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Technology - Recent Headlines

Explainer -- Why is AI going on a hacking spree? -- Carly Page

Live Science - 4 days ago

New platform to create AI agents available to all public healthcare professionals

The Straits Times - 4 days ago

Chinese Humanoid Robots Smash Usain Bolt's 100-Meter Record

NBC News - 4 days ago

Glorifying dangerous driving 'truly reprehensible', says PM after A66 crash

Evening Standard - 4 days ago

Urgent warning issued to iPhone owners and ignoring it will be costly

Daily Express - 4 days ago

Deals -- Stream the entire BBC iPlayer Attenborough collection anywhere with this top-rated VPN deal -- Paul Brett

Live Science - 4 days ago

AI AND ML -- AI companies are burning books, advocates complain to FTC -- Fahrenheit 203, the temperature GPUs stop gorging on literature

Register UK - 4 days ago

China abruptly postpones Chang'e-7 moon mission to search for water–Here's why

International The News - 4 days ago

Government tells TikTok to remove dangerous wrong-way driving trend videos

Evening Standard - 4 days ago

Review: Chuwi's $449 Unibook laptop is a funhouse-mirror MacBook Neo

Ars Technica - 4 days ago

CyberGhost vs IPVanish: Which VPN is Better in 2026?

Gizmodo - 4 days ago

AI bubble or babble? How to understand — and make money — on the latest tech revolution

New York Post - 4 days ago

How to Change Your Location on Tinder With a VPN

Gizmodo - 4 days ago

The Enormous Stakes of the Federal Case Against Meta

New York Magazine - 4 days ago

SECURITY -- US Bank investigates LockBit's claims as ransomware crims set pay-or-leak deadline -- Follow the money

Register UK - 4 days ago

Communications -- Cheap wall tiles 'inspired by flowing streams' could fix one of superfast 6G's biggest problems -- Olivia Maule

Live Science - 4 days ago

Antivirus vs VPN: What Each One Protects and Why You Need Both

Gizmodo - 4 days ago

Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring -- Bingeing the boxed set of binary bafflement

Register UK - 4 days ago

An Ontario dad deleted his daughter's app over 'predatory' in-game purchases. Experts say they could serve as a gateway to gambling

Toronto Star - 4 days ago

Tor vs VPN: Which One Should You Use in 2026?

Gizmodo - 4 days ago

New Fire TV Sticks are being snapped up fast after massive change confirmed

Daily Express - 4 days ago

China calls off ambitious ice-hunting moonshot a day before flight

Register UK - 4 days ago

Brave VPN vs ExpressVPN: Which VPN Is Better in 2026?

Gizmodo - 4 days ago

Smart new Android phone gets an upgrade its rivals need to match

Daily Express - 4 days ago

Workers in China worry over being replaced as they adapt to the growing impact of AI on jobs

Toronto Star - 4 days ago

Sam Altman says AI industry has 'not done a very good job' explaining the technology's benefits to the public

Washington Examiner - 4 days ago

Telcos issue new advice on contacting Triple Zero

Sydney Morning Herald - 4 days ago

Cancer vaccines could transform treatment and prevention – but misinformation about mRNA vaccines threatens their potential -- Dannell D. Boatman, West Virginia University

The Conversation - 4 days ago

Ancient 'Who owns Linux?' case now has one foot very deep in the grave -- Appeals court upholds decision the case is dead, but Xinuos is trying for a long-shot re-hearing

Register UK - 4 days ago

How smart car technology could prevent one in five road casualties

Sydney Morning Herald - 4 days ago

Greg Abbott says data center developers 'dug their own grave'

Washington Examiner - 4 days ago

Nvidia customers warned about AI-related price hikes above 15% on chips: report

New York Post - 4 days ago

Mamdani, DSA and Teamsters lining up against Amazon in NYC — here's how it could backfire

New York Post - 4 days ago

Iranian hackers disabled UK power plant for four days: Report

Washington Examiner - 4 days ago

VIDEO - India: Teenage Boy and Parents Die in Fall from Cliff amid iPhone Dispute

Breitbart - 4 days ago

Little-known 'piggybacking' mobile phone trick that can slash bills - If you are having issues with your phone bill, Which? says this simple 'piggybacking' trick...

