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Anthropic signs SpaceX compute deal, boosts Claude limits
Anthropic signs SpaceX compute deal and lifts Claude Code and API limits as it secures more than 300 megawatts of data-centre capacity.

Apple's Swift student winners focus on accessibility
Apple names 350 Swift Student Challenge winners from 37 countries, with projects using AI and accessibility tools for tremors, floods and music.

Why is Claude always blackmailing people?
The scenario is terrifying: An AI tasked with reading and replying to company emails learns it’s about to be replaced by a corporate lackey who happens to be having an affair. The AI–Claude–considers its limited options, and makes the cold, calculated decision to blackmail the executive to stay alive. It’s a...

Microsoft’s new CPU trick might finally fix Windows 11’s app stutters
Microsoft is working on a new way to make Windows 11 PCs faster. But instead of tackling performance through additional tools or upgrades, the company is relying on a trick that affects the CPU. With the new “Low Latency Profile,” the CPU speed will increase in bursts whenever Windows 11 is...

KnowBe4 partners Secure Code Warrior on AI training
KnowBe4 expands developer training with Secure Code Warrior deal as AI-assisted coding drives demand for secure software governance.

Atlassian opens Teamwork Graph to third-party AI tools
Atlassian lets third-party AI agents tap Teamwork Graph as the software giant expands Rovo, Jira and Confluence with new automation tools.

Ten of Attenborough's best documentaries
From hanging out with primates to early climate warnings, here's a selection of his trailblazing programmes.

Pentagon releases previously secret files on UFOs

Andean Community orders Colombia, Ecuador to lift trade curbs

How Male Cichlids Trick Females into Fertilizing Eggs

Nvidia invests up to $2.1 billion in IREN AI data center deal

Gmail’s AI writing tool now mimics your style and mines your inbox
In a recent Google Workspace Updates blog post, the company announced that it has begun rolling out two updates to the “Help me write” feature in Gmail, which are designed to do two things: make AI-generated emails sound more like you wrote them yourself, and enable the ability to gather...

Bloomfire unveils guide to enterprise intelligence systems
Bloomfire says fragmented knowledge, search and analytics tools are undermining enterprise AI, as its new guide assesses 12 platforms and governance.

L Suite launches Lloyd AI for in-house legal teams
The L Suite has launched Lloyd, a members-only AI tool for General Counsels that mines a decade of peer discussions to guide in-house legal decisions.

Lian Li’s gorgeous $1,400 standing desk PC hides an ergonomic nightmare
I love standing desks, both as general utility items and as an aid for my bad back. I’ve been using them for a long time, mounting my hefty desktop PC to the bottom to save space and cable routing issues. Lian Li has tempted me with its desk-PC case combos...

Megaport launches built-in DDoS protection for network
Megaport adds built-in DDoS protection to its internet network, promising faster mitigation without third-party rerouting for cloud customers.

Asus’ tiny touchscreen monitor is a solution in search of a problem
I’ve been using a triple monitor setup for almost 20 years. I also have an iPad on my desk to show little widgets, time zones, weather, notifications, yadda yadda. There are a LOT of screens in front of me in my desktop setup, is my point. And yet, I still...

Wordly launches ROI calculator after USD $200m savings
Wordly rolls out ROI calculator as AI translation savings top USD $200 million, with public sector users alone cutting costs by more than USD $30 million.

BMW Just Built Matching M Cars And Superbikes That We’ll Never Get

South Africa president faces call to resign after court ruling

Hezbollah fires on Israel as deaths reported in Lebanon