‘We’re buzzing’: Octopus Energy is giving away more free electricity to its 8 million customers — and it could stop the UK wasting £1.5 billion to shut down wind farms

Octopus Energy is expanding free electricity schemes as renewable oversupply forces costly shutdowns of wind farms across the national grid.
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Researchers use AI to break the rules of nature and create a living organism that lacks a fundamental building block of life – the first synthetic 19-amino acid life form is here

Scientists just made the first ever observed organism with fewer than 20 amino acids in its make-up, and it was made possible by AI.
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‘Your Wi-Fi cable could be a secret microphone’: How researchers turned an earthquake detection method into an accidental spy tool using AI

With minimal cable access, commercially available tools and AI, attackers can technically listen in to your conversations via your fiber optic cables.
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Sandisk feels generous, open sources key tech that will supercharge any SSD — great news for AI, but not for your gaming PC

Sandisk open sources SPRandom, reducing SSD pre-conditioning time from days to hours depending on drive capacity and deployment requirements.
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Chinese-born robot becomes world’s first android monk as humanoid called Gabi takes vows in South Korea — three more $16,000 ‘spiritual cyborgs’ will join it for Buddha’s birthday

South Korean monks ordained an AI powered humanoid robot, triggering debate over spirituality, suffering, and sacred religious traditions worldwide.
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Western Digital says it can increase your HDD capacity and cut power usage thanks to a ‘clever way’ of spinning down hard drives that doesn’t impact performance too much

Western Digital develops hard drives which spin down for lower power consumption while maintaining performance acceptable for hyperscale production workloads.
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This devious Android malware has returned disguised as TikTok or streaming apps — and is now using blockchain to remain undetected

A fake TikTok app is actually a banking trojan enabling credential theft and wire fraud.

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Mac users beware — scammers are hijacking Claude chats and Google ads to push malware

Fake Claude support pages are circulating, being advertised through Google Ads

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OpenAI snaps up consulting company to help spread the word about AI

OpenAI sets out plans to embed DeployCo workers inside customer enterprises to help them identify AI uses cases and transformation opportunities.
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‘Current LLMs introduce substantial errors when editing work documents’: Microsoft scientists find most AI models struggle with long-running tasks — so maybe don’t trust them completely just yet

The more interactions an AI model has, the less reliable it becomes, experts find, as even the best only scored 80.9% – and the worst scoring just 10.0%.
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