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Surveillance technology startup Flock announced a series of new policies and tools on Thursday, claiming they will help curb abuse of its automated license plate camera reader systems and help keep its law enforcement customers accountable. Flock is now recommending police depart

Apple has sent out a new batch of notifications to customers who it suspects have been targeted with spyware capable of hacking into their devices. The tech giant sends out these notifications on occasion to alert its customers that their iPhones, iPads, or Macs might have been c

Engine parts smashed Ryanair window that man's head was sucked out of, report says - Published Broken engine fragments smashed a cabin window of a Ryanair plane causing a man's head and right shoulder to be sucked into the hole last month, US investigators have said. The National

Microsoft Copilot will no longer show its emotive yellow blob, Mico, when you use the chatbot’s voice mode. In a support page, Microsoft says it’s going to move Mico to its Learn Live platform, where the avatar will have “more to react to,” as reported earlier by GeekWire. Micros

New York City's pied-à-terre tax can continue its planned rollout while it faces a legal challenge, an appellate judge ruled Thursday. The ruling comes after Staten Island Judge Wayne Ozzi on Monday issued a temporary restraining order briefly halting the levy on second homes abo

Apple CEO Tim Cook was joined by government officials, including Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, on Thursday to open a new manufacturing facility offering free training and educational classes for businesses in Houston, Texas. The facility is also where Apple will manufactu

Apple CEO Tim Cook was joined by government officials, including Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, on Thursday to open a new manufacturing facility offering free training and educational classes for businesses in Houston, Texas. The facility is also where Apple will manufactu

University of Connecticut women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma said WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert should try to shift the league's dialogue away from transgender issues because fans don't want to watch "another protest movement." "Nobody's coming to watch another political

Across the AI industry, users are becoming more conscious of just how expensive their deployments can be —and feeling a new urgency to cut costs. But while open source models offer significantly lower per-token costs, it can be difficult to find the right model for a given job. O

Nvidia’s $500B AI Infrastructure Bet Raises Power Stakes Nvidia’s $500B financing push could change how operators fund AI infrastructure, while power and interconnection remain critical constraints on deployment. Nvidia has partnered with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield

BBC Sport 'This is her stage!' - Hunt takes 200m gold This content is not available in your location. There was an error GB sprint star Amy Hunt takes her second gold of the 2026 European Athletics Championships in the women's 200m, with Rhasidat Adeleke second and Dina Asher

The Kennedy Center's board of trustees voted Thursday to inscribe President Donald Trump's name on its building facade, setting up a renewed legal battle over changes to the Washington, D.C., performing arts facility. Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, called the new vote "a transparent

Cisco shares dropped 8.4% on Thursday, as the networking equipment vendor's better-than-expected earnings report and strong guidance failed to impress Wall Street. The company said revenue in the current quarter will be between $18 billion and $18.2 billion, topping the $16.8 bil

Cisco shares dropped 8.4% on Thursday, as the networking equipment vendor's better-than-expected earnings report and strong guidance failed to impress Wall Street. The company said revenue in the current quarter will be between $18 billion and $18.2 billion, topping the $16.8 bil

The Trump administration is pointing the finger at more than 40 countries it says have helped China dodge tens of billions of dollars in tariffs. “It’s big money, but there’s also a very human cost here,” Peter Navarro, senior counsel for trade and manufacturing, told reporters T

The Dell Pro Precision 5 14s AMD is the Ryzen half of Dell’s newest 14-inch mobile workstation. Our review unit runs the Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 475, a 12-core, 24-thread processor with a 60 TOPS NPU, alongside Radeon 890M integrated graphics, 64GB of LPDDR5x memory, a 1TB Gen4 SSD, an

BBC Verify speaks to woman who filmed ICE agent pointing gun at her A video showing a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent pointing his gun at a woman has been viewed by millions after she shared the moment on Instagram. Carolina Molina says she was out delivering b

Prusa Research XL, Core One, and Core One L all to receive second-generation upgrades — all new orders get updated model for 'free' Existing models will have upgrade kits available. If you’re feeling sad that you can’t afford a new 3D printer this summer, perhaps you can swing an

S&P 500 companies are keeping more profit from every dollar in sales than ever before, providing another tailwind for stocks. Using FactSet data, John Butters, senior earnings analyst and vice president at FactSet, showed that the S&P 500's blended net profit margin is running at

Mobility unicorn Rapido has secured the cab aggregator licence from the Karnataka State Transport Authority. Granted under the Karnataka On-Demand Transportation Technology Aggregators Rules, 2016, the licence will enable Rapido to operate four-wheeler ride-hailing services in th

There’s a funny kind of game that the latest of late-stage startups must play when raising money. They often have to sell more shares than they want or risk offending some of their existing VCs. This scenario recently played out with AI big-data company Databricks and its latest

Palestinians told to leave homes in village where Israeli settlers besieged houses - Published About a dozen Palestinian households in a village in the occupied West Bank were told to leave their properties during an Israeli military operation to remove Israeli settlers. The sett

Workday shares popped nearly 18% for their best day since 2016 on a report that private equity firm Silver Lake is in talks to buy the human resources software maker. Shares were halted multiple times in late afternoon trading and the company's market value closed at nearly $51 b

Workday shares popped nearly 18% for their best day since 2016 on a report that private equity firm Silver Lake is in talks to buy the human resources software maker. Shares were halted multiple times in late afternoon trading and the company's market value closed at nearly $51 b

OpenAI said Thursday that Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser is leaving her role less than a year after she joined the artificial intelligence lab, a startling exit for a company that's gearing up for what's expected to be a blockbuster IPO. The company said Dresser is leaving

OpenAI said Thursday that Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser is leaving her role less than a year after she joined the artificial intelligence lab, a startling exit for a company that's gearing up for what's expected to be a blockbuster IPO. The company said Dresser is leaving

A federal trade court on Thursday upheld President Donald Trump's elimination of the "de minimis" exemption, which allowed goods valued under $800 to be imported to the U.S. tax free. Trump, a major proponent of tariffs and other forms of protectionism, celebrated the continued c

The Trump administration is recruiting private security firms to conduct federal government-authorized operations, including cyberattacks, against overseas-based criminal organizations that commit hacks on US persons, organizations, or government entities. In a National Security

The News President Donald Trump’s plans to sell F-35 fighter jets to Türkiye remain stalled more than a month after he announced them, leaving Congress to navigate the resulting tension between a NATO ally and Israel. At issue is the requirement in US sanctions law that Türkiye o