A Microsoft scientist called AI training the largest theft of labor

In a second document he called it perhaps the “largest theft of labor in human history”. Hecht is a research scientist. He is not a board member and he is not the chief executive, which matters as the phrase travels. The…

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All the Googlebook laptops confirmed so far

Designed for Gemini Intelligence, Googlebook promises to bring together Chrome, Google Play and a modern OS into a range of laptops that are all built with premium materials. Googlebook looks like a natural successor to…

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Apple deploys firmware workaround to bypass shipping restrictions for iPhone 18 Pro Max

In recent years, the rapid advancement of silicon-carbon battery chemistry has enabled manufacturers to pack significantly higher energy density into smaller spaces. However, this progress collided with strict…

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Get 1TB of Xbox Series X/S storage for half price

Argos now £149.99 View Deal Less than half price on a 1TB SSD built exclusively for Xbox is a genuinely rare drop, especially since most third party storage upgrades still cost close to their full price for years after…

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Here’s the iFixit Repairability Rating for the iPhone 18 Pro

Courtesy of iFixit iFixit, the company known for completely tearing apart just about every product and device it can, has fully disassembled a brand new iPhone 18 Pro . The goal: to understand how all the parts fit…

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Meet the next wave of VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

For everyone else in the TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 audience, it’s one of the best ways to learn how great companies are actually evaluated by VCs. This startup pitch competition is as intense as you’d expect. From October…

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‘Small, flowering islands’: German city reveals how nature thrives when neighbours care for street tree beds

“It was the optics,” she told me. The ground was compacted and littered with trash and dog “legacies”. Besters simply wanted the space directly outside her front door to look nicer. “Everything else came much later,” she…

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Nvidia boss: ‘Zero chance AI will kill us all’, Google fined €400m over location data

There is 0pc chance that’s going to be the end of the world. “It is not grounded on [sic] facts, it’s not grounded on [sic] science.” Telegraph Google has been fined more than €400m (£345m) over the way it processed…

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MediaTek’s first desktop chipset is headed to the Googlebook

The new chip is the first member of MediaTek’s Dimensity Compute Experiences (CX) family, and it’s built around a fairly serious set of hardware. Manufactured on TSMC’s 3nm process, the C10 Max uses an octa-core…

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Petivity's new smart feeder asks the question 'what if Flock, but for cats?'

Petivity, which is owned by Purina, just introduced a new smart pet feeder designed exclusively for cats. The main hook here is that it has cameras and uses AI-enabled facial recognition algorithms to track when and how…

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