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When DNA test results shattered everything Lavinia and Michelle thought they knew about their family history, they also revealed something never before documented in the UK
I like being a twin. It defines who I am,” Lavinia Osbourne tells me on the 49th birthday she shares with her sister, Michelle. “It’s amazing to have a twin and have a built-in friend for ever,” Michelle says....
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Amazon’s cloud customers will need to wait several more months before the US tech company can repair war-damaged data centers and restore normal operations in the Middle East. The announcement comes two months after Iranian drone strikes targeted three Amazon data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain — meaning that full recovery...
Microsoft is rolling out Xbox mode to all Windows 11 PCs, bringing a full-screen Xbox PC app interface similar to Steam’s Big Picture Mode. “Some players in select markets will be able to download the Xbox mode experience today, with availability expanding to more players in those markets over the next several weeks,” says the Xbox team. The Verge reports: Xbox mode aims to try and bridge the...
The academy that controls the Oscars on Friday issued new award eligibility requirements around the use of artificial intelligence in film.
As adult riders report new age-verification checks, the self-driving car company says it’s continuing to “refine” its system in places where kids aren’t allowed to ride alone.
joshuark shares a report from Live Science: An AI coding agent designed to help a small software company streamline its tasks instead blew a hole through its business in just nine seconds. PocketOS founder Jer Crane, said that the AI coding agent Cursor –powered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 model — deleted the company’s entire production database and backups with a single call to its cloud...
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ChatGPT’s new privacy policy states how the company uses cookies for tracking, to turn free users into paying subscribers.
The solar-powered iLamps will have a built-in Nvidia chip but there are questions over their security and scalability.
The Pentagon says it has reached deals with seven AI companies — SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Reflection AI, Microsoft, and AWS — to deploy their tools on classified Defense Department networks. The odd one out is Anthropic, which remains excluded after being labeled a supply-chain risk amid a dispute over military-use guardrails. Reuters reports: SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Reflection,...
The exploit, dubbed CopyFail and tracked as CVE-2026-31431, allows hackers to take over PCs and data center servers. The Linux vulnerabilities have been patched—but many machines remain at risk.
Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is funding a campaign to spread pro-AI messaging and stoke fears about China.
ICANN has opened applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012. The Register reports: ICANN hasn’t offered new gTLDs since 2012, but on Thursday opened applications for new domains in 27 scripts. A 439-page Applicant Guidebook explains the process. The Register suggests paying attention to the string evaluation FAQ, which explains which gTLDs are valid, and those...
Lettuce Grow’s Farmstand is sure to impress, and it’s 20 percent off for Mother’s Day.
ZipNada shares a report from ZDNet: Given the dour headlines as of late concerning the diminishing amounts of entry-level software development jobs, coupled with predictions of applications entirely AI-generated, one could be forgiven for assuming that software developers may soon be an endangered species. However, the data tells a different story. James Bessen, professor at Boston University,...
At WIRED Health, pioneering Alzheimer’s researcher John Hardy outlined the stakes—and next steps—of where treatment is headed next.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Last month, Anthropic made a big deal about the supposedly outsize cybersecurity threat represented by its Mythos Preview model, leading the company to restrict the initial release to “critical industry partners.” But new research from the UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) suggests that OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, which launched publicly last week,...
New York, USA — As of mid-2026, the European blockchain entertainment market has decisively transitioned from a phase of experimental launches to a fully-fledged, high-performance economic vertical. This tectonic shift was driven by the full implementation of the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). While the world watched the initial steps of regulation back in 2024, […]
Miami Beach, Florida HotelPORT® today announced the launch of EnGAIgeVIEW™, an AI-powered guest engagement platform anchored in PropertyVIEW™, the hospitality industry’s source of truth for verified hospitality content. Developed by BIG Tech Group, the platform introduces a new standard for real-time, intelligent guest interaction across voice, text, and chat. “This isn’t an...
Access Now, the group that organizes RightsCon, says Zambian officials asked it to exclude Taiwanese participants if it wanted the event to proceed as planned.
The race to near-weightlessness has been a driving force of innovation in running sneakers and helped lead to records shattering at the London Marathon.
Musk must meet a range of ambitious milestones at Tesla to justify the monster pay packet – so far he has not.