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A power outage at a Google datacentre in London's europe-west2-b zone disrupted banking services, paused court hearings and caused temporary glitches on the NHS app, with problems peaking around 9am and mostly resolved by mid-afternoon.
The US government on Monday announced a DeepSeek AI ban for federal civilian agencies, in a directive from the Department of Homeland Security that also covers third-party tools built with the Chinese startup's products.
Researchers at Mass General Brigham in Massachusetts have built an AI system that estimates a cancer patient's biological age and predicts survival chances from a single facial photograph, according to a study published in Lancet Digital Health.
California will receive a $6m settlement payment in 23andMe's bankruptcy, resolving the state's legal claims over a 2023 23andMe data breach that exposed 6.9 million customers' information, attorney general Rob Bonta announced on Monday.
Hackers remotely overrode digital thermostats at up to 700 French supermarkets last Sunday night, pushing freezers from as low as -27C to well over 50C and forcing staff to bin tons of food. The Paris public prosecutor's office has opened an investigation.
An investigation found that batteries made by Volkswagen, Ford and Tesla may contain nickel mined on deforested indigenous land in Sulawesi, Indonesia, which holds the world's largest nickel deposits. Satellite analysis links the Cahaya and Hengjaya mines to widespread loss of primary rainforest on land of the indigenous Tolaki people.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launch before dawn on Tuesday produced a giant luminescent 'jellyfish cloud' over Florida, visible to sky watchers along the US east coast from Georgia to New York.
A language learning study by researchers at UCL and Tohoku University in Japan found that learners who focus on how a foreign language sounds may progress better than those starting with rote vocabulary and grammar.
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Research, software and the real-world systems shaping our connected future.
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
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A power outage at a Google datacentre in London's europe-west2-b zone disrupted banking services, paused court hearings and caused temporary glitches on the NHS app, with problems peaking around 9am and mostly resolved by mid-afternoon.
By LiveDigest · 17:19 GMTThe US government on Monday announced a DeepSeek AI ban for federal civilian agencies, in a directive from the Department of Homeland Security that also covers third-party tools built with the Chinese startup's products.
By LiveDigest · 16:30 GMTResearchers at Mass General Brigham in Massachusetts have built an AI system that estimates a cancer patient's biological age and predicts survival chances from a single facial photograph, according to a study published in Lancet Digital Health.
By LiveDigest · 04:22 GMTCalifornia will receive a $6m settlement payment in 23andMe's bankruptcy, resolving the state's legal claims over a 2023 23andMe data breach that exposed 6.9 million customers' information, attorney general Rob Bonta announced on Monday.
By LiveDigest · Oct 19Hackers remotely overrode digital thermostats at up to 700 French supermarkets last Sunday night, pushing freezers from as low as -27C to well over 50C and forcing staff to bin tons of food. The Paris public prosecutor's office has opened an investigation.
By LiveDigest · Oct 17An investigation found that batteries made by Volkswagen, Ford and Tesla may contain nickel mined on deforested indigenous land in Sulawesi, Indonesia, which holds the world's largest nickel deposits. Satellite analysis links the Cahaya and Hengjaya mines to widespread loss of primary rainforest on land of the indigenous Tolaki people.
By LiveDigest · Oct 16A SpaceX Falcon 9 launch before dawn on Tuesday produced a giant luminescent 'jellyfish cloud' over Florida, visible to sky watchers along the US east coast from Georgia to New York.
By LiveDigest · Oct 15A language learning study by researchers at UCL and Tohoku University in Japan found that learners who focus on how a foreign language sounds may progress better than those starting with rote vocabulary and grammar.
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