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Up to 150 more stores to get the 'Orwellian' tech by year's end The UK's second largest supermarket is tripling the number of stores that use facial recognition to try to clamp down on shoplifters – a move privacy campaigners are branding as "shameful.
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ai and ml Oracle's down more than 40% this month, the BIS thinks AI could destroy the economy, and we've got the Kettle on for a chat about the whole mess KETTLE From international banking worries to the market state of canary-in-the-coal-mine Oracle, the AI bubble
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Last week, a small customs fee landed in the EU that may have outsized consequences. Imports of single items from outside the EU are now hit with a new €3 duty, a rule that affects a range of people including electronics hobbyists and techies who prefer their printer toner off-brand.
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A year ago the Ryzen AI Halo, AMD's tiny new AI workstation, would have offered devs and machine learning enthusiasts an Nvidia DGX Spark-like experience at a fraction of the cost. Unfortunately for AMD, time and the ongoing memory shortage, which both AMD itself and Nvidia are partially
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How many unique passwords do you use to secure every single one of your hundreds of online accounts? If your answer isn't, "I have a strong unique password for every account," then you're among the millions of people at risk of having multiple accounts
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The MSI Raider 16 Max HX is an absolute beast of a laptop when it comes to gaming performance thanks to it's high-end components. The keyboard and display are other highlights, and there's a huge amount to like about the Raider 16 Max HX . However, it
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* Valve shares open-source files for an e-paper screen for Steam Machine * Anyone can download, edit, and share the files * The screen can attach to the Steam Machine's body and show useful information I have to admit, after Valve announced the $1,049 / £879 (around AU$1,500) price
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In Brief 8:22 AM PDT · July 6, 2026 It’s easier than ever for bad actors to spew spam across the internet as powerful large language models (LLMs) become effortlessly accessible. If you’ve spent about ten minutes on the internet in the last few years, you will know
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In the movie Moneyball, the Oakland A’s didn’t need more data; they needed to know which data actually won games. Risk assessment data has the same problem. A CVSS score of 9.1 might mean little to a CFO; the fact that it represents a vulnerability in a
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In some markets, Nintendo will soon replace the Switch 2 with a version that has a swappable battery. Nintendo will stop selling Switch consoles in Europe and some other markets in February 2027, weeks shy of the system's 10th anniversary. The company says it will continue to make
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Cameron Faulkner is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware. He joined in 2018, and after a two-year stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. Initially, I was going to tell you about a good deal happening on the DJI Osmo Pocket 3, which is down from
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* Microsoft Frontier Company to embed 6,000 engineers and specialists into customer organizations * Backed by $2.5 billion in Microsoft funding, it will help customers transform with custom AI * This is the "largest" of its type, 2.5x the value of Amazon's alternative Microsoft has launched
