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News sites with no journalists: the count has gone from 2,089 to 3,749
The sites look like news organisations, publish constantly and have no reporters. Bangla is not among the sixteen languages counted, which…
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A mirror in orbit that is 40 times brighter than the full Moon, and the astronomers trying to stop it
The first satellite, Earendil-1, has a launch contract and an FCC approval that stops short of the actual beaming. A new paper puts numbers…
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The UK may add Vinted and eBay to its under-16 ban, and the reason is not shopping
Lisa Nandy says she is "looking seriously" at the question. What puts these sites in scope is not buying and selling but the messaging…
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A seal that breaks if a document is altered, aimed at the reason visas get refused
Germany’s ambassador says a few forged documents force officers to scrutinise every application. The argument here is that the distrust is…
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OpenAI rated its own new model “Critical” for cyber risk, then used it to find 304 Linux flaws
The rating is a step up from High on the previous model, and access is restricted to vetted practitioners. The findings show why the rating…
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Nvidia has opened an investigation into its own chief executive, and he has apologised
The board says it has no reason to believe secrets or national security were compromised, and that Huang will continue to lead. He has…
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A village knowledge fair returns to Rampal after six years, and the theme is health
Running since 2004 and absent for six years, the fair mixes information technology, local knowledge and folk culture on a school field in…
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AI is writing code faster than anyone can check it, and that is Bangladesh’s export problem
An argument from the president of the Bangladesh Software Testing Board that buyers are purchasing trust, not lines of code — and that…
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Your index fund quietly became an AI fund, and last week showed you what that means
The Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq each had their worst day in nineteen months. The lesson is not about AI — it is that a portfolio can become…
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Earth picked up a second moon in April, it is two metres wide, and it leaves next year
Announced by the Minor Planet Center, first observed in August. It orbits about 353,000 miles out, and would have burned up entirely had it…
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A pink rock found on a Mali salt flat is 4.1 billion years old, and it came from Mars
Eight fragments totalling 798.5 grams, dated from zircon crystals by a laser technique that cut the work from a month to a day. It carries…
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Nintendo remade the highest-rated game ever made by refusing to change it
Still the highest-rated game in history on Metacritic, 28 years on. The remake declines to reinvent it — which will please those who grew…