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Elon Musk’s X has told Australia that its plan to tighten enforcement of a world-first ban on under-16s using social media would breach international law. The company has trained its objection on a bill that would let the country’s online-safety regulator demand documents from people who live nowhere
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Mark Zuckerberg has come out against one of Washington’s favourite ideas about artificial intelligence: that the way to beat China is to shut its models out. In an interview with the Financial Times published this week, Meta’s chief executive said banning advanced Chinese AI from use in the
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For the first time, a streaming service has overtaken the BBC as the place UK viewers say they turn to first. In Ofcom’s annual Media Nations report, published this week, Netflix was named first choice by 26% of viewers, just ahead of the BBC on 25% and ITV on
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With memory prices spiralling, you wouldn't give HP much chance of delivering a good value gaming laptop. But the Omen 16 Slim does an impressive job given market constraints. You get decent gaming performance, good build quality and excellent battery life. The connectivity could be better and it&
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IP intelligence and bot detection company Spur Intelligence announced it has received a $200 million investment from Insight Partners. Founded in 2017 and operating fully bootstrapped for nine years, Spur will use the fresh funding to accelerate and scale its operations. The US-based firm provides real-time intelligence to help organizations
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A server management feature designed to work when a computer’s operating system is unavailable is exposing password-derived authentication data on thousands of internet-facing systems, according to new research from Lava. Researchers identified 36,872 publicly accessible Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) interfaces using the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI). Of
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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to place its private detention network beyond the reach of state inspectors, publishing draft contract terms that declare state and local laws “shall not apply” to the facilities, according to federal documents reviewed by WIRED. The new terms were published earlier this month,
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Most fraud strategies fail before a fraudster is ever detected, because they evaluate documents, rather than people. Consider the operational reality: a customer signs up for a fintech service. Their government-issued ID clears every document check. Their selfie matches. Their name passes the database lookup. Onboarding completes. What no one
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The nominations are in - and the finalists for the 2026 edition of the Power 50 can now be revealed. Part of the Mobile Industry Awards 2026, the Power 50 highlights the most important and influential figures in the UK mobile industry during the past year. The finalists for the
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If you’re thinking it’s time to switch mobile phone plans, it can be daunting to research all the options. Do you stick with your current provider or look elsewhere? Or maybe your current provider is raising rates or eliminating the plan you’ve been on for years. We
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In an era increasingly dominated by AI and automation, it’s still incredible just how much construction work remains manual. The contrast is most stark in data centers – facilities built to power cutting-edge technology, but whose delivery is generally still slowed down by major fragmentation and time-consuming manual tasks. One
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You all know what a guitar amplifier is. Big, intimidating stacks of speakers and dials, designed for some nice loud guitar playing. But do they work as well for other people's guitars; i.e., can a big powerful block of music-playing kit double as a home speaker for
