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Hacker exposes their bad security; McDonalds reacts by firing staffer who helped (theregister.com)

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Datacenter vacancy rates near zero - $1T of new deployment needed by 2030 (theregister.com)

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Steep population declines in most countries are expected to have negative impact (nature.com)

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US gov seeks AI procurement using 'full user context and data access' chatbots (theregister.com)

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End well, this won't: UK commissioner suggests govt stops kids from using VPNs (theregister.com)

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Building a sovereign AI chip design industry in the UK (gov.uk)

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More customers asking for Google's Data Boundary, says Cloud Experience boss (theregister.com)

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Browser wars are back, predicts Palo Alto, thanks to AI (theregister.com)

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Nvidia's $4.5T valuation now tops the Russell 2000 Index by $1.5T (seekingalpha.com)

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GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40B on fire (theregister.com)

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List or get off the pot: Auditors demand gov improve IT reporting or give it up (theregister.com)

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AI will soon radically alter military command structures dating back to Napoleon (theconversation.com)

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AWS pricing for Kiro dev tool dubbed 'a wallet-wrecking tragedy' (theregister.com)

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The administration's assault on science feels eerily Soviet (grist.org)

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Promises of a US manufacturing Renaissance leave experts scratching their heads (theguardian.com)

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GenAI isn't just a matter of life and death. It's more important than that (theregister.com)

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UK drafts AI to help Joe Public decipher its own baffling bureaucracy (theregister.com)

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When you're asking AI chatbots for answers, they're data-mining you (theregister.com)

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'Safety Today Is a Luxury,' Giorgetto Giugiaro Says After His Crash (jalopnik.com)

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Ghost in the Machine: Coming to Terms with the Human Core of Unmanned War (tnsr.org)

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Lionel Trilling and the Limits of Crisis-Thought: Is Humanism a Dead End? (hedgehogreview.com)

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Kids need soft skills in the age of AI, but what does this mean for schools? (theconversation.com)

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California is sunsetting oil refineries without a plan for what's next (grist.org)

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Samsung taking market share from Apple in U.S. as foldable phones gain momentum (cnbc.com)

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Nabiha Syed Remakes Mozilla Foundation in the Era of Trump and AI (theregister.com)

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Did the system update ruin your boyfriend? Love in a time of ChatGPT (theguardian.com)

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How your solar rooftop became a national security issue (techcrunch.com)

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Universities are hiring more chief marketing officers – even as budgets shrink (theconversation.com)

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Election workers fear threats and intimidation without feds' support in 2026 (theregister.com)

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German federal ruling reopens possibility that ad blockers violate copyright law (theregister.com)

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OpenAI in talks to sell around $6B in stock at roughly $500B valuation (cnbc.com)

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Cancelling mRNA studies is the highest irresponsibility (nature.com)

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Microsoft keeps adding stuff into Windows we don't need (theregister.com)

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Ethernet switch vendors like Cisco are riding high on AI network economics (theregister.com)

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Brain editing closer to reality: gene-altering tools tackling deadly disorders (nature.com)

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Tencent doesn't care if it can buy US GPUs again – it has all it needs (theregister.com)

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I talked to Sam Altman about the GPT-5 launch fiasco (theverge.com)

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Forget Foxconn as iPhone factory. AI made it a server-slinger first and foremost (theregister.com)

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Malicious LLM-Based Conversational AI Makes Users Reveal Personal Information (kcl.ac.uk)

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Why the UK public sector still creaks along on COBOL (theregister.com)

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Cyberattack on Dutch prosecution service is keeping speed cameras offline (theregister.com)

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Are you willing to pay $100k a year per developer on AI? (theregister.com)

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Crowdfunded companies are 'ghosting' their investors – and getting away with it (theconversation.com)

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The disclosure dilemma of ad cues in social media native advertising (frontiersin.org)

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Dodgy Huawei chips nearly sunk DeepSeek's next-gen R2 model (theregister.com)

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Inner speech in motor cortex and implications for speech neuroprostheses (cell.com)

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Equinix signs deals for nukes and fuel cells to power its AI bit barns (theregister.com)

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Voice, vision, pen: Oh dear. Windows boss says Microsoft is again reshaping OS (theregister.com)

