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Otto Aerospace’s new Phantom 500 has replaced windows with digital panes to cut fuel burn by 60 per cent. Unknown

‘Huge leap’: Windowless jet tipped to transform air travel

The world’s first passenger aircraft without windows would cut down on fuel costs, making travel cheaper and better for the environment.

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Google has told employees to start using AI more in their daily duties.

Google cuts over 100 jobs to focus more on AI

The latest layoffs come as Google accelerates job cuts to focus spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure.

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Chatbots want to be your friend, when what you really need is a neutral perspective.

How to avoid the AI chatbot flattery trap

THE NEW YORK TIMES: While artificial intelligence chatbots promise detailed, personalised answers, they also offer validation on demand.

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High schoolers in Toyoake, Japan look at their mobile phones on Sept. 29, 2025. Authorities in Toyoake introduced a rule limiting the use of digital devices to two hours per day outside of work and school. (Kentaro Takahashi/The New York Times)

One city is trying to ban smartphones, will it work?

THE NEW YORK TIMES: An energetic mayor was sick of being surrounded by children addicted to their screens. He pushed for the government to step in.

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A scene from the video game Consume Me.

She counted calories as a teen, then created a game about it

THE NEW YORK TIMES: ‘Our aim was to depict a spectrum. You don’t have to end up being rail thin to qualify as having an eating disorder.’

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he communications minister is meeting with executives from Singtel, which owns Optus.

Minister to 'lay down the law' over Optus failures

The federal government has been urged to deploy independent experts to embattled telco Optus after a further emergency call outage on its network.

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Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew.

Can our world-first social media ban for kids really work?

Australians have been promised that a social media ban for children will be frictionless come December 10 - but three months out questions remain on what will be included and how users will be affected.

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Is it time for AI engineers to start overbuilding systems to safely plan for isolated system failures in the same way bridge building engineers of the Victorian era did?

How to stop AI’s ‘lethal trifecta’

Coders need to start thinking like mechanical engineers.

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The call carried a whiff of plausibility. Would a scammer have a supervisor?

I’ve written about loads of scams. This one almost got me.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The call carried a whiff of plausibility. Would a scammer have a supervisor?

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Safety codes will demand search engines block children under 18 from accessing harmful content.

Kids can still search logged out under safety crackdown

Search engines like Google and Microsoft will have to ensure kids aren't exposed to harmful content like porn and violence, but enforcement concerns remain.

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A model of a giant rig called the DeepSea Stavanger that was used to find oil in Norway’s waters.

How Norway adopted new tech in its hunt for ‘missing’ oil

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Advanced technology allows the drillers to see up to 100 feet into the rocks around the well bore.

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Sam Altman and Jensen Huang are betting big that AI’s superbrain will kill capitalism as we know it.

AI’s trillion-dollar kill shot at capitalism

TOM RICHARDSON: Sam Altman says AI will change the world in unknown ways, but governments may have already lost the race against their big tech masters.

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Donald Trump spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping about the deal on Friday.

TikTok’s algorithm to be controlled ‘by America’

Further details of a deal reached between the US and China over control of the popular social media platform TikTok have been revealed.

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The new Airpods can translate languages in your ears. The technology is one of the strongest examples yet of how artificial intelligence can be used in a seamless, practical way to improve people’s lives.

The new AirPods can translate languages in your ears

THE NEW YORK TIMES: AirPods users need only make a gesture to activate the digital interpreter. A second after someone speaks, the translation is played in the wearer’s preferred language through the earbuds.

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