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Booking.com warns customers of hack that exposed their data

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Undisclosed number of names, contact and reservation details are accessed in latest cybercrime attemptBusiness live – latest updatesThe accommodation reservation website Booking.com has suffered a data breach with “unauthorised parties” gaining access to customers’ details.The platform said it “noticed some suspicious activity involving unauthorised third parties being able to access some of our guests’ booking […]

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Rolls-Royce secures nearly £600m in UK government cash to develop small reactors

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Engine-maker CEO hails ‘critical milestone’ for company in race to deliver SMR technology built at Wylfa plant on Anglesey Business live – latest updatesRolls-Royce has secured up to £599m from Britain’s national wealth fund as it races to develop the UK’s first small modular nuclear reactors.The fund will help support Rolls-Royce’s design of small modular

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An Implementation Guide to Building a DuckDB-Python Analytics Pipeline with SQL, DataFrames, Parquet, UDFs, and Performance Profiling

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In this tutorial, we build a comprehensive, hands-on understanding of DuckDB-Python by working through its features directly in code on Colab. We start with the fundamentals of connection management and data generation, then move into real analytical workflows, including querying Pandas, Polars, and Arrow objects without manual loading, transforming results across multiple formats, and writing

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MiniMax Releases MMX-CLI: A Command-Line Interface That Gives AI Agents Native Access to Image, Video, Speech, Music, Vision, and Search

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MiniMax, the AI research company behind the MiniMax omni-modal model stack, has released MMX-CLI — Node.js-based command-line interface that exposes the MiniMax AI platform’s full suite of generative capabilities, both to human developers working in a terminal and to AI agents running in tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and OpenCode. What Problem Is MMX-CLI Solving?

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Meta‘s AI glasses and the dawn of wearable tech – podcast

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Elle Hunt on her month wearing Meta’s smart glasses and the privacy concerns around the technology According to Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s AI-powered glasses are “personal super intelligence” that “let you stay present in the moment”.Journalist Elle Hunt reports on her time wearing them for a month. Elle tells Nosheen Iqbal about the highs and lows

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A Hands-On Coding Tutorial for Microsoft VibeVoice Covering Speaker-Aware ASR, Real-Time TTS, and Speech-to-Speech Pipelines

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In this tutorial, we explore Microsoft VibeVoice in Colab and build a complete hands-on workflow for both speech recognition and real-time speech synthesis. We set up the environment from scratch, install the required dependencies, verify support for the latest VibeVoice models, and then walk through advanced capabilities such as speaker-aware transcription, context-guided ASR, batch audio

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Meta AI and KAUST Researchers Propose Neural Computers That Fold Computation, Memory, and I/O Into One Learned Model

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Researchers from Meta AI and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have introduced Neural Computers (NCs) — a proposed machine form in which a neural network itself acts as the running computer, rather than as a layer sitting on top of one. The research team presents both a theoretical framework and two

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A Coding Implementation of MolmoAct for Depth-Aware Spatial Reasoning, Visual Trajectory Tracing, and Robotic Action Prediction

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In this tutorial, we walk through MolmoAct step by step and build a practical understanding of how action-reasoning models can reason in space from visual observations. We set up the environment, load the model, prepare multi-view image inputs, and explore how MolmoAct produces depth-aware reasoning, visual traces, and actionable robot outputs from natural language instructions.

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The Guardian view on AI politics: US datacentre protests are a warning to big tech | Editorial

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In both Republican and Democratic states, scepticism and hostility towards an unregulated construction boom is growingWhen blue-collar Trump voters and Maga-friendly midwest states join the same cause as Bernie Sanders and liberal California teachers, something novel is afoot. Last month it was the turn of the Republican party in Texas to express forthright opposition to

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‘It feels as if I’ve made a new best friend’: my experiment with AI journalling

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What’s it like to have a diary that talks back to you, offering comments and advice on your hopes, fears and lunch plans? I spent two months finding outEver since I was a teenager, I have kept some form of diary. These days I favour a paper one for creative brainstorming, and the Journal app

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