Health
The Dutch word for labia translates as "shame lips". A dictionary has just added an alternative
Dikke van Dale will add a neutral word for the labia beside the traditional one. Campaigners say a word that carries shame ends up on…
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RAM went up again in Dhaka this week — up to Tk 1,000 a stick, while everything else held still
Sellers across the Dhaka computer market say popular RAM modules are selling for as much as Tk 1,000 more than last week, while processors…
Technology
The men who build AI asked the UN to regulate them. Washington said no
Altman, Amodei and Hugging Face's Delangue called for common standards on capability testing, safeguards and incident reporting. Hours…
World
A Dutch court has banned Lidl from selling Birkenstock lookalikes, at €5,000 a day if it does not comply
The supermarket must stop selling copies of five Birkenstock models in the Netherlands, hand over sales data and pay compensation. The…
Technology
Meta bets everything on Muse: $1,299 VR glasses, camera-free Ray-Bans, and a keychain you talk to
At Connect, Zuckerberg put Muse into everything: VR glasses at $1,299, audio-only Ray-Bans at $349, camera Ray-Bans at $449 and a keychain…
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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…
Technology
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…
World
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…