leo said Lebanon showed that “fear, distrust and prejudice do not have the final word”.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list“In an age when coexistence can seem like a distant dream, the…

When JPMorgan Asset Management reported that AI spending accounted for two-thirds of US GDP growth in the first half of 2025, it wasn’t just a statistic – it was a signal.The conversation reached a turning point recently when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, and Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon each acknowledged market froth within days of each other. But here’s what matters for enterprise decision-makers: acknowledging overheated markets isn’t the same as dismissing AI’s enterprise value.Corporate AI investment reached US$252.3 billion in 2024, with private investment climbing 44.5%, according to Stanford University. The question isn’t whether to invest…