Turns out your coffee addiction may be doing your brain a favor
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Sorry, Amazon, you couldn't pick a worse time to bring a phone to market: IDC analyst
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Salesforce snaps up the team who built calendar app Clockwise to work on Agentforce
Just the team, not the tech Salesforce's Agentforce team is getting an infusion of new talent by hiring the team behind Clockwise, a calendar scheduling app, but the app itself isn't sticking around.…
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WSL graphics driver update brings better GPU support for Linux apps
Meanwhile, WINE and OpenGL tweaks speed Windows apps on 64-bit hosts Whatever OS you run, you have a better chance to run non-native apps. Running Linux virtualized on Windows is set to speed up sligh...
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Starship may chauffeur Orion to the Moon, as NASA mulls ditching SLS after Artemis V
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Microsoft breaks Microsoft account sign-ins in Windows 11 with latest update
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UK police force presses pause on live facial recognition after study finds racial bias
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Feds disrupt monster IoT botnets behind record-breaking DDoS attacks
Millions of hijacked devices powered traffic floods targeting defense systems and beyond The US government has moved to disrupt a cluster of IoT botnets behind some of the largest DDoS attacks ever re...
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Jaguar Land Rover's cyber bailout sets worrying precedent, watchdog warns
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Supermicro co-founder arrested, charged over $2.5B Nvidia GPU sales to China
Indictment claims dummy servers and bogus docs used to slip past US export controls A co-founder of Supermicro is among three people charged with diverting servers fitted with Nvidia GPUs worth $2.5 b...
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UK to rethink tech buying after Palantir contracts
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Starmer's digital ID reboot raises same old questions as its Blair-era ancestor
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Sashiko: AI code review system for the Linux kernel spots bugs humans miss
Beats getting roasted on the mailing list AI is coming to the Linux kernel in the form of a code review system - not code submissions.…
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While you're here, could you go out of your way to do an impossible job?
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Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin applies to launch 51,000 datacenter satellites
‘Project Sunrise’ needs a network that doesn’t exist, a rocket that’s hardly flown, and FCC approval Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin has applied to launch up to 51,600 datacenter satellites.…
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Meta’s latest AI improves its terrible content moderation, just a little
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Alibaba has made 470,000 AI chips, admits they’re inferior and may always be
Sees optimizing its entire cloud around homebrew silicon as the way to compete Chinese web giant Alibaba has revealed its T-Head chipmaking business has shipped 470,000 AI chips, and admitted they are...
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Decoding Nvidia's Groq-powered LPX and the rest of its new rack systems
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OpenAI tries to build its coding cred, acquires Python toolmaker Astral
Deal helps company build out its Codex team In a move clearly designed to strengthen its position among developers, OpenAI has acquired Python tool maker Astral. The house of Altman expects the deal t...
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Time to end the 'uncontrolled experiment' of social media on kids, scientists say
Pair say review of studies, other evidence, proves more countries need to do like Australia and keep kids offline There is enough evidence going back far enough that it's reasonable to conclude social...
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Unknown attackers exploit yet another critical SharePoint bug
Last time: Beijing-backed snoops and ransomware crims. Who's next? Unknown baddies are abusing yet another critical Microsoft SharePoint bug to compromise victims' SharePoint servers, the US governmen...
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Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to
Chocolate Factory describes concession as an attempt to balance openess with safety It turns out you won't be limited to Google-verified apps and developers on Android after all. In the face of sustai...
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'Death sentence': EU cloud lobby takes Broadcom to Brussels over VMware partner purge
CISPE files antitrust complaint, demands interim measures to stop what it calls chip giant's 'ongoing abuse' A lobbying trade body for smaller cloud providers is asking the European Commission to impo...
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Fiber on the surface of the moon could help detect moonquakes
Better than seismometers? Fiber-optic cables could be used to detect moonquakes, offering a simpler way to gather seismic data to support future missions.…
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GNOME 50 debuts with X11 axed, Wayland front and center
Most Ubuntu desktop users will be looking at this until at least 2028 GNOME 50 is here, codenamed Tokyo after the location of the GNOME Asia Summit 2025, and the biggest change is in fact more or less...
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FBI director leaves open the possibility that it's buying location data again
Kash Patel says the FBI uses all the tools it has to accomplish its mission - even if those tools are questionable It's been three years since an FBI director admitted to purchasing the location data...
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Lock down Microsoft Intune, feds warn after Stryker attack
Iran-linked attackers wiped employees' devices using Intune The US government has urged companies to better secure Microsoft Intune, an endpoint management tool that was abused in last week's cyberatt...
