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TL;DR Google has sued a suspected Chinese cybercrime group called the Outsider Enterprise for sending 2.5 million fraudulent text messages to Android users. The scammers allegedly used Google’s Gemini chatbot to code malicious websites, coordinated via Telegram, and generated 9,000 fake sites and over one million
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SpaceX’s satellite internet service had 10.3 million subscribers at the end of the first quarter of 2026, more than double the 4.4 million it reported a year earlier. That growth rate is extraordinary by any standard in telecommunications, let alone for a business that delivers broadband from
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On 11 June, Pleo told finance teams that AI agents would soon free them from administrative work. The next day came the Pleo layoffs: the Danish spend-management fintech had cut around 50 of its own staff, most of them in engineering and data. The product launch came first. Pleo unveiled
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TL;DR SpaceX’s $75 billion IPO made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire, with a net worth above $1.1 trillion. But Nasdaq’s fast-tracked index inclusion means retirement savers in passive funds are forced to buy shares in a company that lost $4.94 billion last year,
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A UK under-16 social media ban, for years a fringe idea, is now days from becoming government policy. Ministers are expected to outline the plan to Parliament on Monday, ahead of the 18 June Makerfield by-election, according to POLITICO, which cited people familiar with discussions inside the Department for Science,
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* The Met Police are calling on tech firms to make stolen phones harder to reset * They're working with Apple on this, and have already seen phone theft in London reduced by 18% compared to the previous year * Apple enabling Stolen Device Protection by default has likely made a
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Argos is getting ahead of Amazon Prime Day later this month by launching its own big summer sale now, offering savings of up to 50% on tech, appliances, toys, furniture, DIY, and more. There are 1000s of products included, so I've summarised the biggest categories and rounded up
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* A Google director has resigned over the company's contracts with the DoD * The director shared a letter internally with colleagues at Google * "Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass", the letter stated A director for Android platform security has resigned from his position over Google’s
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New data from Ramp's AI Index reveals that a small group of "AI‑pilled" companies now spend about $7,500 per employee each month on AI tools and compute. These firms use AI across a number of internal tasks, racking up bills for subscriptions, API access,
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. WTF?! AMD has patched a remote code execution vulnerability in its auto-updater software, but there's a lot more to this story. The company is facing a slew of criticism over how it
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* EQ controls are coming to AirPods... * Available right now for those on iOS 27 developer beta... * ...which may be worth avoiding, for now One of the biggest pieces of news to come out of Apple's annual WWDC 2026 event, is that AirPods are getting a custom EQ mode
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Dating back decades, proxies still have a place in today’s ever-expanding internet. Originally designed to improve internet performance and security, a proxy acts as an intermediary between a device and the internet. And while their VPN cousins have taken much of the spotlight, proxies provide a faster, lighter alternative
