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May 12, 2026 5:52 PM Famous for helping build Apple's iPhones, Foxconn just suffered another cyberattack, highlighting the perils of warehousing some of the world's most valuable data. Photograph: Taylor Glascock/Getty Images A ransomware group is attempting to extort the electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn,
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TL;DR Redwood Materials hired former Tesla CFO Deepak Ahuja, signalling IPO preparation as JB Straubel’s battery recycling startup pivots to powering AI data centres with second-life EV batteries through its Redwood Energy division. Deepak Ahuja, the chief financial officer who took Tesla public in 2010 and served two
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TL;DR Beijing broadcast Huawei’s secret chip lab on prime-time TV two days before Trump’s state visit, signalling that US export controls have consolidated China’s semiconductor ambitions under a national champion the US cannot reach. On Friday evening, China Central Television’s most-watched news programme broadcast footage
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TL;DR Bristol Myers Squibb signed a $15.2 billion deal with China’s Hengrui Medicine for 13 early-stage drug programmes, as Big Pharma’s patent cliff makes Chinese innovation the fastest path to commercial survival — even as the BIOSECURE Act tries to decouple the two countries’ biotech sectors. Bristol
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Artificial intelligence platforms may be just as susceptible to social engineering as human beings, but they are proving remarkably good at finding security vulnerabilities in human-made computer code. That reality is on full display this month with some of the more widely-used software makers — including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and
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When most people hear about AI in healthcare, they picture diagnostics. Algorithms that read scans. Models that catch what a radiologist might miss at 2am. That layer of AI is real and growing fast, but it represents only one part of what is changing. The quieter, more operationally significant shift
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Large language models do not only copy sentences. They absorb human knowledge, recombine it, and erase the trail of attribution. Artificial intelligence companies often describe large language models as if they were “learning” from human writing in the same way a person learns from books, articles, code, essays, journalism, legal
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How AI can describe war, sanctions, and censorship while quietly removing responsibility from the sentence AI does not need to deny suffering to change how people understand a conflict. That is the problem. A machine can say that civilians were killed. It can say that homes were destroyed. It can
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The need for advanced connectivity and networks has grown sharply as both consumers and enterprises demand faster and stronger communication systems. Telecom consulting firms are evolving and innovating quickly and can drive smarter solutions in the future. With the accelerated digitally-driven changes like 5G, network edge solutions are helping organizations
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Agentic AI is pioneering the new era of cloud security, as automated scanning technology paved the way. Fundamental technology is transforming in several areas of scanning, such as cloud scanning, and Agentic AI has the potential to transform crisis response. The Agentic AI platform is independent and differs from previous
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In Montreux today, Everything.inc finalized its pre-market round and opened token trading for $EV on Kraken alongside several Tier 1 and Tier 2 exchanges at a $100 million fully diluted valuation. The listing closes the structured migration from SDEX, the token of SmarDex, the AMM project Everything.inc evolved
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Nudge by Design: The Ethics of Using UX to Change Environmental Behaviour There is a question I did not expect to be asking when I got into UX design, but that I now consider one of the most important the field faces: when we design a system that is explicitly
