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Apple Blocks Siri AI on EU iPhones, Here's Why

Apple Blocks Siri AI on EU iPhones, Here's Why

Siri AI, Apple's rebuilt assistant announced at WWDC 2026, will not reach iPhones or iPads in the European Union when iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 launch...

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Could aliens detect Earth using airport radar? Scientists investigate

Could aliens detect Earth using airport radar? Scientists investigate

Earth's airports may be broadcasting our existence to the galaxy without anyone intending to. A 2025 study from the University of Manchester...

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Father of the internet Vint Cerf is retiring from Google

Father of the internet Vint Cerf is retiring from Google

Vint Cerf, widely credited as the father of the internet, will step down next week from his role as Google's chief internet evangelist, ending a...

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Fable 5 returns: Here's who gets access first

Fable 5 returns: Here's who gets access first

Claude Fable 5 is available again starting Wednesday, ending a suspension that began June 12 when the US. The Department of Commerce ordered Anthropic...

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Breaking: Is Minecraft down? Several users report outages

Breaking: Is Minecraft down? Several users report outages

Many players are reporting that Minecraft is down after facing several attempts in logging in, launching the game and connecting to servers on Monday....

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Base iPhone 18 likely to feature 9GB RAM, leak suggests

Base iPhone 18 likely to feature 9GB RAM, leak suggests

Apple's lower-end iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e models, expected to launch in March or April 2027, will feature 9GB of RAM, up from 8GB in the current...

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Father, son pulled alive from rubble four days after Venezuela quakes

Father, son pulled alive from rubble four days after Venezuela quakes

A father and his son were pulled out alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in La Guaira on Sunday, four days after devastating earthquakes...

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11 killed as civilian plane crashes in Eastern France

11 killed as civilian plane crashes in Eastern France

Pilatus aircraft crashed Sunday, around 11am (CEST, UTC 2) near the Auchan supermarket in Tomblaine, northeastern France, killing all 11 people on...

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It's scary': US congressman reacts to Anthropic's powerful AI model

It's scary': US congressman reacts to Anthropic's powerful AI model

Rep. Andrew Garbarino, chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, emerged visibly shaken after a closed-door demonstration of Anthropic's...

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Scientists find ancient microbial life in places it shouldn't exist

Scientists find ancient microbial life in places it shouldn't exist

Dr Rowan Martindale of The University of Texas at Austin spotted something extraordinary while hiking through Morocco's Dadès Valley: tiny...

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iPhone 18 rumors: Everything you need to know

iPhone 18 rumors: Everything you need to know

The iPhone 18 lineup is shaping up to be Apple's most complicated in years, with a significant departure from the company's traditional...

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Light aircraft crashes into Beijing's tallest tower, pilot killed

Light aircraft crashes into Beijing's tallest tower, pilot killed

A single-engine light sport aircraft crashed into Beijing's tallest building on Friday evening, killing the pilot and injuring 13 people near the...

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Apple asks Trump to buy chips from blacklisted chinese company

Apple asks Trump to buy chips from blacklisted chinese company

Apple is lobbying the Trump administration to purchase memory chips from ChangXin Memory Technologies, a Chinese company the Pentagon designated as a...

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Venezuela earthquake death toll exceeds 920 as rescuers race for survivors

Venezuela earthquake death toll exceeds 920 as rescuers race for survivors

The death toll from twin earthquakes in Venezuela has climbed above 920, with more than 50,000 people still unaccounted for two days after the quakes...

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What is Q-day? Biggest cybersecurity threat you've never heard of

What is Q-day? Biggest cybersecurity threat you've never heard of

Quantum computers pose an existential threat to modern encryption. Within four years, Google and IBM say they'll deploy quantum machines powerful...

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EU names AWS, Azure gatekeepers under Digital Markets Act

EU names AWS, Azure gatekeepers under Digital Markets Act

The European Commission preliminarily designated Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as "gatekeepers" under the Digital Markets Act...

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How to preorder GTA 6 on PS5 or Xbox today

How to preorder GTA 6 on PS5 or Xbox today

Grand Theft Auto (GTA) VI pre-orders launched midnight local time on June 25, 2026, with the game arriving on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on...

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Trump pledges aid to earthquake-ravaged Venezuela

Trump pledges aid to earthquake-ravaged Venezuela

Two consecutive earthquakes, magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5, devastated Venezuela on Wednesday, flattening buildings across the capital, Caracas, and...

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Anthropic hires 8 for Asia-Pacific data center expansion

Anthropic hires 8 for Asia-Pacific data center expansion

Anthropic's $965 billion valuation has triggered a hiring spree across Asia-Pacific, with eight new compute roles opening in Australia and Japan...

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Strawberry Moon peaks June 29: When and where to watch

Strawberry Moon peaks June 29: When and where to watch

June's full moon earns a deceptive nickname. The Strawberry Moon will peak on June 29 at 7:57pm ET, marking summer's first full moon,...

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GTA 6 gets unexpected rival as PS4 release returns

GTA 6 gets unexpected rival as PS4 release returns

Rockstar Games confirmed Grand Theft Auto VI will launch on November 19, 2026, as pre-orders go live June 25 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S....

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Keir Starmer resigns: Key moments that defined his premiership

Keir Starmer resigns: Key moments that defined his premiership

Keir Starmer resigned as Prime Minister on Monday, stepping down after just two years in office. Standing outside 10 Downing Street, Starmer announced...

