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Consumer group Which? has warned that UK adults should be more cautious when receiving financial advice from AI chatbots following new research. According to a survey conducted by the group, around half of AI users in the UK trust the information they receive from chatbots to a “great” or “reasonable” extent, rising to two-thirds among ...
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"Share a Disney quote that sums up how you're feeling right now!" That's what Disney posted on Threads the other day, and people immediately replied with lines from Star Wars, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and even Mary Poppins. The throughline between all the quotes: they were pretty pointedly anti-fascist and clearly aimed at the […] Read more ›
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Since the United States announced it would “run” Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro, the Trump administration has openly floated similar interventions elsewhere in Latin America. But the country Donald Trump has fixated on most isn’t an adversary — it’s an ally. Greenland, a NATO member and longtime partner of the United States has repeatedly […] Read more ›
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Ars Technica reports: Security firm Mandiant [part of Google Cloud] has released a database that allows any administrative password protected by Microsoft's NTLM.v1 hash algorithm to be hacked in an attempt to nudge users who continue using the deprecated function despite known weaknesses.... a precomputed table of hash values linked to their corresponding plaintext. These generic tables, which work against multiple hashing schemes, allow hackers to take over accounts by... Read more ›
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Turns out people might like to circumvent centralized financial infrastructure in times of political upheaval. Read more ›
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We now have some idea of what's at stake in the longstanding feud between Elon Musk and OpenAI. As first reported by Bloomberg, the latest filing, as part of a lawsuit that accuses the AI giant of abandoning its non-profit status, claims that Musk is owed anywhere between $79 billion and $134 billion in damages from the "wrongful gains" of OpenAI and Microsoft. Musk claimed in the filing that he's... Read more ›
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Increasing DDR5 prices are leading buyers to buy "ancient" desktop platforms going as far back as the DDR3 era. YouTuber discovers 4790K powered system with an RTX 2060 Super and $40 worth of 32GB DDR3 memory can run games modern AAA games at 60FPS. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: The U.S. Department of Transportation brought an automated bus to D.C. this week to showcase its work on self-driving vehicles, taking officials from around the country on a ride between agency headquarters at Navy Yard and Union Station. One of those trips was interrupted Sunday when the bus got rear-ended. The bus, produced by the company Beep, was following its... Read more ›
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AMD will try to keep graphics card prices as low as possible for gamers during the DRAM shortage. Read more ›
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Friday a federal judge "cleared U.S. power company Dominion Energy to resume work on its Virginia offshore wind project." But a U.S. federal judge also ruled Thursday that another major offshore wind farm is allowed to resume construction, reports the Hill. "The project, which would supply power to New York, was one of five that were halted by the Trump administration in December...." In fact, there were three different court... Read more ›
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Enjoy the web in peace with this lifetime subscription to the AdGuard Family Plan, now $39.99 (reg. $169.99). Read more ›
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A new article from Bloomberg says dozens of America's colleges "succumbed to a fundamental problem killing colleges across the US: not enough students. The schools will award their final degrees this spring, stranding students not yet ready to graduate and forcing faculty and staff to hunt for new jobs." The country's tumbling birth rate is pushing schools toward a "demographic cliff," where a steadily dropping population of people in their... Read more ›
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The government has been urged by prominent Labour backbenchers to introduce legislation that would require banks to expand access to low-cost lending for SMEs. A private members bill introduced to the House of Commons by Labour MP and former minister Gareth Thomas laid out plans to further combat a weak economy with a mandate for ... Read more ›
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The government would “support” a ban of Elon Musk’s social media platform X should Ofcom determine it is necessary following a trend of AI sexual deepfake generation via its Grok tool. Grok, an AI chatbot accessible via social media platform X, has been used to manipulate images of real people to create sexually explicit materials, ... Read more ›
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Cambridge health tech firm Qureight has appointed former Riverlane executive Rebecca Simmons (pictured) as its new chief operating officer. Simmons has been tasked with scaling the AI CT imaging company’s global business operations. The new Qureight COO previously held the same role at Riverlane, a prominent player in quantum error correction technology. In her time ... Read more ›
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The Conservatives calls for the UK to follow Australia’s lead in banning social media for under-16s have received a boost as prominent Labour politician Andy Burnham backs the plan. The Greater Manchester mayor, commonly cited as a potential successor to Keir Starmer as leader of the Labour Party, said he has found himself agreeing with ... Read more ›
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UK-based sportswear group JD Sports has become one of the first major brands to allow purchases to be made directly from popular AI chatbots. The service, which will be initially only available in the US, will allow customers to search for and purchase its products from Copilot, Gemini and ChatGPT. JD Sports has partnered with ... Read more ›
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The UK government aims to expedite the passing and enforcement of legislation to combat sexualised deep fakes following the launch of a formal investigation into X’s Grok AI. Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said in the House of Commons that she will bring into force a new offence this week that makes it illegal to create ... Read more ›
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Silicon Valley has long set the pace for tech innovation. In deep tech however, US companies have a tendency to design and optimise their products for local consumers and systems that do not translate globally. Their vast domestic market and deep-pocketed investors let them sustain this approach for years, but this narrowing of focus creates ... Read more ›
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The UK saw a record number of tech incorporations in 2025, with the number of new firms founded soaring by almost 50% in the past five years. New analysis from consulting firm RSM UK has found there were 56,615 new tech incorporations last year, a 17% rise from the previous year and 47% greater than ... Read more ›
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The British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA) will rebrand to UK Private Capital, aiming to reflect in its new name the evolution of the country’s investment industry. The trade association which represents the UK’s private investment community was founded in 1983 and has since grown to more than 600 firms. It has decided ... Read more ›
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York-based tech firm Phoenix Software has secured a £75m contract with the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to provide visibility and control over the department’s software spending. The three-year deal, called the Value Added Software Agreement (VOSA), is designed to “centralise and optimise the procurement of commercial off-the-shelf software across the MoD”. Phoenix Software said through ... Read more ›
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