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Uforce, the London-based drone company built from Ukrainian battlefield manufacturers, is in talks to raise about $500m at a valuation of around $5bn, Bloomberg reported on Monday. Valor Equity Partners, the firm run by SpaceX board member Antonio Gracias, would lead the round. Yazhou Sun and Rebecca Torrence cited people
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Belgian prosecutors have held a 52-year-old man in pre-trial detention since 10 May on suspicion of passing chip-making secrets to China. He holds Belgian and Chinese nationality. Police arrested him at Brussels Airport as he was about to board a flight to Beijing, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office said in
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Last year Nvidia told GPU owners worried about Rowhammer to switch on error correction. Four researchers at the University of Toronto have now shown that the same attack, aimed harder, goes straight through it. Their technique, GPUThor, is the first Rowhammer attack to defeat ECC on Nvidia GPUs. It works
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* Intel report claims 60% of business leaders expect to operate robot fleets within the next five years * Conversely, only 40% have a human-robot workforce strategy * The Robotics Readiness Gap report assesses the state of robotic adoption around the world Intel’s 'Robotics Readiness Gap' report has revealed that
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If you find it hard to focus or stay present in the moment, you can now buy a device that tells you just how often your mind drifts elsewhere. That's the thinking behind the first wearable from a wellness startup called Atlas. The idea is to help you
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Is Cadillac’s Lyriq EV an exception to the rule, or a sign of things to come? Car manufacturers are turning away from Android Auto and Apple CarPlay in favor of native infotainment systems. The trend has generated a fair bit of controversy, with critics labeling it as an industry-wide
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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Bernie Sanders wants Washington to draw a hard legal line around the most powerful forms of artificial intelligence. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, are preparing to introduce the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, which would permanently prohibit the development and deployment of superintelligent AI while temporarily pausing
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Six years after its debut, Microsoft is shutting down Similarity Checker while changing the default access for Text Prediction. Image: Generated by ChatGPT Microsoft is retiring Word’s Similarity Checker and making Text Predictions opt-in. Learn who is affected and what users should do before October 3. Sep 7, 2026
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Chatbots can be incredibly useful, but certain things should be off-limits to them. Image: ChatGPT Before pasting passwords, medical records, source code, or company data into ChatGPT, use this checklist to decide what should stay private. Sep 7, 2026 The next piece of sensitive information you expose may not end
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Tesla Cybercab. Image: Maxim/Unsplash NHTSA is reviewing Tesla’s certification of about 1,000 Cybercabs as the steering-wheel-free robotaxi begins paid service in Austin. Sep 7, 2026 Tesla had barely begun charging passengers for rides in its steering-wheel-free Cybercab when federal regulators started examining how the vehicle was certified
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London’s robotaxi era begins with Uber, Wayve and 15 electric cars. Image: Uber Uber and Wayve have launched 15 supervised robotaxis in London. Learn how the rides work, why safety drivers remain and what comes next for riders and Uber. Sep 7, 2026 London’s robotaxi era has arrived
