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A new graduate now manages about thirty AI agents. The question is what she is not learning
AI is blamed for graduate job cuts, but it is also creating a new kind of first job: managing the agents rather than doing the work they…
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Technology
Four planned data centres are looking at gas power, and the CO2 would beat three cities combined
The Budget lets data centres build onsite generation while waiting for the grid. Four are already looking at gas, with emissions estimated…
Technology
The supermarket freezer attack has reached Britain, and one meat supplier’s cold unit was set to 100C
Monday’s attack on European supermarket fridges has touched the UK food supply chain. The NCSC worked through the night; its chief says the…
Technology
Scammers are sending AI photographs of missing cats, then threatening to kill them
Three British owners describe being sent convincing AI images of their missing cats, then asked for gift cards or £40,000, then threatened…
Technology
Virgin Media O2 is cutting thousands of jobs, with £27.2bn of debt and cheaper rivals taking its customers
The numbers have not been finalised, but the BBC understands it will be a sizeable share of the workforce. Most of those affected are not…
World
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…
Technology
Palantir has dropped its court fight over a blocked £50m Met Police deal, and the settlement says the block was never about its ethics
Palantir withdraws its High Court challenge against MOPAC. The block stands, neither side paid the other, and the contract will be re-run…
Technology
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…
Technology
He has ten years and a loyal following. One video brought tens of thousands of comments too vile to repeat
Mitchell Halliday created a red carpet look for Katie Price. What arrived was not criticism of his work — most of the cruelty was aimed at…
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Ten NHS staff have been removed from duty over one child’s medical records
An East Suffolk and North Essex trust has suspended or stood down ten employees after unauthorised access to a three-year-old’s digital…
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She left teaching at 28 because of chronic illness. Seven years on, games work pays her double
Jarvs Tasker says it would have taken 20 years in teaching to earn what she makes now. Her point is not that games pay well — it is that…
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Two thousand NHS staff have been sanctioned for reading records they had no reason to open. Now suspicion alone means suspension
England’s health service will suspend staff and cut their system access the moment they are suspected of looking up a record without a…