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We Bought a $500 Counterfeit Rolex So Good, Even Rolex Didn’t Spot It
A Wired reporter bought a “super clone” fake Rolex online for $500 and had it serviced at Rolex’s flagship London store, where staff resized the bracelet without noticing it was counterfeit. The piece highlights how counterfeit Swiss watches have evolved from crude market-stall knock-offs into highly convincing replicas mass-produced by Chinese factories, sold discreetly through…
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The Pokémon Company Cancels 30th Anniversary Card Orders Following ‘Cyber Incident,’ Warns of Customer Data Breach
The Pokémon Company has cancelled orders for its Pokémon 30th Anniversary Cards after a “cyber incident” exposed customer data, according to emails shared by affected fans who had pre-ordered the trading cards through the Pokémon Center website. The breach appears limited to European orders fulfilled by logistics firm CEVA, the same provider recently linked to…
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Dell XPS 13 vs. MacBook Neo: A Surprising Upset
The Dell XPS 13 and MacBook Neo are both premium-feeling laptops with only 8 GB of RAM. Which $700 laptop is the better buy?
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Welsh FA chief calls for Fifa’s Infantino to step down
Noel Mooney, chief executive of the Football Association of Wales, has called for Fifa president Gianni Infantino to step down over his handling of a scrapped plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup and other competitions to private investors. Mooney, who previously worked with Infantino at Uefa, said the “harm that’s been done…
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Framework gave its 12-inch laptop some hardware upgrades
Framework has refreshed its 12-inch convertible laptop with Intel’s newer Core Series 3 chips, expanded customisation options and, for the first time, a pre-built configuration running Linux instead of Windows. The update matters because it lowers the entry price and reflects Framework’s efforts to better serve its user base, given that the company says almost…
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Fortnite Override Chapter 7, season 4 update release countdown: Exact start time and date
Fortnite is preparing to launch Chapter 7, Season 4, dubbed “Override,” a gaming-themed season expected to go live on 20 August 2026. Big seasonal updates like this typically bring a refreshed island, new loot, skins and cosmetics, and this instalment is being billed as one of the most ambitious yet due to its roster of…
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Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People’s Faces
Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered that ClarityCheck, a reverse-image people-search service, left more than 9 million image files — including facial photographs of adults, teenagers and children — publicly accessible online, despite the site’s promise that searches are “private and secure.” A separate misconfiguration also exposed users’ email addresses and phone numbers. The exposure is…
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Relativity Networks raises $22 million to bring a faster kind of fiber to data centers
Relativity Networks, a startup developing hollow-core fibre optic technology, has raised $22 million in SAFE note funding to help data centre operators overcome the physical distance limits that increasingly constrain the AI compute boom. As firms spend heavily on ever-larger data centre campuses, network latency between distant clusters of GPUs has become a growing bottleneck,…
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Fast and Furious star wants the final movie to go back to “what it all started as” rather that “007 bring your cars to space s***”
A Fast & Furious cast member has said they want the franchise’s upcoming final instalment to return to its street-racing origins rather than continue the increasingly outlandish, spy-film-style spectacle of recent entries. The comment reflects growing fan and cast debate over the series’ direction, as instalments have shifted from underground car culture towards globe-trotting action…
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Huge £32million car park which has been empty for two years has opening delayed AGAIN as road linking to it is still not finished
The opening of a £32million park and ride in Eynsham, Oxfordshire, has been delayed for another year because the access road connecting it to the A40 still has not been built. The 850-space site was completed in 2024 but has stood empty ever since, prompting local residents to brand it an “embarrassing” and costly “white…