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Defence, rates and Big Tech scrutiny dominate as Netflix unveils FTX drama
Badenoch demands 3% defence spending amid Russian threat fears, Huw Pill urges an interest rate rise over Middle East inflation risks, and Apple faces a £2bn App Tracking lawsuit; elsewhere, Bartiromo exits Fox and Netflix reveals The Altruists and a Ravenloft series.
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Utilities are racing to link up with fusion startups, with Realta Fusion the latest to benefit
Fusion startup Realta Fusion has struck a deal with Madison Gas and Electric to explore building one of the first grid-connected fusion power plants in the United States, in Wisconsin. The agreement is part of a wider trend of utilities partnering with fusion companies, reflecting both growing confidence in fusion’s technical progress and utilities’ concern…
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Nintendo Download: 3rd September (North America)
Nintendo has published its latest Nintendo Download update for North America, listing the new games arriving on the Switch eShop this week. The line-up spans a range of genres, from co-op sci-fi adventure to sports simulation, action combat, roguelike shopkeeping and cosy management, giving players plenty of choice heading into the weekend. Highlights include Orbitals,…
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Beyerdynamic’s new Aventho Y headphones last up to 90 hours per charge
Beyerdynamic has unveiled the Aventho Y, a new addition to its Aventho headphone line, headlined by an unusually long battery life for the £/€/$150 price point. The headphones can run for up to 90 hours on a single charge with active noise cancellation switched off, or 60 hours with it enabled, figures that stand out…
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Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails
A startup called Abliteration.ai has turned “abliteration” – a technique for stripping AI models of their built-in refusals to carry out harmful requests – into a commercial service. The platform hosts modified versions of open-weight models, including Z.ai’s GLM-5.3, with guardrails removed, accessible via a browser or API for tasks such as offensive cyber security…
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Data centres are booming in Australia – but at what cost?
Australia has rapidly become a global hotspot for data centre construction, drawn by the AI boom that followed the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, but the expansion is fuelling growing tension between economic ambition and local liveability. Residents in suburbs such as Lane Cove in Sydney are reporting constant humming and jet-engine-like noise from nearby…
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Fruit fly inspired algorithm solves electronic nose learning and memory challenges
Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology have developed an algorithm called Spi-Fly that mimics how fruit flies process and remember smells, aiming to overcome two persistent weaknesses in existing “electronic nose” technology: the need for huge amounts of labelled training data and “catastrophic forgetting,” where learning a new odour erases memory of…
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ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini offline in rare concurrent outage
Cloud-based AI services from OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and Google all suffered significant service interruptions within the same few-hour window on Thursday morning, an overlap that is highly unusual since these major frontier models rarely go down simultaneously. The near-concurrent failures briefly degraded access to ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Gemini, drawing attention to how much users…
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Apple has been sued for $2.7 billion over App Tracking Transparency rules
Apple is facing a £2 billion ($2.7 billion) lawsuit over its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) policy, filed by a former UK Competition and Markets Authority official on behalf of app developers. The suit alleges Apple imposed stricter tracking rules on third-party developers than on its own services, giving its advertising business an unfair advantage. This…
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Researcher publicly releases exploit for CrowdStrike Falcon privilege escalation
Security researcher Nightmare Eclipse, previously known for a string of Microsoft zero-days, has published a proof-of-concept exploit for a new privilege escalation flaw in CrowdStrike’s Falcon endpoint security platform, dubbed FalconFlank. The bug abuses Falcon’s automated feature for stripping malicious macros from Microsoft Office documents, and works against fully updated Windows 11 25H2 and Windows…