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Lead photoTaki Allen, 16, said he was eating a bag of Doritos after football practice before being handcuffed by police.

Tech bosses could stop mobile phone theft, say MPs

Millions of UK Apple users could get pay-out after court ruling

JLR cyber-attack caused UK car production to hit 70-year low for September

No digital ID checks until you change jobs, says No 10

Trump pardons Binance founder Changpeng Zhao

Amazon apologises to customers impacted by huge AWS outage
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI releases browser in attempt to rival Google
ChatGPT Atlas was unveiled as the company seeks new ways to corral users to its online offerings.

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Amazon outage 'resolved' as Snapchat and banks among sites impacted
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Three wrongly accused over child abuse images after BT gets 'wires crossed'
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What caused the AWS outage - and why did it make the internet fall apart?
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Spike in Disney+ cancellations after Kimmel suspension
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Life-changing eye implant helps blind patients read again
BBC News20 Oct 2025What's the best way to detect and destroy drones?
Tech firms are developing more affordable ways to detect and destroy drones.

Is Microsoft's first ever handheld Xbox console worth the wait?
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Salesforce CEO apologises for saying Trump should send troops to San Francisco
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OpenAI stops 'disrespectful' Martin Luther King Jr deepfakes
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China's biggest shopping event starts five weeks early to revive spending
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Spotify working on AI music tools with major record labels
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Windows 10 users urged to prepare for Microsoft pulling support
BBC News11 Oct 2025Bitcoin worth $14bn seized in US-UK crackdown on alleged scammers
The UK has also frozen assets linked to the alleged scammers, including a £100m London office building.

Cyber attack contingency plans should be put on paper, firms told
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Vodafone says outage affecting thousands of customers resolved
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'It's going to be really bad': Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley
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Dutch government takes control of China-owned chip firm
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BBC News11 Oct 2025Why AI is being trained in rural India
Smaller Indian towns are becoming centres for training and correcting artificial intelligence models.

Food firms scramble to meet the high-protein craze
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The people turning to AI for dating and relationship advice
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The bacteria turning waste plastic into painkillers
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What's the big deal about AI data centres?
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We have hybrid cars, now hybrid planes are coming
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AI challenges the dominance of Google search
BBC News15 Sept 2025The green steel firms looking to revive US steelmaking
Start-up firms have pilot plants for making steel with low carbon emissions, but can they scale up?

Computer science graduates struggle to secure their first jobs
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How to destroy harmful 'forever chemicals'
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Will AI make language dubbing easy for film and TV?
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Economic woes dominate as Bolivia prepares to go to the polls
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How to get AI to work in 22 languages
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Could aluminium become the packaging 'champion'?
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