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FG to Students: You’ll get free 100MB daily data from October 1

Daily Trust

FG to Students: You’ll get free 100MB daily data from October 1

The Federal Government says Nigerian students will receive 100 megabytes (MB) of free data daily to access selected educational websites and digital learning platforms from October 1, 2026. The initiative, developed by the Nigerian…

Daily Trust

Greece picks its first astronaut for a 2027 Vast mission to the ISS

Greece picks its first astronaut for a 2027 Vast mission to the ISS

Adrianos Golemis is set to become Greece’s first astronaut, subject to approval by the space station partners. The European Space Agency has signed an agreement on behalf of Greece with the US company Vast. Vast plans the mission to the…

Eager to try iOS 27’s cool AI features and upgraded Siri? Get ready for usage limits

ZDNet

Eager to try iOS 27’s cool AI features and upgraded Siri? Get ready for usage limits

A new Apple support page explains how Siri AI and other AI-powered tools in the new OS will be controlled.

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1.89 Seasons: A Baseball Experiment About Hiring and Human Judgment

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1.89 Seasons: A Baseball Experiment About Hiring and Human Judgment

Nearly every evaluation system in wide use answers the same question: how does this person compare to people like them? Years of experience, school, sector, title trajectory. A statistical claim about a category, applied to an individual…

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BNP says AI borrowing will end the credit bull market, and it is lending to AI too

BNP says AI borrowing will end the credit bull market, and it is lending to AI too

BNP Paribas expects the years-long rally in corporate bonds to break as hyperscalers flood the market, forecasting some $400B of their bond sales next year and a record $3.7T of net fixed income supply. The ECB reached a similar conclusion…

Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you

Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you

Come inside the mind of a bot trying to convince the internet it's human.

Physicist does the math on Star Trek’s “Picard maneuver”

Ars Technica

Physicist does the math on Star Trek’s “Picard maneuver”

It turns out Jean-Luc Picard was an even better starship helmsman than the writers knew. A physicist has gone through the details of a warp-speed trick from the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation and found a subtlety the show…

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UK Sanctions Against Israeli Settlers Divide British Rabbis

UK Sanctions Against Israeli Settlers Divide British Rabbis

Prominent rabbis reacted with a mix of support, condemnation and concern about the ramifications for Jews in Britain.

India’s Pocket FM doubles revenue run rate to $500M as AI powers 93% of audio content

India’s Pocket FM doubles revenue run rate to $500M as AI powers 93% of audio content

Pocket FM uses AI to produce 99% of its new content, helping make content production about 80 times cheaper.

Moscow Claims Ukraine Sought to Start a War Between Russia and the U.K.

Moscow Claims Ukraine Sought to Start a War Between Russia and the U.K.

Britain warned that Russia uses disinformation to divide Ukraine from its international partners.

Andrew Tulloch, Meta’s star AI recruit, is leaving after less than a year

Andrew Tulloch, Meta’s star AI recruit, is leaving after less than a year

Andrew Tulloch is leaving Meta less than a year after he joined. His reported pay offer from the company had made him a symbol of the AI talent war. Reed Albergotti first reported the departure for Semafor on Wednesday, citing a person…

US trial against China’s Huawei opens with prosecutor calling the company a criminal enterprise

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