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MUNICH, GERMANY—Audi is having a bit of an SUV renaissance lately. Over the past 18 months, it has brought out a new electric Q6 and replaced the midsize Q5, and later this summer we’ll get to see the Q9, a full-size leviathan with the Escalade in its sights.
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To confirm this, the researchers studied the behavior of an oxygen molecule on each type of gold surface. They asked how much molecular oxygen would stick to the surface, and for the molecules that did stick, what energy is required to cause the oxygen molecule to split. They showed that
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When a verdict map is deleted from memory, catchall elements are deactivated and a chain’s reference counter is decremented. When errors occur the deletion can be reversed and the counter incremented. CVE-2026-53111 allows for that process to be altered. As a result, the exploit can decrement the variable an
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A drone boat picked up two US Army pilots from waters near the Strait of Hormuz after their helicopter gunship went down, US military officials said in interviews with various broadcast news outlets. The incident apparently represents the first time the US military has used a drone for such a
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * SafetyCore is a Google system service for Android 9 and later. * It powers Sensitive Content Warnings in Google Messages. * It only runs when an app requests it through an opt-in feature. Last year, Google rolled
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The Document Foundation accuses newly launched Euro-Office of undermining digital sovereignty by defaulting to Microsoft's OOXML document format The Document Foundation has taken a swing at Euro-Office, accusing the self-described sovereign productivity suite of doing Microsoft's content lock-in strategy a favor while wrapping itself in the
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Graph database biz says on-prem, air-gapped intel stack gives governments a no-kill-switch option "The no-kill-switch kind of thing? It's increasingly becoming a requirement," says Neo4j CEO Emil Eifrem. This is one of the reasons behind the company's decision to buy GraphAware, an intelligence analysis
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The cloud was supposed to make geography irrelevant. Microsoft’s latest round of job cuts in China shows how quickly that promise is coming apart. Microsoft is laying off hundreds of staff at its Azure cloud unit in China, according to affected employees who spoke to the South China Morning
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A Shahed attack drone costs tens of thousands of euros. The missiles traditionally fired to shoot one down can cost a million or more. A French startup has raised €50mn to fix that maths. Alta Ares, a Paris-based defence-technology company founded in 2024, said on Tuesday it had closed a
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Four months ago, AI looked like it might gut the software industry. This week, one of its biggest investors declared the threat over. The truth sits somewhere in between. Speaking at the SuperReturn International conference in Berlin, Orlando Bravo, founder of Thoma Bravo, one of the world’s largest software-focused
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The headline from Apple’s developer conference was a reborn Siri. The more interesting story sits underneath it: the AI models Apple built to run the thing, one of which is far too big to fit in an iPhone’s memory, yet runs on the device anyway. In a technical
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The British government has put its most contentious health-tech contract on notice. It is now formally reviewing the NHS’s £330mn deal with Palantir, and weighing whether to walk away in 2027. Technology minister Liz Kendall confirmed the review this week, telling Times Radio that “the current health secretary is
