Chinese startup Zhipu AI has released its flagship language model GLM-5.2 for long agentic tasks and programming. The open-source solution has a context window of 1 million tokens, an MIT license and support for local deployment. On its Hugging Face card, the model is listed as a text-generation model for English and Chinese…

A 30-year-old retail specialist from the Russian city of Voronezh went to the police to report cryptocurrency scammers who swindled 2.5 million rubles out of him. The man fell victim to a so-called "honeytrap" — the scheme began with a woman on a dating site. The Voronezh resident was chatting there with a new acquaintance when she suddenly began saying she was making good…

Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 and South Korea's KOSPI indices have set new all-time highs. Asian markets did not react to Wall Street's worst day since the change of Fed chair in 1994. At his first meeting, Kevin Warsh kept the rate unchanged, but the updated Fed forecasts turned out to be far tougher than expected. The Fed left its key rate in a range of…

Oman has launched a national mining pool that all licensed cryptocurrency miners in the country must join. The project was launched by Oman's Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology together with Frontier Technologies; the technology platform and liquidity infrastructure were provided by Enegix Global. In the first stage, the pool is expected to combine…