Destination

2026-07-07

Taylor Swifts wedding photos are going viral. Theres just one problem.

AI-generated wedding photos from Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding are flooding the internet while fans wait for the real thing. [...]

Destination

2026-07-07

Alberta Tech on what AI gets right and where it still falls short for creators

Alberta Tech reflects on leaving software engineering behind, building an audience through tech humor, and explaining AI with nuance. [...]

Destination

2026-07-07

'No single organisation can tackle it alone': VodafoneThree says its new security process blocked two million SMS fraud messages

VodafoneThree and Barclays prevent 25% more banking scams by using combined intelligence – more banks to come. [...]

Destination

2026-07-07

Erling Haaland Is Everywhere at the World Cup. Most of It Is AI

Norwegian striker Erling Haaland isn’t just a footballer anymore. He’s become an internet character perpetuated by fans and AI. [...]

Destination

2026-07-07

British Space Startup Launches Longevity Lab Into Orbit

The lab will beam back data to train AI models to predict how proteins behind age-related diseases like Alzheimer’s and certain cancers behave. [...]

thenextweb

2026-07-07

US cyber agency is using Anthropic’s Mythos to audit government code, sources say

A federal defender is reportedly pointing a private, offensive-grade AI model at the government’s own software, though almost nothing about the work is on the record. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is using Anthropic’s AI model Mythos to hunt for bugs in government software, according to three people familiar with the matter who […]<br /> This story continues a [...]

thenextweb

2026-07-07

Samsung’s Q2 profit jumps 19-fold to 89 trillion won on AI memory demand

Samsung Electronics guided to second-quarter operating profit of about 89.4 trillion won ($58.4bn) on Tuesday, roughly 19 times what it made in the same period a year earlier and, by most counts, the largest quarterly operating profit any technology company has ever reported. It is Samsung’s third consecutive record quarter, and it came in ahead of the roughly 84 […]<br /> This story [...]

thenextweb

2026-07-07

Australia’s under-16 social media ban stumbles at the first age check, testers find

The world’s first national ban on social media for under-16s is faltering at the very first gate, according to the testers who helped Australia’s government design its age-check regime. In a follow-up study first reported by Reuters, the team opened 50 accounts across nine of the 10 platforms covered by the law, declaring the account […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

thenextweb

2026-07-07

Gyre Energy raises $1.3m to make the world’s cold stores work less when power costs most

Across a scorching European summer, the least glamorous machines in the economy have been quietly straining. In cold stores and distribution depots, compressors run harder as the mercury climbs, pulling more power at exactly the hours power is dearest. It is a problem most operators have simply lived with. Gyre Energy, an Oxford-founded energy tech […]<br /> This story continues at The Nex [...]