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Meta refused to switch a teen safety tool on by default, jury told

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Someone inside Instagram proposed switching its break reminder on by default. The proposal was rejected because the cost to the app’s core metrics was not desirable. George Volichenko, a former Meta data scientist, told that to a jury in Oakland this week. Mike Swift reported the testimony from the courtroom for MLex. Volichenko worked on […]

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UK digital infrastructure investment hit £11.2bn in 2025

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Britain’s businesses put £11.2bn into digital infrastructure last year, roughly three times what the official measure had been reporting. The jump in UK digital infrastructure investment did not come from a building spree. Almost none of the difference is new money. The Office for National Statistics changed what counts on Monday. What the ONS actually […]

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Southeast Asia is planning four times the data centre capacity it runs

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Southeast Asia has 306 data centres running and 173 more in the pipeline, according to figures published on Tuesday. The capacity being planned is nearly four times what is already operating. Southeast Asia data centre investment will rise from $15.72bn in 2025 to $35.08bn by 2031, according to Arizton. The Chicago research firm puts that […]

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Trump says refusing a data centre is a mistake. Abbott disagrees

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Texas governor Greg Abbott says data centre companies brought the backlash on themselves. “They basically dug their own grave for the problem that’s been caused for them,” he told ABC’s Jonathan Karl on Sunday. “And that’s why they got the backlash they deserve.” Andrew Pantazi and Ben Geman reported the remarks for Axios. They called […]

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Nine charged in Taiwan over 130 Nvidia B300 servers bound for China

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Taiwanese prosecutors have indicted nine people over the alleged illegal export of high-end AI servers to China, among them an employee of Nvidia’s Taiwan operation and two from Super Micro. The charges are the first to emerge from an investigation that has run for months, having already produced detentions over server smuggling and reached inside Nvidia itself. […]

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The UK and Ukraine have signed a declaration on AI-enabled military capabilities

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Ukraine and the United Kingdom have signed a joint declaration on artificial intelligence partnership covering the development and deployment of AI-enabled military capabilities, according to the Ukrainian presidency’s account of talks in Kyiv between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Andy Burnham. It formalises a direction British defence policy has already been moving in, having committed £2bn to […]

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Australia is preparing to impose its data centre energy rules over Queensland’s objection

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The Australian government intends to impose national energy standards on AI data centres at this week’s National Cabinet meeting even though Queensland will not agree to them, a shift from the consensus approach that stalled when Queensland and the Northern Territory rejected most of the framework in July. The policy requires large facilities to buy power […]

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Iran-linked hackers shut down a UK power plant for four days

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A cyber attack shut down a small British power plant for four days in July. Hackers affiliated with the Iranian regime were responsible, according to the Telegraph. Tony Diver, Rozina Sabur and Matt Oliver broke the story on Saturday. It is thought to be the first time hackers linked to Tehran have closed such a […]

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OpenAI wants California to toughen the AI law it once fought

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OpenAI has asked California to toughen the AI safety law it once fought. The company published the request on Friday, and Chase DiFeliciantonio reported it for Politico. It is the first major AI lab to call for changes to the transparency law. That law was the first of its kind in the United States. What […]

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Australian data centres will use seven times more power by 2036

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Australian data centres will take 13% of the country’s main electricity market by 2035-36, up from 3% today. That is almost a sevenfold rise in a decade, according to the Australian Energy Market Operator. Keira Wright reported the forecast for Bloomberg. The figure lands in AEMO’s annual Electricity Statement of Opportunities. The document is the […]

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