8 place 0
The London-headquartered lender Standard Chartered announced plans to cut more than 7,000 jobs by 2030, with CEO Bill Winters saying the bank will replace some "lower-value human capital" through automation and AI while offering retraining to affected workers. "It's not cost-cutting. It's replacing in some cases lower-value human capital with the financial capital and the investment capital we're putting in," CEO Bill Winters told reporters. "So, the people that want to reskill, that want to carry on, we're
A newsletter a day!
You may get 10 most important news around midday in daily newsletter. Press the button and we will send you the most important news only, no spam attached.
LIKE us on Facebook so you won't miss the most important news of the day!
Slashdot
An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
0
A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
0
Quiche Browser already had me hooked with its obsessive customization. Now it is killing AI overviews in search results by default, and that sealed the deal. Read more ›
0 fresh
The company says revenue growth justified the step-up. Some limited partners aren’t sure paper markups should count for as much as they do. Read more ›
0 fresh
Things are looking grim for the Nothing Phone (4b) – to have a fighting chance, the phone needs a price cut and it needs it now. The results from last week’s poll show this quite clearly. Even if the phone gets good reviews – and that’s a big “if” given its specs – few people would be converted into fans. What went wrong? Well, in last week’s poll we compared... Read more ›
0 fresh
Fossils from Queensland suggest a newly recognized marsupial order may have survived in Australia for around 35 million years, rewriting part of the story of how the continent's unique mammals evolved. The discovery challenges the idea that Australia's marsupials all came from a single straightforward ancestral lineage. Read more ›
0 fresh
The new Zakura client is the first live piece of a plan to take Zcash from roughly one private transaction per second to payment-network scale. Read more ›
0 fresh
“I was in denial of the idea of quick commerce. Back then, if you had asked 100 people whether they… Read more ›
0 fresh
На ИБ-рынке мероприятий больше, чем в родительском IT, - в календаре бывает по десять событий в день, а бюджеты на ивенты исчисляются миллионами. При этом половина этих денег покупает красивые фотографии, а не сделки и доверие. На этом подкасте мы разбирали, где офлайн реально работает, на чём компании раз за разом теряют деньги и как не превратить конференцию в тусовку. По следам выпуска подкаста с Марией Шимко, CEO ивент-агентства с... Read more ›
0 fresh
The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was likely an exceptionally rare CO chondrite from a distant region of the solar system. Its unusual chemistry suggests that planet-cooling dust and debris, rather than sulfur inside the asteroid, may have delivered the deadliest blow. Read more ›
0 fresh
How to watch World Cup for free. Live stream Spain vs. Argentina in the 2026 FIFA World Cup for free from anywhere in the world. Read more ›
0 fresh
Elon Musk’s SUV remains top-selling electric vehicle in many parts of the world as well as second most popular in China Read more ›
0 fresh
See the Moon phase expected for July 19, 2026 as well as when the next Full Moon is expected. Read more ›
0 fresh
Pinball Map is a free, community-powered app that helps players locate pinball machines at arcades, bars, restaurants and other venues worldwide. Read more ›
0 fresh
«Пока вы не сделаете своё подсознательное сознательным, оно будет управлять вашей жизнью, а вы будете называть это судьбой» (с) Карл Густав ЮнгНаверно, каждого из нас жизнь сталкивала с неадекватами. С начальником, который меняет свою позицию задним числом и спихивает это на вас, с собеседником из интернета, которому вы вот уже восемь постов подряд пытаетесь всё логически объяснить, а он не понимает и несёт в ответ какую-то чушь, с тем... Read more ›
0 fresh
WhatsApp has started rolling out its new username feature, reports WABetaInfo. Some users who reserved their username have started receiving a notification that their username is active, and that they can now use it to send and receive messages to other users without revealing their phone number. When someone creates a username, WhatsApp will notify people who already have an active chat with that person. WhatsApp has no directory of... Read more ›
0 fresh
When the air quality geos bad outside, is it safe to use your air conditioner inside? It's a fair question to ask. Here's everything you need to know. Read more ›
0 fresh
Elon Musk confirmed SpaceX has open sourced the Grok Build CLI this week, reports The Register, "just days after researchers caught the AI tool scooping up users' entire repositories and uploading them to company-controlled cloud storage." That discovery had "gathered so much negative attention that Elon Musk felt compelled to issue a public statement alongside SpaceX, and its technical staff, promising to delete all data that Grok Build has ever... Read more ›
0 fresh
