US power firms scramble for transformers and turbines as data centres strain supply

US power companies are locked in a scramble for the heavy electrical gear that keeps the lights on, as a wave of artificial-intelligence data centres pushes demand for transformers, turbines and switc [...]

India scraps import duties on electronics and battery inputs to boost local manufacturing

India has removed import duties on a swathe of machinery and components used to make electronics, from lithium-ion battery cells to certain smartphone parts, in the latest push to lower costs for hard [...]

A Majority of European Lawmakers Voted Against Letting Big Tech Read Our Messages. They’re Going to Anyway.

Companies will once again be allowed to scan citizens’ personal texts, emails, and social media messages via the “chat control” bill to find child abuse material online. [...]

Suspected Chinese spies are raiding university mailboxes via a Roundcube flaw

A suspected Chinese espionage group has been breaking into university mail servers across the United States and Canada. It has stolen credentials from staff in physics, engineering, and national secur [...]

Researchers broke GitHub Copilot’s safety by hiding harm in a workflow

Researchers at the Alan Turing Institute have shown that GitHub Copilot will produce harmful content it would normally refuse. The trick is to spread the request across an ordinary coding workflow. Th [...]

Meta patches the mod that turned its Ray-Ban glasses into secret spy cams

Meta is updating its smart glasses to shut off the camera if the recording light has been physically tampered with or destroyed. The change, announced in a 7 July blog post, closes a loophole that le [...]

Britain’s public sector runs on US cloud, and that is now a billion-pound risk

Britain’s public sector has become deeply reliant on a small number of US cloud giants, and analysts warn the concentration is now a strategic risk. Nearly all UK government organisations spend on h [...]

Databento raises $97M to take on Bloomberg’s terminal

Databento has raised $97M in Series B funding to build what it calls the market data platform for modern finance. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates, with DRW, Redpoint Ventures, and Tribe [...]

Inside IBM’s hidden ‘Court 19’, where Wimbledon becomes a test lab for AI

A serve flashes on the Wimbledon scoreboard before the ball stops bouncing. That number comes from a partnership older than most players on court. IBM has been Wimbledon’s technology partner for 36 [...]