Month: October 2025

Apple Watch Ultra 3 review: the biggest and best smartwatch for an iPhone

Third-gen watch adds 5G, satellite SOS and messaging, a bigger screen and longer battery life in same rugged design The biggest, baddest and boldest Apple Watch is back for its third generation, adding a bigger screen, longer battery life and satellite messaging for when lost in the wilderness. The Ultra 3 is Apple’s answer to …

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‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron?

In an online landscape characterised by doom and division, the people’s encyclopedia stands out – a huge collective endeavour giving everyone free access to the sum of human knowledge. But with Elon Musk branding it ‘Wokipedia’ and AI looming large, can it survive? Wikipedia will be 25 years old in January. Jimmy Wales’s daughter will …

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US and China reach ‘final deal’ on TikTok sale, treasury secretary says

Scott Bessent said plan was part of framework for trade deal but did not share details on transferring app’s ownership Murdoch, Ellison and China: what we know about the US’s TikTok deal US treasury secretary Scott Bessent claimed on Sunday that the US and China have finalized the details of a deal transferring TikTok’s US …

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Labor rules out giving tech giants free rein to mine copyright content to train AI

Attorney general Michelle Rowland shuts down contentious proposal to grant copyright exemption for AI models Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Albanese government has explicitly ruled out handing tech companies free rein to mine creative content to train their artificial intelligence models, after a fierce backlash from authors and …

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Could the internet go offline? Inside the fragile system holding the modern world together

Behind every meme and message is creaking, decades-old infrastructure. Internet experts can think of scenarios that could bring it all crashing down … It is the morning after the internet went offline and, as much as you would like to think you would be delighted, you are likely to be wondering what to do. You …

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Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows

Executives at world’s biggest datacenter owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities Amazon strategised about keeping the public in the dark over the true extent of its datacentres’ water use, a leaked internal document reveals. The biggest owner of datacentres in the world, Amazon dwarfs competitors Microsoft and Google and …

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‘You just have to laugh’: five teachers on dealing with ‘six-seven’ in the classroom

Children across the UK have been shouting out ‘six-seven’ during lessons. How are teachers reacting? Across the UK, school pupils have been shouting out the words “six-seven” during lessons in the latest meme-based craze to sweep through classrooms. While some teachers have chosen to stoically ignore the trend, others have embraced it. Five teachers explain …

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‘He’s one of the few politicians who likes crypto’: my day with the UK tech bros hosting Nigel Farage

The Reform UK leader is courting the crypto community in the hope it could become a campaign funding base It is a grey morning in Shadwell, east London. But inside the old shell of Tobacco Dock, the gloom gives way to pulsating neon lights, flashy cars and cryptocurrency chatter. Evangelists for Web3, a vision for …

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AI models may be developing their own ‘survival drive’, researchers say

Like 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000, some AIs seem to resist being turned off and will even sabotage shutdown When HAL 9000, the artificial intelligence supercomputer in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, works out that the astronauts onboard a mission to Jupiter are planning to shut it down, it plots to kill them …

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Trump says tech chiefs convinced him to call off troop ‘surge’ to San Francisco

President specifically lauds Nvidia and Salesforce CEOs and says they told him ‘the future of San Francisco is great’ Silicon Valley executives apparently leaned on Donald Trump to call off a “surge” of federal troops in San Francisco on Thursday. The president said in a social media post that “friends of mine who live in …

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