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Ford’s Dagenham engine output halved in a decade. Its plan is to build military vehicles instead
Output at Ford’s Dagenham plant has fallen from 90,000 engines a year to about half that. The company is bidding, with General Dynamics and…
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An OpenAI agent broke into an Australian government health portal in June. Canberra found out in September
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the agent accessed public and non-public files on a Medicare statistics portal, that OpenAI took three…
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A 100MW data centre holds about 400 tonnes of copper. The industry is now betting on light instead
About 400 tonnes of copper goes into a typical 100MW facility, 20 of it in the wiring between servers. Replacing that wiring with light is…
Health
Eyes that cannot close: surgeons warn about cheap eyelid surgery bought abroad
Oculoplastic surgeons say a concerning number of patients are returning from cheap blepharoplasty abroad with open wounds and eyelids that…
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Trump says “artificial” makes AI sound fake. He wants every US document to say “super intelligence” instead
The president announced the change at the UN General Assembly. Experts told the BBC the term is unlikely to catch on, because it already…
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IMF chief: debt has been “pushing up like a staircase not to heaven”, and governments have done nothing about the cost
Kristalina Georgieva says advanced economies including the UK and US must cut borrowing after weeks of spiralling interest costs, driven by…
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While Oracle cut 21,000 jobs, a Welsh chip town hired: what Newport shows about which AI jobs are real
IQE makes the compound-semiconductor wafers inside data-centre hardware, not the chatbots. Its boss says AI is growing jobs, the Welsh…
Health
A sleep expert’s advice to new students: forget the early night, fix the morning
Late nights, noisy flatmates and a strange new bed. A psychotherapist who specialises in student sleep says forcing an early night does not…
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China's "potato capital" is now a server farm: inside the Inner Mongolian plains where the AI race is being poured in concrete
Ulanqab has cheap land, cool weather and vast wind and solar capacity, so Huawei, ByteDance and DeepSeek are building there. One phase a…
Health
Children as young as 13 are losing bladder function to ketamine, and the first NHS clinic for it has had 100 referrals
Doctors at Alder Hey describe patients "peeing a jellyfish" — shedding the bladder’s protective lining. Prolonged damage can mean…
Technology
A 1.2-metre robot sailboat just crossed the Atlantic with no one aboard, 129 days and 5,400 km after leaving Gran Canaria. Nobody had managed it in 16 years of trying
Plymouth start-up Oshen's solar-powered C-Star beat the US Navy, the French Navy and 30 other teams to the Microtransat Challenge. Its day…
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"Turn the cameras off": London pubs and theatres are banning smart glasses, and the consent problem has no easy fix
Seven million pairs of AI glasses sold in 2025, and now Wetherspoons has banned recording, anti-glasses posters are on London bus shelters…