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A current debate is whether artificial intelligence (AI) is a force for good or bad; or perhaps both. What follows is the argued opinion of the author – it is not the inevitable outcome of current AI development. On August 26, 2026, Bill Gates published a 6,000 word memo on
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Microsoft is publishing a 37-page “humanist AI code of conduct” today, amid growing safety concerns over AI model progress. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a coordinated slow down of AI development over the weekend, after researchers warned recently that AI model progress could outpace our ability to safely deploy
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AI AND ML Rights committee demands watchdog with teeth as patchwork safeguards leave victims hunting for remedies UK lawmakers want an AI watchdog with the teeth to stop potentially dangerous systems reaching the public, warning that existing rules leave people exposed and struggling to hold anyone accountable. The Joint Committee
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7.2 Tbps module arrives ahead of standards, with promises of fewer repair headaches Huawei wants near-packaged optics (NPO) standardized for AI networks, pitching it as a replacement for conventional pluggable modules without the cost and maintenance headaches it attributes to co-packaged optics. The Chinese tech giant showcased an NPO
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OS Platforms Redmond's quality drive takes another detour through the known issues list Microsoft has confirmed that its latest security updates can disrupt Remote Desktop Services, silence some USB audio devices, and break pasting in Excel. September's Windows patches hardly support Microsoft's insistence that
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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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British fintech giant Revolut is notifying a subset of users that their personal and financial information was compromised in a data breach. Based in London, the neobank and financial technology company provides banking and investment services to over 80 million users in 160 countries and regions. Late last week, the
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Filament manufacturing machine specialist 3devo has announced a new unit designed to turn pellets, or even waste powder from selective laser sintering (SLS) printers, into spools of high-quality filament for fused filament fabrication (FFF, also known as FDM) printers: the Filament Maker X10. "3D printing stopped being a prototyping
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Portable computing startup Mecha Systems has opened pre-orders for those who missed the crowdfunding campaign for its Comet Linux-powered modular handheld — while confirming what backers already knew: the planned September delivery timescale is out of the window, with bugfixes and hardware revisions pushing the earliest delivery date out to January
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Paying for repairs on Apple devices can get quite expensive without AppleCare, but do you need it? PixieMe/Shutterstock Buying a new iPhone comes with a familiar ritual before you even open the box: pick out a case and screen protector to keep it safe. And it's not
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The Streaming Integrity Initiative aims to combat fraud in music streaming. Da-kuk/Getty Images AI's growth continues to bring serious opportunities for bad actors to commit crimes. Now, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) — a trade organization representing over 8,000 record companies — is teaming up
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Apps updating in the background is convenient, but they don’t all need to do that. tangguhpro/Shutterstock When you're trying to improve battery life on your iPhone or use less data, one of the first settings you'll probably check is Background App Refresh. It'
