‘Communities across the UK are paying the price for this criminal behaviour’: Openreach teams up with metal recycling giant to tackle UK’s £4bn a decade cable theft problem

Openreach is fighting the escalating £500m yearly cable theft problem with new partnerships, DNA tracing and grid alarms.
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LaCie 8big Pro5 review: I tested LaCie’s huge 256TB DAS solution, and it’s ideal for 8K video editing but it comes with a price tag that’s just as big

The LaCie 8big Pro5 is a RAID-ready DAS solution that offers huge amounts of storage that’s easy to manage and use, both in the studio and on set.
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HP announces the most powerful Windows AI PC ever built — Nvidia GB300 workstation can handle one trillion parameters thanks to its 784GB unified memory, but it won’t be cheap

HP’s upcoming ZGX Fury GB300 is the best-in-class desktop AI option money can buy in 2026.

One year ago, Ukraine launched Operation Spiderweb to destroy billions of dollars worth of Russian combat planes – It ‘served as a warning to the United States’

A landmark Ukrainian drone strike in June 2025 destroyed or damaged up to 41 Russian strategic aircraft, cementing the role of drones in the modern battlefield.
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‘Our hardware is designed to be picked up and shaken about’: Aquark Technologies takes quantum sensing outside of the lab as a viable GNSS alternative

Aquark Technologies is making quantum sensing portable – cold-atom hardware will offer high-precision, resilient alternatives to vulnerable GNSS.
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Quote of the day by former Apple design chief Jony Ive: “When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works it sort of becomes magical” — wisdom on the power of simplicity

The man responsible for designing some of the most elegant devices in the world believed in how amazing technology needn’t be complex
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Inside the “disappearing battery” revolution — how forest-powered supercapacitors could keep wireless sensors running for years

Swedish startup Ligna Energy’ S-Power supercapacitors use forest-derived materials to replace unsustainable batteries in IoT sensors.
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Ex-Google CEO is key to Ukraine’s most formidable drone weapon to date – $5000 Hornet can carry 5Kg of explosives on a 200Km, one-way trip

Eric Schmidt, former Google chief executive, drives drone projects behind Ukraine’s Hornet, shifting warfare toward low-cost swarm strike economics.
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‘Fraud won’t be tolerated in this country any longer’: FBI releases Most Wanted Fraudsters list to help fight the crime that ‘costs Americans tens of billions of dollars every year’

The FBI is currently looking for eight major fraudsters whose whereabouts have been unknown for years.

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China combats US carrier restrictions by opening telecoms pilots to foreign outfits – Beijing drops 50% foreign ownership cap to attract new investment

Foreign companies will no longer need to create Chinese joint ventures to sell in China, under this region-specific pilot.
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