Chinese tech workers are smuggling AI data on hard drives while America chokes chip access with sanctions

Flying petabytes of AI data is China’s latest workaround for strict U.S. chip controls Physically smuggling hard drives now bypasses surveillance and digital firewalls across multiple jurisdictions GPU-rich Malaysian data centers are becoming ground zero for offshore Chinese AI training As the United States continues to tighten export restrictions on advanced AI chips, such as…

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Labour to shift council funding towards poorer areas

Paul Seddon Political reporter Getty Images Ministers say the changes will help areas with cheaper property values Councils in more deprived areas of England are set to receive a greater share of government cash, under a planned overhaul of funding rules. The shake-up will see formulas that affect how billions of pounds are allocated to…

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How to sleep in the heat

Getty Images Temperatures are expected to be high over the coming days in many parts of the UK, so here are some tips to help you get a good night’s sleep during hot weather. 1. No napping Hot weather can make us feel a bit lethargic during the day. That is because we are using…

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‘We did all this work with physical glass… simulating as closely as we could the actual properties of glass’ for Liquid Glass, says Apple’s Craig Federighi. Then it went further

Liquid Glass. It’s an umbrella term for interface changes across virtually every Apple platform, but it’s also evocative of an intangible thing; digital, transparent, amorphous glass that glides, flexes, and responds to touch in a way real glass could never do. Just hours after Apple unveiled, at WWDC 2025, the biggest change to iOS since…

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