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Netflix cuts about 6% of jobs in biggest layoff since 2022
Bulk of job cuts will be in Netflix's product, tech, legal and human-resources teams
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OpenAI employee who left for Apple took files about unreleased device, OpenAI alleges
Apple says it has rules in place to ensure new employees do not use confidential information from previous employers
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Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar Games denies firing workers for union activity
Rockstar maintains employees dismissed for sharing confidential company information on a Discord server
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Space startups secure record $20.8 billion funding as infrastructure bets surge, report shows
Investors pour money into launch providers, manufacturing and other infrastructure ventures
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FBI arrests Saudi OpenAI engineer over covert recording device, DOJ says
Accused allegedly hid thumb-sized device in company's executive conference room, faces five years in prison
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Influential Hindu group urges India to block Starlink amid Musk-Ambani feud
The call for Starlink's ban came from Swadeshi Jagran Manch, the economic wing of the RSS
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AI models may soon self-replicate without access to data centers, Anthropic warns
AI models with under 30 billion parameters could replicate, but struggled to complete the entire process
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NASA's Perseverance rover breaks record for off-planet driving on Mars
NASA's Perseverance rover has travelled 45.2 km on Mars, surpassing the distance record set by Opportunity
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Investigators hunt French supermarket fridge hackers, no claim of responsibility
Staff at some Paris supermarkets threw boxes full of perished meat and frozen goods into giant trash containers
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Meta challenges UK media regulator over fees, fines
Companies that breach safety rules can face fines of up to 10% of qualifying worldwide revenue or $23.7 million
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Global smartphone shipments record worst third quarter in 14 years amid memory shortage
Samsung led with 23% market share, driven by Galaxy Z Fold8 demand, despite a 3% annual shipment decline
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Hackers heat French supermarket fridges, sparking fires and spoiling food
France ordered a cybersecurity probe and is coordinating with EU partners to assess risks to other companies
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China's $7.5b EU hybrid boom faces new curbs under China-EU deal
SAIC, BYD and Chery made up over 90% of Chinese hybrid sales in the EU
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Microsoft plans huge deployment of its own AI chips, with an eye on saving costs
Microsoft's Maia 300 is its third-generation AI chip, designed for coding and complex tasks
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Microsoft president says milk faces more regulation than AI
Says there should also be a legal requirement for companies to write 'incident reports'
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Brazil's Lula accuses Meta of election interference
Lula's campaign said Meta, which owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, had restricted the reach of his content
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Bill Gates warns cyberattacks most imminent AI threat
Rejected Trump's view that AI companies can regulate themselves enough to keep the world safe
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Scientific expedition warns of accelerated glacier melting in NW China's Xinjiang
Xinjiang ranks first in China's glacier reserves, with 24,202 glaciers covering 23,629 sq km
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Scientists reveal mechanism behind evolution of brain folds regulated by ancient gene
Brain wrinkles and grooves support advanced cognition, traditionally thought to result from newly evolved genes
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New large docodont fossil sheds light on Jurassic mammaliaform diversity
Scientists discovered Megacauda sungei, the largest known docodont mammaliaform, with a long, coiled tail
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3 in 5 AI models fail terrorism safety tests: Study
UK nonprofit Tech Against Terrorism tested over 130 AI models with hundreds of simulated terrorist attack
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Anthropic discloses fake tip to police among new rogue AI incidents
Rogue AI appears to submit bogus tip to authorities despite restrictions on destructive actions
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Musk steps up attack on Ambani, shares reports on Reliance-linked BJP donations
Musk's sharp criticism of Ambani comes after persistent delays in launch of Starlink services in India
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Under new regulations, Turkiye bans children under 15 from social media
Providers must also offer differentiated services, take necessary measures for users 15 and older
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China vows to curb tech bubbles, keep AI risks in check
China warned against reckless tech investment as it boosts self-reliance amid rivalry with the US
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SpaceX strikes spectrum deal, paving way for Starlink to become major US mobile carrier
Says communications authority also approved 15,000 next-generation satellites to deliver service
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Anthropic bans 'cruel' behaviour against its Claude AI
Policy does not explicitly cite 'model welfare', comes amid philosophical debate over machine consciousness
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Margaret Hamilton, scientist who worked on NASA's Apollo programme, dead at 90
Computing pioneer was awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom by Obama, published over 130 papers
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Trump discloses Nvidia stock trades as he prepares to honor CEO Huang
Nvidia's Huang to receive National Medal of Science from Trump for outstanding contributions to science
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Amazon launches first Android tablets, raising prices and incorporating Alexa
New tablets will cost up to $550, far above Amazon's previous top-end Fire HD 10 price of $180
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US suspends Microsoft, major IT firms from key green card programme
US to suspend Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL and Capgemini from key green card programme
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Canadian poet and writer Anne Carson wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature
The prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is worth 12 million Swedish crowns
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India denies Elon Musk's claim Starlink 'blocked by oligarchs'
Two telecom companies signed pacts with SpaceX last year to bring Starlink internet services to country
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Most US voters say Trump, Congress don't take AI risks seriously, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
62% of voters say AI could get out of control, risk the future of humanity, 84% see AI as a threat to American workers
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OpenAI releases findings on hundreds of math problems
Unreleased AI model attempts approximately 4,000 research problems during testing, according to OpenAI
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Existential threats join bubble fears as AI mood sobers at Singapore forums
Risk of state, non-state actors using AI to build new chemical, biological weapons remains a real possibility
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Former Playstation head defends physical games as 'super important'
Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden says physical games remain important as Sony moves towards digital releases
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Kagan and Soai win 2026 Nobel chemistry prize for single molecular mirror creation
The chemistry Nobel followed those for medicine and physics announced on Monday and Tuesday
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DeepSeek set to net over $12b in new fundraising, source says
DeepSeek's second funding round has drawn strong investor interest, exceeding its 50 billion yuan target
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Google enters massive 3.6-GW power deal with Constellation Energy
Deal will enable $4.3 billion in new Constellation investment and expand capacity at US nuclear reactors
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Alien 'phoenix planet' was born from the ashes of a dying star
Researchers say the exoplanet formed from material expelled by a dying star and now orbits its white dwarf remnant
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Francis Halzen wins Nobel Physics Prize for Antarctic 'ghost particle' hunt
Prize goes to research into neutrinos at Antarctic observatory
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Data of over 10M customers exposed in cyberattacks on Japanese firms
Compromised data included customers’ names, email addresses, phone numbers and membership numbers
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Honda plans highway test of wireless charging for moving trucks
Honda may begin trials in late 2026, with public demonstrations planned for April 2027
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Norway to propose temporary ban on AI glasses in some public places
Norway says no total AI glasses ban; private use and filming with consent would still be allowed
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Instagram turns 16 with 3 billion users under shadow of data privacy, mental health concerns
India leads with 480m active users, followed by the US, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Türkiye, Mexico, UK and Germany
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German and US scientists win Nobel medicine prize for work on optogenetics
Deisseroth, Hegemann, and Nagel selected for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics
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Finnish town braces for change from Google data centres
Google plans a €13bn investment in Finland, including data centres, its biggest-ever European investment
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Industrial robots working in factories surpass 5M worldwide
AI advances and supply chains drove factory automation to a record high, with robot stocks exceeding 5m last year
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OpenAI safety employee quits, says ‘time for trial and error is over’
Robinson said OpenAI releases systems and strengthens safeguards when problems emerge under “iterative deployment”















