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PwC will say goodbye to staff who aren't convinced about AI
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UK blinks on AI copyright carve-out after star-studded revolt
Creative pressure forces rethink as officials step back from default data use The UK government has backed off plans to allow AI companies to access copyrighted material for free for training purposes...
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Google says it will let UK publishers opt out of AI overviews
One search engine switch to rule them all in Google's response to UK competition watchdog The UK's competition watchdog has published responses to its consultation over Google's strategic market statu...
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Fixing Claude with Claude: Anthropic reports on AI site reliability engineering
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Hide and sleek: Latest Vivaldi release can tuck its UI away until summoned
New toggle strips away browser chrome if you want Browser maker Vivaldi has opened up a new front in the browser wars by making itself disappear.…
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Competition watchdog cracks knuckles, probes legality of Adobe cancellation fee
Annual billed sub scrubbed after 14 days? Expect to pay 50% of yearly price Britain’s competition watchdog is opening an investigation into Adobe’s early cancellation fees on membership plans to ascer...
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Microsoft startup credits are the gift that keeps on billing unsuspecting users
Perks fall short as third-party AI models rack up costs with minimal notification Complaints about Microsoft's startup credits and Azure AI Foundry keep mounting, with users reporting surprise credit...
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SAP's grand cloud escape plan €2B short of the runway
Strategy launched after 2020 share price crash is 24% behind target Five years after launching its rescue plan to lift ERP users to the cloud and switch them to the latest software, SAP is off target...
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GOV.UK chatbot gets smarter but slower as LLMs improve
Accuracy jumps from 76% to 90% across public pilots, while users wait nearly 11 seconds for answers More powerful large language models (LLMs) are helping make the UK government's in-development chatb...
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Struggling to put your AI aversion into words? Here's a handy glossary
From mild vegetarianism to full-blown haterdom, there's a label for everything Opinion Are you an AI hater, an AI vegan, or a slightly more moderate AI vegetarian? Or are you on the side of the clanke...
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Google offers ‘vibe design’ tool that you can shout at to create a UI
Stitch gets voice input and an infinite canvas The term “vibe coding” has become associated with use of AI coding assistants to create code that expresses a developer’s intent, even if the results are...
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Your next car might need 300 GB of RAM, and so will autonomous robots
Micron plans to cash in, after already growing revenue $10 billion in a single quarter Autonomous cars will need 300 gigabytes of DRAM or more, and robots will need similar quantities, leading memory-...
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Tencent says small clouds can’t get hardware, so big clouds can hike prices
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Anthropic's Claude claws its way towards the top of the AI market
Who knew questioning authority and signaling virtue would lead to growth? Anthropic has been killing it in the business market, success that appears to be at least partially attributable to pushback a...
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Okta made a nightmare micromanager for your AI agents
Where are you? What are you working on? Why are you doing that? Identity access and management platform Okta announced the general availability of its Okta for AI Agents, which will give customers the...
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State snoops and spyware vendors planting info-stealing malware on iPhones, Google warns
Darksword is the second iOS exploit chain in a month A new exploit kit targeting iPhone users and stealing their sensitive data is being abused by "multiple" spyware vendors and suspected nation-state...
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Chatbot Romeos keep users talking longer, but harm their mental health
Flattery and delusional talk have negative outcomes Sometimes a compliment is no help at all. Chatbot flattery, a well-known and common problem, makes things worse for humans experiencing mental healt...
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ChatGPT advised exec on how to fire Subnautica founders to avoid payout, court ruling says
The law is the law, no matter who tells you to break it One of your studios is about to make a game that you think will be a huge hit, and you don't want to pay the contractually required bonuses. Wha...
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Storage vendors orbit the Nvidia sun at GTC
Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Nutanix, and Seagate all had something to say GTC Hitachi Vantara and Nutanix announced support for Nvidia’s new GPUs and software at GTC 2026, much like every other storage syst...
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Microsoft promises all-in-one database wrangling hub on Fabric
PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server all handled via Database Hub, vendor says Microsoft has launched a database management tool it promises will help users manage multiple databases sharing a single SQL eng...
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Ransomware crims abused Cisco 0-day weeks before disclosure, says Amazon security boss
Interlock's post-exploit toolkit exposed Ransomware criminals exploited CVE-2026-20131, a maximum-severity bug in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center software, as a zero-day vulnerability more tha...