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'The Trojan Teddy Bear': The promise and peril of childhood in the age of AI

NPR - 5 days ago

China's AI Race Is Producing New Winners. Goldman Sachs Says A Few Models Are Pulling Ahead.

International Business Times - 5 days ago

Could this app become your shield against online scams? -- m read

Gulf News - 5 days ago

AI AND ML -- Sticker shock has execs rethinking this whole AI thing -- This week on The Reg's Kettle podcast, we wonder whether tokenminning is going to bring the industry back down to Earth

Economists, tech leaders warn AI could bring 'large-scale job displacement' and other risks

Los Angeles Times - 5 days ago

Tech firms must 'stamp out' scam adverts or face fines, under Ofcom proposals

Evening Standard - 5 days ago

DHS Cybersecurity Reportedly Has an 'I'm Sure It's Nothing' Problem -- Mike Pearl

Gizmodo - 5 days ago

Analysis - Microsoft's latest quantum chip is 1,000 times more reliable than its predecessor - but why is it so controversial? By - Keumars Afifi-Sabet - Published - 4 June 26

Live Science - 5 days ago

Neuroscientist Reveals What Living on the Moon Could Do to Human Mind

Newsweek - 5 days ago

SpaceX gets green light for Starship's next test flight following mishap probe

International The News - 5 days ago

OS platforms -- Microsoft emails Windows 10 holdouts: Fine, keep your old PC another year -- Consumer security updates now run to October 2027, and Redmond doesn't mention Windows 11 once

5 HUGELY POPULAR SMARTPHONES YOU MUST NOT BUY RIGHT NOW

Daily Express - 5 days ago

Big Blue thinks small, again, with POWER tower -- The last proprietary minicomputer, now in 'deskside' form if you fancy that

Ditch Sky Q and get ultimate TV upgrade at 'lowest ever' price

Daily Express - 5 days ago

Three in five S'pore PMETs not confident in identifying AI-generated misinformation: Poll

The Straits Times - 5 days ago

India's tech services giant HCL is getting into the AI datacenter business -- Starting small with $37m and maybe 50MW but reckons full-stack service plan can succeed

Gobi X: Creating more energy for AI, not taking it from society

Flock Says 'We Hope to Resume' Work With LAPD After Getting Dropped -- Matt Novak

Gizmodo - 6 days ago

Lessons from the VMwars – nothing virtual about the Broadcom vs Tesco slugfest -- Rupert Goodwins

AI AND ML -- Meta admits its first 'superintelligence' was too stupid to survive for three days -- Pulls AI-powered image tweaker after allowing free-for-all

Diyarbakır Basin could cover quarter of Türkiye's oil demand

Daily Sabah - 6 days ago

Ukrainian drone strikes forced Russia to stop shipping in vital sea corridor

Ars Technica - 6 days ago

Excel competition goes extreme, makes spreadsheet geeks compete from the street -- Defending world champ Diarmuid Early wins again despite being forced to solve puzzles outdoors

Türkiye reportedly informed Canada it'll join global defense bank

Daily Sabah - 6 days ago

Restaurants Are Finding AI's Next Job: Running the Business Behind the Kitchen

International Business Times - 6 days ago

Lenovo denies using banned Chinese SSDs where they're not allowed - PLUS: Canadian/Bhutanese datacenter for India; China re-uses a rocket; Australia signals AI intervention; And more!

Big tech blind spots leave young men vulnerable to online sexual extortion

Sydney Morning Herald - 6 days ago

The Aspirations Of HPE And Dell In The Quantum-Classical HPC Datacenter

Apple and Samsung benefit as memory shortage pushes smartphone shipments to historic lows

Ars Technica - 6 days ago

AI + ML -- Memory makers are slaves to the boom-bust rollercoaster, and the AI boom is the wildest ride of all -- The RAMpocalypse may be the precursor to the AIpocalypse

Meta pauses AI tool after backlash

ABC News - 6 days ago

SECURITY -- Microsoft closes book on Nightmare Eclipse's RoguePlanet zero-day -- Weeks after the exploit code dropped, Redmond has finally ships a fix for the Defender zero-day

AI + ML -- AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautiful -- OpenAI and Anthropic have built AI Swiss Army Knives, but the future may be smaller built-for-purpose tools

Hundreds of economists say 'we must act now' on AI's economic impact and job displacement risks

