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BBC News
Andrew moves out of Royal Lodge home early after latest Epstein files - The former prince's move to a temporary property on the Sandringham Estate follows the latest disclosure of Jeffrey Epstein files.
Melinda French Gates says ex-husband Bill has questions to answer over Epstein - She said her ex-husband and others named in the Epstein files needed to answer whatever questions remain.
Palestine Action group cleared of Elbit burglary - The group are cleared of aggravated burglary over the alleged raid at an Elbit Systems warehouse.
Son of Norway's crown princess chokes back tears giving evidence at rape trial - Marius Borg Høiby gives evidence after the first woman he is alleged to have raped told the court she believed she had been drugged.
'I've never hit anything so hard': What it's like to be attacked by a shark - Peter Smith and his wife were on holiday in the Caribbean when a beautiful swim suddenly changed.
The Register
EU's fishy digital certificate system leaves exporters floundering - Catch platform sinks under weight of bugs, missing species, and postal code gaffes while containers pile up at ports Problems with a new digital European system for certifying fishing catches are hampering producers and delaying exports, according to ministers from several EU member states.…
Universal £7,500 payout offered to PSNI staff over major data breach - Affected police officers squeezed mental health services, relocated over safety fears Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) employees who had their details exposed in a significant 2023 data breach will each receive £7,500 ($10,279) as part of a universal offer of compensation.…
SpaceX halts Falcon 9 flights after second stage anomaly - Failed deorbit burn grounds workhorse rocket SpaceX has paused flights of its workhorse Falcon 9 after a second stage failure resulted in the spent rocket tumbling uncontrollably back to Earth.…
'The EU runs on Microsoft' – and Uncle Sam could turn it off, claims MEP - Open source gains urgency as Europe reassesses reliance on US tech Open Source Policy Summit 2026 European tech leaders are waking up to the risk of the US simply turning off their IT services.…
AWS says you're on your own if media codec patent owners come knocking - Service terms update removes infringement cover tied to audio and video encoding tech Exclusive Amazon is warning users of its media services that it will not protect them against patent infringement claims relating to media codec technology supported by those services.…
New Scientist - Home
Treating cancer before 3pm could help patients live longer - The most robust evidence to date shows that people with a type of lung cancer lived longer if they received immunotherapy before 3pm
How to live a meaningful life, according to science - The meaning of life has puzzled philosophers for millennia, but new research suggests it could be as simple as lending a helping hand
Dutch air force reads pilots' brainwaves to make training harder - While pilots are flying in a VR simulation, their brainwave patterns can be fed into an AI model that assesses how challenging they are finding a task and adjusts the difficulty accordingly
The weird rules of temperature get even stranger in the quantum realm - Can a single particle have a temperature? It may seem impossible with our standard understanding of temperature, but columnist Jacklin Kwan finds that it’s not exactly ruled out in the quantum realm
Nobel laureate says he'll build world’s most powerful quantum computer - John Martinis has already revolutionised quantum computing twice. Now, he is working on another radical rethink of the technology that could deliver machines with unrivalled capabilities
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Slashdot
AMD Hints the Next-Gen Xbox Console Could Launch Next Year - An anonymous reader shares a report: Speaking during an earnings call on Tuesday, CEO Lisa Su stated that its development of Microsoft's next-gen Xbox SoC is "progressing well to support a launch in 2027." While the comment doesn't outright confirm the next Xbox will release next year, it indicates that the Microsoft could be ready to launch soon. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Say Hello To GoogleSQL - BrianFagioli writes: Google has quietly retired the ZetaSQL name and rebranded its open source SQL analysis and parsing project as GoogleSQL. This is not a technical change but a naming cleanup meant to align the open source code with the SQL dialect already used across Google products like BigQuery and Spanner. Internally, Google has long called the dialect GoogleSQL, even while the open source project lived under a different name. By unifying everything under GoogleSQL, Google says it wants to reduce confusion and make it clearer that the same SQL foundation is shared across its cloud services and open source tooling. The code, features, and team remain unchanged. Only the name is different. GoogleSQL is now the single label Google wants developers to recognize and use going forward. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
OpenAI's Lead Is Contracting as AI Competition Intensifies - OpenAI's rivals are cutting into ChatGPT's lead. From a report: The top chatbot's market share fell from 69.1% to 45.3% between January 2025 and January 2026 among daily U.S. users of its mobile app. Gemini, in the same time period, rose from 14.7% to 25.1% and Grok rose from 1.6% to 15.2%. The data, obtained by Big Technology from mobile insights firm Apptopia, indicates the chatbot race has tightened meaningfully over the past year with Google's surge showing up in the numbers. Overall, the chatbot market increased 152% since last January, according to Apptopia, with ChatGPT exhibiting healthy download growth. On desktop and mobile web, a similar pattern appears, according to analytics firm Similarweb. Visits to ChatGPT went from 3.8 billion to 5.7 billion between January 2025 and January 2026, a 50% increase, while visits to Gemini went from 267.7 million to 2 billion, a 647% increase. ChatGPT is still far and away the leader in visits, but it has company in the race now. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Walmart Joins $1 Trillion Club - Walmart's market cap surpassed $1 trillion on Tuesday, putting the largest U.S. retail chain in an exclusive club dominated by tech groups. Bloomberg adds: The Bentonville, Arkansas-based chain -- a longtime favorite of bargain-hunting consumers -- has flexed its massive scale and supplier network to keep prices low and grab market share across the income spectrum. While Walmart has maintained its appeal to households looking for value, its online offerings are drawing new, wealthier shoppers seeking convenience. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Google Home Finally Adds Support For Buttons - An anonymous reader shares a report: Google Home users, your long nightmare is over. The platform has finally added support for buttons. The release notes for a February 2 update state that several new starter conditions for automations are now available, including "Switch or button pressed." Smart buttons are physical, programmable switches that you can press to trigger automations or control devices in your smart home, such as turning lights on or off, opening and closing shades, running a Good Night scene, or starting a robot vacuum. A great alternative to voice and app control when you want to control multiple devices, smart buttons are often wireless and generally have several ways to press them: single press, double press, and long press, meaning one button can do multiple things. Read more of this story at Slashdot.