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Zoho marks 30 years as paying customer base tops 1m
Zoho hits 1m paying customers and 150m users worldwide as the 30-year-old software group posts 2025 growth in clients and revenue.

Audit firms embed AI while tightening validation controls
Audit firms embed AI in core workflows as new research shows rising adoption is matched by stricter validation, governance and training controls.

Spanish police arrest hacker who booked luxury hotels for one cent

Maruti Suzuki launches first BEV with Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS) model

Wadephul: Ties between Paris and Berlin of 'existential importance'

The 9 Most Beautiful Countries on Earth, Ranked According to Travellers

Call of Duty advert banned for trivialising sexual violence
Activision Blizzard UK Ltd said the ad for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 was targeted at adults.

Strip out Windows 11’s bloatware, ads, and other grossness—for free
Setting up a new PC with Windows can be a little complicated. Read comments on forums and you’ll see that some people have found it so complicated that they’ve switched to Linux. That’s a bit ironic but those folks do make a good point. There must be a simpler way...

'I don't pay attention' - Cynthia Erivo ignores online criticism as Dracula divides critics
The Wicked star appears in a one-woman version of the classic horror story in London's West End.

Microsoft says it is on pace to invest $50 billion in 'Global South' AI push

U.S. court bars OpenAI from using ‘Cameo’

Infineon CEO flags growth prospects for humanoid robot chips

Palo Alto warns on earnings as guidance disappoints
Palo Alto Networks beat quarterly estimates but flagged weaker next-quarter earnings, unsettling investors despite stronger revenue and contract growth.

Live: Large police presence, reports of shots fired on suburban Christchurch street
A reporter at the scene in Northcote says there is a significant police presence, along with ambulances.

Reports of shots fired on Christchurch street, large police presence
Armed police are on a Christchurch street after reports of shots being fired in the suburb of Northcote.

Mylobster.ai plans kernel-level AI assistant platform
Mylobster.ai unveils plan for kernel-level AI assistants across major platforms, targeting a USD $200 billion-plus systems-level market.

Is VAR any better in the rest of Europe's top leagues?
You do not need to look far to find people proclaiming that VAR works fine outside the Premier League. BBC Sport spoke to people across Europe's top leagues to find out.

2 beautifully weird websites that make the Internet fun again
If you’re looking for some fun websites you’ve come to the right place. We’ve got you covered to keep boredom at bay. TV Garden If you go to the TV Garden site you can choose a country from the world map by clicking on it and then get free TV channels from...

Olympics-Crosscountry-Who let the dog out? Husky gatecrashes team sprint

French far-left party linked to activist's killing reports bomb threat

V&A displays first YouTube video and watchpage
The original YouTube experience from 2005 has been recreated using internet archives.

Sphera appoints Chris Gutheil as CTO to drive AI push
Sphera names Chris Gutheil CTO to lead its global tech strategy and accelerate Sphera AI development for risk and compliance customers.

Banks Peninsula farmers and businesses counting the cost of floods
The main road in to the peninsula has reopened and telecommunications have been restored after widespread outages, but the area remains under a state of emergency.

Ramadan begins in Palestine, Gulf; Egypt, Syria, more Muslim states to come

Russia May Block Foreign Crypto Exchanges Under New Domestic Regulations

Fears of ‘slow, certain death’ stalk Tigray amid rumblings of renewed war

Indian university kicked out of AI summit for claiming Chinese robot dog as its own invention

Gr4vy adds Sardine tools to unify fraud & payments
Gr4vy integrates Sardine fraud and AML tools into its payments orchestration platform, offering merchants unified risk and routing in one layer.

What do curlers do when they're not at the Olympics?
Lifting weights like sprinters, strategising like chess players, and fuelling like Tour de France cyclists, the life of a Team GB curler.