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Facial recognition could be your new ticket to the footy

ABC News

Facial recognition could be your new ticket to the footy

Facial recognition technology is being used as an alternative form of ticketing, but some experts are concerned it could open the door to the data being used for more than just event entry.

ABC News

Can’t find the Chrome extension you want? I used Claude to make me two personalized ones

Can’t find the Chrome extension you want? I used Claude to make me two personalized ones

One of the most notable ways AI is changing the world is through software coding: vast swathes of code are now written by AI, and while there's still a debate over just how beneficial this shift is, there's no doubt it's happening at a…

The FDA just picked its first company to sell an unauthorised device to Medicare patients

The FDA just picked its first company to sell an unauthorised device to Medicare patients

The US Food and Drug Administration named Dexcom as the first manufacturer selected for its Technology-Enabled Meaningful Patient Outcomes pilot on Tuesday. The programme, known as TEMPO, allows digital health devices to be offered to…

Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc

Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc

An extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening hasn't just caused issues for people trying to play digital games - it blocked people from playing their disc-based games, too. Xbox's status page initially reported the outage on Sunday at…

AMD says the MI430X is the fastest FP64 GPU ever built, but you can't buy one until 2027

AMD says the MI430X is the fastest FP64 GPU ever built, but you can't buy one until 2027

AMD's MI400 press release publishes exactly one performance figure 288 TFLOPS of hardware FP64 on the MI430X, a GPU it positions as its go-to for sovereign AI and HPC Unlike the MI455X, which it launched alongside, the MI430X will have…

Microsoft built an agentic security system with red, blue, and green team AI agents. It enters public preview August 3.

Microsoft built an agentic security system with red, blue, and green team AI agents. It enters public preview August 3.

Microsoft announced Project Perception on Monday, an agentic security system that coordinates three classes of AI agents in a continuous loop: red team agents that find vulnerabilities before attackers do, blue team agents that investigate…

Wildfires 'stark reminder' of extreme climate challenge, says William

BBC

Wildfires 'stark reminder' of extreme climate challenge, says William

The prince's warning comes as wildfires rage in parts of Europe and the UK during a spell of extreme heat.

BBC

‘Verifying authenticity’: DRDO sources on report claiming DRDO data put on dark web

Times of India

‘Verifying authenticity’: DRDO sources on report claiming DRDO data put on dark web

Sensitive Defence Research and Development Organisation data was reportedly offered for sale. This alleged data was advertised for eight thousand dollars on the dark web. A cyber intelligence firm discovered the sensitive information…

Times of India

Nanoleaf’s colorful pegboard and shelf kit is half off

Nanoleaf’s colorful pegboard and shelf kit is half off

Nanoleaf’s Blocks Combo XL Smarter Kit is a fun back-to-school buy that can add pops of customizable light and storage to your wall. It combines colorful smart lighting panels with a low-profile shelf and pegboard, and right now you can…

Indonesia eyes new EV incentives to boost local production

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Indonesia eyes new EV incentives to boost local production

The Indonesian government plans to align its electric vehicle (EV) incentive scheme with a broader national strategy to ...

Antara News

5th Circuit blocks Texas law requiring websites to filter "harmful" speech

Ars Technica

5th Circuit blocks Texas law requiring websites to filter "harmful" speech

Texas cannot enforce a law's requirement that websites block minors from seeing harmful speech, the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled on Friday. Big Tech lobby groups challenged the Texas "law’s requirement that certain social…

Ars Technica

I transformed Gimp into Adobe Photoshop — and I might just cancel my Creative Cloud subscription now

I transformed Gimp into Adobe Photoshop — and I might just cancel my Creative Cloud subscription now

Sometimes it feels like there's no escaping subscriptions. I seem to pay a monthly fee for the tools in my digital arsenal. I find myself nostalgic for the days of one-off charges with the occasional upgrade fee for some new refinements to…