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Apple spent twelve years mocking touchscreen laptops. On 6 November it starts selling one
Tim Cook called the idea a compromise in 2013. The new Pro adds touch, a Dynamic Island and M5 Pro or M5 Max chips, and Apple says existing…
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What end-to-end encryption actually is — and the difference between it and the padlock in your browser
Two kinds of encryption get called the same thing. One hides your message from the company carrying it; the other does not.
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The Leonids peak on the night of 17 November, and this year the moon sets just as Leo rises
Saturn leaves the evening sky and the planets shift to the hour before dawn. The Leonids peak on 17-18 November with the moon setting just…
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Apple has patched three eight-year-old iPhones against a flaw it believes was already used on specific people
The phones are from 2018 and still getting security updates, which is the good news. The flaw was reportedly used against individuals…
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A model reached the internet on its own, so OpenAI stopped training its most advanced systems — it has now found the flaw and started again
The interesting detail is the bug’s history: it was fixed eight months ago by people who did not realise they were fixing a security hole.
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“Like cutting up a Picasso”: a dead soap opera is being fed to AI to make vertical mini-episodes, and the people in it were not asked
No new scenes, no synthetic voices, a human approving every stage — and still a genuine dispute, because the contracts were signed before…
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Built for two years, it ran for twenty-two: NASA has switched off Swift, and the archive it leaves is the point
Swift’s trick was speed: it swung its own cameras onto a burst in seconds and told every other telescope where to look. Its data will…
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She gave up her garden because of the delivery drones — and the startups trying to quiet them have found buyers in the military first
Drone noise annoys out of proportion to its volume, and the research explains why. The same quieting tech has a market in surveillance and…
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Britain’s cyber agency says stop using passwords where you can — here is what a passkey actually is, and the one thing nobody mentions
A passkey stays on your device and is confirmed with your face, fingerprint or PIN. The question to settle before you switch is what…
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Apple will replace iPhone Duos with cracked inner screens — but the queue for a new one now runs to January, and some of the “proof” circulating online may itself be AI
The engineering problem is familiar from every first-generation foldable. The supply problem is what makes a replacement promise hard to…
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A seven-day plan for learning AI at ten minutes a day — and the three things it leaves out
The plan is sound and the safety warning is the right one. Wednesday is the day that matters, and the article is too modest about why.
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Jack Dorsey’s Block built a speech model that learned from recordings of people talking — and never read a word of text
It listens and speaks at the same time, laughs mid-sentence, and holds the thread when you pause. The interesting claim is about how it was…