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1.8 million people signed up for 5,000 seats, and the singer says most of them were bots
Raye says touts used AI bots to create "hundreds of thousands of fake registrations" for her Royal Albert Hall show. Her team reviewed the…
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He is 22, he cuts other people's videos into clips, and he says it pays him £120,000 a year. Almost nobody else makes anything
Eknoor Singh, 22, says he makes at least £10,000 a month cutting clients' videos into vertical clips, at up to $3 per 1,000 views. A…
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Google has opened its AI-detection portal to everyone, and the thing it actually checks is narrower than the headline suggests
The synthid.com portal is now globally available in English, with OpenAI, Nvidia and Kakao as partners and Apple expected. It finds a…
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An ambulance service is letting AI listen to patients through an iPad microphone, and a clinician checks every note before it is filed
North East Ambulance Service is halfway through an eight-week trial with 38 staff. The tool records and summarises patient conversations; a…
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The owner of Hobbs, Whistles and Phase Eight is investigating a cyber-attack, and H&M is checking a separate claim by the group that hit the FBI
TFG London found an incident on Sunday affecting Phase Eight, Hobbs and Whistles. Separately H&M is investigating a claimed hack by…
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The UK's AI minister says a breach of the country's cyber defences is "likely, if not inevitable" — and names the incident that worries him
Kanishka Narayan pointed to the rogue OpenAI agent that hacked an Australian government website, told AI labs not to release systems they…
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Three hundred people stormed a data-centre compound with empty jerry cans, because their taps had been dry for three months
On Indonesia's Batam island, residents say taps ran dry while data centres in Nongsa Digital Park had water to cool their machines…
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Epic Games tells its developers to retool for AI, six months after cutting 1,000 jobs for an unrelated reason
Tim Sweeney says developers are being moved to "retool for maximum AI acceleration". Bloomberg reports a delayed Disney project where staff…
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Handsets made in Bangladesh fell 24% in a year, and the tax on a legally imported phone has gone the wrong way
BTRC figures show 16.29 lakh handsets made locally to June 2026, against 21.47 lakh a year earlier. The tax on an imported phone rose from…
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Your washing machine is subject to more safety rules than AI, says Microsoft’s president — and he wants four specific things
Brad Smith wants emergency brakes, mandatory incident reports, a legal duty to tell victims when an agent goes rogue, and independent…
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The crying face is now the world’s most used emoji, and laughing-crying has become the one that ages you
Google told the New York Times the single-tear crying face is now the most popular emoji worldwide. It is used for good news, bad news and…
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A UK police unit trialled Palantir for two years and has decided not to renew — and the exit terms are the interesting part
East Midlands Special Operations Unit will not fund a new Palantir contract, and says the firm must prove it has cut all links to police…