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Australia’s under-16 social media ban takes effect on December 10, 2025, with tech companies warning that the legislation will be extremely difficult to enforce Major platforms, including Google, argue that the rushed implementation timeline and unclear enforcement mechanisms could undermine safety features rather than protect young users. As Australia’s under-16 social media ban approaches its ...
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An intern in Shanghai who won an RTX 5060 while attending an Nvidia Roadshow event unexpectedly found himself at a crossroads with his own company. Since it was won on a business trip paid for by the company, the firm demanded the 5060 be handed in. Eventually, the employee resigned after HR subtly told him to find a new job, refusing to give up the GPU in the process. Read more ›
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Trump says that $2,000 tariff checks are coming mid-2026. His GOP allies on Capitol Hill aren't so sure. Read more ›
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For two years, Cook County residents who participated in its basic income piot received $500 no-strings-attached monthly payments. Read more ›
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George R.R. Martin teases the 'Game of Thrones' universe will finally get to the world after the OG show's divisive finale. Read more ›
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Microsoft will not release a diversity and inclusion report for 2025 like it has been doing every year since 2019, Stephen Totilo from Game File has reported. Totilo asked the company if it was skipping this year after it failed to publish a report from October to early November like it had done so the previous years. “We are not doing a traditional report this year as we’ve evolved beyond... Read more ›
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The 'Hunger Games' movies have still got it, because the 'Sunrise on the Reaping' trailer was Lionsgate's second-biggest ever. Read more ›
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Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1617 on November 23 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself. Read more ›
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We rounded up every Miss Universe and figured out which countries have produced the most titleholders since 1952. Read more ›
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This Microsoft Office 2024 Home and Business license works on both Mac and PCs, and it's now on sale for just $169.97 (reg. $249.99). Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from CNN: The universe's expansion might not be accelerating but slowing down, a new study suggests. If confirmed, the finding would upend decades of established astronomical assumptions and rewrite our understanding of dark energy, the elusive force that counters the inward pull of gravity in our universe... Last year, a consortium of hundreds of researchers using data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)... Read more ›
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Meta "is testing a new product that would give Facebook users a personalized daily briefing powered by the company's generative AI technology" reports the Washington Post. They cite records they've reviwed showing that Meta "would analyze Facebook content and external sources to push custom updates to its users." The company plans to test the product with a small group of Facebook users in select cities such as New York and... Read more ›
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Large language models (LLMs) have astounded the world with their capabilities, yet they remain plagued by unpredictability and hallucinations – confidently outputting incorrect information. In high-stakes domains like finance, medicine or autonomous systems, such unreliability is unacceptable. Enter Lean4, an open-source programming language and interactive theorem prover becoming a key tool to inject rigor and certainty into AI systems. By leveraging formal verification, Lean4 promises to make AI safer, mo Read more ›
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In a triumphant election-night speech earlier this month, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani addressed Donald Trump directly, telling the president to “Turn the volume up.” Trump has repeatedly called Mamdani a “Communist” and questioned his citizenship status. But when the two met in the Oval Office on Friday, it was all strikingly cordial — […] Read more ›
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The U.S. government is looking into Bitmain to see whether its products pose a risk to its national security. Read more ›
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The California DMV has approved Waymo’s request to conduct driverless testing and to deploy its robotaxis in more locations in the state. As CBS News reports, Waymo now has the permission to operate across the whole Bay Area, Sacramento and most of Southern California up to the border of Mexico. It’s a huge expansion, based on the maps the state DMV has provided. In the images below, you’ll see Waymo’s... Read more ›
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The grid hits Sin City, with Lando Norris looking to extend his lead at the top of the Drivers' Championship. Read more ›
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Consumers chose better value and superior performance over slim new design of Air model Read more ›
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Memory chip shortage 2026 reaches crisis levels as Samsung raises prices by 60% and Silicon Motion warns of unprecedented supply constraints AI data centres are draining memory supply, forcing steep price hikes that will add ~$96 to basic PCs while delaying GPU launches and product releases The memory chip shortage 2026 is shaping up to ... Read more ›
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Groq has deployed its LPU inference in Sydney for faster, cheaper AI compute. The move supports demand and adds access through GroqCloud and Equinix Fabric. Groq has extended its AI infrastructure into the Asia-Pacific region, bringing its LPU Inference Engine to Equinix’s data centre in Sydney. This follows earlier rollouts in the US and Europe ... Read more ›
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New PDG and ESR data centres in Incheon expand options for AI and cloud workloads. The builds meet growing power, cooling, and sustainability needs. South Korea is in the middle of a major build-out of cloud and AI infrastructure, and this burst of activity is shaping how data centres are planned across the region. New ... Read more ›
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JPMorgan reveals Asia Pacific tech deals backlog now exceeds 2021 levels, with China, India, and Hong Kong leading the regional surge driven by AI investment and IPO momentum Asian technology stocks trade at nearly a 50% discount to US peers despite producing 65% of global semiconductors, presenting compelling investment opportunities The Asia Pacific tech deals ... Read more ›
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ClickHouse, an open-source columnar database management system, has teamed up with Japan Cloud, a specialist firm helping worldwide SaaS and cloud companies enter and scale in the Japanese market, to establish ClickHouse K.K., a Japanese subsidiary. ClickHouse aims to boost growth in Japan, letting more businesses implement real-time data to enhance their performance and innovate. ... Read more ›
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Cloudflare outage shows how much the internet relies on a few providers. Recent AWS and Azure failures underscore the need for better backup plans. Cloudflare faced a major outage this week that took down large parts of the internet for several hours. Websites like ChatGPT, Spotify, Canva, and the outage-tracking site Downdetector showed error messages ... Read more ›
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Optical quantum computing partnership between NTT and OptQC targets one million qubits by 2030 without cryogenic cooling, consuming 1/10 to 1/100 the energy of competing methods Approach operates at normal temperature and pressure, potentially enabling deployment in standard data centres rather than specialised facilities Optical quantum computing operating at room temperature could provide Japan an ... Read more ›
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The US cleared exports of up to 35,000 Nvidia Blackwell AI chips to G42 and Humain. The move deepens US–Gulf AI ties despite some lawmakers’ concerns. The US Commerce Department has approved the export of advanced AI chips to two firms in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The authorisation covers the equivalent of ... Read more ›
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Enterprise leaders across the Asia Pacific region are facing mounting pressures to improve operational efficiency and safety while simultaneously fending off a sharp rise in cyber threats. For context, the region experienced a 134 percent increase in cyber incident frequency between 2020 and 2024. In this environment, the old approach of deploying standalone and potentially ... Read more ›
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Remote factory control demonstration by NTT and Toshiba uses photonic network for distributed manufacturing sites. IOWN technology meets industry-standard 20ms control cycles while running AI visual inspection. Remote factory control spanning 300 kilometres is no longer theoretical – NTT Corporation and Toshiba Corporation have demonstrated that production equipment in central Japan’s Tokai region can be ... Read more ›
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