Daily Express - 4 days ago

Trump says it's 'OK with me' if Republicans disagree with him on data centers

Washington Examiner - 4 days ago

Robots can outrun humans, but can they plug in a cable?

NBC News - 4 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- Debian is 33, Haiku is 25, and neither is standing still -- One remains a pillar of Linux, while the other keeps the BeOS dream alive

Register UK - 5 days ago

Robots turn out to be faster than humans, but can they do more?

Daily Sabah - 5 days ago

Alibaba plans $10.2B share issuance to fund its global AI drive

Daily Sabah - 5 days ago

Rocket Lab launches Japanese satellite to photograph earth

Peninsula Qatar - 5 days ago

Humanoid beats Usain Bolt's 100m record at Beijing robot games

Sydney Morning Herald - 5 days ago

Like an iPad in your pocket: The best big folding phones of 2026

Sydney Morning Herald - 5 days ago

Chinese humanoid robots smash human records in 100m sprint and high jump at Beijing robot games

Toronto Star - 5 days ago

Chinese bots are faster than Usain Bolt — and more from the World Humanoid Robot Games

Los Angeles Times - 5 days ago

Chinese Humanoid Robots Smash Human Records in 100m Sprint and High Jump at Beijing Robot Games

Breitbart - 5 days ago

Celebs Say They're Getting Scammed by Fake Podcast Bookings

Breitbart - 5 days ago

Rare lunar eclipse lights up skies across the Americas: Where will it be visible?

International The News - 5 days ago

Robot smashes Usain Bolt's 100-meter dash world record in opening heat of World Humanoid Games

New York Post - 5 days ago

Trump Explains His Support for AI Data Centers: In the 'Right Location' They Can Create Jobs, Lower Taxes

Breitbart - 5 days ago

US researchers achieve major breakthrough in quantum data transmission through open air

International The News - 5 days ago

Gaming Giant Roblox Says Teen Suicide Victim Waived Right to Sue When She Was Just 8 Years Old

Breitbart - 5 days ago

Researcher tricks Apple's Find My into sharing location data with Linux -- Clever protocol wrangling gets iBiz-only people tracking working on a non-iGadget

Register UK - 5 days ago

Trump's FTC Wants You to Call Surveillance Pricing 'Personalized Pricing' -- Matt Novak

Gizmodo - 5 days ago

TikTok Agrees to $400 Million Settlement over Child Privacy Violations

Breitbart - 5 days ago

Iran develops smart device to measure depth of anesthesia

Mehr News Agency - 6 days ago

Claude Code puts auto mode in the driver's seat -- Walk away and hope the classifier catches anything irreversible or destructive

Register UK - 6 days ago

NASA's Artemis missions face new risk: Earth microbes could survive on moon

International The News - 6 days ago

Iran tops in region in polymer production

Mehr News Agency - 6 days ago

Google Pixel 10a plummets £100 as next generation Pixel 11 finally unveiled -- Google has announced for models in its Pixel 11 series and the previous editions have already...

Daily Express - 6 days ago

Your Expired Visa Card Could Be 'Zombified' to Make Contactless Payments

Wired News - 6 days ago

Your Doctor's Office Might Soon Start Charging an Unexpected Fee -- Lynda Lin Grigsby

Slate - 6 days ago

Mark Zuckerberg buys an Irish castle

Los Angeles Times - 6 days ago

Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs -- Decades of archive hunting recover downlinks, silent reels, and footage once thought lost

Register UK - 6 days ago

David Olive: The odyssey of Imax: how a Mississauga-based tech firm became a Hollywood juggernaut

Toronto Star - 6 days ago

Proposed California wealth tax sparks debate: Will billionaires leave the state?

