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Physicists say the smallest black holes could leak gravity into a fifth dimension, which would make them the only instrument we have for detecting one
A Physical Review D paper from Lehman College argues tiny black holes formed just after the Big Bang are dense enough for their gravity to…
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Zelensky said there were "fewer bots" after Ukraine hit Russian data centres. The chart everyone shared was counting something else
BBC Verify finds no evidence the strikes on Yandex data centres reduced Kremlin-linked influence operations. The viral Cloudflare chart…
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92% of employers have met AI misconduct in hiring, and the graduate who sent 200 applications says refusing to use it is the real disadvantage
An Institute of Student Employers survey of 155 big UK graduate employers found 92% had met or suspected AI misconduct, up from 85%. Most…
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A recording device was found wrapped in toilet paper inside a USB port at OpenAI, and the company says it used its own models to work out who put it there
Federal prosecutors charged an OpenAI engineer over a recording device hidden in a USB port in an executive conference room. He allegedly…
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Global smartphone shipments fell 20% to their worst third quarter in fourteen years, and the reason is the same chip that doubled Dhaka's RAM prices
Counterpoint Research puts Q3 shipments down 20% year on year, the weakest third quarter in 14 years. AI infrastructure is absorbing the…
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Huawei will run an ICT academy inside East West University, and the training will be free to students
An MoU signed by acting vice-chancellor Mohammad Ashik Mosaddik and Huawei South Asia's Ma Ben puts a Huawei ICT Academy on campus, with…
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1.8 million people signed up for 5,000 seats, and the singer says most of them were bots
Raye says touts used AI bots to create "hundreds of thousands of fake registrations" for her Royal Albert Hall show. Her team reviewed the…
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He is 22, he cuts other people's videos into clips, and he says it pays him £120,000 a year. Almost nobody else makes anything
Eknoor Singh, 22, says he makes at least £10,000 a month cutting clients' videos into vertical clips, at up to $3 per 1,000 views. A…
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Google has opened its AI-detection portal to everyone, and the thing it actually checks is narrower than the headline suggests
The synthid.com portal is now globally available in English, with OpenAI, Nvidia and Kakao as partners and Apple expected. It finds a…
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An ambulance service is letting AI listen to patients through an iPad microphone, and a clinician checks every note before it is filed
North East Ambulance Service is halfway through an eight-week trial with 38 staff. The tool records and summarises patient conversations; a…
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The owner of Hobbs, Whistles and Phase Eight is investigating a cyber-attack, and H&M is checking a separate claim by the group that hit the FBI
TFG London found an incident on Sunday affecting Phase Eight, Hobbs and Whistles. Separately H&M is investigating a claimed hack by…
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The UK's AI minister says a breach of the country's cyber defences is "likely, if not inevitable" — and names the incident that worries him
Kanishka Narayan pointed to the rogue OpenAI agent that hacked an Australian government website, told AI labs not to release systems they…