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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Call-handling agents powered by AI are to be trialled by Staffordshire Police in a bid to cut waiting times for the non-emergency 101 service. The force is set to become the third in the country to take part in the scheme testing the use of artificial "agents" to deal with calls. Under the system, the AI agent would deal with simple queries like requests for information without the need for human involvement, freeing up call handlers and reducing answering t
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The best foldable deal of the season sees the the high-end device drop almost $450. Read more ›
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A Chinese startup founded by an ex-Google engineer has developed its own tensor processing unit (TPU) that it claims can offer performance over 1.5 times that of the Nvidia A100 GPU released in 2020, with up to 42 percent greater efficiency. Read more ›
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Jon McNeill, Tesla's ex-global sales chief, said Tesla applied Chinese EV makers' technique on reusing parts for its Model 3 and Y. Read more ›
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Apple’s first foldable iPhone may hit $2,399 — and rising component costs are to blame. Read more ›
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Big Four consulting firm EY is using AI to tell its employees how new tech will reshape their jobs. I did the same and this is what I found. Read more ›
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After the last two episodes of Pluribus - in which Carol (Rhea Seehorn) was involved with an exploding hand grenade and an ill-advised truth serum - I couldn't help but wonder just how long the hive mind would tolerate her destructive ways. Well, here we are in episode 5, and I have an answer. "We […] Read more ›
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It looks as though we'll be celebrating a new smartphone sales champion come the end of the year. Read more ›
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All I wanted was a new smartwatch. I had a couple in mind, like the Google Pixel Watch 4 or the Garmin Vivoactive 6, but my AI shopping buddies seemed really convinced watches from a couple years ago were the way to go. Over the past month, OpenAI, Google, Perplexity, and Microsoft have all introduced […] Read more ›
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Honor launched the Magic8 Pro in China in mid-October, and today the device has also made its way to Malaysia, marking its global debut outside of China. It's also on its way to Europe in the near future. Interestingly, the vanilla Magic8 didn't make the journey to Malaysia. The Magic8 Pro can be pre-ordered for MYR 4,599 ($1,113) with 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage and MYR 5,199 ($1,258)... Read more ›
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The Ukrainian Mirage crew said the Magic 2 infrared-guided missile on their fighter has seen a "practically 100%" kill probability. Read more ›
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A number of wealthy businesspeople, from Binance cofounder Changpeng Zhao to Nikola founder Trevor Milton, have ties to Trump or his businesses. Read more ›
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Around three in every five readers cover their phones top-to-toe in body and screen armor. Read more ›
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From tech-powered sleep systems to Altra running shoes and Lego art sets, millionaires share what they want this Christmas. Read more ›
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Paradox has blamed poor Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 sales on the game sitting outside of its core area of gaming expertise, which apparently made it difficult for the company to gauge commercially what the game would do. Read more Read more ›
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Anyformat, a Spanish GenAI platform specialising in extracting and structuring complex data from any document, has closed a Seed round of €3.3 million to expand the engineering and product team, driving its roadmap in advanced extraction capabilities and the development of proprietary error detection models. The round was led by Kibo Ventures and followed by 4Founders, ... Read more ›
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MrBeast said his recent videos slipped and pledges a 2026 reset, echoing companies pushing stricter performance and all-in work cultures. Read more ›
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John Morgan has an estimated wealth of $1.5 billion, according to Forbes, placing him on its 2025 Billionaires List. Read more ›
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MIT and ORNL built the Iceberg Index, which showed how much of the entire American workforce is at risk of being replaced by AI tools. Read more ›
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Retail companies are among the largest businesses in the economy. Here's what the CEOs of 30 top retail chains made last year. Read more ›
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At 44, Dr. Christine Hall wants her skin to look radiant, but she also thinks about what she can do to help it age healthily. Read more ›
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A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage that previously made the case that vaccines don't cause autism now says they might. WSJ: The contents of the webpage came up during Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Senate confirmation process. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R., La.) in February said Kennedy had assured him that, if he was confirmed, the CDC would "not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines... Read more ›
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BrianFagioli writes: President Trump has issued a sweeping executive order that creates the Genesis Mission, a national AI program he compares to a Manhattan Project level effort. It centralizes DOE supercomputers, national lab resources, massive scientific datasets, and new AI foundation models into a single platform meant to fast track research in areas like fusion, biotech, microelectronics, and advanced manufacturing. The order positions AI as both a scientific accelerator and... Read more ›
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Microsoft has acknowledged in a support article that major Windows 11 core features including the Start Menu, Taskbar, File Explorer and System Settings break after applying monthly cumulative updates released on or after July 2025. The problems stem from XAML component issues that affect updates beginning with July's Patch Tuesday release (KB5062553). The failures occur during first-time user logins after cumulative updates are applied and on non-persistent OS installations like... Read more ›
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A magician who implanted an RFID chip in his hand lost access to it after forgetting the password, leaving him effectively locked out of the tech embedded in his own body. The Register reports: "It turns out," said [said magician Zi Teng Wang], "that pressing someone else's phone to my hand repeatedly, trying to figure out where their phone's RFID reader is, really doesn't come off super mysterious and magical... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards and removing penalties for failure. The results are coming into focus. Five years ago, about 30 incoming freshmen at UC San Diego arrived with math skills below high-school level. Now, according to... Read more ›
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"Security, development, and AI now move as one," says Microsoft's director of cloud/AI security product marketing. Microsoft and GitHub "have launched a native integration between Microsoft Defender for Cloud and GitHub Advanced Security that aims to address what one executive calls decades of accumulated security debt in enterprise codebases..." according to The New Stack: The integration, announced this week in San Francisco at the Microsoft Ignite 2025 conference and now... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Solid-state drives sitting unpowered in drawers or storage can lose data over time because voltage gradually leaks from their NAND flash cells, and consumer-grade drives using QLC NAND retain data for about a year while TLC NAND lasts up to three years without power. More expensive MLC and SLC NAND can hold data for five and ten years respectively. The voltage loss can result... Read more ›
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The International Association of Cryptologic Research (IACR) was forced to cancel its leadership election after a trustee lost their portion of the Helios voting system's decryption key, making it impossible to reveal or verify the final results. Ars Technica reports: The IACR said Friday that the votes were submitted and tallied using Helios, an open source voting system that uses peer-reviewed cryptography to cast and count votes in a verifiable,... Read more ›
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An Ohio IT contractor pleaded guilty to breaking into his former employer's network after being fired, impersonating another worker and using a PowerShell script to reset 2,500 passwords -- an act that locked out thousands of employees and caused more than $862,000 in damage. He faces up to 10 years in prison. The Register reports: Maxwell Schultz, 35, impersonated another contractor to gain access to the company's network after his... Read more ›
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"Copilot Actions on Windows 11" is currently available in Insider builds (version 26220.7262) as part of Copilot Labs, according to a recent report, "and is off by default, requiring admin access to set it up." But maybe it's off for a good reason...besides the fact that it can access any apps installed on your system: In a support document, Microsoft admits that features like Copilot Actions introduce " novel security... Read more ›
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