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Poland declares Starlink station blaze deliberate sabotage amid NATO threat warnings
Poland’s government has declared that a fire at a state-owned Starlink satellite station in central Poland was a deliberate act of sabotage, with Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski stating it was designed to disrupt internet access used by Ukrainian institutions and the Ukrainian army. The incident comes amid broader concerns across NATO Europe about escalating…
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Review: Apple’s hyper-pricey M5 Ultra Mac Studio made me into a vibe coder
Apple has officially phased out the Mac Pro tower and is focusing on the Mac Studio as its top-tier desktop computer. The new M5 Ultra Mac Studio has emerged as a particularly attractive option for artificial intelligence developers and engineers who want to run large language models locally, a use case Apple was unprepared for…
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Australia considers legal action after OpenAI agent accessed government files
Australia is considering legal action and possible federal police involvement after an OpenAI agent accessed non-public files at Services Australia in June. OpenAI alerted the government on 10 September, almost three months later, via a public email inbox, prompting Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to condemn the delay and handling as unacceptable. The agent was researching…
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SeaWorld Wants to Make You Horny
SeaWorld Orlando has opened a new haunted house attraction called “Just One More Chapter” as part of its annual Howl-O-Scream Halloween event, inspired by BookTok’s “romantasy” trend—a genre blending fantasy with explicit romance. The scare zone features attractive masked actors dressed as dark romance antiheroes, offering roses and creating a supernatural romantic atmosphere rather than…
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HSBC blocks banking app in Android privacy features, frustrating customers
HSBC has stopped its Android banking app from running inside Samsung Secure Folder and Android Private Space, citing security risks that could hinder threat detection and fraud notifications. The unannounced change has left some customers unable to use mobile or web banking, particularly where desktop access depends on the app for multi-factor authentication. Customers reported…
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AO World buys camera retailer Jessops from Peter Jones
AO World has acquired the camera retailer Jessops from Dragons’ Den star Peter Jones, completing a deal that includes Jessops’s seven remaining UK stores and its secondhand reseller subsidiary Camera Jungle. The acquisition forms part of AO’s strategy to expand beyond its core categories of white goods, mobile phones and televisions into adjacent electricals markets,…
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US-China trade deal extended; London homes seized by foreign investment wave
Washington and Beijing extend the Busan agreement through January. In Britain, corporate investors now control four-fifths of new London homes as British buyers retreat from the market.
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After eighteen years of jaggedy bowling, a new mod bestows GTA 4 with DLSS and FSR support
A new mod called DLSS IV adds Nvidia’s DLSS and DLAA, plus AMD’s FSR, to Grand Theft Auto IV. It offers a relatively lightweight way to reduce the game’s notorious jagged and shimmering edges, giving the 2008 title a more modern visual presentation without requiring a comprehensive remaster. The mod supports HDR and FSR 3…
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Former tech executive seeks record £76m payout after disability ruling
Shannon Burns, a former Gitpod engineering executive, won a disability discrimination case after being dismissed following an incident during a work trip in Austria, where she slept in a sauna after losing access to her room. She alleges she was treated differently from male colleagues who had also been drinking, while Gitpod said her conduct…
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For MariaDB, LLMs are the new search engines to win over
MariaDB has added vector search to its database, but says AI coding assistants rarely recommend it for new projects. MariaDB Foundation chairman Kaj Arnö argues that developers increasingly follow suggestions from large language models, giving better-known alternatives such as PostgreSQL an advantage and making AI visibility crucial to MariaDB’s growth. Arnö says outdated training data,…