12 May 2026
Can The Jumper Be Hacked? Inside Basketball’s Next Arms Race
In the summer of 2024, during the WNBA’s Olympic break, several Atlanta Dream players who weren’t competing in Paris had gathered for a midseason training camp of sorts. Anyone watching would have seen what looked like a typical 3-on-3 scrimmage. In reality, it was anything but. The Dream weren’t playing in any ordinary gym, but rather in what might be the world’s most advanced basketball…
12 May 2026
ZAWYA: J.P. Morgan Private Bank unveils 2026 Mid-Year Outlook: Promise and pressure
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is the largest oil supply shock since World War II but it is not an isolated event; it is the latest chapter in a structural reorientation of the global economy toward the security and resilience Compelling opportunities in emerging markets, security-driven investment, and national champions Rolling shocks are structural, not cyclical, and stocks and bonds…
12 May 2026
France’s Macron announces $27bn investment in Africa at Kenya summit
The Africa Forward summit comes amid France’s fading ties with its former African colonies, as Kenya seeks greater trade. French President Emmanuel Macron has announced 23 billion euros ($27bn) of investment during the Africa Forward summit in Kenya.
12 May 2026
EUR/USD on Edge: Middle East and China in Focus
dipped slightly on Tuesday, retreating to 1.1762. The US dollar has returned to favour as a defensive asset after US President Donald Trump questioned the sustainability of the truce with Iran and rejected Tehran’s latest peace proposal.
12 May 2026
AI made it easy for anyone to build an app. Hundreds of thousands are flooding the market.
Like a lot of guys of the era, Eli Cohen had a great idea for an app back in 2010. But unlike many of his peers, whose musings were confined to bar hangouts and bad dates, he actually invested about $20,000 of his own money to try to bring the project to life.
12 May 2026
Meta is among this year's sponsors at Cannes, but selfies on the red carpet remain banned.
The Cannes Film Festival has no intention of revising its 'no selfie' policy on the Montée des Marches, despite its partnership with Meta and the arrival of a group of creators equipped with smart glasses to produce content from the red carpet.
12 May 2026
Copy Fail and Dirty Frag: Linux Page-Cache Exploits Target Every Major Distribution
Two Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerabilities have been publicly disclosed within a week of each other. Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431), disclosed on 29 April 2026 by security firm Theori, and Dirty Frag (CVE-2026-43284 and CVE-2026-43500), disclosed on 7 May 2026 by researcher Hyunwoo Kim, both allow an unprivileged local user to obtain root on affected distributions.
12 May 2026
Prediction: This Could Be Nvidia's Stock Price By the End of 2027
Since early 2023, Nvidia ( NVDA +1.90% ) has been one of the undisputed beneficiaries of the mad dash to adopt artificial intelligence (AI). The company's graphics processing units (GPUs) -- which were developed to render lifelike images in video games (hence the name) -- have since become the gold standard for AI training and inference. In little more than three years, Nvidia stock has soared…
12 May 2026
Oil supply shock, inflation and AI to continue reshaping global markets, says J.P. Morgan
At the start of 2026, J.P. Morgan identified global fragmentation, inflation and AI as the defining forces shaping the investment landscape, and the months since have only sharpened their relevance J.P. Morgan Private Bank released on Tuesday its 2026 Mid-Year Global Investment Outlook , which examines the forces reshaping global markets at the midpoint of a pivotal year.
