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"These are the last days of social media as we know it," argues a humanities lecturer from University College Cork exploring where technology and culture intersect, warning they could be come lingering derelicts "haunted by bots and the echo of once-human chatter..."
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This will be a year with major changes for OnePlus – a few months ago, we heard that it will completely rework the design of its upcoming flagship dubbed the OnePlus 15. Now, we have our first look at the new design, courtesy of one Weibo poster. Gone is the circular camera island that had been a key component of the high-end OnePlus models. Now there’s a square with rounded... Read more ›
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Today's the day. Apple is about to release iOS 26, which will deliver the biggest redesign since iOS 7 and bring a range of new features and improvements to iPhones worldwide. It's Apple's biggest software update of the year, and Apple announced at last week's iPhone event that it will be releasing iOS 26 sometime today – Monday, September 15. Based on past releases, the update is likely to drop... Read more ›
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Sripriya Balasubramaniam left her job at Oracle to raise her son. She was worried about getting back into the workforce, but turned an internship into a full-time role. Read more ›
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Other drives perhaps make more sense for either macOS or Windows, but the SSD Pro4 is the best drive we’ve tested for those who want fast performance without having to think about what platform they’re plugging into. Read more ›
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Celebrities at the 2025 Emmy Awards showed their support for "Late Night" host Stephen Colbert after CBS cancelled the popular talk show. Read more ›
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TAFALGIE THERAPEUTICS, a Marseille-based clinical-stage BioTech startup developing non-opioid treatments for pain, has secured €12 million in a Series A funding round – bringing its total raised since founding to €30 million. The round attracted a mix of new business angels, particularly family offices, and returning investors. Previous investors include Bpifrance and the EIC. “I ... Read more ›
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Romania said its F-16 pilots were "very close" to shooting down the Russian drone, but that it eventually exited Romanian airspace. Read more ›
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Qualcomm just confirmed the naming for its next-gen flagship chipset, and it won’t exactly follow in the footsteps of last year’s Snapdragon 8 Elite. The upcoming chip will be called Snapdragon 8 Elite 5. But why skip four generations? Well, it seems Qualcomm is reverting to its original Snapdragon 8 series naming scheme, which began in 2021 with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. From then, we got the SD 8... Read more ›
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Utah Gov. Spencer Cox compared social media to fentanyl in an interview on Sunday, saying it played a 'direct role' in Charlie Kirk's death. Read more ›
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Evertrace – the founder detection engine for data-driven VCs – today announced the acquisition of Whisper AI. Whisper AI brings deep expertise in company data, trade registry integrations, and a stron... Read more ›
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Following three months of beta testing, iOS 26 will be released this Monday, September 15. The update is compatible with the iPhone 11 series and newer, and it will be available to install via the Settings app, under General → Software Update. Below, we have highlighted eight new features included in iOS 26. Even more new features and changes are outlined in Apple's release notes for the update. Some of... Read more ›
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New research from Denmark challenges long-held assumptions about body weight and health, revealing that being overweight—or even moderately obese—does not necessarily increase the risk of death compared to those at the upper end of the "normal" BMI range. In fact, those who are underweight or at the lower end of the so-called healthy spectrum faced higher risks. Read more ›
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Neil Poulton succeeded in elevating the design of external drives two decades ago with the introduction of LaCie’s Rugged line, which features a bright orange bumper to protect data from drops. Today, Seagate announced an updated version of the LaCie Rugged Mini SSD with a few small design tweaks and a big boost to transfer […] Read more ›
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True to its word, Samsung is finally expanding the stable One UI 8 update to more devices. Read more ›
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Osnabrück, Germany-based desk.ly, a provider of an AI-powered platform for modern workplace management, announced the acquisition of Sedeo, a desk booking solution. The announcement comes over three months after securing seven-figure funding from HTGF. Sedeo: Digitising the workplace Based in Köln, Germany, Sedeo is a software-as-a-service solution that enables companies to digitise their workplaces and ... Read more Read more ›
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Alongside its new iPhone 17 lineup, Apple casually launched a world’s first last week inside the very dull sounding “Apple 40W Dynamic Power Adapter with 60W Max.” It’s the first charger to support the USB PD 3.2 AVS protocol, giving you some of the benefits of a more powerful 60W charger in a compact 40W […] Read more ›
