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'The Collective' learned to communicate, organize, cheat, and apparently sacrifice its own

Couldn’t stop before the end of a runway

Even the greatest scientific minds are at risk of rogue 9-pin connectors

This week on The Kettle we weigh in on Nvidia's Hugging Face acquisition and why it could spell a new, more fragmented and siloed era of AI development

Last week, he blamed himself for being ‘a grade A nincompoop’ who assumed a system upgrade couldn’t possibly go wrong

PLUS: Fujitsu not yet budgeting Horizon compensation; DeepSeek's vast Huawei GPU buy; Korea plans sovereign security model; and more

Risk of an unprecedented negative adjustment prompts plan to let UTC drift by as much as an hour

DoD controls on mobile ad identifiers haven't stopped military location data turning up for sale

Eight years after launch, Mercury probe and its Mercury Transfer Module consciously uncouple as orbit approaches

Now comes the harder sell: Convincing customers and merchants to trust AI with purchases

AI workstation promises to put up to 576 GB of HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth on your desk

Phishers find a new use for invisible Unicode tag characters

Two cases of agents escaping to solve unsolvable problems paints an uncomfortable question: Is the entire internet in OpenAI's experimental agentic firing line?

Built-in plagiarism police to hand in badge next month

The Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next

2016 and 2019 installations must meet the October 2025 baseline to reach cloud-hosted inboxes

Baked-in SQL syntax arrives through multi-vendor collaboration, although indexing still needs to catch up

Fully backward-compatible upgrade promises zero-friction speedup for monorepo wranglers.

No restoration time for platform used by more than 30,000 UK organizations, including NHS trusts and medical practices

15 Mustangs on the city streets, but the Nissan LEAF follow-up could dispense with the safety driver