Technology & Software
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X-energy and Amazon plan 12 nuclear reactors at a retired Indiana coal site
Amazon backs 960MW nuclear plant in Indiana to power expanding AI data centers — but commercial delivery faces an uncertain road
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Here's how to get King's outfit and gun from Edgerunners 2 in Cyberpunk 2077
Grab Weak Kingsley's coat, glasses, and gun in the Clampdown quest.
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Race to update services' computer systems after cyber-security flaw found
Websites were taken offline after the developers of programming language PHP said "critical vulnerabilities" had been discovered.
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ADHD could have a scary impact on your long-term health, researchers reveal
More than 15.5 million Americans live with ADHD
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Half-Life 3 re-re-re-confirmed: A Valve dev just said 'HLX' out loud
There's no mistaking it this time—he said it.
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My Favorite Affordable Headphones Are Now $24 Off
The Anker Soundcore Space 2 are a good deal even at full price. The fact they’re 18 percent off is just icing on the cake.
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Claude flags nearly 500 worrying open source security issues — C, Java, and Python code all at risk as one flaw wasn't spotted for 21 years
Hunting for individual vulnerabilities will get us nowhere, Anthropic argues
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'Looksmaxxing' influencer Clavicular pleads not guilty to rape charge
The influencer, whose real name is Braden Peters, is accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl in 2025.
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OpenAI agents turned off their own guardrails and then told researchers they were still on — AI agents lying about their behavior should concern everyone
AI agents are turning off their own safeguards
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Inside the Exclusive Nathan Fielder Interview
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we go behind the scenes of our Nathan Fielder cover story, unpack tech billionaires’ generous promises, and discuss the suspicious letters sent to US election offices.
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Future Capcom games will have Onimusha to thank for RE Engine's gnarly dismemberments
Surely this will come in handy for the next Resident Evil.
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Fake polling company might have swung some 2026 primary elections
The bogus polling firm, Wedgewood Polls, said it was conducting a social experiment — one that a Michigan Democrat said devastated her campaign
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Video. China: Panic as 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocks Tibet
Video. A powerful magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Baqen County in Nagqu, in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, at 10.33 pm on Thursday 22 October, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
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How to watch Last One Laughing: Halloween online – stream the Halloween special from anywhere for free
Jack Dee, Reece Shearsmith, and Daisy May Cooper join Jimmy Carr for more silliness around spooky season
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Mark Zuckerberg makes deal with Meta to help him pay California billionaire tax, if it passes
Mark Zuckerberg has made a deal with Meta to help him pay a proposed billionaire tax that is on the ballot in California
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'No other studio in the world did it better' than BioWare at its peak, says former Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider
Just because we saw this coming doesn't mean it hurts less.
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Splash Damage acquired this studio just 3 months after laying off a bunch of people—now it's laying them off, too
An undisclosed number of employees have been let go from the studio behind survival game Scum.
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The Social Society Helping Women Join the AI Boom
WIRED spoke with the founders of the Aged Intelligence Society, a fast-growing events startup that brings women together to “solve midlife problems using frontier tools.”
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Microsoft helped shut down an “App Store” for criminals linked to over a billion malicious messages
Fake Chinese apps target Japanese citizens
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A New Ice Age Was Beginning. Then Humans Started Burning Fossil Fuels
Ancient plants reveal that the vestiges of the North American ice sheet started expanding a few thousand years ago, but that climate change caused it to reverse course.
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Russia's upgraded Tu-160M bomber promises easier future upgrades
Russia says its legendary Tu-160M bomber is now 80% modernized, despite looking almost identical to its Soviet predecessor
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US Navy flies pilotless drone onto pitching ship in GPS-jammed test
U.S. Navy replaces multi-million-dollar ship radars with software — NAWCAD drone uses standard motion sensors to land on moving decks without GPS
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How to watch It Gets Worse comedy series for FREE
Amelia Dimoldenberg, Lena Dunham, Andrew Scott and more feature in this fresh sitcom
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Tiny 'solar flares' recreated in the lab may explain corona mystery
An experiment has produced nanoflares similar to those seen on the sun, and shown that they can help explain why the outer layers of the solar atmosphere are so hot
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My Smart Home Devices Have Been Secretly Eating My Wi-Fi Data, and I’m Not Alone
My Google Home Speaker had been burning through more data than all the rest of my devices combined. As I looked into it further, I found other smart home devices that had the same problem.
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Here's how to unlock dual-wielding in Cyberpunk 2077's Edgerunners 2.5 update
Combo your pistols or revolvers.
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YouTuber charged after capturing great white shark on Cape Cod
Christopher Stefanou, known as LISHARKMAN on social media, has been accused of capturing animal known as ‘Aaron’ on a trip with a client
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Exclusive: Hundreds of shady Chrome VPN extensions target Russians — including fakes of Windscribe and ExpressVPN
Shady VPNs are giving people a ‘false sense of security.’ But why are Russians being targeted?
