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‘He’ll be feared’: Ainsworth’s verdict on Gillingham returnee Eaves
Gareth Ainsworth believes returning striker Tom Eaves still has what it takes to strike fear into lower-league defenders.
Huawei steps up Tau chip roll-out, with Mate XT 2 on track for 1 million sales
Huawei Technologies is making rapid progress in rolling out a new breed of advanced chip based on its self-developed Tau Scaling Law, with the Chinese company set to adopt the processors across the newly released Mate 90 smartphone series. The roll-out marks another step forward in the Chinese tech giant’s push to overcome stringent US export curbs, which has seen Huawei rewire its smartphone business to run on home-grown technology. Speaking at a press briefing on Tuesday, Huawei consumer...
Anthropic raises alarm over elite hacking ability of Chinese firm Z.ai’s GLM-5.3
The US artificial intelligence giant Anthropic has warned of the potential danger posed by Chinese firm Z.ai’s GLM-5.3, with the open-weight model showing a troubling mix of powerful hacking abilities but weak safety constraints. GLM-5.3 almost matches Anthropic’s most advanced model in terms of its cyber capabilities, but has far weaker safeguards, meaning there is greater potential for the model to be co-opted by bad actors, according to the San Francisco-based firm. In a report released on...
Apple leads China smartphone sales after launch of iPhone 18 Pro. Can the momentum last?
Apple has claimed the top spot in China’s smartphone market following the release of its iPhone 18 Pro series, giving a potential boost to a sluggish handset market weighed down by weak consumer demand and soaring component costs. Sales of the new Pro models in their first three days after launching on September 18 were 12 per cent higher than sales of the iPhone 17 Pro line-up during its entire first week last year, according to a report published on Wednesday by Counterpoint Research. That...
Compton gives team-mate ultimate compliment!
Matt Milnes has proven himself as an even better bowler during his second Kent spell than he was in his first - ask team-mate Ben Compton.
Free football at Chatham as Gillingham visit for cup clash
Gillingham will play Chatham Town in the Kent Senior Cup on Tuesday night - and it’s free to watch.
Gillingham complete return move for popular striker
Tom Eaves has completed a move back to Gillingham after seven years away.
Nvidia and AMD chiefs join Tsinghua advisory board as US-China chip tensions persist
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang and AMD chief Lisa Su have joined an influential advisory board at a prestigious Chinese university, placing the two US artificial intelligence chip leaders in a high-level forum known for connecting global executives with senior Chinese officials. Huang and Su were among three new members appointed to the advisory board of Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management (SEM), alongside Marc Pictet, senior managing partner of Swiss wealth and assets...
Kent captain stands down
Megan Belt has stood down as Kent Women’s captain at the end of this season.
Asian Games: double cycling gold for China, Hong Kong take bronze, Wong on move
Hong Kong’s men got their track cycling campaign off to a strong start on Tuesday, winning bronze in the team sprint, while the city’s squash players continued to march through their respective team events. China, meanwhile, took gold in the sprint in a Games record time of 42.152 seconds at Izu Velodrome, consigning Japan to silver. The hosts finished in 42.511. There was victory too for China’s women, who set an Asian record of 45.370 in beating Malaysia to team sprint gold. Chinese Taipei...
Toxic online scrutiny affecting China table tennis star Wang Chuqin, former player says
Former China table tennis player Cheng Jingqi has warned that toxic online scrutiny is affecting Wang Chuqin and damaging the team, with the world No 1 admitting he is “losing the feeling of loving the court”. Wang lost 4-0 to 21-year-old compatriot Lin Shidong in the men’s singles table tennis final at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Monday, with news of the defeat attracting over 6,000 comments and 18,000 likes on Chinese social media within two minutes. The comment section of the post...
AMD acquires ‘godmother of AI’ Li Fei-Fei’s start-up as battle with Nvidia intensifies
US chip giant Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has agreed to acquire World Labs, the artificial intelligence start-up founded by renowned Chinese-American computer scientist Li Fei-Fei, for US$8.2 billion in an all-stock deal, as the company steps up its rivalry with Nvidia. The acquisition, expected to close by the end of this year, would integrate World Labs’ research team and spatial-intelligence model expertise into AMD, according to an announcement on Monday. Li, a Stanford University professor...
Beckles’ rallying cry to Gillingham team-mates after York defeat
Gillingham defender Omar Beckles says Saturday’s defeat at York has given the Gills the perfect chance to show their character against Newport County.
