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Ukrainian servicemen attend drills near the border with Russia in Sumy region, Ukraine, in January 2024.
  • Lithuania's PM said US support is crucial to Europe as "we are not able to do that ourselves."
  • But Europe cannot assume the US will keep helping with its defense, she said.
  • Lithuania wants more support for Ukraine now and Europe to commit to more defense spending.

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Spanish regulators have ordered Worldcoin to pause operations over fears that the company’s eyeball-scanning technology may intrude on users’ privacy.   Worldcoin — co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in 2019 —  uses orbs to scan people’s eyes in exchange for a digital ID and some cryptocurrency.   According to the order issued by Spain’s privacy watchdog yesterday, Worldcoin must stop collecting



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National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators examine the fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Boeing 737-9 MAX, which was jettisoned and forced the aircraft to make an emergency landing, at a property where it was recovered in Portland, Oregon, U.S.
NTSB investigators examine the door plug.
  • The NTSB chair said Boeing has not fully cooperated with its investigation into January's blowout.
  • She said Boeing hadn't provided the requested documentation or list of staff who work on the doors.
  • Boeing said it has since provided the list but suggested some work may have been "undocumented."

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The new retrofit smart door lock from SwitchBot has a sleeker look than its predecessor. | Image: SwitchBot

SwitchBot has launched a new version of its retrofit smart lock. The SwitchBot Lock Pro ($119.99) offers a few upgrades over the company’s first lock, the SwitchBot Lock, including an aluminum alloy body, a more secure installation, and a new quick key lock / unlock



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  • Greggs, a British bakery chain, has more locations than Subway and McDonald's.
  • It's best known for its cheap sausage rolls — as well as their vegan counterparts famously slated by Piers Morgan.
  • Greggs posted booming sales, which it credited to store openings, more evening trade, and its delivery business.

Greggs is something of a British institution.

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Have you ever noticed the little disc on the bottom right of a TikTok video?

That function informs users which sound is played in the video (sometimes if it's a song, it can also appear with a musical note icon, but you may have noticed it's a been little quieter on your FYP of late). Because of the way TikTok works, users can use audio from other TikTok videos on their own videos, so that little



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Yearning for foldable products from Apple? A new report claims that at least one such product is coming, but it will be a long wait until it does.

According to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple is working on a foldable, 20.3-inch MacBook, but it's expected to enter mass production in 2027.

While this may sound like good news – we're certainly interested in a portable Apple laptop with tons of



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French startup Zama has raised $73mn to commercialise the “holy grail” of cryptography: fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). Conceptually simple but practically complex, FHE enables computations on encrypted data without having to first decrypt it. As a result, companies can provide services without seeing their customers’ information. The users, meanwhile, won’t notice any difference in the



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Elon Musk is CEO of Tesla.
  • Elon Musk's year isn't going too well. 
  • The Tesla CEO's wealth has dropped by almost $40 billion since the start of 2024.
  • The EV maker's sagging stock price has taken its toll on Musk's net worth. 

Elon Musk's troubles keep piling up — and they're affecting his wealth.

The Tesla CEO's net worth has plunged by almost $40 billion this year, according



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The European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) limits the power of big platform holders, but it may have also created a new revenue stream (and some drama) for those same big names. Google has followed Apple’s lead in imposing extra charges on developers who want to circumvent its own app storefront. Companies luring users outside the Play Store will need to pay Google a cut of in-app purchases



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Microsoft has quietly announced a “digital event” for Surface, Windows, and Copilot later this month. The March 21st “new era of work” event is targeted at Microsoft’s business customers and will feature new Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 devices for businesses, as we reported earlier this week, with a focus on Microsoft’s