

One of the confirmed sessions at MozCon’s New York date is titled “Preparing for the Death of the Open Web.” The speaker is Mike King, founder of digital marketing agency iPullRank. It is not the most alarming talk title on the 2026 conference calendar. It might be the most honest. The backdrop is not easy […]
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HP customers are reporting that BIOS updates pushed through Windows Update are rendering premium laptops unbootable. The affected devices include the ZBook Ultra G1a, a mobile workstation that costs upwards of £4,000, and the EliteBook X G1a. The updates were flagged as critical, meaning they were applied automatically with no user intervention required. Complaints have […]
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- Sundar Pichai is scheduled to speak at Stanford University's commencement next month.
- Students have booed several execs this year for talking about AI in their speeches.
- Pichai is one of the leaders of the AI boom, but says people are "rightfully" anxious.
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Two Amazon Web Services data centres in the UAE were targeted early in the Middle East war. Nearly three months later, oil prices remain around $100 a barrel and the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. The Gulf’s ambition to become a global AI hub is facing its first real stress test. Before the conflict began […]
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The US government has a problem it cannot publicly resolve. The Pentagon has officially blacklisted Anthropic as a national security supply chain threat. The NSA is using Anthropic’s AI anyway because there is no alternative. White House chief of staff Susie Wiles authorised the National Security Agency to continue using an advanced Anthropic model, the […]
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Orbit Robotics, a Zurich-based startup, has unveiled Helios, a four-armed robot designed to work inside space stations. In microgravity, legs are useless. Helios replaces them with two extra arms that serve as both mobility aids and working hands. The design logic is simple. Two arms anchor the robot to the station interior while the other […]
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The Apple Watch generated an estimated $100 billion in lifetime sales and transformed the smartwatch market. Eleven years after launch, innovation has slowed and the lineup is losing momentum. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple risks falling behind in the next phase of the industry it helped create. Consumer preferences are shifting away from screen-heavy […]
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