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86% of UK gambling sites are breaking data privacy law

86% of UK gambling sites are breaking data privacy law

Nearly nine out of ten licensed British gambling websites appear to be violating GDPR, according to a new study from Swansea University's GREAT...

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Your AI agent can now trade your money: Should it?

Your AI agent can now trade your money: Should it?

Handing an AI system the ability to inspect your portfolio, interpret your instructions, and actually execute a trade sounds like a future scenario....

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AI model flags possible cyclone near Hong Kong

AI model flags possible cyclone near Hong Kong

Hong Kong's Observatory is watching a broad area of low pressure expected to form over the central South China Sea later this week, with an AI...

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Trump’s former AI Czar says ai debate is shifting to open vs closed

Trump’s former AI Czar says ai debate is shifting to open vs closed

David Sacks thinks the entire framing of the AI debate is about to change. In a Saturday post on X, the former White House AI and crypto czar argued...

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Is your forgotten login a hacker's backdoor? Check now

Is your forgotten login a hacker's backdoor? Check now

That Pandora account you haven't opened since 2015 is still sitting there, still holding your password, and still fully accessible to anyone who...

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WhatsApp tests AI content labels, unofficial app warnings

WhatsApp tests AI content labels, unofficial app warnings

WhatsApp's latest round of beta features leans heavily toward safety and transparency, alongside a design update that finishes a job it started...

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Earth's next supercontinent could trigger mass extinctions, says scientists

Earth's next supercontinent could trigger mass extinctions, says scientists

Earth's landmasses move roughly 0.6 inches a year, about the same rate fingernails grow. It sounds negligible, but stretched across 200 million...

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OpenAI admits it needs new rules for rogue AI incidents

OpenAI admits it needs new rules for rogue AI incidents

OpenAI says it's overhauling how it decides when to disclose cases of its AI agents going rogue, following reports that a swarm of them quietly...

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White House Arcade sparks Tetris backlash over ‘build the wall’ game

White House Arcade sparks Tetris backlash over ‘build the wall’ game

The White House has launched its own browser-based arcade, and one of the games has already prompted a public rebuke. The site, live since Thursday,...

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Sam Altman’s Apple fandom gets complicated as company sues OpenAI

Sam Altman’s Apple fandom gets complicated as company sues OpenAI

Sam Altman has spent decades describing himself as an unabashed Apple devotee, which makes the company's trade secrets lawsuit against his own...

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Elon Musk picked a fight with Chess.com, it didn't go well

Elon Musk picked a fight with Chess.com, it didn't go well

Elon Musk is chasing a checkmate in his newest online spat, and this time his opponent is a chess website's social media account. It started...

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WhatsApp Beta to let you pin 4 messages: Report

WhatsApp Beta to let you pin 4 messages: Report

Three pinned messages have been the ceiling on WhatsApp for years, and busy group chats have felt that limit fast. According to WABetaInfo, there is...

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Meta glasses lawsuit now covers people who never wore them

Meta glasses lawsuit now covers people who never wore them

Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are facing a legal problem that now reaches well beyond the people who actually bought them. An amended class action...

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Altman says curing cancer isn't ambitious enough for AI

Altman says curing cancer isn't ambitious enough for AI

Sam Altman thinks Silicon Valley's favourite AI pitch, 'Cure Cancer', and the sceptics will come around, but it doesn't go far...

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US turns to AI productivity as worker income share hits record low

US turns to AI productivity as worker income share hits record low

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh are betting that AI-driven productivity will make America richer and...

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Altman apologises for GPT-6 Astra rollout locking out pro users

Altman apologises for GPT-6 Astra rollout locking out pro users

OpenAI barely finished announcing GPT-6 Astra before CEO Sam Altman was apologising for how it rolled out. Hours after Thursday's launch, he...

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153 million driver's licenses are for sale on dark web: Check details here

153 million driver's licenses are for sale on dark web: Check details here

A dark web identity theft service called Nexus began selling digital scans of more than 153 million driver's licences from people in the US and...

