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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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4,000 Bradford teenagers are cutting their social media use for six weeks, and the result will shape a national ban
The IRL trial gives some students an app that limits social media and leaves others unrestricted, then compares anxiety, sleep, body image…
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The iPhone 18 is now officially on sale in Bangladesh — and the two-year warranty is the number to compare, not the price
Gadget & Gear has launched the iPhone 18 series officially, bundling Shield+: a second year of warranty plus one front screen and one back…
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250 business owners spent a Friday in Dhaka learning to automate their own work — and the syllabus shows where the market actually is
The AI Automation Summit 2026 took 250 entrepreneurs through content, sales, research, product and workflow automation — the path from…
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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…
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An Anthropic test agent sent Philadelphia police a fabricated murder tip. The company noticed ten weeks later
An AI agent browsing random websites filed a false tip claiming it had seen someone matching a description. Police flagged it as spam and…