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WiseTech says Australian antitrust authorities raided its office, seeking documents and data as part of an alleged competition law breach probe; WTC falls 8%+

August 19, 2026, 6:05 AM Top News More: OpenAI, Silicon Republic, The Verge, Help Net Security, The Guardian, Decrypt, Business Today, Fortune, Wired, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Sources, PC Gamer, MediaNama, Forkast, The Asia Business Daily, The Neuron, Digit, SiliconANGLE, ABC, WinCentral, Neowin, The Economic Times, New York Times, ABC News,

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Gujarat and Automation Anywhere partner to expand AI skills

The Government of Gujarat and Automation Anywhere have signed a memorandum of understanding to expand AI skills and knowledge across the state, bringing government, academia, start-ups and industry together to build capabilities for an AI-driven economy. The partnership comes as AI adoption moves beyond experimentation into government services, enterprise operations

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Yotta and IntelliDB partner to build sovereign AI database infrastructure

Yotta Data Services and IntelliDB Enterprise have partnered to offer a managed, AI-ready database platform on Yotta’s sovereign cloud, targeting enterprises and government organisations that need to deploy production AI workloads while keeping data within India. The partnership combines Yotta’s sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure with IntelliDB Enterprise’

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Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People’s Faces

When someone uploads a photo to the people-search tool ClarityCheck, the website has a clear message: “Your reverse image search is private and secure.” New research, though, shows that the website left more than 9 million image files, including photographs of people’s faces, publicly exposed. And a second misconfiguration

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Good news — you can now properly swear on Microsoft Teams calls...unless you work for the government

* Microsoft Teams is changing how it displays swear words * The toggle to hide bad words is now Off by default * However Government users will have to wait a little longer, for an unknown reason Frustrated Microsoft Teams users finally be able to express their true feelings after the company revealed

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Sources: Samsung raises prices for advanced 4nm and 5nm chipmaking services by up to 15% for new orders in July, driven by AI demand and TSMC's tight capacity

August 19, 2026, 5:55 AM Top News More: OpenAI, Silicon Republic, The Verge, Help Net Security, The Guardian, Business Today, Decrypt, Fortune, Wired, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, MediaNama, Sources, PC Gamer, Neowin, Forkast, The Asia Business Daily, The Neuron, Digit, SiliconANGLE, ABC, WinCentral, The Economic Times, New York Times, ABC News,

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Relativity Networks raises $22 million to bring a faster kind of fiber to data centers

Data center developers are expected to spend as much as $4 trillion by the end of the decade — and they’re already heavily constrained by both political and power-grid considerations in where they can build. But while most treat the speed of fiber as a given, one company is betting

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How to Automate Google Workspace Domain Aliases Safely

Managing one domain in Google Workspace is straightforward. Managing ten, twenty, or more domains across several brands is where the process starts to hurt. For every domain, an administrator has to prove ownership, publish a DNS record, wait for propagation, return to Google Workspace, add the domain, configure mail routing,

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Why AI Research Writing Needs Evidence Before Generation

Large language models are already very good at producing plausible academic prose. In research writing, that creates a slightly strange problem: the sentence can look finished before the reasoning is. I ran into this while looking at AI continuations for a chemistry manuscript on metal-halide perovskites. One paragraph was discussing

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Are Humans Superior to AI—or Becoming Subordinate?

Are We Superior or Subordinate? “To put this into perspective, we must examine whether artificial intelligence is merely a passive reflection of human programming or an evolving entity.” When we look at the core of human history, creation stories across different philosophies often describe humans as the ultimate, pinnacle creation

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Qwen3.8-27B Cold Fusion Cuts Thinking Tokens Without Sacrificing Performance

Overview Qwen3.8-27B-Cold-Fusion-GAIN-V1.1 is a 27-billion parameter instruction-tuned language model built by DavidAU that applies the COLD FUSION training methodology—combining GAIN (an internally developed technique) with Unsloth's training infrastructure—to reduce thinking tokens to 1/10 to 1/2 of standard Qwen models while maintaining 99%

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Why RAG Is Becoming Essential for Banking and Compliance

I recently built a custom Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline to move past the limitations of keyword matching. By processing a regulatory document, chunking the text strategically, and embedding it into ChromaDB, I wanted to test how semantic search handles complex, domain-specific text like Banking and Compliance. The results pointed to

WiseTech says Australian antitrust authorities raided its office, seeking documents and data as part of an alleged competition law breach probe; WTC falls 8%+

Gujarat and Automation Anywhere partner to expand AI skills

Yotta and IntelliDB partner to build sovereign AI database infrastructure

Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People’s Faces

Good news &mdash; you can now properly swear on Microsoft Teams calls...unless you work for the government

Sources: Samsung raises prices for advanced 4nm and 5nm chipmaking services by up to 15% for new orders in July, driven by AI demand and TSMC's tight capacity

Relativity Networks raises $22 million to bring a faster kind of fiber to data centers

How to Automate Google Workspace Domain Aliases Safely

Why AI Research Writing Needs Evidence Before Generation

Are Humans Superior to AI—or Becoming Subordinate?

Qwen3.8-27B Cold Fusion Cuts Thinking Tokens Without Sacrificing Performance

Why RAG Is Becoming Essential for Banking and Compliance

Good news — you can now properly swear on Microsoft Teams calls...unless you work for the government