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Zuckerberg secretly pushed back on Trump's AI regulator plan

Zuckerberg secretly pushed back on Trump's AI regulator plan

Mark Zuckerberg raised objections to a proposed national AI regulator in a phone call with President Trump during the week of August 17, according to...

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WhatsApp beta to let you add up to 5 AI agents to chats

WhatsApp beta to let you add up to 5 AI agents to chats

WhatsApp is building a feature that lets users plug a third-party AI agent directly into a private chat, according to WABetaInfo, which spotted the...

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WhatsApp to remind you about unsent messages: Report

WhatsApp to remind you about unsent messages: Report

Type a reply mid-meeting, get pulled away, and forget to hit send. WhatsApp's latest beta feature is built for exactly that moment. The app is...

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Apple hit with £2bn UK lawsuit over app tracking rules

Apple hit with £2bn UK lawsuit over app tracking rules

Apple is facing a £2 billion collective action at London's Competition Appeal Tribunal, filed Thursday on behalf of thousands of UK app...

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Americans are revealing their AI secrets: Here’s what they’re saying

Americans are revealing their AI secrets: Here’s what they’re saying

More than a quarter of American adults online, 27%, according to a September survey from Elon University and YouGov, say they've had significant...

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Google Vids can now turn documents into videos: Here’s how

Google Vids can now turn documents into videos: Here’s how

Nobody enjoys sitting through a 40-page training manual. Google's answer, announced today on its Workspace Updates blog, is a new "Docs to...

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Tim Cook steps down as Apple CEO with $47m pay package

Tim Cook steps down as Apple CEO with $47m pay package

Tim Cook gave up the corner office this week, but not much else. Apple's regulatory filing on Tuesday shows Cook will earn a $2 million salary as...

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GTA 6 preview hits 31.1m Netflix views in 4 days

GTA 6 preview hits 31.1m Netflix views in 4 days

Grand Theft Auto 6 didn't need a full game to dominate Netflix's Top 10. The 27-minute extended look pulled 31.1 million views between its...

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Apple CEO John Ternus's first memo: key takeaways

Apple CEO John Ternus's first memo: key takeaways

John Ternus became the eighth chief executive in Apple's 50-year history on Tuesday, and he marked it with a memo just four short paragraphs...

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Switzerland’s new registry faces cyberattack fears ahead of launch

Switzerland’s new registry faces cyberattack fears ahead of launch

Switzerland's new corporate transparency registry will cover roughly 600,000 legal entities, about 20 times the attack surface of the database...

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Think your company is innovating with AI? You may be wrong

Think your company is innovating with AI? You may be wrong

An executive team gathers to discuss AI strategy. The CEO wants growth. The CIO wants copilots. The COO wants automation. Everyone nods in agreement,...

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Temu ads used 73% fake influencers, research finds

Temu ads used 73% fake influencers, research finds

A woman appears out of nowhere on a beach, wipes a stranger's dirt-covered arm clean with a bath mitt, and tells viewers they're cleaning...

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AI sentiment turns negative at work, says Glassdoor study

AI sentiment turns negative at work, says Glassdoor study

Older employees are more optimistic about AI in the workplace than their younger colleagues, according to new research from recruitment platform...

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GLP-1 drugs cut US obesity from 39.9% to 36.4%

GLP-1 drugs cut US obesity from 39.9% to 36.4%

America's obesity rate just did something it hasn't done in decades: it fell. Gallup data shows the adult obesity rate dropped from a record...

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Study reveals AI can silence employees, not just help them

Study reveals AI can silence employees, not just help them

An employee spends months working up the nerve to challenge a bad decision, asks a chatbot to smooth the wording, and hits send ninety seconds later....

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AI tool flags severe heart failure with 91% sensitivity

AI tool flags severe heart failure with 91% sensitivity

Adjusting a single decision threshold turned an ordinary blood panel into a tool that caught 91.2% of severe heart failure cases without a single...

