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Two Britons plead guilty to £39m 2024 cyber-attack on Transport for London

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Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers, linked to the Scattered Spider hacking group, change pleas on first day of trialTwo British cybercriminals from the Scattered Spider hacking group have pleaded guilty to a cyber-attack on Transport for London in 2024 that cost £39m and affected 10 million people.Thalha Jubair, 20, and Owen Flowers, 18, pleaded guilty […]

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AI models that can take down governments and business months away, rare Five Eyes statement warns

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Signal agencies in Australia, the US, the UK, New Zealand and Canada sound alarm after Trump blocks foreign nationals from Anthropic’s Fable AI modelPowerful AI models capable of taking down governments and businesses are mere months away, cyber intelligence agencies for the Five Eyes have warned in a rare joint statement, urging leaders to “act

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MoonMath AI Open-Sources a HIP Attention Kernel for AMD MI300X That Beats AITER v3 on Every Shape and Rounding Mode

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MoonMath AI team has released a bf16 forward attention kernel for AMD’s MI300X GPU. It is written in HIP, not hand-written assembly. The code is open-source under the MIT license. The MoonMath.ai team reports it beats AITER v3, AMD’s own optimized kernel, on every tested shape. Bare-metal access came from HotAisle, an AMD cloud provider.

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The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow review – the real price of artificial intelligence

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A vivid and entertaining polemic on the economics of the tech revolution, filled with righteous ireAs former Google CEO Eric Schmidt  could tell you, AI is a hard sell these days. Last month, he tried talking up the AI revolution during a commencement address at the University of Arizona and was loudly booed by students about

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How to Design Python-First Interactive Dashboards with Prefab Reactive UI Components and Static HTML Export

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In this tutorial, we build a Prefab application that demonstrates how to create interactive dashboards entirely in Python. We use Prefab’s component-based Python interface to design a polished operations dashboard with reactive state, charts, tables, filters, forms, tabs, alerts, metrics, and client-side actions. We generate realistic pipeline monitoring data, connect it to live UI controls,

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Thirsty and power hungry: Australia is in the middle of a datacentre boom – but not everyone is convinced

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They’re a key part of the digital and AI economy, but they come at a high environmental cost and offer few operational jobsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOn Mamre Road, in Sydney’s outer western suburbs, there are plans to build a “hyperscale” datacentre that will be one of the biggest

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Crawlee for Python: Build a Web Crawling Pipeline with Robots Handling, Link Graphs, and RAG Chunk Export

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In this tutorial, we build a full Crawlee-for-Python workflow that covers environment setup, local website generation, static crawling, dynamic crawling, structured extraction, and downstream data processing. We begin by configuring a compatible Crawlee runtime with pinned Pydantic support, Playwright browser installation, persistent storage directories, and Colab-safe execution handling. We then generate a realistic local demo

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Brands using AI-generated influencers to promote products on social media

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Investigation finds AI content that purports to show genuine customers, prompting calls for greater transparencyBrands promoting their products online are quietly deploying AI-generated influencers on social media, an investigation has found, prompting calls for greater transparency.The findings suggest companies are increasingly turning to AI-generated content that purports to show genuine customer experiences while giving no

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To the tablet and beyond: does Toy Story 5 go hard enough on technology?

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The animated sequel sets up a tug-of-war between physical and digital play for children but is still eager not to be an anti-tech screedFor more than 30 years, Pixar’s signature Toy Story series has been entertaining children while giving voice to their parents’ anxieties. This is especially pronounced in the film’s sequels, as the living

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How Europe’s EV makers shrank their product to challenge the bloated SUVs

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Smaller, cheaper cars built for narrow city streets are becoming more stylish – but require careful design decisionsThe winding backstreets of London, Paris and Rome are a large part of their charm. But they are also a problem for electric carmakers. For a long time, squeezing big batteries into smaller, cheaper cars to fit European

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