Toronto Star - 6 days ago

Automotive Journalist Detained by Police After Flock Camera Misidentified Press Vehicle as Stolen

Breitbart - 6 days ago

'Exceptionally Rare' Remains of 200-Year-Old Newborn Discovered in Crypt

Newsweek - 6 days ago

Nolte: Hollywood Elite Secretly Looking to Produce First AI Blockbuster

Breitbart - 6 days ago

Cyber-crime -- Accenture admits to 'isolated matter' after crook tries to flog alleged 35GB haul -- Consulting giant says it has 'remediated ... source' after crook claims to offer source code, keys, and cloud creds for sale

Companies Turn to 'AI Champions' to Convince Fellow Employees to Adopt AI Tools

Breitbart - 6 days ago

EU weighs age restrictions for children using social media

Los Angeles Times - 6 days ago

US citizen found guilty of helping export tech to Iran in violation of sanctions

One America News Network - 6 days ago

iPhone Air buyers given rare £1 upgrade deal from Sky

Daily Express - 6 days ago

Intel's five billion-euro investment not an 'outlier', says Taoiseach

Evening Standard - 6 days ago

PUBLIC SECTOR -- Capita hears demand for pension scheme cleanup 'loud and clear' – but won't say yes -- Outsourcer wants a commercial chinwag before agreeing to cover UK government's recovery costs

Scientists Discover How Parkinson's May Spread in Brain—and Way To Slow It

Newsweek - 6 days ago

Tiny 2-inch space debris discovered in key satellite orbit, scientists warn

International The News - 6 days ago

Lucky 13: SpaceX aims for July 16 Starship flight test -- Hopefully, the rocket won't go in the same direction as the company's share price

Political text messages could get more effective and annoying. Blame AI

NPR - 6 days ago

Leading researchers, economists warn of AI's effect on the global economy

The Globe and Mail - 6 days ago

On-Prem -- Orbital datacenter gold rush needs an environmental review, FCC told -- Green groups want licenses frozen before a million satellites litter the exosphere

Can Ozempic prevent cancer? A doctor explains why the headlines are easy to misread -- Ziyad Al-Aly, Washington University in St. Louis

The Conversation - 6 days ago

Could future moon landings cost humanity Earth's greatest secret? Scientists think so

International The News - 6 days ago

Meta Shuts Down Feature Allowing Strangers to Use Your Instagram Pictures in AI Image Generator

Breitbart - 6 days ago

Security -- Thief posed as Wi-Fi fixing hero, then stole priceless trophy -- If people think you are doing a legitimate job, you can get away with anything

Science - Boffins bet on quantum computers, AI supers to solve fusion fuel dilemma

Security -- Suspected Chinese snoops caught breaking into universities' Roundcube mailservers -- Proofpoint researcher tells The Reg: 'We estimate the total volume of targets would be a few dozen'

With AI character Tilly Norwood set for feature-film debut, Hollywood debates what it means to be an actor

Los Angeles Times - 6 days ago

A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance

Wired News - 6 days ago

Backup and running? Not this digital sign -- Nagware goes large on the mean streets of Derby

How China is ripping off cutting-edge AI from Anthropic, OpenAI — and threatening US national security

New York Post - 6 days ago

Bitdefender 2026 review: A tech critic's full verdict

Evening Standard - 6 days ago

Telstra outage: Your right to claim and the fine print that limits it

Sydney Morning Herald - 6 days ago

Atlassian employee who ribbed Mike Cannon-Brookes' basketball team ownership wins unfair dismissal case

Sydney Morning Herald - 6 days ago

Iran's Khwarizmi: Father of algebra

Mehr News Agency - 6 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want it -- Next version of Linux Mint's desktop has both kinds of display server

Netflix VPN Not Working: 7 Easy Fixes That Actually Work in 2026

Gizmodo - 6 days ago

UAE gets easier access to US AI chips: What changed? -- m read

Gulf News - 6 days ago

AI needs a home, not a hotel

Buddies: Every day together -- Evendia

Gizmodo - 6 days ago

ON-PREM -- Datacenter MacGyver saved the biggest football match of the year -- Police wanted to call off a grudge game until tech support electrified fevered fans

User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap

Roku offers a new way to stream TV and it's way cheaper than you'd expect - Roku launched some new projectors earlier this year and one has just got a big price cut at Amazon.

Daily Express - 6 days ago