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Arm Holdings said on Monday it is expanding its Flexible Access licensing program to cover its Armv9 edge AI platform, aiming to attract startups and device makers developing on‑device AI by lowering entry barriers and accelerating design cycles.The Flexible Access program allows companies to use its chip design tools and training for little or no cost, enabling them to build and test new chip concepts. Companies including hardware firms Raspberry Pi, Hailo and SiMa.ai have participated in the program, Arm said.WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Opening up the licensing program strengthens Arm’s ties with AI startups and on‑device AI providers that might…

National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 14, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | ReutersTop White House economic advisor Kevin Hassett on Monday predicted that the government shutdown is “likely to end sometime this week.”But if that does not happen, the Trump administration may impose “stronger measures” to force Democrats to cooperate, Hassett said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”The comments came deep into the third week of the shutdown, which is dragging on with no clear end in sight amid a partisan fight in the Senate over federal funding priorities.This is breaking news.…

Once Shohei Ohtani homered for the third time — shortly after wrapping up his six scoreless innings on the mound — the superlatives began in earnest.Best baseball performance of all time?Best sports performance, period?Pinnacle of overall human achievement?That last one is perhaps over the top, but the first two questions are worth exploring. In Game 4 of the NL Championship Series on Friday night, Ohtani became the third player ever to hit three homers in a game in which he was a starting pitcher. He also become the only person since at least 1906 to reach double digits in both…

President Trump reiterated his call on Sunday for an immediate halt to the three-and-a-half-year full-scale war in Ukraine, saying the battle lines should be frozen where they currently stand, with Russia’s invading forces occupying most of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly rejected the idea of forfeiting the Donbas, or any other occupied ground, to Moscow in the years since Vladimir Putin ordered Russia full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022. “Let it be cut the way it is. It’s cut up right now. I think 78% of the land is already taken by Russia. You leave it the…

BAGHDAD :Iraq has banned U.S. user-generated videogame platform Roblox due to concerns over child abuse, the government said, joining other countries in cracking down on virtual worlds.The government said late on Sunday that the ban was motivated by concerns that the game allowed direct communication between users in ways that exposed children and adolescents to attempts of exploitation or cyber-extortion, and that its content was “incompatible with social values and traditions”.Roblox Corp, which develops the online game creation system and user-generated-content platform, did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on the ban. The company has previously said…

McKesson joins leading distribution service providers as authorized U.S. distributor of LYMPHIR CRANFORD, N.J., Oct. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Citius Oncology, Inc. (“Citius Oncology”) (Nasdaq: CTOR), the oncology-focused subsidiary of Citius Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Citius Pharma”) (Nasdaq: CTXR), today announced it has entered into a distribution services agreement with McKesson Corporation (NYSE: MCK), one of the largest pharmaceutical distributors and healthcare services companies in North America. Under the agreement, McKesson will serve as an authorized distributor of record for LYMPHIR (denileukin diftitox-cxdl), a novel immunotherapy approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of adult patients with…

NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — “Being bald is sexy. It’s an attitude. It’s a luxury. It’s a lifestyle.”That’s how Brennan Nevada Johnson, who shaved her head voluntarily 14 years ago, opens the video podcast she launched last November to celebrate the advantages of choosing a bald look.Sensuous, self-assured and glamorous are not the adjectives typically assigned to women with shorn hair. For centuries, many cultures have viewed long hair as a symbol of femininity, health and fertility. But more women are defying that traditional beauty standard and finding empowerment by baring their heads.“Once you do it, it brings…

NEW YORK :Meta researchers found that teens who report that Instagram regularly made them feel bad about their bodies saw significantly more “eating disorder adjacent content” than those who did not, according to an internal document reviewed by Reuters.The posts shown to those users featured “prominent display” of chest, buttocks, or thighs, “explicit judgement” about body types and “content related to disordered eating and/or negative body image.” While such material is not banned on Instagram, the researchers noted that parents, teens and outside experts have told Meta they believe it is potentially harmful to young users. Meta surveyed 1,149 teens over the…

WASHINGTON :A more than year-long digital intrusion into cybersecurity company F5, publicized last week and blamed on Chinese spies, has defenders across the industry hunting for signs of compromise among the many corporate networks that use its products.Several worry that more disclosures are coming.So far, little is known about the scope of the hack beyond statements from F5 that its source code and sensitive information about software vulnerabilities were stolen.The company’s website says it serves more than four in five Fortune 500 companies in some capacity, and U.S. officials have said that federal networks were among those targeted in the hack’s…

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Monday it has opened a preliminary probe into about 2,000 Waymo self-driving vehicles after reports that the company’s robotaxis may have failed to follow traffic safety laws around stopped school buses.The probe is the latest federal review of self-driving systems as regulators scrutinize how driverless technologies interact with pedestrians, cyclists and other road users.NHTSA said the Office of Defects Investigation opened the review after flagging a media report describing an incident in which a Waymo autonomous vehicle did not remain stationary when approaching a school bus with its red lights…