Soon after the Galaxy S26 Ultra release, reports online about a red screen issue started surfacing. Up until now, no one knew what the underlying cause was, and many speculated that it was a hardware problem related to the first-generation Privacy Display OLED. However, Samsung came out with an official statement, and an executive even explained what's causing the issue. Turns out, it's not a hardware problem, and it's fixable... Read more ›
0 fresh
Slashdot
Facial recognition technology in U.K. shops "will soon alert police in real time to the presence of serious offenders," reports The Guardian, "with civil liberties groups warning of a 'dangerous escalation' towards surveillance and criminalisation in the retail sector." Facewatch, a facial recognition system used by more than 100 businesses including Sainsbury's, B&M and Spar to monitor thieves, said it was launching a UK-first feature to "alert police instantly when... Read more ›
0
"I have been trying to find something meaningful to say about the Id Software layoffs," John Carmack posted Thursday to his 2.8 million followers on X.com: My "Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand" statement isn't aging well, and this is certainly going to dampen the mood of the founder reunion at QuakeCon next month. I'm saddened, but I can't muster anger or outrage over it. I... Read more ›
0
Microsoft released its 2026 Environmental Sustainability Report showing that last year it matched its entire electricity consumption with renewable energy, reports The Register. "The bad news is it also increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 25%" — mostly due to datacenter construction and a decision to stop purchasing some renewable energy certificates: In 2020, Microsoft set itself the goal of becoming "carbon-negative" by 2030. Its own figures show emissions heading... Read more ›
0
"While KDE and GNOME dominate the landscape, a relative newcomer is starting to make waves with features other desktops still don't fully support," argues XDA Developers: Linux 7.0 was the first release of the kernel to officially support Rust, but COSMIC has been all-in on Rust since the very beginning, and COSMIC 1.1 finally stripped all the leftovers of C language from the desktop. It no longer has any traces... Read more ›
0
The Wall Street Journal says "an intense 27-year-old activist who had been leading sit-ins at OpenAI to protest the dangers of AI" was just part of a larger movement. "The Bay Area's AI boom is drawing young disillusioned men and women to join the fight against it. They are upending their lives and leaving behind careers for think tanks, nonprofits and street protest groups." Their cause is now riding a... Read more ›
0
The CEO of SK Hynix, one of the three largest DRAM producers, predicted to Reuters that the memory industry will see its "worst-ever" supply shortages in 2027, reports the hardware/gaming news site Wccftech: SK Hynix has also forecasted that, given the current market demand, they will fall way short of fulfilling the market demand, and that will continue beyond 2030. The comments from SK Hynix are in line with what... Read more ›
0
"Elon Musk and Sam Altman criticized each other in new posts on X," reports CNBC, "highlighting the billionaires' long-standing tussle over OpenAI's evolution." This week, SpaceX released the Grok 4.5 generative AI model, while OpenAI debuted its own GPT-5.6 Sol. For days, Musk and Altman have hyped up their respective releases, but on Saturday the rivalry got personal. In response to a post about Apple filing suit against OpenAI on... Read more ›
0
Linus Torvalds once said LLMs might bring a 10X increase to programmer productivity. But speaking at Open Source Summit India 2026, he now says that number was "not scientific," reports ZDNet. "That was pulled out of my ass number, obviously." Today, he continued, "we're at the point where hopefully it creates more productivity than it takes away," but "we certainly saw more junk being generated by LLMs than we saw... Read more ›
0
Which jobs are most threatened by AI? "Programmers, software engineers and other tech industry employees," goes one common answer. "But many economists are more concerned about a different, larger group of white-collar workers," reports the New York Times: customer service reps, bookkeepers, payroll clerks and HR specialists, "who fly under the radar but collectively account for tens of millions of jobs..." They are spread across the country and throughout the... Read more ›
0
California drew more than $335 billion in venture capital funding this year, reports the Los Angeles Times, citing data released Thursday by PitchBook on private market funding: Its next biggest competitor, New York, raised less than a tenth of California's total. Texas raised 1/40th of the amount... Although a campaign for a new tax on billionaires has convinced some ultra-rich residents to shift to other states and businesses often complain... Read more ›
0
Most popular sources
Wired
|
0% |
Ars Technica
|
0% |
Android Authority
|
0% |
Skift
|
0% |
Vox
|
0% |
| View sources » | |
LIKE us on Facebook so you won't miss the most important news of the day!
19.07.2026 03:03
Last update: 02:45 EDT.
News rating updated: 09:50.
What is Times42?
Times42 brings you the most popular news from tech news portals in real-time chart.
Read about us in FAQ section.