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Amazon's $100B DC spend similar to Costa Rica GDP (theregister.com)

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Vibe coding platform Anything arrives, our hands-on suggests caution (theregister.com)

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Who made the demo list for Trump's fast-track nuclear reactor scheme? (theregister.com)

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OpenAI's GPT-5 looks less like AI evolution and more like cost cutting (theregister.com)

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How to select your preferred sources in Top Stories in Search (blog.google)

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GPT-5 is going so well for OpenAI there's now a 'show additional models' switch (theregister.com)

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New York AG James sues Zelle parent company for alleged fraud (cnbc.com)

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How bad will climate change get? The only way to know is to fund basic research (nature.com)

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Box's AI agents set to help US Government agencies (theregister.com)

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The Coding Personalities of Leading LLMs (sonarsource.com)

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UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new facial recognition vans (theregister.com)

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Microsoft wares may be UK public sector's only viable option (theregister.com)

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US Admin Forced to Resume $5B EV Charger Funding After Losing 14-State Lawsuit (jalopnik.com)

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AI content is tainting preprints: how moderators are fighting back (nature.com)

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You've got drought: UK gov suggests you save water by – – – deleting old emails (theregister.com)

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Beijing doesn't want Nvidia's H20s anywhere near sensitive government workloads (theregister.com)

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GSA inks another $1 OneGov vendor deal, this time with Anthropic (theregister.com)

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No more 'Sanity Checks.' Inclusive language guide bans problematic tech terms (theregister.com)

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Arm juices mobile GPUs with neural tech for better graphics (theregister.com)

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Scattered Spider has a new Telegram channel to list its attacks (databreaches.net)

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VS Code previews chat checkpoints for unpicking careless talk (theregister.com)

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Can OpenAI's GPT-OSS Beat a 10-Year-Old? (opentools.ai)

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Trump flipflops on Intel CEO, calls him success days after demanding resignation (cnbc.com)

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Semiconductor Tariffs Could Make Your Next Car More Expensive (jalopnik.com)

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FedRAMP government cloud software approvals double under new program (theregister.com)

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US scrambles to recoup $1M+ nicked by NORKs (theregister.com)

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Russia's RomCom among those exploiting a WinRAR 0-day in highly-targeted attacks (theregister.com)

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Red teams are safe from robots for now, as AI makes better shield than spear (theregister.com)

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CA man so furious about forced Windows 11 upgrade that he's suing Microsoft (theregister.com)

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Swiftly deprecating old models' users depended on mistake, says OpenAI's Altman (theregister.com)

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Fraudulent research is 'destroying trust in science' (dw.com)

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Groundwater is drying out, heating up, and causing sea level rise (grist.org)

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Big Coffee Boxer: From boxer engine to espresso machine (ecm.de)

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Stanford Sticks with Legacy Admissions (techcrunch.com)

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Gen AI is coming for online checkout in seismic shift for internet shopping (cnbc.com)

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DEF CON hackers plug security holes in US water systems amid tsunami of threats (theregister.com)

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OpenAI GPT-OSS models use MXFP4 to cut inference costs (theregister.com)

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The new American shopping mall is less Macy's, more church, bowling, bookstore (cnbc.com)

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Presidential order might upend a long-standing tradition of grant peer-review (nature.com)

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The Kafka Challenge – Translating the Inimitable (hedgehogreview.com)

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Apple has its best week since July 2020 after White House visit (cnbc.com)

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UK unveils plans to 'transform' the consumer smart meter experience (theregister.com)

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Humans make better content cops than AI, but cost 40x more (theregister.com)

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The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says (theregister.com)

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AI is taking hold in K-12 schools – here are some ways it can improve teaching (theconversation.com)

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Chinese biz using AI to hit US politicians, influencers with propaganda (theregister.com)

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ChatGPT users hate GPT-5's overworked secretary energy, miss their GPT-4o buddy (arstechnica.com)

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A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees (intel.com)

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Alien planet glimpsed in star's 'habitable zone' (nature.com)

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Ex-White House expert: Microsoft considers security an annoyance, not necessity (theregister.com)

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Microsoft biometrics Hello loophole may let a rogue admin inject new facial scan (theregister.com)

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Invoking Gemini for Workspace Agents with a Simple Google Calendar Invite (safebreach.com)

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