October 2025

Amazon Is Refunding $2.5 Billion To Prime Customers – Here’s Why

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Bilanol/Shutterstock You can officially mark “big Amazon lawsuit” off your 2025 bingo card, as Amazon has legally agreed to refund customers their money in relation to a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) antitrust lawsuit. Originally filed in June 2023, the FTC alleged that Amazon enrolled customers in its premium Prime service without consent. Worse yet, when…

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Tinker Is Thinking Machines Lab’s First AI Product, But It’s Not The ChatGPT Rival Some Expected

3 minutes of reading / AI, Alibaba, API, chatbot, ChatGPT, Meta, Tech / By

Kimberly White/Getty Images There’s been a lot of excitement about Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab (TML) AI startup ever since the former high-ranking OpenAI executive left the company that created the ChatGPT chatbot and spawned the current AI revolution. A year later, Murati’s AI firm is ready to release its first, highly anticipated AI product. …

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FT 250 executives call for UK grid upgrades to support AI datacentre expansion plans

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If the UK’s digital economy is to enjoy a prosperous future, the nation’s electricity grids need to be urgently upgraded to ensure the datacentres underpinning it all have a consistent and reliable supply of high-capacity power. That’s according to a poll of 101 FTSE 250 executives, commissioned by the Energy Networks Association (ENA), where 90%…

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Oktane 2025: Okta takes aim at agentic AI governance gap

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Ahead of the official opening of identity specialist Okta’s annual Oktane customer conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, the cyber security supplier shared a preview of how it aims to help users secure non-human identities (NHIs) such as AI agents, as the security sector faces up to a looming gap in technological capabilities through which threat…

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Google Could Soon Launch Its Own Hypertension Feature To Keep Up With Apple Watch

2 minutes of reading / Apple, Google, machine learning, Tech / By

Yasin Hasan/Shutterstock A new teardown of version 4.53 of the Fitbit app has uncovered code that suggests Google will follow in Apple’s footsteps with a built-in hypertension feature for the Pixel Watch. Apple isn’t the first company to offer such a feature on its smartwatch, though it is one of the first to do so…

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Internet shutdowns in Africa on upward trajectory

5 minutes of reading / Facebook, IDS, social media, Tech / By

More than 190 internet shutdowns have been recorded in 41 African countries since 2016, the African Digital Rights Network (ADRN) has found, as governments across the continent seek to normalise the use of digital blackouts to suppress dissent, quell protests and influence elections. According to an analysis of shutdowns in 11 different African countries by…

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Zoom includes AI at no extra cost to crack enterprise adoption puzzle

6 minutes of reading / AI, automation, compliance, Google, Microsoft, Tech, Technology / By

Zoom has thrown down the gauntlet in the enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) race, with the announcement that AI Companion 3.0 will be available at no additional cost to all paid users.   The strategy involves agentic AI capabilities designed to transform workplace collaboration – yet fundamental questions remain about whether Zoom is betting on the right…

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Amazon’s Delivery Drones Can’t Stop Running Into Problems (Literally)

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metamorworks/Shutterstock Amazon’s Prime Air delivery drones can’t catch a break. The company’s automated delivery service has once again run into problems — literally this time — as two of the drones have crashed into a cable hanging from a crane, which caused both to crash to the ground. In response, the company has already paused drone-based…

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Get HDD temperature right, or risk more drive failures

6 minutes of reading / Tech, Technology, Toshiba / By

In this podcast, we talk to Rainer Kaese, senior manager for business development in storage products at Toshiba Electronics Europe, about how temperature affects hard disk drives (HDDs). Kaese says the thing to keep an eye on is airflow, and that hard disk drive failure rates tend to multiply significantly if they run above their…

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Government launches AI growth zone taskforce to support expansion in North East England

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The UK government is supporting the launch of its second artificial intelligence (AI) growth zone in North East England by creating a task force that will work to ensure the proposed benefits of the endeavour are realised. The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) said the task force will comprise a coalition of tech…

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