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The pros and cons of using a password manager over an authenticator app
The article examines whether people should store two-factor authentication codes in a password manager or use a separate authenticator app. Password managers offer convenience by keeping passwords and codes together, while authenticator apps provide greater separation between the two security factors, making the choice a balance between ease of use and maximum isolation. Password managers…
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Burnham says AI safety should be an issue for governments and not left to chance
The Prime Minister told the United Nations that AI safety should be governed by democratically-elected governments rather than left to chance, calling for global principles and standards on frontier AI development. His speech, which positioned the UK as an “honest broker” capable of building international consensus, directly contradicted US President Donald Trump’s remarks just hours…
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Anthropic resignations fuel debate over superintelligent AI risks
Recent resignations at AI safety firm Anthropic have highlighted growing concerns about artificial superintelligence. Researchers including Jacob Coxon and senior staff member Evan Hubinger have publicly stated they believe AI could pose an existential threat to humanity, with Hubinger estimating over a 10 per cent probability of this occurring within the next decade. This has…
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Motorola unveils Signature 27 with 200MP telephoto camera
Motorola has unveiled the Signature 27 flagship smartphone at the Snapdragon Summit, positioning it as one of the first devices powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 processor. The company calls it its most advanced smartphone yet, with upgraded cooling, Bang & Olufsen speakers and a substantially improved telephoto camera. The main camera…
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Will a switch to light speed cut power use at data centres?
Data centre operators are increasingly looking to replace copper wiring with photonics—technology that uses light rather than electrical signals to transmit data—to reduce energy consumption. Industry leaders argue that this shift could significantly cut cooling costs, since light does not generate the heat that accompanies electrical transmission through copper. Researchers and companies, backed by chip…
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Saudi billionaire landowner joins furious villagers at war with developers over 13 ‘XXL mega-sheds’ which will swallow six MILLION sq ft of countryside
Saudi billionaire Wafic Said, an 86-year-old Syrian-born businessman and former Conservative donor, has joined residents of Stoke Lyne in Oxfordshire in opposing plans for 13 enormous warehouse developments on greenfield land beside the M40. The logistics companies Tritax Big Box and Albion Land are appealing against Cherwell District Council’s refusal to grant planning permission, in…
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Hung parliament looms, genocide charge filed, FBI hacked
Electoral forecasts predict a hung parliament as Labour collapses. The UK prosecutes its first Rwanda genocide suspect; hackers also breach the FBI, whilst Australian courts hear murder evidence and Discord revamps its age-verification system.
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Beyond killer robots: China’s real AI threat to America is already here, experts warn
Experts are warning that China is actively undermining America’s technological dominance through AI without military conflict, citing strategies that include extracting logic from American AI models, flooding global markets with free open-source alternatives, and potentially weaponising these systems for cognitive warfare. This economic approach represents a significant competitive threat, particularly as major American corporations may…
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5 Stellar Movies Where AI Takes Over the World
The article highlights five films that portray artificial intelligence taking over the world, presenting them as cautionary stories about technological overreach, human vulnerability and the dangers of creating systems more powerful than their makers. It argues that cinema has repeatedly anticipated modern anxieties about AI, including job losses, environmental damage, propaganda, nuclear conflict and humanity’s…
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Inner Mongolia’s rural data centres fuel China’s artificial intelligence push
China is rapidly building vast data centres in rural Inner Mongolia to supply the computing power needed for its artificial-intelligence ambitions. The expansion matters because AI has become central to the country’s economic and national-security competition with the United States, while both governments consider how the technology should be regulated. Ulanqab, once known mainly as…