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Singapore’s SIMBA Telecom could lose its operating licence after regulators alleged that senior management approved the unauthorised use of mobile network frequencies. The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) issued a notice to show cause on October 23, according to an October 26 disclosure by SIMBA’s Australian parent, Tuas
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Jack Dorsey’s Block is previewing a voice AI model that could change how businesses build conversational interfaces, though its reliability remains to be demonstrated beyond company-selected examples. Block has introduced Dessa, an experimental AI voice model trained entirely on recordings of human conversations, without written text or pretrained models.
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The iPhone Duo has the highest repairability score iFixit has given a foldable, but that distinction may offer little comfort if the inner screen breaks. Replacing its inner OLED display can cost $999 in the US if the repair is not covered. In its Oct. 25 teardown, iFixit awarded Apple’
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On Friday, Valve introduced a unique way to nudge Steam users toward games they might enjoy. Called Personal Calendar, the feature gives each user an individualized, constantly evolving list of new and upcoming games related to their interests. Players can find the calendar on the Steam Store homepage or at
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. A new way to play: Tears of the Kingdom can now sit on an iPhone's home screen as its own app, complete with an icon. A new open-source project called nxnative turns
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* Ofcom has published statistics on complaints it's received for Q2 2026 * The categories covered are broadband, landline, mobile, and pay-TV * Complaints overall are down on the previous quarter, due to pay-TV The Ofcom complaints statistics are in for the second quarter of 2026 (April to June), and some
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ZDNET’s key takeaways * Some iPhone Duo inner screens are failing at the hinge within hours of unboxing. * The cause is unknown, but identical damage points to a faulty batch of hinges. * If yours fails, document it, don’t accept blame, and choose refund or replacement. What’s happening? Owners
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* Researchers showed AI agents can be hijacked through malicious AGENTS.md files placed in common download locations * The attack abuses prompt-injection behavior, potentially triggering malware downloads or token theft * Defenders are urged to treat Downloads folders as untrusted and inspect agent instruction files carefully An AI agent was tricked into
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Stablecoins Gain Ground in B2B Payments Growing cross-border use is putting more pressure on finance teams to manage payouts, wallet access and transaction records. Stablecoins are moving beyond one-off crypto transfers and into recurring business payments, inclu5ding supplier settlements and payments to contractors and distributed teams. Against this backdrop, Cryptobanco
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TLDR: I'm 13 and I'm a student living in Hanoi. Seven weeks ago, I thought: "should I create a hackathon?". Today, that same idea has turned into a free, online hackathon for ages 13-18 with around 50 registrants from 15 countries, with over $10,
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A round two engineering report on brute force detection, a deployment that works, a GPU module that does not yet exist, and the experiment that would settle whether decentralized compute earns a place in this pipeline. The problem is context, not collection Most security teams do not lack events. They
