Employees of the Gucci fashion house in Italy are threatening the company with strike action. Around 1,000 retail and logistics workers across the country have declared a "stato di agitazione," a type of industrial action that can lead to strikes under Italian law. According to the trade unions Filcams Cgil, Fisascat Cisl and Uiltucs, the luxury company has allegedly failed to pay a social benefit promised for 2025. The dispute concerns a social package that was introduced in 2022 with a supplementary agreement and was originally guaranteed until the end of 2024. The trade unions say the compa...

ChatGPT maker OpenAI has launched two new "open" artificial intelligence (AI) models that can be customized and run locally on a laptop, the company said on Tuesday. Dubbed "gpt-oss-120b" and "gpt-oss-20b," the two models are so-called "open-weight language models" which allow users to access the AI's parameters and customize them, in a departure from the company's ChatGPT bot, which is based on a "closed" model. Such models are often used by companies who use the AI tailored to their needs on their own servers. OpenAI did not say which data were used to train the new models. GPT-oss-120b can ...

Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid on Tuesday warned Benjamin Netanyahu against a full occupation of the Gaza Strip, following reports that the Israeli premier is leaning towards making a major decision on the next step in the war. "What the Cabinet and government are heading towards will lead to the death of all hostages," Lapid wrote on X, saying the remaining hostages held in Gaza would die of hunger, beatings, torture or even in Israeli military operations if the army intends to capture all of Gaza. Of the 250 people abducted by the Palestinian militant group Hamas during the October 7, ...

Details surrounding the rock icon’s death have now been formally released, offering insight into his last days. A newly released document has confirmed the cause of death for Ozzy Osbourne, the pioneering heavy metal artist who died at age 76 on July 22, 2025. The news marks the end for one of rock's most influential figures. According to the death certificate released by The Sun on August 5, the rock legend died of "acute myocardial infarction" and "out of hospital cardiac arrest." Coronary artery disease and Parkinson's disease were also listed as contributing factors in his death. In the se...

Macworld With the fifth beta of iOS 26, Apple has changed an important behavior of the Camera app for long-time iPhone users. Essentially, the company has reversed the direction of the swipe gesture to switch between camera modes, such as Video, Photo, and Panorama. As some users were upset by the change, Apple has now fixed this with the latest beta of iOS 26. Classic Mode SwitchingThe fifth beta of iOS 26, which was released on Tuesday to developers, adds an option in the Settings app that lets users choose the direction of the swipe gesture in the Camera app. By default, the app will enable...