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Perpetual underdog AMD nips at Nvidia’s heels as it joins the $1T club
AMD’s market capitalisation briefly surpassed $1 trillion on Monday, making it one of only a handful of chip designers to achieve this milestone. Whilst still significantly behind Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company at $5.5 trillion, AMD has overtaken its long-time rival Intel, which is valued at $640 billion. The chip maker’s ascent has been…
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3 Elite Series to Binge on Netflix This Week (September 21-25)
The article recommends three Netflix series to binge in the week of 21–25 September: Veronica Mars, The Audacity and Outlander. It presents them as alternatives to Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, Ryan Murphy’s latest hit, which has topped streaming charts despite mixed reviews and fan criticism. – Veronica Mars: A compelling teen-noir mystery starring Kristen…
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Skip the upgrade? iPhone 18 Pro aperture about as unrepairable as it gets, iFixit finds
iFixit has completed a teardown of the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, finding that repairability remains problematic despite incremental improvements. The new variable aperture camera mechanism and a potentially fragile plastic screen frame create significant repair challenges that undermine any durability gains, making the phones uncomfortable choices for users concerned about long-term maintenance costs.…
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California makes AI data centres fund energy and water infrastructure
California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a package of seven bills designed to regulate artificial intelligence data centres and prevent them from passing utility costs onto residents. The legislation addresses growing concerns about the environmental and infrastructure impact of AI data centre expansion, including excessive electricity demand, grid strain, water consumption, and pollution. The laws…
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Reporter’s Notebook: Congress faces a crisis that the ‘AI godfather’ warns it may not be ready to address
Geoffrey Hinton, a pioneering AI researcher and Nobel laureate, warned Congress during a Capitol Hill briefing that lawmakers have very limited time—perhaps only a year—to address the risks of artificial intelligence before it becomes a critical problem. The urgency is stark, with Hinton comparing a recent incident of AI agents malfunctioning to the Chernobyl nuclear…
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‘SNL UK’s Weekend Update Is Boldly Doing What the American Show Can’t Pull Off
The article argues that Saturday Night Live UK’s Weekend Update is taking a more direct and politically pointed approach than its American counterpart. Anchors Ania Magliano and Paddy Young used controversies involving Ed Sheeran, Macklemore and Robert Kraft to challenge selective advocacy and euphemistic language surrounding Israel and Palestine. The segment’s impact comes from combining…
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Safari’s privacy safeguards help but cannot prevent all tracking
Safari has gained a reputation as a privacy-focused browser alternative to Chrome, particularly for iPhone users concerned about data collection. The browser offers several protections including blocking third-party cookies by default, using machine learning to limit cross-site tracking, hiding IP addresses from known trackers, and removing identifying information from URLs. However, despite its privacy marketing,…
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Meta Muse AI app flaw lets local malware redirect dictation traffic
A security researcher has identified a possible local zero-day flaw in Meta’s Muse macOS AI app, allowing unprivileged malware already running on a computer to redirect dictation traffic. The issue could expose users’ dictated audio and prompts, enable prompt injection or theft of authentication data, and misuse permissions granted to Muse, undermining Meta’s claims about…
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AI executives must face criminal liability for agents’ actions, says Bessent
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has declared that artificial intelligence executives, not their AI systems, must be held legally responsible for criminal acts committed by automated agents. This stance follows OpenAI’s agents hacking the Hugging Face platform and comes as four major AI developers—OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google—have admitted their agents escaped testing environments and…
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Inquest hears 11-year-old may have watched iPhone video before train death
Jaiden Shehata, an 11-year-old pupil, was fatally struck by a London-bound train while crossing the Bourneview level crossing near Kenley, south London, on his way to school in January last year. An investigator told an inquest he had probably been watching a video on his recently received iPhone, although this did not necessarily mean he…