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Charter Planes and Bidding Wars: How Bitcoin Miners Raced to Beat Trump’s Tariffs
When US president Donald Trump announced sweeping tariff hikes in April, he set in motion a seven-day rush to bring goods into the country. Bitcoin miners elbowed their way to the front of the queue.
Published on: August 06, 2025 | Source:
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Nuclear Experts Say Mixing AI and Nuclear Weapons Is Inevitable
Human judgement remains central to the launch of nuclear weapons. But experts say it’s a matter of when, not if, artificial intelligence will get baked into the world’s most dangerous systems.
Published on: August 06, 2025 | Source:Arts and media groups demand Labor take a stand against ‘rampant theft’ of Australian content to train AI
Productivity Commission report raises possible exemption for ‘text and data mining’ and expanding fair dealing rules, prompting fierce pushbackGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastArts, creative and media groups have demanded the government rule out allowing big tech companies to take Australian content to train their artificial intelligence models, with concerns such a shift would “sell out”...
Published on: August 06, 2025 | Source:All-star lineup: Aphelion, a game made in collaboration with the European Space Agency
On an icy world, a glitteringly hard take on sci-fi emerges which draws on real science as well as Hollywood’s cosmic fantasiesWhat defines a game by Don’t Nod, the French studio behind acclaimed narrative dramas Life Is Strange, Tell Me Why and Lost Records: Bloom and Rage? Dimitri Weideli, an executive producer at the company, has a hard time replying to this question at first, and then settles on an answer that...
Published on: August 06, 2025 | Source:We’re being deafened by digital noise. Pause it and you hear the sound of democracy in crisis | Rafael Behr
Politics is struggling to cope with the pace of technological change – and that is affecting every single one of usReturning from holiday, asked where I have been, I want to say “offline”. The more precise answer is France, where the internet is available. But I tried not to use it compulsively because there isn’t much point in getting away from it all if you carry it all with you on a phone and check it every few...
Published on: August 06, 2025 | Source:The all-female rescue mission to Mars: my opera about a toxic tech bro takeover of the red planet
Four women travel 140m miles across the heavens – only to find their new world in hostile corporate hands. Composer Jennifer Walshe reveals what fed into her epic opera, from low-gravity procreation to Shrek in spaceWhy write an opera about Mars? Because Mars isn’t just a planet. It’s a philosophy, an ideology. The way humans think about it changes over time, reflecting the unstable mix of assumptions, hopes, dreams...
Published on: August 06, 2025 | Source:China’s cyber-abuse scandal: is the government unwilling to crack down on exploitation of women online?
Secretly filmed images of women are spreading online, yet the authorities seem more focused on censorship than punishing the perpetrators, critics sayWhen Ming* found a hidden camera in her bedroom, she prayed for a reasonable explanation, wondering whether her boyfriend had placed it there to record memories of their “happy life” together. But hope quickly turned to horror. Ming’s boyfriend had been secretly taking...
Published on: August 06, 2025 | Source:Top 5 Solar Umbrellas for Sun & Charging in 2025
Find the best solar umbrellas in 2025 for sun protection and device charging.Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: August 06, 2025 | Source:Title: How I Used Python to Create Automated Systems That Pay Me While I Sleep
Subtitle: From digital product bots to Fiverr gig automators, here’s how I built Python projects that consistently earn online across…Continue reading on Python in Plain English »
Published on: August 06, 2025 | Source:6 Python Libraries So Modular, I Stopped Using Frameworks
Build only what you need—without getting locked inContinue reading on Python in Plain English »
Published on: August 06, 2025 | Source:11 JavaScript One-Liners That Instantly Made My Code Cleaner (and Faster)
JavaScript can get messy real fast.Continue reading on Python in Plain English »
Published on: August 06, 2025 | Source:Stop Doing This in Python: 6 Mistakes Beginners Still Make in 2025
You learned Python, but are you using it right? These mistakes are silently killing your automation flow. Fix them now.Continue reading on Python in Plain English »
Published on: August 06, 2025 | Source:Mastering AI Pipelines: Building Real-Time AI Tools with Multimodal Intelligence
How I Built an End-to-End AI Pipeline That Sees, Thinks, and Responds Like a HumanContinue reading on Python in Plain English »
Published on: August 06, 2025 | Source:How I Automated My Entire Workflow with Python: 9 Game-Changing Scripts You Can Steal Today
The Problem: Too Much Busywork, Not Enough CodingContinue reading on Python in Plain English »
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:AI Security: What is MCP Security & Why It Matters Now?
When I first heard about the Model Context Protocol, or MCP, it reminded me of the early days of APIs and cloud services.Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:The JavaScript Bots I Built That Make Money While I Sleep
From auto-checkout scripts to affiliate link generators, these JavaScript automations run 24/7 and pay my bills—here’s every library I…Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:Tesla shareholders sue Elon Musk for allegedly hyping up faltering Robotaxi
Carmaker and CEO accused of securities fraud and hiding significant risk posed by company’s self-driving vehiclesTesla shareholders sued Elon Musk and the electric vehicle maker for allegedly concealing the significant risk posed by company’s self-driving vehicles.The proposed class-action suit, which accuses Musk and Tesla of securities fraud, was filed on Monday night. Tesla conducted its first public test of its...
