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iPhone 16 battery drain bug is affecting users for reasons unknown

I covered iPhone 16 battery life extensively since Apple unveiled the phone, so I know all four models should offer decent-to-great battery life. Battery life has been one of the main reasons I got the iPhone 16 Plus in late September. The phone lasts more than a day on a charge. I don’t have to…

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Massive AMD leak promises a shining future for laptops, with a smorgasbord of new products landing in 2025

AMD’s entire CES 2025 lineup has reportedly leaked, promising a huge range of new hardware – including its new range of next-gen RDNA 4 GPUs.The leak comes from ‘zhangzhonghao’ in a Chinese forum on Chiphell, who suggests AMD will be revealing: laptop CPUs, desktop CPUs, desktop GPUs, handheld gaming chips, and more – phew! AMD’s…

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DWP appoints Helen Wylie as its new chief digital and information officer

Helen Wylie, currently chief technology officer at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), is to take over from her boss, Rich Corbridge, as chief digital and information officer when he leaves the civil service in November. Wylie’s appointment is effective on 1 November, with Corbridge due to leave on 15 November. She inherits a…

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Pakistani national arrested over Southport ‘cyber terrorism’

Authorities in Lahore, Pakistan, have arrested and questioned a web developer, named as Farhan Asif, on suspicion of cyber terrorism in relation to misinformation posted in the wake of the 29 July mass stabbing at a children’s Taylor Swift-themed dance workshop in Southport, Merseyside, in which three were murdered. The attack on a community dance…

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More execs recognise data as assets than in 2020

Capgemini has reported that organisations today are more effective at embedding data and insights into core business processes.  Its update of a 2020 study is based on a survey of 500 business executives and 500 data executives from 500 organisations across 12 countries. In 2024, 60% of executives described their decision-making and actioning as data-powered.…

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280 fake Android apps used to steal crypto wallets have been unearthed

We have given you plenty of good reasons to avoid downloading suspicious Android apps over the years, but here’s one more. Recently, researchers at McAfee (via Ars Technica) discovered 280 fake Android apps that scammers are using to access cryptocurrency wallets.As the researchers note, cryptocurrency wallet owners typically receive mnemonic phrases that they can use…

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AI interview: Thomas Dekeyser, researcher and film director

April 1980, Toulouse. As the offices of multinational technology firms Philips Data Systems and CII-Honeywell-Bull sit burning, French authorities frantically search for the culprits of the suspected arson and bombing attacks. While there was some confusion in the immediate wake of the destruction over who was responsible, with militant left wing group Action Directe initially…

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Ofcom issues online safety warning to firms in wake of UK riots

Ofcom has warned that social media firms will be obliged to deal with disinformation and content that is hateful or provokes violence, following a spate of racist riots across the UK. In the wake of the fatal stabbing of three girls in Southport on 29 July 2024, social media became awash with unsubstantiated rumours that…

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ChatGPT GPT-5 upgrade may be close as Sam Altman posts a mysterious teaser

OpenAI started rolling out the GPT-4o Voice Mode it unveiled in May to select ChatGPT Plus users. The voice upgrade will be released to more ChatGPT users in the coming months. But OpenAI might be preparing an even bigger update for ChatGPT, a new foundation model that might be known as GPT-5. That’s assuming OpenAI…

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