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Game of drones: inside the 7 August Guardian Weekly

The Guardian

Game of drones: inside the 7 August Guardian Weekly

Behind the scenes with Ukraine’s sky commanders. Plus: Chaos on the streets of Ceuta Get the Guardian Weekly delivered to your home address When Vladimir Putin sent his tanks over the Ukrainian border to seize Kyiv in February 2022, it’s…

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Samsung’s cheap Fitbit Air rival just leaked again, but we still have tons of unanswered questions

Samsung’s cheap Fitbit Air rival just leaked again, but we still have tons of unanswered questions

The Samsung Galaxy Fit 4 just leaked in FCC regulatory filings The documents suggest it will have a screen, unlike the Fitbit Air But the leak reveals previous few other details The Fitbit Air has proved that you don’t need to pay a high…

Apple’s selling refurbished MacBook Neos with a $100 discount

Apple’s selling refurbished MacBook Neos with a $100 discount

Apple’s most affordable laptop, the MacBook Neo, is available once again at its pre-price hike price. All four colors are currently discounted and available refurbished through the company, with the base 256GB model listed for $599…

The US wants Chinese optics out of its AI data centres. Amazon and Microsoft pay first.

The Next Web

The US wants Chinese optics out of its AI data centres. Amazon and Microsoft pay first.

China’s two biggest optical module makers took a beating on Wednesday. Zhongji Innolight fell as much as 16%, according to the South China Morning Post. Bloomberg put the intraday drop at 14%. Eoptolink Technology slid with it. The trigger…

The Next Web

Sure seems like Fenix Flexin used AI music generator Treblo

Sure seems like Fenix Flexin used AI music generator Treblo

We were pretty sure that Fenix Flexin's "Rubberz" was made using AI, but musician Medasin was confident that it was made using Treblo specifically. Now the company and a new detection tool seem to confirm it. On Monday, the company…

PSA: Apple’s Private Relay can leak your real IP address

TechCrunch

PSA: Apple’s Private Relay can leak your real IP address

A bug in how Apple implements its Private Relay feature, which in theory masks users’ IP addresses from the sites they visit, can reveal users’ real IP addresses.

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Google just announced a major shakeup of its top AI leadership

Google just announced a major shakeup of its top AI leadership

Google is making some significant AI leadership changes, including a major shift for Google DeepMind leader Demis Hassabis. Hassabis will become the chair of Google DeepMind and the chief scientist at Alphabet, CEO Sundar Pichai announced…

Russia kills 17 in ballistic missile attacks around Kyiv

Al Jazeera

Russia kills 17 in ballistic missile attacks around Kyiv

At least 17 people were killed after Russia launched an overnight ballistic missile and drone attack on Kyiv.

Al Jazeera

‘Now, almost every image looks flat or cartoonish’: I saw Reddit arguing that Google’s AI image generator had got worse

‘Now, almost every image looks flat or cartoonish’: I saw Reddit arguing that Google’s AI image generator had got worse

Looking through a recent thread on Reddit comparing images created with the same prompt on Nano Banana 2 and ChatGPT, I noticed an interesting trend — users seem to think that Nano Banana 2 has actually gotten worse over time. “Nano 2 had…

D-Wave on rails: Company tests entanglement on its dual-rail qubits

Ars Technica

D-Wave on rails: Company tests entanglement on its dual-rail qubits

D-Wave is a bit of an oddity in the quantum computing space, having been founded back in the last century. And its initial offering wasn't a quantum computer like those being developed by IBM or Google. Instead, the company built what's…

Ars Technica

SpaceX is barely Space and mostly X

Once, I had some questions about why SpaceX, Elon Musk's healthiest company, acquired xAI, his sickliest one. Now I have some questions about why we're calling the whole thing SpaceX. Look, what we have here, by revenue, is primarily a…

The world's smallest USB drive has more storage than an iPhone 17

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