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10 jobs expected to disappear by 2035: Check yours here

10 jobs expected to disappear by 2035: Check yours here

The Bureau of Labour Statistics projects 313,600 cashiers will vanish by 2034. Word processors are declining faster than any other occupation at 36%....

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Trump vs Meloni: Feud deepens after G7 photo dispute

Trump vs Meloni: Feud deepens after G7 photo dispute

President Trump escalated his feud with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Saturday, insisting she "begged" for a photo at this...

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Keir Starmer expected to resign as UK prime minister

Keir Starmer expected to resign as UK prime minister

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to announce his resignation on Monday following intense pressure from Labour MPs to make way for Andy Burnham,...

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Vance arrives for Iran talks as Strait of Hormuz closure looms

Vance arrives for Iran talks as Strait of Hormuz closure looms

Vice President JD Vance arrived in Switzerland on Sunday for high-stakes negotiations with Iran aimed at solidifying a ceasefire agreement signed...

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Trump new Air Force One vs his luxury 757: Design showdown

President Trump unveiled the new Air Force One on Friday, a Boeing 747-8i gifted by Qatar, dismissing months of ethical criticism with a statement...

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French fries raise diabetes risk 20%: New study warns

French fries significantly raise type 2 diabetes risk, but boiled potatoes don't, a crucial distinction buried in a decades-long study of 205,000...

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Apple devices have unfixable security flaw, researchers warn

Security researchers at Paradigm Shift have disclosed an unfixable hardware vulnerability affecting millions of Apple devices. The flaw, named...

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Are we alone? Scientists hunt for alien life in Yellowstone

Arizona State University doctoral candidates Tanner Barnes and Vince Debes hike Yellowstone's trails not as tourists, but as astrobiologists...

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Paraguay knocks out Turkey with record 64-second World Cup Goal

Paraguay scored the fastest goal of the 2026 World Cup at 64 seconds, then defended with 10 men to eliminate Turkey 1-0 in a stunning Group D upset on...

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the real reason Earth escapes the dying sun gravity

Earth will not be consumed by the dying Sun, at least not according to new research from the University of Leuven published Friday in Astronomy &...

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GTA 6 cover art hides 9 secrets that change everything

Rockstar's nine-panel GTA 6 cover art is far more than eye candy. Each frame tells a story. Pre-orders begin June 25, and fans are already...

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GTA 6 fever shuts down entire company as employees take day off

Grand Theft Auto 6 has not launched yet, and it is already closing businesses. Burger Motorsports, a US automotive company, announced via Instagram...

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UAE bans social media accounts for children under 15

The United Arab Emirates has introduced a minimum age of 15 for social media use, becoming the first Arab country to impose such a restriction as...

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Is Claude AI down? Users report issues with chat, app, website

Claude AI is experiencing an outage, with thousands of users reporting problems with chat, app access, website connectivity and login services....

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Trump says Apple will make chips with Intel in the US

Apple has agreed to work with Intel to design and manufacture chips on American soil, US President Donald Trump announced Thursday in a Truth Social...

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Blue Origin to rebuild launch pad after recent explosion

Reconstruction has begun at Blue Origin's launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, CEO Dave Limp confirmed Wednesday less...

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AI will cause labour shortages, not job losses: Bezos

Half of Americans fear AI could cost them or someone in their household a job, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll published this month. Jeff Bezos...

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Former PayPal CEO Peter Thiel's secret society exposed in data leak

For nearly 20 years, Dialogue kept its membership invisible. That changed this week. A data leak has exposed the inner circle of the invitation-only...

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GTA 6 gameplay: What leaked footage reveals

Grand Theft Auto 6 has not yet launched, and Rockstar Games has not formally detailed its robbery mechanics, but leaked footage and official trailers...

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US-Iran ceasefire set to go public, long-term peace still unresolved

A war that has killed more than 7,000 people across Iran and Lebanon may be edging toward a pause. The United States and Iran have signed a memorandum...

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Anthropic set for talks with Trump over Mythos dispute

Senior Anthropic technical staff are set to meet with Department of Commerce officials in Washington on Monday after the Trump administration ordered...

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What happened at Trump's UFC birthday bash on the South Lawn?

President Donald Trump turned 80 on Sunday with an evening that combined blood sport, geopolitics and pageantry on a scale no American president has...

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Trump heads to G7 summit with Iran deal hanging in balance

President Donald Trump is flying to France for the annual G7 summit this week with a potential Iran peace deal unresolved, strained alliances with...

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Blizzard sues popular WoW private server Project Ascension

Blizzard Entertainment has filed suit against the operators of Project Ascension, one of the most popular private World of Warcraft servers on the...

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Study reveals millions of planets may form near black holes

Scientists studying the brightest and most violent regions of galaxies have stumbled onto an unexpected discovery: supermassive black holes may be...

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States press ahead with AI laws despite Trump's warning

Six months after President Donald Trump warned states to back off regulating artificial intelligence, they are doing it anyway and in greater numbers...

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Texas trial lawyer used AI to defeat Meta and Google in landmark case: Here’s how

When Texas trial lawyer Mark Lanier woke up after four hours of sleep to cross-examine Mark Zuckerberg, his team had already been working through the...

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Knicks win first NBA championship in 52 years, several arrested in celebrations

New York City erupted Saturday night after the Knicks claimed their first NBA championship in more than half a century, and what began as jubilation...

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