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Power outage hits Google Cloud services disrupting UK banks

Euronews

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Power outage hits Google Cloud services disrupting UK banks

A power outage at a Google Cloud data centre in London caused serious network disruptions to its services Tuesday, the US tech giant said.

Euronews

Chinese battery giant CATL hit by profit slowdown as EV headwind fears grow

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Chinese battery giant CATL hit by profit slowdown as EV headwind fears grow

Chinese battery giant Contemporary Amperex Technology Limited (CATL) has recorded a surprise slowdown in third-quarter net profits, as analysts warned the company could be hit by slowing demand from China’s electric car industry next year…

South China Morning Post

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Lagos urges civil servants to embrace AI, transformational leadership

The Lagos State Government has urged its senior civil servants to embrace artificial intelligence and transformational leadership to improve governance. Read More…

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Apple to buy up to $100M of US titanium for the iPhone Duo

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Apple to buy up to $100M of US titanium for the iPhone Duo

Apple will buy up to $100M of titanium from Perryman, a family-owned producer in Pennsylvania, over the next three years, the company announced. The metal will be used in several Apple products, including the casing of the iPhone Duo, its…

The Next Web

How to know it's time to replace your router

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How to know it's time to replace your router

One of the issues with internet routers is that it's not always obvious when it's not working as it should. Here's how to check if it could be on its way out.

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US continues to provide airstrike warnings to Ukraine — top diplomat

Commenting on allegations from "somebody associated with the Ukrainian government" that people in Ukraine were dying because the US was denying Kiev information about airstrikes, Marco Rubio emphasized that it was "simply not true"

TASS

UK antitrust regulator wants Apple to open up iPhone NFC access

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UK antitrust regulator wants Apple to open up iPhone NFC access

The UK is taking aim at Apple's near-monopoly on contactless NFC smartphone payments.

At 7,250MB/s, the Samsung 990 just became our best-value 2TB SSD right now as Amazon drops the price by $200

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At 7,250MB/s, the Samsung 990 just became our best-value 2TB SSD right now as Amazon drops the price by $200

Samsung's SSDs have long been one of our favorites, shattering our benchmarking tests and always one of our recommendations if you're running out of storage space for applications, large files, photos and videos, and want to upgrade your…

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Meta Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations

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Meta Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations

Muse, the new general-purpose AI agent from Meta, can expose sensitive information when users share conversations through Web links, researchers reported Monday. Like many online services, Muse allows users to share searches…

Ars Technica

I’m a CTO. AI still needs your human expertise | Madhu Shashanka

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I’m a CTO. AI still needs your human expertise | Madhu Shashanka

AI is increasingly getting good at doing some tasks, but it can never replace human workers’ judgment Autonomous cars, which may be the safest we have built, keep getting easily avoidable parking tickets. While Waymos crash far less often…

The Guardian

Data Centers Are Burning Fossil Fuels. It’s Destroying Big Tech’s Climate Goals

CNET