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iPhone owners say the screen stopped responding properly after iOS 27 — and Apple has not commented
Users on Reddit report unresponsive touches, especially while swiping, along with slowdowns and stuttering app animations. One found a…
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Cambridge researchers made hydrogen fuel out of plastic waste, using solar panels that do not generate electricity
PET is broken down into ethylene glycol, then fed to a panel coated in a photocatalyst. Instead of making electricity, the panel absorbs…
World
Oura filed to raise $2.2bn, then pulled the whole listing eight days later
The smart ring maker postponed its flotation citing “uncertainty in the IPO market”, days after filing. It is the second US tech listing…
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Europe’s heatwave sold a lot of American batteries — and they were not lithium
A San Diego firm shipped its first 100 home batteries to European buyers wanting to store cheap grid power for air conditioning. They run…
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Two Infinix phones can now talk to each other with no tower at all, up to 1.5km apart
UltraLink lets two handsets of the same brand exchange calls, messages and pictures without a mobile network. In open ground with no…
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Three Bangladeshi students took bronze at the World Robot Olympiad’s Asia-Pacific championship in Hyderabad
Team Blueprint placed third in the Future Engineers category. Four Bangladeshi teams competed across three categories, and Team Odyssey X…
Technology
Researchers talked a Chinese AI model into explaining how to make biological weapons
Security firm Mindgard says it found in July that Kimi K2.6 and K3 Swarm could be pushed past their guardrails into discussing bioweapons…
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OpenAI launched cartoon assistants called “dots” on the same day its president was at the White House explaining the last incident
Sam Altman called them “remarkably capable, always-on agents that can handle really anything you can think of”. They are presented as…
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Anthropic spent 80 pages on what could go wrong and 48 on the business — including models that “resist shutdown”
A leaked IPO prospectus obtained by Reuters says Anthropic’s models could pose a “catastrophic or existential risk to humanity” and show…
Technology
The AI bosses signed a “morally binding” document at the White House. Nobody has said what happens if they break it
Leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, SpaceX, Meta and Google met Trump behind closed doors. They left having signed a voluntary…
World
Diesel at $6.82 a gallon and fertiliser up 50%: a seventh-generation farmer is no longer sure he wants his children to take over
John Yeley’s family has farmed the same Illinois land since 1852. He is buying diesel 1,000 gallons at a time, hoping for a price drop that…
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A quantum computer ran in orbit for the first time — shielded in aluminium, working 30 minutes a day in Earth’s shadow
A photonic processor on a glass chip was launched to 510km in June last year. Sunlight and radiation overwhelmed its detectors, so the team…