Asharq Al-Awsat

Israel Aims to Ensure More Palestinians Are Let Out of Gaza than Back In

Israel wants to restrict the number of Palestinians entering Gaza through the border crossing with Egypt to ensure that more ...

Western Digital Is Not An AI Stock, But AI May Change Its Cycle

Western Digital (WDC) benefits from rebounding NAND prices and AI-driven demand for nearline storage, supporting its earnings ...

Check Point Introduces AI-Driven Exposure Management to Close the Cyber Security Remediation Gap

Safe Remediation : Check Point Exposure Management goes beyond prioritization by safely reconfiguring existing security controls through APIs. Validated actions such as virtual patching, IPS ...
Al Jazeera

Floods kill more than 100 across southern Africa as rains intensify

Torrential rains have devastated communities from Mozambique to South Africa, displacing hundreds of thousands.

‘It was a few seconds’: Warning system under scrutiny after flash floods

Holidaymakers and local leaders have questioned why authorities did not do more to raise the alarm before a “wall of water” ...
WHNT

Huntsville Police announce DUI checkpoints for New Year’s Eve

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – The Huntsville Police Department’s DUI Task Force will carry out safety checkpoints on New Year’s Eve. The effort is dedicated to the memory of two people, Hannah Parton and ...
CNBC

Flash flooding in northern California leads to soaked roads, water rescues and one death

Heavy rain and flash flooding soaked roads in northern California, leading to water rescues from vehicles and homes and at least one confirmed death, authorities said Monday. In Redding, a city at the ...
Detroit Free Press

What's a flash freeze? Why cold temperatures could create icy hazard

Michigan soon could resemble an ice rink, weather officials say, as temperatures drop rapidly Thursday night and Friday, Dec. 18-19, leading to what's know as a "flash freeze." Rain or snow on the ...
The Verge

Gemini 3 Flash is here, bringing a ‘huge’ upgrade to the Gemini app

A more efficient version of the Gemini 3 Pro model offers faster responses while retaining the flagship model’s reasoning capabilities. A more efficient version of the Gemini 3 Pro model offers faster ...
9to5google

Google announces Gemini 3 Flash with Pro-level performance, rolling out now

Following last month’s launch of Gemini 3 Pro, Google today announced Gemini 3 Flash for consumers and developers. The tagline, of sorts, for Gemini 3 Flash is “frontier intelligence built for speed ...
Engadget

Google's Gemini 3 Flash model outperforms GPT-5.2 in some benchmarks

Gemini 3 Flash is now rolling out to the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search. (Google) Almost exactly a month after the debut of Gemini 3 Pro in November, Google has begun rolling out the more efficient ...
TechCrunch

Google launches Gemini 3 Flash, makes it the default model in the Gemini app

Google today released its fast and cheap Gemini 3 Flash model, based on the Gemini 3 released last month, looking to steal OpenAI’s thunder. The company is also making this the default model in the ...