Indian startup Airbound has raised $37 million in a Series A round led by Greenoaks, with backing from DoorDash, Lachy Groom, Lightspeed and Humba Ventures, as it seeks to make drone-based delivery as cheap as trucking. The three-year-old company builds vertical-flight, rocket-like drones designed to weigh less than…
A record one in seven people in England were prescribed antidepressants last year, with 9.1 million patients given the drugs by their GP, according to figures from the NHS Business Services Authority. This marks a rise of more than 15 per cent over five years and comes amid…
TalkFuse's briefing covers a South Sudanese teenager admitting endangering lives at sea after piloting a Channel super-dinghy, warnings over increasingly violent European museum robberies, Italy's new phone-crossing fines, US clean energy's record growth, OpenAI's push into autonomous agents, and a teenager's decisi…
IBM has announced it is developing a new mainframe chip whose cores can natively execute Arm instructions alongside its own IBM Z or LinuxONE instructions concurrently, in a bid to broaden the software available to mainframe customers. The move is effectively an acknowledgement that independent software vendors are…
Microsoft has been embedding a hidden, server-issued unique identifier into images generated with AI assistance in its Paint and Photos apps for Windows, according to research by Vector 35 developer Xusheng Li. This goes beyond the requirements of the EU's Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-generated Content,…
Lenovo has publicly acknowledged that a recent BIOS update for its Legion Go handheld gaming PC can cause devices to freeze on a blank screen, weeks after users began reporting bricked units and costly repair bills. The admission matters because it confirms a widespread problem that Lenovo had…
New details have emerged about Monday's vigil for the five young men killed in the A66 crash, held in a field in South Bank, Middlesbrough, where around 20 masked youths set off flares and fireworks and rode motorbikes and quad bikes in tribute to Jakub Matusiak, 23. The…
Britain is to receive a substantial trove of intelligence from Ukraine, covering Kremlin tactics and secrets gathered since Russia's invasion, under a landmark military and AI partnership agreed in Kyiv. The deal was struck as new Prime Minister Andy Burnham met President Volodymyr Zelensky on his first overseas…
UK police funding, dual warrant cards and Middlesbrough crash lead; plus US strike on drug boat, NZ under-16 social media ban, an Irish crash funeral, and Apollo Global's cloud breach.
A revised Stanford University study finds that artificial intelligence is significantly reducing job opportunities for young workers in occupations most exposed to AI, even as older employees remain largely unaffected. The updated paper, an August 2026 revision of last year's "Canaries in the Coal Mine?" research, shows the…
The AI boom's soaring electricity demand is accelerating development of solid-state power transformers, a modern alternative to the hand-built, 1880s-era technology that underpins most of the US power grid. Conventional transformers must be custom-built for each electrical substation and can take years to deliver, creating bottlenecks that slow…
Converting older video footage to 4K is increasingly tempting as 4K OLED displays become standard, but the process involves significant technical limitations that anyone attempting it should understand. Upscaling software cannot recover detail that was never captured in the original recording; instead, it uses interpolation to estimate and…
A developer has released Glassbox, a free tool that runs entirely in a user's browser to reveal how easily companies can fingerprint and track individuals online, without sending any data to external servers. Built by security engineer David Dale with assistance from Claude Code, the tool matters because…
A Sudanese woman who was initially refused asylum in the UK has won the right to stay after successfully arguing that deportation would breach her human right to a family life, because she is married to her cousin, a recognised refugee already living in Britain. The Home Office…
Samsung has introduced a new Gallery editing tool called My FanCam, which lets users retroactively turn a wide group video into a tighter clip that tracks a single person. Rather than requiring users to keep someone centred while filming, the Galaxy AI feature analyses footage already recorded, identifies…
Ars Technica warns that computer monitors, long recommended as a smart-TV alternative for privacy-conscious consumers, are increasingly adopting the same ad-serving and tracking practices that have plagued smart TVs. The concern was triggered by reports that some LG monitors quietly installed an app called LG Monitor App Installer…
Zillow has settled an antitrust lawsuit brought by the US Federal Trade Commission over a $100 million deal with rival property platform Redfin, under which Redfin had agreed to withdraw from the internet listing service (ILS) market for apartment rentals for up to nine years. The FTC said…
Meta is testing a new feature on Threads that automatically generates transcriptions for podcast clips, allowing users to read along even with the sound turned off. Platform head Connor Hayes revealed the trial, describing it as one of several podcast-focused tools currently in development for the service, though…
Cody Wilson, creator of the first 3D-printed gun, says he has built a tool to defeat new software designed to stop 3D printers from producing firearms. Dubbed "Hochulization" in reference to New York Governor Kathy Hochul, who this year signed the first US law requiring gun-detection software on…
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has widened a safety investigation into General Motors after hundreds of reports of brake failure linked to the automaker's "eBoost" brake-by-wire system. The fault, which involves a spindle fracture that can occur while a vehicle is being driven, affects more than…