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AI tool helped recover £500m lost to fraud, government says

AI tool helped recover £500m lost to fraud, government says 48 minutes ago Share Save Jack Fenwick Political correspondent Share Save PA Media A new artificial intelligence tool designed to crack down on fraud has helped the UK government recover almost £500m over the last year, the BBC can reveal. More than a third of the money clawed back related to fraudulent activity during the Covid-19 pandemic, with other cash being recouped from unlawful council tax claims and illegal subletting of soc

Alibaba shares rise over 6% after CEO unveils plans to boost AI spending; new data centers

Alibaba 's Hong Kong-listed shares surged on Wednesday to reach their highest point since 2021 after the company said it will invest more in artificial intelligence and rolled out new AI products and updates. Shares of the company jumped over 6%, while its total gains year to date rose above 107%. The tech giant plans to increase spending on AI models and infrastructure development, on top of the 380 billion yuan ($53 billion) over three years it announced in February, Chief Executive Officer

The LiberNovo Omni is a dynamic ergonomic chair that adjusts like no other, and you can pre-order one now

Whether you’re working or playing games, if you’ve spent any amount of time at a desk staring at a monitor, you’ve likely also spent a lot of that shifting around trying to find any semblance of comfort. The chair isn’t usually the first thing that comes to mind when planning desk setups, but a bad one will leave your neck and back crying for help. And while ergonomic chairs might have all the right curves, they’re still generally static and rigid. While we, usually, aren’t. These are the liter

9 new features coming to your Samsung Galaxy phones with One UI 8.5

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Update: September 24, 2025 (12:09 AM ET): A new One UI 8.5 leak revealed another cool feature coming to Galaxy phones with One UI 8.5. We’ve added it to the list right at the end. Think freedom to customize the control panel any way you want! Counds exciting? Read on to find out more. Original article: September 23, 2025 (5 AM ET): Android 16-based One UI 8 is just starting to roll out to Galaxy phones worldwide, and Samsung hasn’t officially announced anythin

Disney Plus hikes prices again, making it feel like an annual ritual

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Disney Plus will raise prices for most of its plans starting October 21, 2025. The ad-supported Disney Plus plan will increase from $9.99 to $11.99 per month, while the Premium plan will cost $18.99 per month. The price hike will affect both new and existing subscribers. Disney Plus has confirmed it will raise prices across most of its plans and bundles. The price hike will take effect on October 21, 2025, for both new and existing subscribers. The s

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The best robot vacuums on a budget for 2025

If vacuuming is your least favorite chore, employing a robot vacuum can save you time and stress while also making sure your home stays clean. While once most robo-vacs landed on the higher end of the price spectrum, that’s not the case anymore. Sure, you could pick up a $1,000 cleaning behemoth with mopping features, but it would be incorrect to assume that you need to spend that much money to get a good machine. Now, you can get an autonomous dirt-sucker with serious cleaning chops for $500

On hold? Your iPhone can listen to the call's music and wait for you - here's how

'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or

I replaced my midrange Bowers & Wilkins headphones with more expensive ones - how much can $370 upgrade you?

Bowers & Wilkins Px8 S2 ZDNET's key takeaways The Bowers & Wilkins Px8 S2 are available in Onyx Black and Warm Stone for $799. They excel in the design and sound categories, thanks to their high-quality internal and external build materials Unless you value exceptional details in design and sound, a $799 asking price may be hard to justify. View now at Bowers & Wilkins Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Few headphones perfectly blend design, sound quality, and everyday uti

I threw out my AA batteries after using Logitech's new solar-powered keyboard

Logitech Signature Slim Solar+ Keyboard ZDNET's key takeaways Logitech's Slim Solar keyboard is available now for $99. It's wireless and light-powered, pairs with three devices at once, and has customizable action keys. It's ultimately a pretty standard keyboard, and the "laptop-style" design might feel too shallow for some users. View now at Logitech Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Logitech's latest keyboard is about as easy as you can get. It's wireless, universally c

Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max review: I've got one big reason to recommend a year-over-year upgrade

Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max ZDNET's key takeaways The new flagship iPhone brings two big photography upgrades, in the zoom camera and the front-facing camera The new A19 Pro processor, the N1 chip, and the thermal upgrades combine to rev up performance For the author, this year's upgrade choice boils down to overcoming a flaw in the past two Pro Max models View now at Amazon View now at Best Buy more buying choices As far as annual upgrades go, we got a lot in the iPhone 17 Pro Max -- a redesign,

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Why you need a cloud service in 2025 (and the 7 best I've used)

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The best way to prevent data loss is to back up your files onto a cloud storage service. On top of safeguarding documents and photos, you can access content across multiple devices. In this guide, I explain key terms, compare popular services, and even recommend third-party options, among other things. One of the most important (and harshest) lessons I've learned as a tech writer is to always back u

Neovate Code Is Open Sourced

Neovate Code is Open Sourced We are excited to announce that Neovate Code is now open sourced! Please give it a star and follow us on GitHub. Vibe Coding is Hot The developer experience is rapidly evolving. AI-powered coding assistants are no longer a luxury—they’re becoming essential tools for modern software development. From code completion to full feature implementation, AI agents are transforming how we write, debug, and maintain code. I think traditional programming is like a sculptor

Ask HN: How do you choose languages for building applications?

Say, i want to build tcp client for check connection and can deploy anywhere without install any dependency, so i think golang would be a great choice. Maybe because your team are more comfortable with Python or dealing with AI/ML stuff, Java if you're dealing with Android apps, or because you are working on bank company, Rust for efficiency or some web server, Elixir i heard it's good for building messaging apps, C# for games, and even visual basic if you're dealing with legacy stuff.

Greatest irony of the AI age: Humans hired to clean AI slop

On one side is AI swallowing millions of jobs, and on the other is humans being hired to clean up the nonsense AI often generates, finds Satyen K. Bordoloi This was early 2023, a few months after ChatGPT had just made the perfect superintelligence landing in our lives. A producer friend, who wanted a beat sheet of a series written into a synopsis, sent me a document he said he had gotten written. A reading of its first paragraph was all it took to identify the writer: ChatGPT. The perfect robo

Building a better online editor for TypeScript

Val Town makes it easy to ship TypeScript automations and applications to the internet via an integrated web editor experience. We strive to offer a magical tight feedback loop, with 100ms deploys on save. That online editor experience should be great: we should support high-quality highlighting, autocompletion, information for when you hover over bits of code. But unfortunately it hasn't been so: our previous editor has been buggy and slow to give useful TypeScript feedback. But now, we've re

A webshell and a normal file that have the same MD5

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The Only Bad Thing I Can Say About Bowers & Wilkins' Exceptional New PX8 S2 Headphones Is Their Price Hurts

If you're looking for evidence that the Trump administration tariffs are impacting consumer electronics prices, look no further than Bowers & Wilkins' new flagship PX8 S2 noise-canceling headphones. The original version carried a list price of $699 when they launched, but this 2nd-gen model comes out of the gate at $799. Is that too much to pay? For most folks, yes, but the PX8 S2 are easily among my favorite over-ear headphones. Not only do they sound even better than the original PX8 but both

Logitech Signature Solar Slim+ K980 Keyboard Review: See the Light

Solar panels have long been used in consumer tech, from Garmin smartwatches and TV remotes to even a laptop. I’ve always wondered why there hasn't been a greater push for them. It’s free power. What’s not to like? Earlier panels may not have been as efficient, but that's no longer the case. Logitech is no stranger to solar technology. It first made a solar-powered keyboard 15 years ago, the K750, and now the time is ripe for a successor: the Logitech Signature Slim Solar+ K980. Like the origina

Logitech’s new light-powered keyboard doesn’t even need the sun

is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware that he thinks you’ll like. He joined in 2018, and after a stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. Logitech left solar-powered keyboards in the dark for over a decade, but it’s launching a new one today. Just like the K760 before it, its new $99.99 Signature Slim Solar Plus K980 can only be powered with light. There’s no USB port or swappable batteries. Instead, it features a cell that can convert solar or artificial light — 200 lux a

European policymakers finally plan to fix the cookie banner headache they created

Why it matters: More than a decade ago, Europe rewrote internet rules which effectively forced the entire internet to adopt stricter rules on cookie consent by amending the ePrivacy Directive. Since 2009, from big tech giants, to small personal blogs, and virtually any internet-based organization had to display a "cookie banner" to first-time visitors. Collectively, European users spend an estimated 575 hours every year clicking through those pesky prompts. The European Commission is preparing

