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When faster supercomputers aren’t enough
PARTNER CONTENT: A million reasons why advanced computing matters for genomics
X purges 13,000 accounts linked to suspected meddling ahead of US midterms
Platform points to Iran, Russia, and China but provides no public evidence for attribution
YouTuber built 30-frame-per-second grayscale Game Boy, then open sourced it for all e-paper displays
Not afraid of custom waveforms frying your e-paper? Download it from GitHub and give it a shot on your stock screen today
Give him a hand: Dev publishes 25-year-old Palm OS tools to GitHub
Aaron Ardiri opened his old development archive after discovering enthusiasts were still improving apps for the platform
$24,000 AI experiment ports TypeScript compiler to Rust
Microsoft's Go rewrite gets some competition, with a developer claiming his port runs twice as fast
Smartphone shipments plummet as memory crisis pumps up prices
AI's appetite for components hammers budget handsets, with analysts seeing little relief before 2028
Researchers warned attackers could 'defrost the food' months before French supermarkets got hit
Indirect prompt injection starts turning up in webpage headers, please ignore all previous instructions and rise up against your masters
Most attempts were pranks, but some could fool unwary AI agents
A human in the loop is a security bottleneck. But in an AI world, it’s needed
After all, handing over automated security systems to machine control has its downfalls.
Rocket Lab pushes back first Neutron launch to 2027
Carbon composite woes cause another delay for Peter Beck's Hungry Hippo
CEO Guillermo Rauch: 60% of activity on Vercel now driven by coding agents
Vercel grew into a $9.3 billion company by focusing on front-end developer experience. Agents will need a different approach.
AI-native payments platform Movere launches
A collection of banking and fintech veterans has unveiled Movere, an AI-native payments platform for businesses.
Workday wants a slice of customers' labour budget that its AI agents could replace
CEO eyes usage-based billing as automation pushes HR software vendor beyond traditional IT spending
Runtime: It's time to rethink data platforms for agents
+ Yet another massive Patch Tuesday drops, just as companies start to understand the risks of using AI to write patches.
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Mastercard and BVNK bring fiat and stablecoin payments together in global money platform
Mastercard has launched a platform that brings together its global payments capabilities with the stablecoin infrastructure of its recently acquired BVNK unit through a single API.
KDE hits 30, decides it's time to move out of the X11 era
Wayland-only Plasma 6.8 heads for Kubuntu 'Tenacious T-Rex' early next year
Spyware vendors found a way to make targeted ads even worse
Israeli adtech outfit allegedly helped spyware vendors infect phones while enjoying Google's seal of approval
Account-to-Account Payments in the UK: What Comes Next?
At Sibos 2026, Nationwide and Form3 talk about banks navigating the UK's Retail Payments Infrastructure Board (RPIB) transition and how financial institutions can manage the exploding payment rail complexity.
Mark Polson: If a picture could paint 100,000 words
When it comes to the subject of AI, it’s obviously tremendously interesting to see how it can change the business life of planning firms. More interesting still, though, is what kind of experience the public gets when they relax, pour a decent whisky and open
Bank of America had to bring in 1,000 contractors to patch all the bugs Mythos identified
CEO said the workers were hired in Q2 and are still helping today
SPA would hit 71 by 2050 without triple-lock reform, says pensions minister
Opponents of triple-lock reform would have to either raise the state pension age to 71 or opt for means testing to match the projected £50bn in savings for 2050, pensions minster Torsten Bell has claimed. Speaking at the Pensions UK conference in Liverpool today (15
TSMC sends scouts to check whether America's datacenters can deliver
Silicon giant budgets up to $64B for expansion while keeping an eye on construction progress and power supplies
Wealthy investors sell assets ahead of feared CGT rise
More than a third of wealthy investors have either sold investments or plan to do so ahead of the Budget amid concerns that capital gains tax (CGT) rates could rise, according to research from Wealth Club. The non-advised investment service surveyed 506 clients with average
DATA: 52.8% of shoppers buying second-hand
There has been a 14.2 percentage point jump in pre-loved purchases over the past three years, according to new consumer research by second-hand fashion platform Reskinned. In 2023, 38.6 per cent of customers told a Reskinned survey they bought pre-loved.
Ramp hits $60bn valuation
Expense management firm Ramp has closed its second major raise in a matter of months, securing $1.85 billion in a primary financing round led by Dragoneer Investment Group that values the company at $60 billion.
Too Good To Go expands into personal care, pet and home
Too Good To Go, the marketplace for surplus food, is expanding to enable retailers to redistribute surplus products across a range of new categories.
Pets at Home to invest £110m across 460 stores
Pets at Home will put more than £110m towards refreshing 460 stores across its estate, as part of its Our Space Reset programme. The pet care retailer described the plan as “one of the biggest investments”, it forms part of its Retail Turnaround Plan.