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2
The models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, represent a major shift for the AI company.
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:OpenAI has finally released open-weight language models
OpenAI has finally released its first open-weight large language models since 2019’s GPT-2. These new “gpt-oss” models are available in two different sizes and score similarly to the company’s o3-mini and o4-mini models on several benchmarks. Unlike the models available through OpenAI’s web interface, these new open models can be freely downloaded, run, and even…
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:OpenAI stops ChatGPT from telling people to break up with partners
Instead of giving definitive answers to personal challenges the chatbot will help people reflect on a problemChatGPT will not tell people to break up with their partner and will encourage users to take breaks from long chatbot sessions, under new changes to the artificial intelligence tool.OpenAI, ChatGPT’s developer, said the chatbot would stop giving definitive answers to personal challenges and would instead help...
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:Claude Fans Threw a Funeral for Anthropic’s Retired AI Model
Roughly 200 people gathered in San Francisco on Saturday to mourn the loss of Claude 3 Sonnet, an older AI model that Anthropic recently killed.
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish PM under fire for using AI in role
Tech experts criticise Ulf Kristersson as newspaper accuses him of falling for ‘the oligarchs’ AI psychosis’The Swedish prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, has come under fire after admitting that he regularly consults AI tools for a second opinion in his role running the country.Kristersson, whose Moderate party leads Sweden’s centre-right coalition government, said he used tools including ChatGPT and the French service...
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:The best walking pads and under-desk treadmills, tried and tested to turn your workday into a workout
Sedentary lifestyles are bad for us, but which under-desk treadmills and walking pads are worth the cost? Our expert stepped up to find out• The best treadmills for your homeVarious guidelines suggest we all try to walk at least 10,000 steps a day to improve our health and wellbeing. Public Health England encourages a slightly more manageable target of just 10 minutes of brisk walking daily to introduce more...
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:The Download: AI agent infrastructure, and OpenAI’s ambitions
This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. These protocols will help AI agents navigate our messy lives A growing number of companies are launching AI agents that can do things on your behalf—actions like sending an email, making a document,…
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:Time Flies review – existential flight game with a bittersweet buzz
PC, Mac, PS5, Nintendo Switch; Playables/PanicClever puzzler has you freely buzzing around trying to quickly achieve all your bucket list activities while avoiding sharp or gooey life-ending hazardsThe death of a housefly is usually an unceremonious event. Within minutes of the insect’s appearance in our periphery, a tide of annoyance rises, and with the quick thwap of a swatter or rolled-up magazine, the bug is gone....
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:A glimpse into OpenAI’s largest ambitions
OpenAI has given itself a dual mandate. On the one hand, it’s a tech giant rooted in products, including of course ChatGPT, which people around the world reportedly send 2.5 billion requests to each day. But its original mission is to serve as a research lab that will not only create “artificial general intelligence” but…
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:Can’t Look Away review – a harrowing, heartbreaking indictment of social media’s ruthlessness
Bloomberg journalist Olivia Carville follows a small legal outfit as it takes Silicon Valley’s most powerful companies to task for endangering young users“Tweens are herd animals” and have “an addicts’ narrative”, according to internal documents revealed by a Facebook whistleblower to congress, making clear the levels of cynicism and obfuscation the company operates with in its quest to hook young people to its...
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:The Crypto Command Center: How I Built a Python Tool to Track, Trade, and Analyze My Coins in Real…
One script to rule them all—real-time price tracking, automated alerts, portfolio analysis, and even paper trading, all without paying…Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:How Bedrock and RAG Make Enterprise AI Actually Work
“ChatGPT is great—until you need it to answer real questions about your business.”Continue reading on AWS in Plain English »
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:The Story of Pardesi Babu — Part1: / परदेशी बाबू की कहानी — भाग 1:
The Last Morning in the VillageContinue reading on Medium »
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:Banking 3.0 | Architecting Agentic RAG Systems — The Cognitive OS for Future Banking
From Generation to Autonomy to Resoning and Cognition—How Agentic AI Redefines Banking’s AI MaturityContinue reading on Medium »
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:How Python Saved My Sanity
Meet the script that filed my downloads while I watched NetflixContinue reading on Python in Plain English »
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:Rebuilding My Frontend Muscle: How I Created a Real-Time Dashboard with JS from Scratch
A full walkthrough of building a fast, modular, responsive, real-time web app using modern JavaScript, WebSockets, service workers, and…Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
Published on: August 05, 2025 | Source:George Osborne says UK has been left behind in cryptocurrency boom
Ex-chancellor criticises hesitant approach to crypto and warns country in danger of missing next surge in marketBusiness live – latest updatesThe UK has been left behind in the cryptocurrency boom and is in danger of missing a second wave of demand, according to the former chancellor George Osborne.Osborne, who has an advisory role at the crypto exchange firm Coinbase, said the country already missed out on the first...
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source:These protocols will help AI agents navigate our messy lives
A growing number of companies are launching AI agents that can do things on your behalf—actions like sending an email, making a document, or editing a database. Initial reviews for these agents have been mixed at best, though, because they struggle to interact with all the different components of our digital lives. Part of the…
Published on: August 04, 2025 | Source: