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GitHub says it's investigating “unauthorized access” to its internal repositories, and there's no proof of customer data outside its repositories being impacted

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AI sackings reach New Zealand, which will use it to eject 14 percent of government staff

Public Sector Minister demands AI becomes ‘basic expectation for all public entities’ The wave of layoffs attributable to the adoption of AI has washed up on the shores of New Zealand, which has announced an overhaul of its public service that will see the technology become a “basic expectation” for

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Q&A with Google SVP James Manyika on AI's ability to automate tasks versus occupations, his optimism about the labor market despite AI-driven layoffs, and more

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Sources: a draft White House EO would create a “voluntary framework” for AI companies to give government agencies early access to models before public release

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ICON 2026 - Knauf's 80% touchless order management goal - and the Blue Yonder foundation being built to reach it

Knauf is one of the world's largest building materials manufacturers. Founded in 1932, the company operates more than 300 production sites across more than 90 countries, with revenues exceeding €15 billion. Its products - plasterboard, plaster, ceiling materials, insulation - go into homes, hospitals, and infrastructure projects worldwide.

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Google is making AI images easier to create, and deepfakes easier to spot

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. The big picture: As AI image generators become more powerful, deepfakes and other fabricated images are becoming harder to spot. While Google's evolving Gemini suite is partially responsible, the company is trying

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The Take It Down Act, a law requiring social networks to remove nonconsensual intimate images within 48 hours of reporting or face fines, took effect on May 19

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Gemini 3.5 Flash costs $1.50 per 1M input tokens and $9 per 1M output tokens, 3x the price of Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 6x the price of Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

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Sony's 1000X The Collexion look remarkably like the Sonos Ace — can you tell the premium headphones apart in…

When I first saw the Sony 1000X The Collexion headphones — the company's new higher-end cans designed to offer a more spacious and natural sound with better comfort compared to the Sony WH-1000XM6 — I had an immediate thought, and I wasn't alone among the audio journalists I

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Where, Oh Where, Was Wear OS 7 at Google I/O This Year?

Google's smartwatch software gets buried under a heap of AI health news at I/O 2026. 3 min read Google's smartwatch operating system took a back seat at I/O this year, and its lack of prominence reveals where AI is heading next: your body. Last

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How to Remove Nonconsensual Intimate Images Under the Take It Down Act

If someone has posted intimate pictures or videos of you online, you now have stronger legal tools to compel platforms to remove them, regardless of whether the media is authentic or an AI-generated deepfake. Tuesday marks the start of full enforcement of the Take It Down Act, which legally requires

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The True Reason Your Oven Has a Bottom Drawer (It's Not What You Think)

Most of us treat the space beneath the oven as a convenient hiding spot for the cookie sheets and muffin tins we only use once a year. It's the ultimate kitchen junk drawer, but you might be surprised to know that the metal bin wasn't actually

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These backyard solar panels saved me $20/mo on my power bill - here's my setup

Anker Solix F3800 Plus + 410W Solar Panels4 / 5Very good pros and cons * Works well as an expandable, small-scale solar setup. * Helps you save between $12-$25 a month, depending on local rates. * Flexible scalability means a smaller initial investment. * Savings depend on your location, panel angle, and rates. * The F3800

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ICON 2026 - Blue Yonder's cognitive platform keeps taking shape, and customers are starting to see results

Those of us who have been following Blue Yonder's transformation closely will be familiar with the platform change story by now - namely a $2.5 billion investment in rebuilding the technology stack from the ground up. The executive team has been focused on building a unified data

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Boston-based CircuitHub, which manufactures circuit boards based on customers' requirements, raised a $28M Series A led by Plural

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SpaceX plans to buy Cursor for $60 billion once its record IPO wraps

TL;DR SpaceX plans to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion roughly 30 days after its IPO, which is expected to list on Nasdaq on 12 June at a $1.75 trillion valuation. The deal includes a $10 billion breakup fee and would fold one of the fastest-growing

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Analog Devices snaps up Empower Semiconductor for $1.5bn to tackle AI’s power problem

TL;DR Analog Devices is acquiring Empower Semiconductor for $1.5 billion in cash to strengthen its power-delivery technology for AI data centres. The deal gives ADI access to Empower’s integrated voltage regulators, which can cut system power consumption by roughly 20%. Analog Devices has agreed to buy Empower

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OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to supercharge Claude’s pre-training with AI

TL;DR Andrej Karpathy, one of OpenAI’s original 11 co-founders, has joined Anthropic’s pre-training team. He will build a new group that uses Claude itself to accelerate the most expensive phase of frontier model development. Andrej Karpathy, one of the original co-founders of OpenAI and among the most

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AWS nabs white hot gen AI media creation startup fal, becoming its preferred cloud provider

Generative AI’s rapid transition from text-based chatbots to high-fidelity media—spanning images, video, spatial 3D, and audio—has exposed a glaring bottleneck in the modern tech stack: infrastructure. Rendering pixels in real-time requires a staggering amount of compute, and developers are increasingly struggling to manage fragmented GPU clusters just

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Microsoft disrupts alleged malware-signing operation used by ransomware gangs

Microsoft shuts down illegal code-signing operation used by ransomware crims to mask their malware 'Thousands' of US victims, including 12+ machines owned and operated by Redmond Microsoft seized websites and took down hundreds of virtual machines running a cybercrime service that allegedly sold code-signing certificates to ransomware gangs,

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Google accused of pushing 'free for life' G Suite users onto paid plans

Users claim personal family domains are being falsely flagged for commercial use, leaving long-time G Suite Legacy customers facing a pay-up-or-lose-access ultimatum Google is warning some long-time G Suite Legacy users that they must start paying for Workspace subscriptions or lose access to Gmail, Drive, Calendar, and other core services,

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Anthropic’s Stainless steal tightens grip on AI dev tooling

AI + ML Claude maker nabs SDK and MCP tooling biz, plans to sunset platform Anthropic is acquiring Stainless, a maker of software development tools that counts rivals OpenAI and Google as clients. The deal, reportedly for more than $300 million, demonstrates Anthropic's continued interest in exercising greater control

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New study finds most Americans think the pace of AI development is moving too fast — and they also don't believe everyone will truly benefit from it

* 71% of Americans say AI is evolving too quickly, 51% say it’s faster than they expected * Low-paid workers at risk while high earners and tech giants are set to benefit * ‘AI hate wave’ is emerging as communities fight back New Economist data sourced from a recent YouGov poll has

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Verizon DBIR 2026: Vulnerability Exploitation Overtakes Credential Theft as Top Breach Vector

Vulnerability exploitation was the most common access vector for data breaches in 2025, the latest installment of Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) shows. The number of analyzed security incidents has increased to 31,000. Of these, more than 22,000 were confirmed breaches, nearly double compared to