Using the internet in the UK will soon mean having to verify your age to access certain services Luis Alvarez/Getty Images If you live in the UK, the way you access the internet is about to fundamentally change. A new law, the Online Safety Act, comes into force on 25 July and will see a…
A family shops in a Walmart Supercenter on May 15, 2025 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images SECAUCUS, N.J. — As customers walk the aisles of Walmart stores, there are some early signs that higher tariffs are changing pricing. The nation’s largest retailer warned in May that it would have to raise prices…
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Resident doctors say they have had “constructive discussions” with the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, and talks will continue over the next few days, in an attempt to avert planned strike action. The doctors, previously known as junior doctors, announced last week that they will walk out for five consecutive days from 25 July until 30…
US transport chief on California high-speed rail: 'We have to pull the plug' Source link
Translated by Nazia BIBI KEENOO Published July 17, 2025 With a mission to champion inclusion and elevate emerging talent, ModaLisboa—backed by the PVH Foundation—has wrapped the second edition of its “Tomorrow” program. This year’s standout moment: the awarding of a €15,000 scholarship to Celízia Tavares, a young woman of Cape Verdean descent, who will pursue…
U.S. launches employment discrimination probe into George Mason University Source link
Cisco patched a maximum-severity flaw impacting Identity Services Engine and ISE Passive Identity Connector The flaw allowed threat actors to run arbitrary code on the underlying OS It was patched in versions 3.3 and 3.4 A maximum-severity vulnerability was recently discovered, and patched, in Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC)….
For Pistilli, opting for local models as opposed to online chatbots has implications beyond privacy. “Technology means power,” she says. “And so who[ever] owns the technology also owns the power.” States, organizations, and even individuals might be motivated to disrupt the concentration of AI power in the hands of just a few companies by running…
The competition for the world’s best AI talent is frenzied. Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Meta, has personally taken charge of efforts to recruit for a “superintelligence” lab. The sums on offer are eye-watering: a rumoured $200m-plus to prise away the head of Apple’s AI models. OpenAI executives are said to be “recalibrating” compensation in…