Alibaba deepens sports tech push with new Brooklyn Nets partnership
Alibaba Group Holding has become an official technology and cloud partner of NBA team Brooklyn Nets, as the tech giant pushes for a deeper presence in the sports industry. The collaboration was announced on Monday under a multi-year strategic partnership between Alibaba and Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment, the parent company of the basketball team. It would also see Alibaba become Brooklyn Nets’ official jersey patch sponsor ahead of the basketball team’s 60th anniversary season, according to a...
Football fixtures and results
Catch up with all the week’s football fixtures and results here.
Striker bags brace in welcome home win
Sheppey United ensured they cashed in after playing their first home game for more than a month on Saturday.
Squash chief looks ahead to LA Olympics debut, is not taking Brisbane 2032 for granted
Squash may have secured its long-awaited Olympic debut at the 2028 Los Angeles Games, but the chief of the sport’s global governing body is acutely aware of budget and venue squeezes and is not taking a spot at the Brisbane 2032 Olympics in Australia for granted. While World Squash is leaving no stone unturned in its bid to retain its Olympic spot, banking on the game’s expanding global footprint and plug-and-play sustainability, its president Zena Wooldridge took a pragmatic view of...
‘It was weird’ Skipper on unusual promotion-clinching moment
Club captain Daniel Bell-Drummond has revealed how he and Kent team-mate Keith Dudgeon embraced as they celebrated promotion in strange style.
KentOnline’s team of the week
Find out who’s in KentOnline’s team of the week and vote for your star man.
ByteDance grabs one-fifth of China’s data centre capacity as AI drives infrastructure boom
ByteDance accounts for roughly one-fifth of China’s delivered data centre capacity, making the TikTok owner the country’s largest tenant and a main driver of its artificial intelligence buildout, according to new estimates by research firm SemiAnalysis. The estimate comes from the firm’s tracking of more than 1,000 facilities in China operated by over 60 companies. ByteDance rents nearly all of its data centre footprint, SemiAnalysis said. Its AI products include Doubao, an assistant that...
Former Kent coach helps side to ultimate red-ball honour
Former Kent head coach Matt Walker is celebrating County Championship Division 1 glory - beating the county he’s about to join to the title!
Asian Games: Hong Kong star Ceci Lee hunting nemesis in quest to make ‘biggest step’
A “more relaxed and less stressed” Ceci Lee Sze-wing will face the challenge of overcoming two-time reigning champion and hometown favourite Yumi Kajihara in her hunt for a potentially career-shaping Asian Games gold. Lee will link up with Chloe Leung Wing-yee in the Madison on Thursday, but it is in the following day’s omnium, which head coach Herve Dagorne labelled “the queen event”, that the 25-year-old could establish herself as the continent’s most complete track cyclist. She has sacrificed...
Gillingham striker issues leave Gareth Ainsworth weighing up new signing
Gillingham have a shortage of strikers and manager Gareth Ainsworth is keen to bring in extra firepower.
Steve Evans reveals serious health battle facing former Gills No.2 Paul Raynor
Former Gillingham assistant manager Paul Raynor is facing a “quite serious” health battle, Bristol Rovers boss Steve Evans has revealed.
China’s Zhu Yuanling wins street skateboarding – just the latest teen winner at Asian Games
China’s 15-year-old Zhu Yuanling won gold in the women’s street skateboarding competition at the Asian Games on Sunday, the latest in a series of young winners at this edition of the continental multi-sport event. Zhu’s win came a day after Japanese primary school student Yuki Kurihara, 11, demolished opponents three times his age on the way to a historic gold in esports. Earlier in the Games, Chinese swimmer Yu Zidi, 13, became one of the faces of the event with three golds, all in record...
‘We’ve come 12th!’ Head coach won’t settle despite promotion
Kent are celebrating promotion - but coach Adam Hollioake is refusing to get too carried away.
Asian Games, day 8: gold for squash, but ‘fencing Hong Kong’s No 1 sport,’ Fong says
The honour of winning Hong Kong’s fifth gold medal of the Asian Games fell to squash pair Lee Ka-yi and Tang Ming-hong on Sunday, and while it did not come with a place at the Los Angeles Olympics, it left the former feeling “amazing” and her partner “completely empty”. There was silver too, of course, with the final at Nagoya Kinjo-Futo Arena a clash against close friends and Hong Kong teammates Toby Tse Yee-lam and Lai Cheuk-nam. Another fencing bronze was added to the city’s growing tally,...
Ainsworth’s York pain after Gillingham’s triple blow
Manager Gareth Ainsworth admitted Gillingham’s defeat at York City on Saturday was tough to take.
Eli King injury is ‘concerning’ admits Gillingham boss
Gillingham boss Gareth Ainsworth admitted there is concern over the injury suffered by midfielder Eli King in Saturday’s defeat at York City.
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