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Twelve settings that actually extend a laptop’s battery life
Most battery advice is folklore. These are the settings that do measurable work, including the one that matters most if your laptop lives…
World
‘Since AI came’ — the artists losing the small jobs first
Not the gallery commissions — the logos and flyers that paid the rent between them. Two Berkshire artists describe which work disappeared…
Technology
AI detectors flagged 61% of essays by non-native English writers
A Dhaka student was accused of using AI on work she wrote herself. The research says that is not bad luck — detectors systematically…
World
Meta has disabled Russell Brand’s accounts. X has not
One company removed the accounts, another did not. The split is the clearest illustration yet that platform enforcement is policy, not law.
World
Wales has taken a data centre decision away from Cardiff council
The application was taken out of the council’s hands the night before its meeting. The developer also wants gas turbines to power the site…
World
Google’s glasses light up when recording. That solves less than it sounds
An indicator light tells you a stranger is recording. It does not tell you what to do about it — and that gap is the privacy problem nobody…
World
OpenAI has built a kill switch, and says it works in 35 seconds
A central service that watches what models are doing and can stop them. The interesting part is not the switch — it is why OpenAI decided…
World
A global Microsoft outage took out Outlook, Teams and Copilot
Microsoft says servers became unexpectedly unavailable and the load fell on everything else. For organisations that run on Microsoft 365…
World
Huang has been summoned to Congress, and so has the commerce secretary
Resigning did not end it. A Senate committee wants Huang on 3 December, three House committees want him on the 1st, and the commerce…
World
Jensen Huang has resigned from Nvidia after 33 years
The founder who started the AI boom has gone, days after admitting an extramarital affair and after the board opened an investigation into…
Bangladesh
‘There wasn’t even a room — Dhanmondi Lake was e-CAB’s office’
In e-CAB’s twelfth anniversary month, its founder describes an association launched with no office, no minister in attendance and seven…
Bangladesh
A clip-on that turns a stethoscope into a heart screening tool won Grameenphone’s AI contest
Three student teams took the prizes at the second FutureMakers final: a stethoscope attachment, a river erosion early-warning system and a…