NPR - 6 days ago

CYBER-CRIME -- Ransomware crook poses as recovery firm to steal payments from fellow extortionists -- Because apparently even ransomware gangs can't trust the people they do business with

Register UK - 6 days ago

Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week of landmark trial

Guardian UK - 6 days ago

Europe's wildfires are unearthing deadly remnants of WWI, WWII

International The News - 6 days ago

A battle over 'Italian brainrot' could shape who owns AI art

NPR - 6 days ago

Iran's defence equipment production doubled in a year

Mehr News Agency - 6 days ago

Supermicro fired staff after probe into $2.5 billion GPUs-to-China smuggling operation - Policies and code of conduct breached

Register UK - 6 days ago

DOJ settles with TikTok for $400 million over child safety and privacy concerns

Washington Examiner - 6 days ago

Cloverleaf deal is latest example of Nvidia using its war chest to patch cracks in the AI bubble -- Nv's new chips need new datacenters, but you can't have bit barns without power

Register UK - 6 days ago

Google results give wildly 'racist' advice about social situations with different groups: 'I am alone with a Brit'

New York Post - 6 days ago

Shapiro launches website for citizens to complain about data center construction

Washington Examiner - 6 days ago

U.S. Government Lab Reportedly Probing Chinese Lidar Security Risks on Behalf of Private Industry -- Bruce Gil

Gizmodo - 6 days ago

DOJ and TikTok reach $400 million settlement amid child privacy violation

New York Post - 6 days ago

Go updates may delight diehard gophers but displease AI overlords

Register UK - 6 days ago

DEVOPS -- Go updates may delight diehard gophers but displease AI overlords -- v 1.27 expands generics to support methods

Register UK - 6 days ago

This 'Little Planet' Is a Surreal Record of How We've Changed Nature—and It's a Science Photo Contest Winner

Gizmodo - 6 days ago

Motorola's GrapheneOS phones will launch in 2027 priced higher than Pixels

Ars Technica - 6 days ago

Lawsuit demands Logitech hand tariff refunds over to customers

Ars Technica - 6 days ago

Man in Darth Vader costume trolls government meeting on Flock cameras: 'Emperor is a fan'

Washington Examiner - 6 days ago

San Francisco dethroned as tech capital of the country

New York Post - 6 days ago

Scientists Planted Telecom Cables to Find 'Thunderquakes.' Here's What Happened

Gizmodo - 6 days ago

Fighter jets help destroy Russian drone boat near European offshore gas platform

Ars Technica - 6 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft gives Task Manager another task: Watching AI workloads -- Per-process NPU metrics arrive as one more venerable Windows utility risks feature bloat

Register UK - 6 days ago

One of the Most Popular Social Media Apps Just Made a Baffling Change -- Steffi Cao

Slate - 6 days ago

Mike Rogers backs data center moratorium as some GOP candidates shift against AI

Washington Examiner - 6 days ago

Robot filmed colliding with wall during controversial World Humanoid Games training: 'Sparks flying everywhere'

New York Post - 6 days ago

AI AND ML -- Grok chat duped into swallowing injected instructions -- A spoonful of encryption helps the malware go down

Register UK - 6 days ago

Musk fumbles the timetable for first Starship catch -- Billionaire walks back earnings call optimism as orbital test approaches

Register UK - 6 days ago

Security -- French tax authority says break-in exposed data of 600K, including some private messages -- Stolen details range from contact information to household finances and withholding rates

Register UK - 6 days ago

Schools are starting to teach AI literacy. For many, that means helping kids see chatbots' flaws

One America News Network - 6 days ago

The Real Reason Many Americans Are Cutting Ties With Their Parents and Siblings -- Rin Reczek

Slate - 6 days ago

SECURITY -- AI agent suggested installing a malware package. Engineer almost took its advice -- Fortunately, the company had a policy of checking source code on GitHub first

Register UK - 6 days ago

As workplace surveillance explodes, workers learn the hidden ways employers are watching

Los Angeles Times - 6 days ago