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First British Baby Born Using Transplanted Womb From Dead Donor

Today at 03:30 AM, via Slashdot

A 10-week-old boy named Hugo has become the first baby born in the UK from a womb transplanted from a deceased donor, after his mother Grace Bell — who was born without a viable womb due to a condition called MRKH syndrome, which affects one in every 5,000 women — underwent a 10-hour transplant operation at The Churchill Hospital in Oxford in June 2024. Hugo was born just before Christmas 2025,...

Pentagon Gives A.I. Company an Ultimatum

Today at 01:09 AM, via New York Times

Anthropic insists on limits on how its technology is used and could be labeled a supply chain risk if it fails to accept the military’s demands.

Meta AI Security Researcher Said an OpenClaw Agent Ran Amok on Her Inbox

Today at 00:30 AM, via Slashdot

Meta AI security researcher Summer Yue posted a now-viral account on X describing how an OpenClaw agent she had tasked with sorting through her overstuffed email inbox went rogue, deleting messages in what she called a “speed run” while ignoring her repeated commands from her phone to stop. “I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb,” Yue wrote, sharing screenshots of the ignored...

New Datacentres Risk Doubling Great Britain’s Electricity Use, Regulator Says

Yesterday at 23:00 PM, via Slashdot

The amount of power being sought by new datacentre projects in Great Britain would exceed the national current peak electricity consumption, according to an industry watchdog. From a report: Ofgem said about 140 proposed datacentre schemes, driven by use of artificial intelligence, could require 50 gigawatts of electricity — 5GW more than the country’s current peak demand. The figure was...

CrowdStrike Says Attackers Are Moving Through Networks in Under 30 Minutes

Yesterday at 22:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: Cyberattacks reached victims faster and came from a wider range of threat groups than ever last year, CrowdStrike said in its annual global threat report released Tuesday, adding that cybercriminals and nation-states increasingly relied on predictable tactics to evade detection by exploiting trusted systems. The average breakout time — how long it took...

Hegseth Gives Anthropic Until Friday To Back Down on AI Safeguards

Yesterday at 21:00 PM, via Slashdot

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei until Friday evening to give the military unfettered access to its AI model or face harsh penalties, Axios has learned. Hegseth told Amodei in a tense meeting on Tuesday that the Pentagon will either cut ties and declare Anthropic a “supply chain risk,” or invoke the Defense Production Act to force the company to tailor its model to...

The US Spent $30 Billion on Classroom Laptops and Got the First Generation Less Capable Than Its Parents

Yesterday at 20:01 PM, via Slashdot

More than two decades after Maine became the first state to hand laptops to middle schoolers — distributing 17,000 Apple machines across 243 schools in 2002 â” neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath told a U.S. Senate committee earlier this year that Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to score lower on standardized tests than the one before it. The U.S. spent more than $30 billion in...

‘A slur would be deliberate’: the Baftas outburst and Tourette syndrome

Yesterday at 19:38 PM, via The Guardian

While the use of the N-word may not have been intentional, some with the condition agree that doesn’t make it acceptable

It was an incident that sparked a furore: during Sunday’s Bafta ceremony Tourette syndrome (TS) activist John Davidson made several outbursts, including shouting the N-word as actors Delroy Lindo and Michael B Jordan were presenting a prize on stage.

Among others to comment...

Revolutionizing Fashion eCommerce: The Role of Real-Time Sync in Dropshipping

Yesterday at 19:04 PM, via Tech Financials

The eCommerce landscape in Africa and globally is evolving rapidly, with online retailers constantly seeking ways to optimize operations, improve customer experiences, and scale efficiently. One of the most significant challenges facing multi-store Shopify merchants is maintaining accurate inventory, seamless order processing, and up-to-date product listings across multiple storefronts. As...

Microsoft Execs Worry AI Will Eat Entry Level Coding Jobs

Yesterday at 19:01 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and VP of Developer Community Scott Hanselman have written a paper arguing that senior software engineers must mentor junior developers to prevent AI coding agents from hollowing out the profession’s future skills base. The paper, Redefining the Engineering Profession for AI, is based on several assumptions, the first of...

Power Restored And Operations Resuming At Cape Town International Airport

Yesterday at 18:41 PM, via Tech Financials

Cape Town International Airport confirms that power has been fully restored following a fire incident earlier today in the Northern Service Yard (International inner lane, landside). The fire was reported at approximately 11h15 and was extinguished shortly thereafter. As a precaution, sections of the International Terminal affected by smoke were evacuated. We can confirm that […]

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