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Microsoft declares 'reliability' a priority for Visual Studio AI

BT loses more than 200k broadband customers as profits slump

AWS intruder pulled off AI-assisted cloud break-in in 8 mins

Detecting Helium Leaks with Sound in a Physics-Based Sensor

UK services sector job cuts continue as companies automate, PMI survey shows

The Future of Species – are we on the verge of creating synthetic life?

KDE Binds Itself Tightly to Systemd, Drops Support for Non-Systemd Systems

Firefox makes AI optional, like it probably should have been all along

Microsoft's Sinofsky saw Surface fail coming – asked Epstein for advice on exit

Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign

Lennart Poettering, Systemd daddy departs Microsoft for Linux startup

Chinese Startup to Build a New Brain-Computer Interface–No Implant Required

Google to foist Gemini pane on Chrome users in automated browsing push

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'Trump Phone' Still Doesn't Exist, Pre-Order Totals Appear Made Up

Data thieves borrow Nike's 'Just Do It' mantra, claim they ran off with 1.4TB

Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence

The influencer World Cup: FIFA and TikTok deal targeting an avalanche of posts

China's Deepin Linux gets a slick desktop – and, yes, built-in AI

SpaceX lines up Wall Street banks as Musk eyes blockbuster IPO

Tesla Full Self Driving subscription to rise alongside its capabilities

Devs begin to assess options for MySQL's future beyond Oracle

Section 230 Didn't Fail Rand Paul. He Just Doesn't Like the Remedy That Worked

Anthropic writes Constitution for Claude it thinks will soon be proven misguided

What Isaac Roberts Saw Without a Space Telescope

Elon Musk floats idea of buying Ryanair after calling CEO 'an idiot'

World models could unlock the next revolution in artificial intelligence

Meta retreats from metaverse after virtual reality check

FCC Helps Verizon Make It Harder for You to Switch Wireless Carriers

The stress management app that doesn't even pretend things are OK (cartoon)

X still allowing users to post sexualised images generated by Grok AI tool

Mother of one of Elon Musk's sons sues over Grok-generated explicit images

Six more AI outfits sign for Wikimedia's fastest APIs

State Department Threatens UK Because Only the US Is Allowed to Ban Foreign Apps

Americans Overwhelmingly Support Science, but Some Think the U.S. Is Lagging

US regulator tells GM to hit the brakes on customer tracking

X 'acting to comply with UK law' after outcry over sexualised images