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Actress Phyllida Law, mother of Emma and Sophie Thompson, dies at 94
Law appeared in films alongside both of her daughters, Dame Emma and Sophie, including 1996's Emma.

Molex backs CAEPlus cooling tech for AI data centres
Pressure is mounting on data centre operators as AI workloads push chip temperatures higher and make liquid cooling more urgent.

Microsoft is killing this 25-year-old Windows tool. Your scripts might break
With the latest Windows 11 preview update (KB5120998), Microsoft is finally bidding farewell to a tool that has been part of the operating system since Windows XP: the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC). It’s being removed from Windows 11 in an upcoming patch, and it’ll affect both Windows 11 versions...

Cursor rolls out Origin code hosting to paid users
Paid Cursor subscribers can now host repositories and manage pull requests in one place, as Origin enters early beta against GitHub and GitLab.

Earl Spencer to 'tell the truth' about his sister Princess Diana in new book
Swan Song: Diana, My Sister is due to be released in the UK next month, nearly 30 years after she died.

Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked
Secret parameter allowed hackers to steal passwords when a target clicked on a link.

Windows 11’s August update is crashing games: Microsoft explains why
Microsoft released update KB5121003 on Patch Day in August . But KB5121003 is causing quite a stir: the patch causes Windows 11 to crash in the middle of games. The issue is reportedly triggered by a driver for RGB lighting functions, and Microsoft has now confirmed this. In recent days, an...

ERP will run your business. It won't manage your spend
Businesses that stop at ERP risk leaving approvals, invoices and card spend manual, undermining the clean data the ledger needs.

‘Got through what he needed to’: ABs hopeful on D-Mac as Boks loom large
This is no ordinary rugby week in South Africa, and the All Blacks are playing no ordinary test match at the end of it.

Castrol fluids get NVIDIA validation for AI cooling
Data centre operators gain more assurance as Castrol's PG25 and PG25T pass NVIDIA checks for direct-to-chip AI cooling.

Can Space Stocks Bounce Back? This $1 Billion Air Force Contract Might Help.

US advisory body says China's data dominance gives it AI advantage

Where Will Qualcomm Stock Be in 5 Years?

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens, as safety questions swirl

Modern data teams: key roles, structures and data quality
Poor data quality is still holding back AI and reporting, even as businesses add specialist roles and restructure their data teams.

ChatGPT for Teens gets one thing right, and more AI models should follow
One of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other big AI chatbots is when they try to pass as flesh-and-blood people, piling on first-person pronouns and telling me about their feelings. All those flattering and distracting “I couldn’t agree more!” and “We make a great...

How poor watchlist data undermines sanctions screening accuracy
Poor-quality sanctions lists can swamp compliance teams with false alerts while letting real matches slip through, raising regulatory risk.

ChatGPT’s newest feature is like Windows Recall without screenshots
ChatGPT’s desktop app now includes a new feature called “Computer History,” which was announced via social media post by Ari Weinstein, a Codex product manager at OpenAI. Computer History allows ChatGPT to track your computer activity, creating a timeline of your actions that can then be used by ChatGPT and Codex. It’s...

You can run multiple monitors off one DisplayPort cable. Here’s how
Many PC users assume that every monitor requires its own cable to connect to the computer. However, DisplayPort offers another solution. Thanks to Multi Stream Transport (MST for short), several monitors can be connected via a single DisplayPort port. This allows you to set up a multi-monitor configuration without having...