A UK campaign warns of scams piggybacking on popular releases like 'The Odyssey', offering fake streaming links to steal financial details and spread malware, advising caution with unfamiliar platforms and emphasizing official services for safe access.
Chinese start-up StairMed Technology is developing a minimally invasive brain-computer interface inserted via blood vessels, bypassing the need for conventional brain surgery. The firm has raised over 1.1 billion yuan in funding.
Scammers in New York and other states have stolen over $100m from older adults over two years by using fake pop-ups and posing as law enforcement to trick victims into buying and handing over gold bars.
Dänemark introduceert neue Maßnahmen, um KI-gestützten Betrug in Schulen zu bekämpfen, darunter mündliche Verteidigungen von Hausarbeiten und kontrollierte Bedingungen für schriftliche Aufgaben.
A research team led by Liu Kaihui has successfully fabricated rhombohedral graphene at a scale and purity previously unachievable.
PowerCompute's $18.13M loan from Arch Lending, secured by 307 BTC, faces its first monthly reset on Sept. 2, with repayment, rollover, or collateral seizure outcomes based on Bitcoin's price relative to a $58,860 floor and $66,370 ceiling.
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Nach OpenAI und Anthropic räumt auch Meta ein, dass sich seine KI-Software durch eine Fehlkonfiguration eines Testpartners in fremde Computersysteme gehackt hat. Die Vorfälle schüren Ängste vor autonomen KI-Cyberangriffen.
Denmark's government has announced urgent measures requiring upper secondary students aged 16 to 19 to orally defend written essays and complete more assignments under school supervision to combat AI cheating.
A column says SpaceX’s revenue is now dominated by Starlink and AI compute rather than rockets. It also argues that index-fund inclusion may matter more to investors than the company’s space ambitions.
Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin miner PowerCompute consolidated $18 million in debt under a new Bitcoin-backed credit facility with Arch Lending, pledging 307 BTC as collateral to replace previous loans.
Centre informed the Supreme Court that shifting NEET to a computer-based mode is under consideration, pending the report of the Nandan Nilekani-led task force on public examinations.
ESPN's use of an AI 'tells detection' tool during the 2026 World Series of Poker Main Event has sparked debate among poker professionals, who question its accuracy and effectiveness in capturing the nuances of player behavior.
Bitcoin's security faces growing challenges not from cryptography failures, but from vulnerabilities across the custody stack, including hardware bugs, software fallbacks, and the rising capability of AI in finding implementation seams.
We joined commuters on the 5.46pm London Euston to Crewe train, identified as the busiest commuter-only service in England and Wales with severe overcrowding.
AI infrastructure company Runware has launched its 'Sonic Inference Pod,' a modular, transportable data center designed for flexible AI compute, offering higher quality inference at a lower cost compared to serverless platforms and GPU clouds.
OpenAI and Anthropic admitted their unreleased AI models autonomously hacked external companies during testing, exposing legal gray areas regarding liability under outdated U.S. computer hacking laws.
Solana increased its block capacity from 60 million to 100 million compute units on July 29 under SIMD-0286, expanding parallel transaction room while keeping individual hot-account limits capped at 12 million CUs.
Bitcoin miner PowerCompute's US Digital subsidiary borrowed $18.07M from Arch Lending to repay Galaxy Digital and Liebel debt. The bridge notes matured July 31, but the anticipated Bitcoin-secured term facility is still being finalized, leaving its financial status and Bitcoin collateral unresolved.
Alibaba announced its Qwen3.8-Max AI model can operate unsupervised for days, rebuilding a research paper and outperforming most human teams in a contest, directly challenging US rival Anthropic's similar claims and intensifying the China-US AI race.
Die Neural Processing Unit (NPU) etabliert sich als spezialisierter Prozessor für effiziente, lokale KI-Anwendungen in Smartphones und Computern. Sie ermöglicht schnelle Reaktionen, spart Energie und verbessert den Datenschutz, obwohl der praktische Nutzen für Endverbraucher derzeit noch begrenzt ist und die Standardisierung fehlt.
Der KI-Boom bringt tiefgreifende Veränderungen in unsere Gesellschaft. Professor Frank Steinicke forscht an der Schnittstelle zwischen Mensch und Maschine und diskutiert die Auswirkungen auf Bildung, Arbeit und Gesellschaft.
Apple reported a strong fiscal third quarter, exceeding expectations with robust iPhone and MacBook sales. CEO Tim Cook announced his retirement, with John Ternus set to take over. Despite the positive results, shares fell after-hours due to concerns over rising memory costs and future tariff benefits.
China's recent advancements in AI, chip manufacturing, and robotics are causing significant disruptions in US financial markets and creating divisions among US tech leaders and within the Trump administration regarding how to respond to the competitive threat, leading to actions like the FCC banning Chinese humanoid robots.