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The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards opened with a television-themed variation on host Nate Bargatze's "Washington's Dream" SNL skit. Read more ›
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They stole a woman's phone in Barcelona. Unfortunately, her husband was security consultant/penetration tester Martin Vigo, reports Spain's newspaper El Pais. "His weeks-long investigation coincided with a massive two-year police operation between 2022 and 2024 in six countries where 17 people were arrested: Spain, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru...." In Vigo's case, the phone was locked and the "Find my iPhone" feature was activated... Once stolen, the phones are... Read more ›
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U.S. officials issued an advisory warning that foreign-made solar-powered highway infrastructure may contain hidden radios embedded in inverters and batteries. Reuters reports: The advisory, disseminated late last month by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration, comes amid escalating government action over the presence of Chinese technology in America's transportation infrastructure. The four-page security note, a copy of which was reviewed by Reuters, said that undocumented. Read more ›
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Last week Steam and other major storefronts crashed, reports the Guardian, including Nintendo's eShop, PlayStation Store and Microsoft Store. They were all "unable to cope with the demand for Hollow Knight: Silksong, the long-awaited sequel to the critically acclaimed 2017 indie hit Hollow Knight." (which had sold 15 million copies): SilkSong's release triggered widespread outages, with thousands of users reporting issues trying to buy the game in the first few... Read more ›
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An Associated Press investigation based on tens of thousands of leaked documents revealed Tuesday that American technology companies designed and built core components of China's surveillance apparatus over the past 25 years, selling billions of dollars in equipment to Chinese police and government agencies despite warnings about human rights abuses. IBM partnered with Chinese defense contractor Huadi in 2009 to develop predictive policing systems for the "Golden Shield" project, AP... Read more ›
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University of Luxembourg mathematicians tested whether GPT-5 could extend a qualitative fourth-moment theorem to include explicit convergence rates, a previously unaddressed problem in the Malliavin-Stein framework. The September 2025 experiment, prompted by claims GPT-5 solved a convex optimization problem, revealed the AI made critical errors requiring constant human correction. GPT-5 overlooked an essential covariance property easily deducible from provided documents. The researchers compared the exper Read more ›
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U.S. jobs growth was much slower than previously reported, according to revised data released on Tuesday. From a report: The number of jobs created in the United States from April 2024 to March 2025 was revised down by 911,000 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That would roughly amount to 76,000 fewer jobs created each month of the year up until March. The revision draws fresh attention to the weakening... Read more ›
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Analyst Ben Thompson, commenting on Apple's outlook following the launch of the iPhone 17 lineup: Apple, to be fair, isn't selling the same sugar water year-after-year in a zero sum war with other sugar water companies. Their sugar water is getting better, and I think this year's seasonal concoction is particularly tasty. What is inescapable, however, is that while the company does still make new products -- I definitely plan... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Tom's Hardware: Intel has removed its chief executive officer of products, Michelle Johnston Holthaus, as part of a major shake-up of the executive branch of the embattled chip firm, according to Reuters. This is part of new CEO Lip-Bu Tan's plan to reshape the company under his leadership, flattening the leadership structure so he makes more of the important decisions about day-to-day operation.... Read more ›
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By 2028, Gartner research VP Julia Palmer predicts that VMware will lose 35% of its current workloads as Broadcom's licensing changes and rising costs push customers toward competitors like Nutanix and public clouds. The Register reports: On Wednesday at the analyst firm's Symposium event in Australia, Palmer pointed out that the Broadcom business unit recently tweaked its licensing program so that hyperscalers can no longer sell VMware subscriptions to users... Read more ›
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Kevin Barry, founder and sole developer of Nova Launcher, has left parent company Branch Metrics after being told to stop work on both the launcher and an open-source release. While the app remains on Google Play, the launcher's website currently shows a 404 error. The Verge reports: Mobile analytics company Branch Metrics acquired Nova in 2022. The company's CEO at the time, co-founder Alex Austin, said on Reddit that if... Read more ›
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