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Technology - Recent Headlines

California lawmakers urge criminal penalties, emergency legislation to rein in unchecked AI

Los Angeles Times - 3 days ago

AI financier Intrepid Growth co-led by ex-CPPIB CEO Mark Machin raises US$525-million for first fund

The Globe and Mail - 3 days ago

Trump downplays AI risks as 'things that won't happen'

Evening Standard - 3 days ago

Istanbul Airport to inaugurate 4th main runway, boosting capacity

Daily Sabah - 3 days ago

Cyber insurance gains ground in Singapore as coverage widens, premiums fall

The Straits Times - 4 days ago

Angela Rayner 'pleased' AI companies talking about threats

Evening Standard - 4 days ago

Trump again downplays the need to check AI development, citing competition with China

Los Angeles Times - 4 days ago

The secret ballot has been an article of faith in U.S. elections. That's being tested in Georgia

Los Angeles Times - 4 days ago

Poll -- 'Maybe that is how Transformers started': Readers react to the possibility of AI becoming self-aware -- Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

Live Science - 4 days ago

How China's FAST telescope is mapping the cosmic gas behind star birth

International The News - 4 days ago

Trump brushes off AI doom predictions as 'things that won't happen,' says US must push ahead: 'Whoever wins AI, wins'

New York Post - 4 days ago

Over 610 participate in Samsung Singapore's first walkathon to support heart health

The Straits Times - 4 days ago

Anthropic's Dario Amodei Calls for AI Industry Slow Down, Sam Altman and Elon Musk Signal Agreement

Breitbart - 4 days ago

There's a Myth About Low Testosterone That Is Spreading Among Young Men. Uh, Yikes. -- Laura O'Connor

Slate - 4 days ago

Australian Man Jailed for Stalking Campaign that Included Taking Remote Control of Ex-Wife's Tesla

Breitbart - 4 days ago

California Man Sues OpenAI Claiming ChatGPT Fed Religious Delusions Before Suicide Attempt

Breitbart - 4 days ago

The improbable music of the ZX Spectrum's one-bit speaker -- Ingenious coders coaxed multichannel chiptunes from the humblest of sound hardware

Maingear Zero (2026) Review: PC Gaming Bliss With a Price Tag to Make You Cry -- Desktops -- Kyle Barr

Gizmodo - 4 days ago

It's All Fun and Games Until You Give AI Your Credit Card

The Atlantic - 4 days ago

SECURITY -- Dental contractor set up secret account with access to 4,000 patient records then left the company -- Toothless security

Fast-food brand loyalty linked to poorer diet quality study

Peninsula Qatar - 4 days ago

I fixed a tractor using John Deere's self-repair service. Farmers aren't sold on it.

Ars Technica - 4 days ago

Best Cheap VPN in 2026: What They Really Cost

Gizmodo - 4 days ago

Altman tells Fortune OpenAI will not go public in 2026

Peninsula Qatar - 4 days ago

AI and ML -- DeepSeek's new model sets a template for powerful LLMs that run lean -- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash proves that just because you build a bigger model doesn't mean you need more GPUs to serve it

Tech leaders call for urgent global slowdown on AI

Sydney Morning Herald - 4 days ago

Roku launches a better way to watch TV for free and it's available now -- Roku is back with new smart TVs and they can be snapped up right now at Argos.

Daily Express - 4 days ago

Russia expands nuclear team at Iran's Bushehr plant

Mehr News Agency - 4 days ago

DOMASCO GAC announces pre-bookings for much anticipated 2027 GS7 PHEV in Qatar

Peninsula Qatar - 4 days ago

Anthropic boss calls for AI slowdown, Altman and Musk agree

Peninsula Qatar - 4 days ago

Iran can easily withdraw from NPT, revise nuclear doctrine

Mehr News Agency - 4 days ago

'Unquestionably dangerous': Charlton's grim briefing on OpenAI's rogue AI

Sydney Morning Herald - 4 days ago

PERSONAL TECH -- On Call: Boss wrongly claimed IT deleted his files, refused to learn the one-click fix -- There's no place like the Home directory, but the Documents folder is sometimes nicer

