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McKesson admits breach as ShinyHunters demands $55.2M Two major healthcare businesses, Boston Scientific and McKesson, disclosed more details over the weekend about separate cyberattacks that disrupted global operations and resulted in stolen patient data, respectively. Medical-device maker Boston Scientific, whose IT systems were hacked by unknown intruders last week,
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The proliferation of custom AI ASICs, or XPUs, from OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and others has led many to question Nvidia's grip on the market. After all, if everybody's building their own, who needs the GPUs the AI arms dealer has made its fortune on? But Nvidia
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ai and ml GenAI now reaches 80% of occupations, but in most of those fewer than half of workers use it Economists have taken another stab at assessing the impact of generative AI adoption on different occupations and have found that adoption is broad but not very deep. While generative
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Oslo had 120,469 electric cars at the end of 2025, nearly half its passenger fleet, and about 78% of its 4,519 public charging points are slow AC units placed where people already park. The EU’s own right to plug sits in Article 14(8) of the recast
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Windows 11 is rolling out toggles that remove Bing web results and Microsoft Store suggestions from Search, in an optional August update that is being released gradually. Microsoft removed Bing from the Windows Search pane for users in the European Economic Area to meet the Digital Markets Act deadline of
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Solar Team Eindhoven drove its solar ambulance Stella Juva more than 800km across Kenya with Amref Health Africa, and found it generated more energy than it used while running an X-ray machine, ultrasound scanner and vaccine fridge at a clinic with no electricity. The vehicle is returning to the Netherlands
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A representative TU Darmstadt survey of more than 2,000 people in Germany found that about 43% of those with very strong AI knowledge expect AI could soon take over their work, a higher share than among those who understand it less. Only 15% of respondents have had any AI
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Actuators account for 40% to 60% of a humanoid robot’s bill of materials and China refines roughly 90% of the rare earth magnets inside them, which makes the components rather than the models the limit on scale. Europe has a 2030 cap on single country supply under the Critical
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Prominent solo investor Lachy Groom has backed a Bengaluru startup attempting an ambitious feat: keeping an aircraft in the sky for more than a year by harvesting energy from ocean winds. Alteon, founded by 20-year-old Samay Sanghvi, announced Tuesday that it raised $2.5 million in a pre-seed round led
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The promise of biometric security is, in large part, a farce. Many biometric security systems are surprisingly easy to trick or circumvent. Redundant checks and more sophisticated methodologies help, but you probably still shouldn’t trust anything important to, say, a fingerprint reader. But what about palm-scanners that look at
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Have you ever wondered why a scissor jack that weighs just 10 pounds can lift a car that weighs a couple of tons, with only the muscle power that your grandmother can put into it? That’s possible thanks to mechanical advantage, which turns a whole of bunch of rotations
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Effective immediately — at least in theory — Instagram is requiring profiles of fake influencers to carry an “AI-generated profile” badge directly beneath the handle and display name in the account’s main bio header. In a blog post titled Bringing More Transparency to AI-Generated Profiles on Instagram, the Meta-owned social network
