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Trump says Kharg Island is ‘being blown to smithereens’ in post showing AI bombing video as US and Iran trade strikes and oil prices surge
Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video on Truth Social claiming Iran’s Kharg Island energy hub, which handles around 90 per cent of the country’s oil exports, was “being blown to smithereens,” but Iranian officials dismissed the footage as fake, insisting the site remained calm and operational. The claim came as the US and Iran exchanged…
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Who, me? Techie with three months’ experience was sent in as the Cisco expert and proceeded to blow everything up
An IT worker with only three months’ experience recounted, in The Register’s “Who, Me?” column, being sent as the designated “Cisco expert” to install a switch for a customer running Nortel equipment, despite having no real expertise in either system. Confident after completing the rack installation, basic configuration and requested VLANs, he left the client’s…
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NHS AI transcription tools risk drug and diagnosis errors
Healthwatch England has warned that AI “scribe” tools used by GPs and hospital doctors to transcribe and summarise patient consultations are producing errors in drug names and diagnoses, with mistakes sometimes only spotted by patients rather than clinicians. In one case a woman was wrongly told she had demyelination, a form of serious nerve damage…
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Bank chief warns frontier AI could destabilise global finance
Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England and chair of the international Financial Stability Board (FSB), has written to G20 finance ministers and central bank governors warning that advanced “frontier” artificial intelligence models pose a growing risk to global financial stability. In a two-page letter sent ahead of a G20 meeting in North Carolina,…
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Grindr wants to be the everything app for gay men; investors are still deciding whether it can pull it off
Grindr, under chief executive George Arison, is pushing to become an “everything app” for gay men, expanding beyond dating and hookups into healthcare services such as HIV prevention and ED medication, as well as travel and community features. The strategy comes as the company, which Arison took over in 2022 after years of ownership turmoil…
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A Incredible Looking and Unofficial ‘Zelda Maker 64’ Is Coming to Steam
A solo developer working under the name Akela-morse is creating Temple Maker 64, an unofficial level-design suite that lets players build 3D dungeons in the style of N64-era Legend of Zelda games, and is bringing it to Steam. The 27-year-old, who left his full-time job around eighteen months ago to work on the project, was…
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How to improve your audio quality on Apple CarPlay
Apple CarPlay lets drivers stream music from services like Apple Music and Spotify, but the audio quality it delivers isn’t always as good as it could be, and a handful of simple adjustments can noticeably improve the sound in-car. This matters because many drivers assume CarPlay automatically delivers the best possible audio, when in fact…
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16 Years Later, ‘Fullmetal Alchemist’s Best Quote Still Defines the Series
This article, published sixteen years after Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood first aired, revisits the anime’s most famous line — “You can’t gain anything without losing something first” — and argues it remains the perfect summary of the series’ enduring appeal. The piece explores why the show is still widely regarded as one of the greatest anime…
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How to soft and hard reset your iPhone
This guide explains how to troubleshoot a misbehaving iPhone or prepare one for transfer by escalating through three levels of reset: restarting, a soft reset and a hard reset. It notes that the tech community has long disagreed on precise definitions of “soft” and “hard” resets, so the article sets out its own working definitions…