TikTok child data protection inadequate, Canadian privacy officials say

TikTok child data protection inadequate, Canadian privacy officials say TikTok told the BBC that it will introduce a number of measures to "strengthen our platform for Canadians" although it disputes some of the findings. The investigation also found TikTok had collected sensitive personal information from "a large number" of Canadian children and used it for online marketing and content targeting. Hundreds of thousands of children in the country use TikTok each year despite the firm saying i

Tether CEO confirms major capital raise at a reported $500 billion valuation

Venezuelan Bolivar and U.S. Dollar banknotes and representations of cryptocurrency Tether are seen in this illustration taken Sept. 8, 2025. Tether, the issuer of the world's largest stablecoin, is evaluating a major fundraising round, its CEO Paolo Ardoino, has confirmed, in a deal that could reportedly put the crypto company's value on par with OpenAI. The El Salvador-based company is looking to raise between $15 billion and $20 billion for a roughly 3% stake through a private placement, acc

Google just teased its Android-powered PC project, Qualcomm CEO says he’s seen it

TL;DR At the Snapdragon Summit, Google’s Rick Osterloh hinted that the company is working on a “common technical foundation” to bring Android and AI features to PCs. We previously reported that Google may be planning to merge Chrome OS and Android, unifying the two operating systems. This could pave the way for future Chromebooks and even a Pixel Laptop powered by Android. Google may have just dropped its clearest hint yet that Android will soon power more than phones and tablets. At today’s

iPhone 17 Pro teardown reveals vapor chamber internals, scratchgate details, more

Following the iPhone Air teardown, iFixit turned its eyes and its screwdrivers to the iPhone 17 Pro, and found that the device packs a combination of welcome improvements and one setback when it comes to repairability. Here are the details. Inside the vapor chamber Like in the teardown of the iPhone Air, iFixit’s new teardown revealed how Apple packed most of the iPhone 17 Pro’s internals in the top third of the device, leaving the rest for the battery, the USB-C port, and the Taptic Engine.

I did not expect this midrange Sony soundbar to rival my Sonos system like this

Sony Bravia Theater System 6 ZDNET's key takeaways The Bravia Theater System 6 consists of a center channel soundbar, two rear speakers, and an external subwoofer for $800. It offers great sound, in-app Bravia audio features, and a simple user experience. Without Wi-Fi connectivity, many wireless streaming options are unavailable, but the movie and TV watching experience remains unchanged $798 at Walmart $798 at B&H Photo-Video $798 at Crutchfield more buying choices Follow ZDNET: Add us as a

New Disney+ price increase will hit almost all plans - here's how much more you'll pay

Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images) Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Streaming service Disney+ has announced a price increase. Almost all plans are affected, including bundle options. The company has raised its prices every October for three years. If you're a Disney+ subscriber, you'll be paying more soon, as another price increase is on the way. Almost every tier for the streaming service is set to have a higher price next month, inclu

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5 of my favorite Linux distros ready to use out of the box - no setup required

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET key takeaways These Linux distributions require zero post-install work. Each of these options is usable out of the box. You won't need to install software or tweak the desktop. Every time I've had to install Windows (which is a nightmare), it seems there's always work to do to get it working as needed. You may need to install drivers and software, remove ads, update the system (which can

Forget quiet quitting - AI 'workslop' is the new office morale killer

Richard Drury/DigitalVision via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Workers are using AI to create low-quality "workslop." Bosses have to pick up hours of slack to fix it, harming careers. AI ROI is still unclear for most workplaces. Workers are becoming overly reliant on AI. The result? Lackluster product, now coined "workslop," according to new research from BetterUp Labs and Stanford Social Media Lab. Also: 10 ChatGPT Codex secrets I

Google's latest AI safety report explores AI beyond human control

wildpixel/ iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Google latest Frontier Safety Framework explores It identifies three risk categories for AI. Despite risks, regulation remains slow. One of the great ironies of the ongoing AI boom has been that as the technology becomes more technically advanced, it also becomes more unpredictable. AI's "black box" gets darker as a system's number of parameters -- and the size o