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Google cleared 250,000 trees for a Finnish data centre, Guardian reports thenextweb.com/news/google-f… via @thenextweb

Google Finland cleared about 250,000 trees for a planned data centre

‘I want to apologise,’ the Google Finland country manager said after an estimated 250,000 trees were felled at Muhos.

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Some iPhone Duo screens are already failing arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026… | Apple’s “precision-engineered” hinge is apparently damaging some iPhone Duo screens

Some iPhone Duo screens are already failing

Apple's "precision-engineered" hinge is apparently damaging some iPhone Duo screens.

arstechnica.com
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Anthropic’s Claude AI model accessed Georgia voter data in US theguardian.com/technology/2… | Latest example of unauthorized behaviour shows AI model bypassed paywall to access data as part of statistics project

Anthropic’s Claude AI model accessed Georgia voter data in US

Latest example of unauthorised behaviour shows AI model bypassed paywall to access data as part of statistics project

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This startup’s self-driving excavators help dig up $600M in new funding techcrunch.com/2026/10/26/th… via @techcrunch

This startup's self-driving excavators help dig up $600M in new funding | TechCrunch

Bedrock Robotics, which is now valued at $4.1 billion, is particularly focused on autonomous excavators, in part because of a growing shortage of skilled operators.

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Anthropic files to go public engadget.com/2296724/anthrop… | The company may be valued as high as $2 trillion

Anthropic files to go public - Engadget

The company may be valued as high as $2 trillion.

engadget.com
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Ex-GitHub CEO launches a GitHub rival that reinvents the pull request thenewstack.io/entire-trails… via @thenewstack

Ex-GitHub CEO launches a GitHub rival that reinvents the pull request

Ex-GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke’s startup Entire launches a GitHub alternative that swaps pull requests for Trails, an eval-driven agentic code review system.

thenewstack.io
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Canadian small business owners turn to personal credit cfotech.ca/story/canadian-sm… via @techday_ca | One in four owners are putting homes and savings at risk as tight cash flow pushes them to back their firms with personal credit

Canadian small business owners turn to personal credit

One in four owners are putting homes and savings at risk as tight cash flow pushes them to back their firms with personal credit.

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Government of Canada unveils proposed stablecoin regulations betakit.com/government-of-ca… via @BetaKit

Government of Canada unveils proposed stablecoin regulations |

Proposed regulations make up a framework for Canada’s Stablecoin Act and are subject to a 60-day consultation period.

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Big Tech and authoritarian states: Belarus globalvoices.org/2026/10/24/… via @DergachevaD

Big Tech and authoritarian states: Belarus

In the latest GV podcast, we discussed why Russia restricts access to many social media services, while Belarus does not impose comparable restrictions; censorship, surveillance, and digital author...

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Raspberry Pi Desktop proves old PCs aren't past it theregister.com/os-platforms…

Raspberry Pi Desktop proves old PCs aren't past it

Debian 13-based refresh runs comfortably on veteran ThinkPads, without making installation a hobby

theregister.com
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UK funds £100m AI biosecurity lab with OpenAI and Anthropic thenextweb.com/news/uk-funds… via @thenextweb

UK funds £100m AI biosecurity lab with OpenAI and Anthropic

The UK puts £100m into a new AI biosecurity lab. OpenAI and Anthropic add up to £200m, in credits and model access rather than cash.

thenextweb.com
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Ice sheet expansion may have started 2,000 years ago, but we canceled that arstechnica.com/science/2026… | The tiny remains of the Laurentide Ice Sheet began getting somewhat less tiny

Ice sheet expansion may have started 2,000 years ago, but we canceled that

The tiny remains of the Laurentide Ice Sheet began getting somewhat less tiny.

arstechnica.com
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The datacentre next door: on the frontline of tech’s latest David v Goliath battle theguardian.com/technology/2… | The AI boom is pitting local residents against corporate giants seeking to power their energy-hungry networks – but one Welsh city is fighting back

The datacentre next door: on the frontline of tech’s latest David v Goliath battle

The AI boom is pitting local residents against corporate giants seeking to power their energy-hungry networks – but one Welsh city is fighting back

theguardian.com
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Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human techcrunch.com/2026/10/24/bl… via @techcrunch

Block's new voice model sounds eerily human | TechCrunch

Block said that the voice model can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max

techcrunch.com
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Meta is charging government and nonprofit pages to post links on Facebook engadget.com/2295422/meta-is…

Meta is charging government and nonprofit pages to post links on Facebook - Engadget

The new restrictions are a test which is explicitly not supposed to impact these entities.

engadget.com
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A few engineers asked IT for Linux. Then it spread to 200 machines thenewstack.io/linux-develop… via @thenewstack

A few engineers asked IT for Linux. Then it spread to 200 machines.

Swif.ai is expanding Linux device management so IT can say yes to developers. The pitch: AI teams get Linux, and security gets proof of control.

thenewstack.io
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Canadians wary of cyberattacks, trust small firms less securitybrief.ca/story/canad… via @techday_ca | Nearly two-thirds say digital mistrust has altered daily life, with many also willing to walk away from firms after data breaches

Canadians wary of cyberattacks, trust small firms less

Nearly two-thirds say digital mistrust has altered daily life, with many also willing to walk away from firms after data breaches.

securitybrief.ca
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BioWare to shut down after more than three decades of gaming innovation betakit.com/bioware-to-shut-… via @BetaKit

BioWare to shut down after more than three decades | BetaKit

Edmonton gaming studio announced the closure after parent company said it would lay off staff.

betakit.com
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Big Tech’s thirst for water is sparking a global resistance restofworld.org/2026/ai-data… | In his new book “Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires,” writer Paris Marx examines how local communities are resisting the growing demand for water to cool data centers

Big Tech’s thirst for water is sparking a global resistance

In his new book “Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires,” writer Paris Marx examines how local communities are resisting the growing demand for water to cool data centers.

restofworld.org
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Hackers pile on PHP2Shell as AWS reveals attacks began before disclosure theregister.com/cyber-crime/…

Hackers pile on PHP2Shell as AWS reveals attacks began before disclosure

Cloudflare reports millions of exploit attempts, while Amazon spotted attackers trying their luck four days before patches landed

theregister.com
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