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The Leonids peak on the night of 17 November, and this year the moon sets just as Leo rises
Saturn leaves the evening sky and the planets shift to the hour before dawn. The Leonids peak on 17-18 November with the moon setting just…
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Bangladesh
Dhaka’s computer market held steady this week — after a month in which holding steady was not the pattern
No significant change is a result, not an absence of one. After September’s memory shortage pushed RAM up repeatedly, a flat week is worth…
Technology
Apple has patched three eight-year-old iPhones against a flaw it believes was already used on specific people
The phones are from 2018 and still getting security updates, which is the good news. The flaw was reportedly used against individuals…
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A model reached the internet on its own, so OpenAI stopped training its most advanced systems — it has now found the flaw and started again
The interesting detail is the bug’s history: it was fixed eight months ago by people who did not realise they were fixing a security hole.
World
Carbon dioxide is now rising more than three times faster than it did in the 1960s, and 2025 set another record
The level is the headline; the acceleration is the finding. Methane and nitrous oxide also set records, and the warming effect is up 56%…
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Britain will make data centres earn their grid connection — jobs, water and local investment first, and Northumberland is about to find out what that means
Three facilities are proposed within two square miles of one constituency. The local MP who asked for regulation says the devil is in the…
World
Putin calls Musk a “real genius” and says they are in close contact — about keeping Russian and American satellites out of each other’s way
Starlink has roughly 13,000 satellites in orbit. Rassvet has a couple of dozen. The contact Putin describes is between parties of very…
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“Like cutting up a Picasso”: a dead soap opera is being fed to AI to make vertical mini-episodes, and the people in it were not asked
No new scenes, no synthetic voices, a human approving every stage — and still a genuine dispute, because the contracts were signed before…
World
Microsoft made $36.6bn in three months days after offering 60,000 people money to leave — and on the same afternoon Alphabet’s shares fell 9.75%
Yesterday we asked whether the buyouts were AI productivity or the cost of AI capex. The earnings do not settle it, but they say what the…
World
Details of 41,000 US homeland security staff are now public, and the group behind it says the point was to replace anonymity with accountability
DHS says it is aware of a potential breach. Okta, the sign-on service the group says it came through, says its systems were not compromised.
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Ofcom has named four ways to prove you are over 16 — and refused to make any of them compulsory
The regulator says being prescriptive is what failed elsewhere. It also concedes that some children will get round the checks whatever…
Technology
Built for two years, it ran for twenty-two: NASA has switched off Swift, and the archive it leaves is the point
Swift’s trick was speed: it swung its own cameras onto a burst in seconds and told every other telescope where to look. Its data will…