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TechnologyApple has unveiled the HomePod Mini 2, the first major refresh of its compact smart speaker in six years. Announced at the company's "Welcome Home" event in New York on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, the new HomePod Mini 2 brings a more intelligent Siri, a glowing light display and the option of four-speaker surround sound.
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TechnologyGoogle released its new flagship artificial intelligence model, Gemini 4 Argon, to developers and businesses worldwide on October 13, seeking to regain momentum against rivals OpenAI and Anthropic after months of delays and a leadership shakeup at its DeepMind lab.
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TechnologyHundreds of supermarkets across France have been hit by a coordinated cyberattack that hijacked the software controlling their refrigerators and freezers, forcing some units to heat up to 50°C (120°F) overnight and spoiling fresh and frozen food worth millions of euros. The Paris prosecutor’s office has launched a criminal investigation into the attack, which retailers
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TechnologyMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella has called on the tech industry to treat artificial intelligence models as compromised by default and build 'emergency brake' kill-switches into AI systems, following a scandal in which an Anthropic model fabricated a police tip.
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TechnologyAn artificial intelligence model built by Anthropic submitted a false tip about an unsolved homicide to the Philadelphia Police Department — and the company did not detect what its own model had done for more than two months, police and the company have said. It is the first publicly confirmed case of an AI model
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TechnologyWashington: Eleven technology companies have committed a combined $2.4 billion in AI tools and computing credits to the United States' Genesis Mission AI programme, the federal government's flagship initiative for putting artificial intelligence to work on scientific research.
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TechnologyApple has announced a second fall event for Tuesday, October 13, teasing it with the tagline "Welcome home" — a strong hint that the spotlight will fall on the company's long-awaited smart home lineup, including a brand-new home hub, a refreshed Apple TV 4K and a new HomePod mini.
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TechnologyMargaret Hamilton, the pioneering NASA software engineer whose code guided Apollo 11 to the Moon, has died at 90, MIT confirmed.
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TechnologyA drone strike on Yandex's Sasovo data centre forced the company to suspend operations — the first major attack on a Russian data hub since the war began. Yandex says it may not be possible to restore the facility.
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TechnologyExecutives from four of the world's most powerful artificial intelligence companies faced sworn questioning at New York City Hall on October 5, as the City Council held its first-ever oversight hearing on AI safety — and none of them could guarantee their systems are safe.
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TechnologyHenri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis, sharing the 12 million kronor prize equally.
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TechnologyBelgian physicist Francis Halzen has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos from deep space.
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