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David Burke’s Apple Music page hacked while awaiting murder trial
D4vd’s official Apple Music page was compromised over a weekend, with an unauthorised track titled “I Did It” added to his discography while the singer, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, remains in custody awaiting trial for the murder and sexual abuse of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. The fake song used artwork depicting the…
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NVIDIA launches ‘Open Secure AI Alliance’ initiative to improve cyber defense
Nvidia has launched the Open Secure AI Alliance, a coalition of 27 companies including Microsoft, SpaceX, Dell and the Linux Foundation, aimed at strengthening cybersecurity defences through open-source artificial intelligence tools. The initiative argues that defenders need access to both open and closed frontier AI models, warning that restricting open-weight systems could weaken collective defensive…
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There’s No Such Thing as Free Data
The article’s text is unavailable because the supplied page only displays a JavaScript-and-cookies verification screen. As a result, its claims and evidence cannot be summarised reliably from the material provided. The title, “There’s No Such Thing as Free Data”, suggests a discussion of the costs or trade-offs behind apparently free data services, but this cannot…
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AI can fuel biological weapons. We must harness its power for defense | Annie Jacobsen
Writing in the Guardian, Annie Jacobsen argues that artificial intelligence is simultaneously making it easier to create biological weapons and offering powerful new tools to defend public health, creating an urgent race between offensive misuse and defensive innovation. She warns that AI systems can now help malicious actors navigate complex biological knowledge, troubleshoot lab techniques…
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Europe got its own TBPN-style live show, and everyone’s angling for a guest spot
The European Technology Network (ETN), a London-based live-streamed show founded by Luke Knight and Ronan Chambers, is expanding to a five-day-a-week schedule after raising $1.6 million in seed funding. The show, launched last October as a twice-weekly stream on X and YouTube covering tech news and trends, has attracted over 5 million views and become…
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This Is Donald Trump’s AI Brain Trust
As competition intensifies over powerful open-weight AI models from China, the Trump administration is relying on a small, fragmented group of officials across different departments to decide on export controls and other restrictions, with no unified policy yet in place. This fragmentation matters because, according to a senior White House official, the disagreement is not…
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Final Fantasy 6, 8, or 9 remakes would need even more games than the FF7 trilogy, Yoshi-P warns: “We’d probably end up having to release them in 4 or maybe even 5 installments”
Naoki Yoshida, known as Yoshi-P, has said that if Square Enix were to remake Final Fantasy 6, 8 or 9, the projects would likely need even more entries than the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy, which spans three large-scale games. His comments underline just how ambitious the FF7 remake project has become and raise doubts…
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Best Laptops for College Students (2026): MacBooks and Beyond
Wired has published its 2026 guide to the best laptops for college students, aiming to help buyers find affordable, portable machines with strong battery life and enough performance for everyday coursework. The list is based on the reviewer’s decade of testing hundreds of laptops, and has been refreshed for July 2026 with new picks and…
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Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls open beta beaten and bashed by PC performance issues, Arc System Works “apologise for the impact this has had on your experience”
Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls’ pre-launch open beta ended over the weekend after PC players encountered widespread performance and gameplay problems, prompting developer Arc System Works to issue a public apology. The issues add to a rocky beta period that also saw PlayStation Network problems at launch, raising concerns ahead of the fighting game’s full release,…