LG Denies Its TVs Are Spying on You (Unless You Opted In) -- Tom McKay

Gizmodo - 4 days ago

AI's Code-Red Moment

The Atlantic - 4 days ago

Amodei, Altman, Musk call for slowing AI model development

Los Angeles Times - 4 days ago

Anthropic and OpenAI CEOs call for AI development to slow down, OpenAI to delay IPO

NPR - 5 days ago

Singapore PC prices surge as growing AI infrastructure competes for components

The Straits Times - 5 days ago

Anthropic chief Dario Amodei says AI industry needs to slow down for safety

Los Angeles Times - 5 days ago

Your memories of how you heard about 9/11 may well be wrong – we've been asking the same people what they remember for 25 years -- Elizabeth A. Phelps, Harvard University and William Hirst, The New School

The Conversation - 5 days ago

ai AND ml -- OpenAI arms devs with AI conversation tool that can talk and listen at the same time -- GPT-Live-1 makes speaking to AI models more fluid

Where to buy iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max as Apple pre-orders open

Daily Express - 5 days ago

I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China

Ars Technica - 5 days ago

Did Sun eat super-Earth? New study says maybe

International The News - 5 days ago

Psychiatry -- Listening for schizophrenia: how AI can help with early diagnosis

Scientific American - 5 days ago

From Hacks to Bioweapons, Claude Misuse Is Now Everywhere

Wired News - 5 days ago

Apple's always-listening watch features test eavesdropping laws

Los Angeles Times - 5 days ago

The aircraft might not be flying, but the certificate has gone on vacation -- Information is not forthcoming from this screen

Did Sun swallow a super-Earth? Scientists search for its 'fingerprints'

International The News - 5 days ago

Türkiye posts 1st current account surplus in 9 months

Daily Sabah - 5 days ago

Mom horrified after Meta AI starts asking about her kids, where family lives — and allegedly digs up old deleted photo

New York Post - 5 days ago

From DOGE to "space lasers," Alex Gibney peels back the many layers of Elon Musk

NPR - 5 days ago

LinkedIn Gets 'Browsergate' Proposed Class Actions Thrown Out -- Tom McKay

Gizmodo - 5 days ago

UK Government rejects call for 'kill switch' to stop attack by rogue AI

Evening Standard - 6 days ago

'It's going to be fine': Trump rebuffs rising alarm over AI dangers, sparking outcry

Los Angeles Times - 6 days ago

Singapore banks up AI game in apps with expenses tracking for retail customers

The Straits Times - 6 days ago

Silicon Valley parents think NYC is crazy to ban AI in schools: 'Can't make children live in the past'

New York Post - 6 days ago

Meta Sued Over Training Data for Its AI and Face-Recognition Systems

Wired News - 6 days ago

Sam Altman's OpenAI Claims to Consider Slowing AI Development as Safety Concerns Mount

Breitbart - 6 days ago

Oracle tries to appease Stargate data center opponents with renewables push

Ars Technica - 6 days ago

Telecom Company in Africa Gets $100 Million U.S. Loan to Compete with China's Huawei

Breitbart - 6 days ago

Canadian AI firm Cohere in advanced talks to raise up to $3-billion, sources say

The Globe and Mail - 6 days ago

AI AND ML -- Anthropic reveals fourth likely crime committed by its AI -- Claude's Felony Bench rap sheet is now as long as OpenAI's

Mars astronauts could live in houses made of yeast and jello, say scientists

science - BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury

California moves to rein in social media and AI chatbots to protect kids

Los Angeles Times - 6 days ago

Anthropic Says It Disrupted Foreign Adversaries Using Its AI for Bioweapon Research, Guided Missile Targeting

Breitbart - 6 days ago

How Small Ecommerce Teams Can Measure the Real Value of AI

International Business Times - 6 days ago

AI AND ML -- AI job cuts could come with a costly undo button -- Gartner reckons nearly a third of displaced employees may be rehired by 2029 – at a premium

