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Apple fixes photo exposure, Safari history bug across devices
gulfbusiness57d ago

Apple fixes photo exposure, Safari history bug across devices

Apple released critical security updates on February 11 to fix vulnerabilities exposing private photos and Safari history, with one flaw already exploited in targeted attacksThe post Apple fixes photo exposure, Safari history bug across devices appeared first on Gulf Business.

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Asia FX Weakens as Dollar Steadies: Critical Payrolls Data Looms
bitcoinworld57d ago

Asia FX Weakens as Dollar Steadies: Critical Payrolls Data Looms

BitcoinWorldAsia FX Weakens as Dollar Steadies: Critical Payrolls Data LoomsForex markets across Asia witnessed a broad weakening of regional currencies on Thursday, March 6, 2025, as the US dollar found firmer footing ahead of the highly anticipated US non-farm payrolls report. Consequently, traders globally adopted a cautious stance, recalibrating portfolios and hedging exposures against potential volatility from the upcoming American employment figures. Asia FX [...]This post Asia FX Weakens as Dollar Steadies: Critical Payrolls Data Looms first appeared on BitcoinWorld.

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How Standard Chartered’s SME Banking helps Hong Kong arts and crafts design firm’s growth
scmp57d ago

How Standard Chartered’s SME Banking helps Hong Kong arts and crafts design firm’s growth

Deepa Jivan has always had a strong creative drive. The London-born founder and CEO of J.Gordhan & Co has used that talent to build a successful business that specialises in designing and developing safe and sustainable arts and crafts products, stationery, lifestyle and educational products, including knitting and crochet kits, craft-themed gifts, stickers, painting-by-numbers and children’s party essentials.Her Hong Kong-based company creates new designs in-house and works with more than 80...

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Growth moderates in November 2025, as early Q4 indicators point to slower year-end growth
thebftonline57d ago

Growth moderates in November 2025, as early Q4 indicators point to slower year-end growth

By Joshua Worlasi AMLANU The country’s economic growth slowed in November, with industry weighing on overall output even as services remained strong according to provisional data released by the Ghana Statistical Service. The Monthly Indicator of Economic Growth (MIEG) showed the economy expanded 4.2 percent year-on-year in November 2025, down from 7.1% in the same [...]The post Growth moderates in November 2025, as early Q4 indicators point to slower year-end growth appeared first on The Business & Financial Times.

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Statistical language R is making a comeback against Python
startupnews57d ago

Statistical language R is making a comeback against Python

The latest iteration of the TIOBE Index of programming languages indicates that more specialized languages are creeping up on Python’s dominance. Although Python remains the most popular programming language, the index suggests that several more specialized languages are gradually gaining ground at Python’s expense, most notably R and Perl. Python has maintained a lead of [...]

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SA eyes its mineral wealth for economic 'transformation': Ramaphosa
enca57d ago

SA eyes its mineral wealth for economic 'transformation': Ramaphosa

SA eyes its mineral wealth for economic 'transformation': RamaphosaEstelle.BronkhorstFri, 02/13/2026 - 06:00 CAPE TOWN - South Africa is ramping up investment in its enormous critical mineral potential with mining a "sunrise industry" that holds the promise of transforming the economy, President Cyril Ramaphosa said.Laying out government's priorities for the next year, Ramaphosa said a focus was on firing up the sluggish economy to create jobs for inclusive growth in a country marked by massive economic inequalities."After many years of declining investment in exploration, we are dedicating funds towards geological mapping and exploration to harness our critical mineral reserves," Ramaphosa said in his annual state of the nation address.READ: Ramaphosa’s 2026 SONA priorities: From dry taps to army fighting gang wars and zama zamas"South Africa has some of the world's largest reserves of critical minerals," he said. "Our ore reserves are valued at more than R40-trillion rands, making mining a sunrise industry." Projects to exploit rare earth minerals needed for products like smartphones and lithium batteries were attracting massive investment, Ramaphosa said.New mines for gold, copper, rare earths, platinum and coal were opening, he said.READ: SONA 2026 | Ramaphosa says SA economy is stronger, but challenges remain"The transformation of our economy is necessary to drive sustained growth, to reduce inequality and correct the injustices of the past," Ramaphosa said.The government was refining its black economic empowerment programme "to ensure that it supports greater transformation and inclusive growth," Ramaphosa said.Job creation was essential, he said, with unemployment nearing 32 percent. South Africa's high crime rate made business reluctant to invest, the president said, announcing the deployment of the army to areas gripped by deadly gang violence and crime linked to illegal miners.

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Strange 'inside-out' planetary system baffles astronomers
enca57d ago

Strange 'inside-out' planetary system baffles astronomers

Strange 'inside-out' planetary system baffles astronomersEstelle.BronkhorstFri, 02/13/2026 - 06:00 PARIS - Surprised astronomers said they have discovered a star with planets in a bizarre order that defies scientific expectations -- and suggests these faraway worlds formed in a manner never seen before.In our Solar System, the four planets closest to the Sun are small and rocky, while the four farther out are gas giants.Scientists had thought this planetary order -- rocky first, then gaseous -- was consistent across the universe.However, a star called LHS 1903 discovered in the Milky Way's thick disc suggests otherwise.An international team of astronomers analysing data from several different telescopes had already spotted three planets orbiting the red dwarf star, which is cooler and less bright than our Sun.The closest planet to the star was rocky, followed by two gas giants. That is the order scientists expect.But digging into observations made by Europe's exoplanet-probing Cheops space telescope revealed a fourth planet farther out in the system -- and it is rocky."That makes this an inside-out system, with a planet order of rocky-gaseous-gaseous-and then rocky again," explained Thomas Wilson, the lead author of a new study describing the discovery in the journal Science."Rocky planets don't usually form so far away from their home star," the planetary astrophysicist from University of Warwick in the UK said in a statement.- One planet after another -Inner planets are expected to be small and rocky because intense radiation from the nearby star blasts most of the gas away from their rocky core.But farther out in the cold reaches of the system, a thick atmosphere can form around cores, creating gas giants.Puzzled by the weird LHS 1903 planetary system, the team of astronomers tried to figure out what could have happened.After ruling out several possibilities, they came up with a scenario: what if the planets formed one at a time?According to the most widely accepted theory, planets form simultaneously in a massive ring of gas and dust called a protoplanetary disc. This involves tiny dust grains clumping together then snowballing into cores that eventually evolve into mighty planets.However, by the time the fourth planet orbiting LHS 1903 formed, "the system may have already run out of gas," Wilson said."Yet here is a small, rocky world, defying expectations," he added."It seems that we have found first evidence for a planet which formed in what we call a gas-depleted environment."Since the 1990s, astronomers have discovered more than 6,000 planets outside our Solar System -- called exoplanets -- mostly by spotting slight changes in brightness as they cross in front of their star."Historically, our planet formation theories are based on what we see and know about our Solar System," said Isabel Rebollido, a planetary disc researcher at the European Space Agency."As we are seeing more and more different exoplanet systems, we are starting to revisit these theories."by Bénédicte Salvetat Rey

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