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* Grand Theft Auto 6 could take more than a day to download for those with slow Wi-Fi speeds * This is according to experts at comparison website Uswitch, who estimate that the game could be around 120GB * Pre-loading will begin on November 12 for those who pre-order the game With Grand
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A new phishing-as-a-service (PHaaS) platform called Bluekit is letting cybercriminals steal user accounts using a tricky method. While Varonis Threat Labs first spotted and reported the platform earlier this year, it appeared to be in development at that time. New data shows it is now fully active on a large
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Nutrition startup The Func. Lab has raised $1.5 million in a seed funding round from a group of strategic investors, including Nisaba Godrej, Executive Chairperson of Godrej Consumer Products; Anand Piramal, Executive Director of Piramal Group; former Indian cricketer and coach Abhishek Nayar; Bhakti Modi, Co-Founder of Tira; Harsh
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ChangXin Memory Technologies has agreed to supply Tencent with roughly $3bn of memory chips, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, in a deal that would bind one of China’s largest cloud operators to its largest homegrown DRAM maker. Neither company has confirmed the agreement publicly, and the
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Six months after Australia became the first country to bar under-16s from social media, the government has concluded that the platforms are not taking the rule seriously enough, and is preparing to make the consequences of ignoring it considerably more expensive. New legislation announced this week would roughly double the
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For years Prosus was, in effect, a single bet wearing the costume of a diversified investor: a sprawling portfolio whose value rose and fell with one Chinese asset. Its latest results suggest the costume is becoming the company. Prosus reported revenue of about $7.3bn for the financial year ended
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Amazon spent years circling India’s quick-commerce market without committing to it. Investors have now decided the circling is over, and they have repriced the incumbents accordingly. Shares in Eternal, the parent of grocery-delivery leader Blinkit, and in rival Swiggy have fallen sharply as Amazon accelerates its rapid-delivery business in
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A coalition that owns nearly 400 local US newspapers has sued OpenAI and Microsoft. The publishers call AI training on their reporting a death knell for local journalism. It is the largest copyright case the local press has brought yet. Local newspapers report the meetings no algorithm attends. The council
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The case for artificial intelligence in Germany is being made, increasingly, in the language of arithmetic rather than ambition. The country does not have enough workers, and AI is being pitched as a way to need fewer of them. The concrete version of that pitch is small and unglamorous. A
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Paul Meade, Apple’s Vision Pro chief, is leaving to build OpenAI’s devices. It is the most senior Apple defection yet, and it points the AI hardware talent war straight at Cupertino. Apple does not lose vice presidents to rivals. That is the unwritten rule, and for years it