'Seems Like a Setup': Elon Musk Expresses Skepticism over Viral AI Doom Prediction

Breitbart - 6 days ago

Artificial Intelligence -- AI insiders fear extinction. Security experts see a familiar fight

Scientific American - 6 days ago

When I Asked My Father About His Cousins, He Fell Silent. Now I Understand Why. -- Yael M. Cycowicz

Slate - 6 days ago

RESEARCH -- Novel Blue Moon kit targeting Chrome and Windows reflects new reality of AI-driven exploits -- Mind the patch gap, please and thank you

EXCLUSIVE — Silicon Valley Democrat Turned Trump Supporter Warns Chinese AI Could Shape Americans Through 'Millions of Small Distortions that Nobody Notices'

Breitbart - 6 days ago

Smart glasses are only smart if we train them to be good. Then they'll be fantastic - Rupert Goodwins

Reports: FBI Detects Argentina Teenager Using ChatGPT to Plan School Shooting

Breitbart - 6 days ago

Sky dishes out iPhones at lowest ever price but something better is coming soon

Daily Express - 6 days ago

Artificial Intelligence -- If AI can do math, what's the point of mathematicians?

Scientific American - 6 days ago

First Look -- Cellphone at 50: Its inventor reflects on mobile advances and risks -- Kelvin Chan

Christian Science Monitor - 6 days ago

SOFTWARE -- German optics giant ditches greenfield SAP migration -- 'Realigned' project plan aims to move existing landscape to new platform to 'achieve faster progress'

VIRTUALIZATION -- VMware defends ending downloads of SDK that helps VM backups – or migrations to rivals -- Says license was never about moving VMs

24% ANNUAL JUMP IN SALES OF BASIC PHONES RECORDED BY BUY NOW PAY LATER PROVIDER

Evening Standard - 6 days ago

DATABASES -- Azure SQL Data Sync stops taking newcomers before 2027 execution -- Existing customers can carry on for now, but Microsoft offers no like-for-like successor

Learning without a brain – how bacteria store memories and remember the past like artificial neural networks -- Shiladitya Banerjee, Georgia Institute of Technology

The Conversation - 6 days ago

Cryptocrook ringleader, 22, who met crew on Minecraft admits role in $245M heist -- Stolen funds bought mansions, private jets, and supercars – now he faces up to 20 years

Say Hello to $6 Diesel -- Tom McKay

Gizmodo - 6 days ago

SECURITY -- Serial Microsoft 0-day hunter drops yet another Defender exploit -- A bypass of a bypass of a bypass

Blue Origin sets sights on Mars with new NASA network

International The News - 6 days ago

'Being the boring tech giant right now has some upsides' -- Instant Opinion -- Opinion, comment and editorials of the day -- Justin Klawans, The Week US

The Week - 6 days ago

Books -- Can an AI chatbot replace human connection?

Scientific American - 6 days ago

This robot dog patrols greenhouses to protect plants

BBC News - 6 days ago

A.I-pocalypse Now? -- What Next: TBD

Slate - 6 days ago

Chabria: Will 'Coxon Day' save us from AI destruction?

Los Angeles Times - 6 days ago

The US and Mexico Announce They're Teaming Up Against Drones

Wired News - 6 days ago

The trade war has created a boom for lobbyists

The Globe and Mail - 6 days ago

Amazon 'on precipice' of expanding drone deliveries after limited UK launch

Evening Standard - 6 days ago

PUBLIC SECTOR -- Ministers rejected NATS reimbursement plan before 2,000 UK flights were cancelled -- Government orders independent review as carriers demand boss's resignation

The 27-year-old who warned that AI could 'kill us all' faces intense scrutiny

Sydney Morning Herald - 6 days ago

AI AND ML -- AI uprising postponed after Copilot falls off the web -- Error 1016 kept the chatbot quiet for 100 minutes while a separate resilience drill swallowed suggestion pills

UN meeting on Iran nuclear file abuse of process

Mehr News Agency - 6 days ago