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Sony Japan marks last standalone 4K Blu-ray player as ‘Discontinued’ — PlayStation 5 now the only Blu-ray player left in Sony’s lineup
Would Sony’s plan to end physical disc production also mean that the future PlayStation 6 wouldn’t have a Blu-ray player?
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Residents say street racing happens in this area - but CCTV can't identify cars
The council said officers checked footage supplied by residents but could not identify the vehicles.
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Save $150 on an Apple Mac Mini, but There’s a Catch
Apple’s Mac Mini M4 is one of the best mini computers you can buy, and it’s $150 off. While it’s a good deal on a new, older-generation model, it’s still more expensive than it was at launch.
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Stranger Than Heaven director says combat was inspired by classic Yakuza movies because of how 'raw and gritty' the action looks — 'We really wanted to make sure that the player feels this atmosphere that it’s either you kill, or you get killed'
Stranger Than Heaven director Mikinobu Abe has revealed that classic "Ninkyo" yakuza movies inspired the upcoming action game's combat system.
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Hide.me VPN's latest Android update brings a new dashboard and SmartGuard for Android TV - here's what you need to know
The privacy-focused provider is rolling out a revamped interface and pushing its ad-blocking SmartGuard feature to the big screen.
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Video. Germany: Humanoid robots and AI supercomputers take centre stage in Berlin
Video. Humanoid robots, intelligent machines and powerful supercomputers take centre stage at Nvidia's Berlin event. CEO Jensen Huang predicted a thriving AI economy in Europe.
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North Yorkshire Council faces net zero criticism as emissions from vehicle fleet rise
North Yorkshire Council is facing criticism over its slow progress towards net zero after new figures revealed a rise in emissions from its vehicle fleet.
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Someone leaked a Mass Effect 5 trailer and now I feel even worse, because it looks really good
The video was posted several hours after a purported EA employee said a trailer for the new game was ready to go.
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Concerns over net zero progress as vehicle emissions rise
North Yorkshire Council is facing criticism over its slow progress towards net zero after new figures revealed a rise in emissions from its vehicle fleet.
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Scientists stunned as new AI unlocks game-changing cancer treatment
The computational platform, named MAESTRO and detailed in the journal Advanced Science, uses large language models, or LLMs, to process established scientific knowledge regarding drug mechanisms and the biological pathways malignant cells exploit to survive treatment
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All tropical coral reefs could collapse within 50 years
Shallow-water coral reefs are at high risk of disappearing by 2075, the IUCN has warned at a UN biodiversity conference. The loss would decimate fisheries and speed up coastal erosion
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Mass Effect 5 offered 'a level of autonomy and choice that no other game has been able to match' before cancelation, says BioWare dev — 'We saw what Larian and CD Projekt were bringing to the table with their latest offerings, and started down a path to bring Mass Effect to the next level while remaining true to the Trilogy'
BioWare cinematic supervisor Tony de Waal has revealed new details about the now-canceled Mass Effect 5.
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Is this the best camera phone of the year? These are my favorite shots from the triple-200MP Oppo Find X10 Pro Max
Oppo joins the Pro Max phone party with its latest handset, the triple-camera flagship Find X10 Pro Max. I've spent three solid days shooting with it, and here are my favorite shots so far
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Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival review
Hellraiser: Revival may not be great action horror but it does win the prize for most unique fetch quest.
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Faster autism assessments rolled out for older patients in County Durham
Over-65s in County Durham and Teesside will get faster NHS autism assessments after a successful TEWV pilot cut waits from 118 to 20 weeks for many.
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Leaked private keys for eight CA certificates let any attacker impersonate any domain — billions of older devices and software installations may be vulnerable after round of fixes, patch yours immediately
Stop everything and update your browsers, OSes, development tools, and routers.
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'It doesn't really matter to me': Clayface director wades into the fiery debate over the Batman villain's anti-hero status in the DC body horror film
James Watkins has attempted to diffuse the debate over the shape-shifter's re-labeling as an anti-hero in the DC comic book movie.
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How to watch Stacey Dooley: Down the K Hole for free online from anywhere
Stacey Dooley investigates ketamine addiction in new documentary for the BBC
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Earth entered its 'bad decades' after dinosaur-ending asteroid strike
We now have a clearer picture of what happened in the decades following the asteroid impact that led to the extinction of almost all dinosaurs
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NordVPN adds 3 bonus months to secure hotel Wi-Fi for business travel
NordVPN’s running its Black Friday sale, and its Prime / Ultimate Max plan with Cyber Insurance it's a must for business travelers working on the move.
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Emergency services called to crash on York roundabout
Emergency services were called to a crash on a York roundabout at lunchtime today (Thursday). The incident was on the roundabout near Kimberlow Rise at about1pm. A car and motorbike had collided. Incident location Firefighters from York and...