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Tech giants are gaga over AI, but employees say the AI race is making their jobs harder
Digital Trends Tech companies have spent years promising that AI will help people accomplish more in less time. Inside several companies leading that race, some employees are describing an awkward consequence. More productive tools haven’t necessarily produced shorter working days. Workers at OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google told the BBC about punishing schedules and AI […]
Google Chrome is working on new feature which lets you open PDF files in your preferred app
Digital Trends Google is testing a small but useful change to Chrome for Android that could make downloading files less frustrating. Instead of automatically opening files such as PDFs in Chrome, the browser could soon send them directly to the app you have chosen to handle that file type. The feature is currently being tested […]
Chalong Riewrang: Former Thai MP allegedly kills official and confesses on YouTube
BBC News A former Thai MP allegedly shot dead a local official in the southern province of Nonthaburi, then dialled into a YouTube livestream to inform the host – a political pundit – of what he had done. Former Nonthaburi MP Chalong Reawraeng told the shocked host, Anchalee Paireerak, that he had shot Thongchai Yenprasert, […]
Record 230 people cross English Channel in one small boat
BBC News A small boat has crossed the English Channel carrying 230 people, the largest-ever recorded number to make the journey in a single vessel. The boat arrived in the UK on Saturday, when 258 migrants on four boats made the crossing. This breaks the previous record from July when 165 people made the crossing […]
Chinese startup claims its brain implant takes just 10 minutes to place, no skull surgery required
Digital Trends Brain implants, like the ones made by Elon Musk’s Neuralink, typically involve open-skull surgery. But a Chinese startup says it can skip that step entirely, threading its device into the brain through a vein in a procedure that reportedly takes as little as ten minutes. According to the South China Morning Post, Shanghai-based […]
LIV Golf New York: Joaquin Niemann wins as Jon Rahm secures season title
BBC News LIV Golf New York final leaderboard -16 J Niemann (Chi); -13 H Varner III (US); -9 L Westwood (Eng), S Vincent (Zim) Selected others: -6 P Casey (Eng), T McKibbin (NI); -3 L Canter (Eng); +1 R Bland (Eng) Full leaderboard Joaquin Niemann led throughout to win the LIV Golf New York event […]
Ukrainian drone attack kills 13 in Russia’s Tatarstan, officials say
BBC News At least 13 people have been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike on the Russian republic of Tatarstan, officials have said. One child was among the victims with 39 more people injured, Russian authorities said, in one of the deadliest single attacks on Russia since the start of Moscow’s full-scale war in Ukraine. […]
Thames Water gave finance chief a £1m signing-on fee
BBC News Thames Water paid its finance chief a £1m signing-on fee in July as the company struggles with a mountain of debt and faces temporary nationalisation. Steve Buck joined the company in April 2025 but it is understood the seven-figure payment was not made until last month after the company had taken legal advice […]
Gianni Infantino: Fifa accused of breaking trust ‘through deception’
BBC News Fifa and its president Gianni Infantino have been accused of breaking trust “through deception” in an open letter issued by Uefa, Concacaf and the Asian Football Confederation. The letter, signed by the presidents and general secretaries, said recent controversy over the Fifa Forward Enterprise (FFE) proposal was fundamentally about “the integrity of the […]