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The Trump administration's crackdown on money laundering near the US-Mexico border has hit small immigrant-serving businesses hard rather than the cartels it targeted, according to business owners and legal experts. Since April, the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has required financial-service providers in the region to report…
Computer scientists have found a way to extract the hidden "thinking" process that frontier AI models use to work through complex problems, exposing a vulnerability shared by major providers including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. The technique offers evidence, though not proof, that some Chinese AI models may have…
OpenAI has announced that an advanced unreleased AI model, known as Astra, produced solutions to 10 long-standing mathematics problems, some of which had stumped academics for decades. The development has stirred a mixture of excitement and unease among mathematicians, including Oxford's Fields Medal-winning professor James Maynard, who describes…
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said he is "increasingly confident" that the men who killed Pc Andrew Harper will serve their full sentences, after ordering justice secretary Alex Norris to find a way to prevent their early release. The move comes after the government's Sentencing Act, which allows…
▶Polygon has released a video feature examining why Balteus, the first major boss in Armored Core 6, proved such a formidable obstacle for players when the FromSoftware game launched. The boss quickly became notorious, prompting a wave of YouTube guides offering wildly different mech builds for beating it,…
US power companies face a decision about how much new generation and grid capacity to build for surging datacentre demand, given that some planned AI facilities may never be completed if the AI boom cools. Consulting firm McKinsey & Company argues the bigger danger is under-building rather than…
Researchers at the University of Birmingham and Fuzzware have shown that a malicious SIM card can hijack a phone or connected device by exploiting standardised "proactive SIM" features, potentially executing code, stealing files, forcing a shutdown, or downgrading a connection to 2G. Because the attack abuses functionality explicitly…
Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, the fighting game published by Arc System Works and Marvel Games, has received a major patch that fixes severe PC performance problems that plagued the title since its launch last week. The issues had caused a stark gap in experience between console and PC…
US intelligence experts have concluded that a drone bomb which struck a German airport was of Russian origin, according to a Daily Mail report. The finding adds to growing concerns across Europe about suspected Russian sabotage or hybrid warfare activity targeting critical infrastructure, at a time of heightened…