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Nandan Nilekani leaves GP role at Fundamentum as it launches $200M third fund
Nandan Nilekani, co-founder of Infosys and one of India’s best-known technology figures, is stepping down as a general partner at Fundamentum Partnership, the venture capital firm he co-founded in 2017. The change coincides with the launch of Fundamentum’s third fund, which is targeting around $200 million. Although he is relinquishing the GP title, Nilekani will…
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SpaceX is on track for record-setting Starlink deployments
SpaceX is deploying Starlink satellites faster than ever, running ahead of the record-setting pace it set the previous year. In the first half of 2026 the company launched 1,589 satellites into low-Earth orbit, according to launch data compiled by Jonathan McDowell’s satellite tracker, roughly 100 more than the 1,489 it had deployed by the same…
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SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, its first built with Cursor’s help
SpaceXAI has launched Grok 4.5, the first model released since the company rebranded from xAI and the first it trained in collaboration with the AI firm Cursor. The company describes it as its smartest model to date, built specifically to excel at coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work, and claims it outperforms rival leading models…
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Subnautica 2 celebrates 5 million copies sold ahead of Adaptive Measures, its first early access update
Developer Unknown Worlds has announced that Subnautica 2 has passed 5 million copies sold, a milestone reached while the underwater survival game remains in early access. The figure underlines the strong commercial performance of the sequel to the popular Subnautica franchise, even before its full release. The announcement coincides with the imminent arrival of Adaptive…
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Dell 14S Review: Higher Price, Better Quality
WIRED has reviewed the Dell 14S, a new mid-tier laptop that slots below the Dell XPS 14 and succeeds the Dell 14 Plus, awarding it 7 out of 10. Arriving in a period of unusually newsworthy laptop pricing, the 14S aims to blend premium build quality and features with a slightly lower cost, though the…
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Porn site company fined £630,000 over failed age checks
Ofcom has fined the operator of the pornography site Fapello £630,000 for failing to verify the ages of its UK users, as required under rules introduced in July 2025. Since that date, sites hosting adult content must use “highly effective” age assurance to confirm that UK visitors are aged 18 or over, a measure the…
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The Mary Wallopers on “Irish expression” and “heavier” new album ‘Paddywhackery’: “If the English knew what happened, they wouldn’t be so quick to be marching with St George’s crosses”
Irish rebel folk band The Mary Wallopers have spoken to NME about their third studio album, ‘Paddywhackery’, which they describe as their “heavier” and most original record to date. Due for release on 18 September, the album chronicles the isolation of living as an Irish outsider in England, and its arrival cements the Dundalk band’s…
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Doom and Quake studio id Software reportedly gutted, leaving standalone capabilities in doubt and newly revealed game ideas dead
The scale of Microsoft’s Xbox cuts at id Software, the legendary studio behind Doom and Quake, has become clearer, and it is severe. According to an official WARN notice filed in Texas, 136 of the roughly 185 people working at id Software as of December 2025 have been made redundant, leaving fewer than 50 staff.…
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Google turns old phones into cloud servers
Google and researchers at the University of California San Diego have unveiled a project called “phone cluster computing”, which repurposes retired smartphones as low-carbon cloud servers rather than discarding them as electronic waste. The scheme matters because the AI boom is driving soaring demand for computing power, chips, electricity and cooling, while billions of phones…
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Microsoft Layoffs Cut id Software’s Game Pitches, Including Perfect Dark Reboot and John Wick-Inspired Cyberpunk Title
Microsoft’s recent mass layoffs impacted id Software with approximately 136 job cuts, affecting the Doom developer as the team was finalising downloadable content for Doom: The Dark Ages. Prior to the redundancies, the s