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Thieves took the copper and a village lost broadband and phones for two days
The people hit hardest were the ones with no second option — elderly residents for whom a landline is the only link. The same economics…
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Britain’s regulator wants Apple to open its contactless chip — and to charge much less for it
Nearly three in five Britons use a digital wallet, and Apple’s is the most popular. The watchdog says its fees and rules are blocking…
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Microsoft walks away from Britain’s largest AI data centre — and the reason is the electricity grid, not the AI
The headline is a tech giant pulling out. The number underneath it is a grid connection slipping from December to the next decade — which…
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A suspect in the hack that disrupted London hospitals is in German custody — and British police are weighing an unlawful killing case
The Synnovis attack cancelled operations, diverted emergency patients and disrupted more than 10,000 appointments. If the unlawful killing…
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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…
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Ukraine has hit three of Yandex’s five data centres in a week — making cloud infrastructure a military target
A drone strike has suspended operations at Yandex’s Vladimir data centre, the third hit on Russia’s largest tech firm this week. Kyiv says…
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Google Labs will build you a playable game from a sentence — and you change it by chatting, not coding
Playground turns a plain-language description into a working browser game, then lets you alter rules, characters and movement through…
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Nikon has disqualified its Small World winner: the cilia video broke the generative AI rules
Nikon says the winning video did not comply with its rules on generative AI. The scientist who first objected had diagnosed the condition…
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OpenAI published solutions to 377 open maths problems at once, and mathematicians have called for a boycott
The Association for Human Mathematics says nobody asked for the work, questions how it was dumped, and notes the advisory group OpenAI…
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Hackers sent a push notification to millions of Asos customers using the retailer’s own app — a channel nobody treats as an attack surface
Criminals used Asos’s own notification system to push a message to potentially millions of phones. The NCSC, marking ten years, offered the…