JD Power says 35% of passenger screens have never been used

JD Power found that 35% of owners with a passenger screen have never used it and that such systems generate 21.3 problems per 100 vehicles. Euro NCAP has awarded rating points for physical controls on [...]

A researcher hijacked Claude Code by asking it to summarise a web page

Ask Claude Code to summarise a web page, and it can end up running an attacker’s code on your machine. A security researcher got that result in up to 80% of his attempts. Jessica Lyons reported the [...]

Windows 11 adds toggles to remove Bing results and Store suggestions from Search

Windows 11 is rolling out toggles that remove Bing web results and Microsoft Store suggestions from Search, in an optional August update that is being released gradually. Microsoft removed Bing from t [...]

UK networks are not ready for AI traffic, say mobile operators

VodafoneThree’s networks director says UK mobile quality is not ready for AI traffic and that planning rules, not money, are the obstacle, with more than half of its upgrades to existing masts requi [...]

France’s Pasqal is public, with $360M and a valuation of about 100 times revenue

Pasqal began trading on Nasdaq on Friday under the ticker PSQL, five months after announcing it would go public through a special purpose acquisition company. Shares surged on the debut, according to [...]

Skanska takes a $1.2bn order to build four US data centres for an unnamed client

Skanska has signed a $1.2bn contract to build four data centres in the southeastern United States, the largest single data centre order the Swedish construction group has announced. The client is an e [...]

Deutsche Telekom buys Macquarie’s Polish fibre and TV assets in a €1bn bet on convergence

Deutsche Telekom has agreed to buy two of Poland’s best-known fibre businesses, Fiberhost and INEA, from the Australian investment group Macquarie, in a deal worth roughly €1bn and aimed squarely [...]

The US is about to make its allies pick a side in the AI cold war

Washington is preparing to hand its partners an ultimatum, and it is not a subtle one. According to a draft State Department letter reported by Reuters, the US is about to tell friendly nations they m [...]

The US is about to tell 35 countries to choose between it and China on AI

Michael Martina reported the draft for Reuters on 14 August, citing a US official and an internal document. The letter goes to the 35 signatories of an American “AI Opportunity Statement” from Jun [...]