Amazon reveals £1bn investment in the UK – 4,000 jobs set to be created, with new £500m fulfilment centre hoping to speed up deliveries across the country

£500m, robot-equipped Northampton facility now open, UK’s largest cross-dock facility in Kettering opening soon.

81% of teams ship broken code: Mythos made that inexcusable

AI is making once-ignored software vulnerabilities faster, easier, and far more dangerous to exploit.

A new era of privacy: programmable disclosure

As data distrust grows, programmable disclosure is a route to bring back user faith.

Report warns ‘potentially lethal’ knock-off phone chargers sold on Amazon Haul, B&Q and eBay can electrocute and even explode

New Which? report reveals dangerous, ‘potentially lethal’ knock-off phone chargers sold by major retailers

‘AI is changing cyber security fast’: BT becomes first UK firm to join Anthropic Project Glasswing

BT declares its support for Anthropic’s Project Glasswing – uses Claude Mythos Preview AI model to protect networks against cyberattacks.
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Study shows many students are actually using AI for good — smashing the myth of cheating and laziness

New data reveals European students mostly use AI for organization and productivity – not cheating.

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‘More than any other country in the world’ – Ukraine wants to be the biggest drone and robot producer worldwide, outstripping China, Russia, and the US combined —Kyiv claims it could build more than 30 million units annually within years

Ukraine claims allied funding could help produce millions of military drones annually while expanding deep strike operations inside Russia.
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‘AI tools could lead to nothing less than the death of astrophysics’: Researchers predict bleak future for thousands who study black holes, galaxies, and supernovae

Astrophysicists increasingly fear artificial intelligence could weaken scientific reasoning while transforming research, publishing, training, and academic culture worldwide.
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Americans are increasingly opposing data centers — here is every US state fighting back against new buildings

US citizens are doing their best to get data centers banned, but the revenue and investment is too juicy for some industries to resist.
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Quote of the day by Google CEO Sundar Pichai: AI is “more profound than electricity or fire” — a reminder of its role as a critical resource in the modern world

With AI usage growing tremendously in recent years, we reflect on one of the most intriguing framings of this technology
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