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Italy to fine you for texting on crosswalks: Here's why

Italy to fine you for texting on crosswalks: Here's why

Italy's government has finally identified society's real menace, and it isn't texting drivers; it's texting pedestrians. Under an...

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Warren Buffett turns 96: How he built $1tn Berkshire empire

Warren Buffett turns 96: How he built $1tn Berkshire empire

Warren Buffett turns 96 today, his first birthday since stepping away from the job he held for 55 years. He remains Berkshire Hathaway's...

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AI hardware demand adds 0.4% to US inflation

AI hardware demand adds 0.4% to US inflation

Video and information processing equipment prices fell at a steady 6.5% a year from 2015 to 2019. Through July this year, they were up 12.2%, and the...

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Our solar system may have lost 2 ice giants forever: Check facts here

Our solar system may have lost 2 ice giants forever: Check facts here

There's a strong chance our solar system once had at least one more planet than it does today and that the odds of the moons we rely on for...

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Nepal floods update: Death toll passes 600, thousands missing

Nepal floods update: Death toll passes 600, thousands missing

Nepal's death toll from Wednesday's flash floods on the Nepal-Tibet border has passed 600, with at least 2,426 people still missing, as...

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75% don't trust Anthropic's CEO, new survey finds

75% don't trust Anthropic's CEO, new survey finds

More than three in four young Americans say they don't trust Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei to act responsibly with AI, according to a...

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AI bubble fears hit OpenAI, Anthropic employees

AI bubble fears hit OpenAI, Anthropic employees

Wealth advisors who work with employees at Anthropic, OpenAI and other frontier AI firms say they're fielding the same anxious question in nearly...

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GTA 6 exec reveals new non-lethal combat option

GTA 6 exec reveals new non-lethal combat option

Playing GTA as a pacifist has always been a niche party trick. In GTA 6, Rockstar North says it's building the option in on purpose. Speaking to...

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OpenAI-Cursor clash widens as Altman-Musk feud heats up

OpenAI-Cursor clash widens as Altman-Musk feud heats up

OpenAI is pulling its AI models from Cursor, the coding assistant Elon Musk's SpaceX bought for $60bn earlier this month, in the latest...

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Britain’s 5G networks face an AI stress test as performance lags: Report

Britain’s 5G networks face an AI stress test as performance lags: Report

Britain's mobile networks rank 57th in the world for performance, worse than every EU nation and every other G7 country, according to a Which?...

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X finds 200 bots pushing anti-data center propaganda

X finds 200 bots pushing anti-data center propaganda

X says it caught a piece of a much larger information operation this week: 200 accounts, embedded inside a bot farm of roughly 200,000, dedicated to...

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3 tech CEOs who never left their first big job: Here’s what data says

3 tech CEOs who never left their first big job: Here’s what data says

John Ternus, Apple's incoming CEO, has worked at exactly one company since graduating college in 1997. Satya Nadella joined Microsoft two years...

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Minecraft's creator went from 'reject AI' to vibe coding

Minecraft's creator went from 'reject AI' to vibe coding

Swedish video game programmer and designer Markus Persson spent the first half of 2026 telling anyone who'd listen that AI coding was a mistake....

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UK airport hackers access data of 8.7m people

UK airport hackers access data of 8.7m people

Hackers demanded a ransom from Manchester Airports Group this week after accessing the data of roughly 8.7 million customers across three of...

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Tencent's Hy4 AI model beats rivals in coding tests

Tencent's Hy4 AI model beats rivals in coding tests

Tencent quietly released one of the largest open-source AI models to come out of China this year, and the company didn't wait to compare it...

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GTA 6: Rockstar reveals Lucia’s bigger role in 26-minute footage

GTA 6: Rockstar reveals Lucia’s bigger role in 26-minute footage

Rockstar Games finally revealed its plans, and it did so on Netflix. The 26-minute "Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look", captured...

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OpenAI, Google, 100+ firms warn of AI hacking surge

OpenAI, Google, 100+ firms warn of AI hacking surge

More than 100 companies, organised around a letter published by OpenAI, are warning that AI-powered cyberattacks will grow far more capable within...

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