Definitely not your usual EV: China begins sea trial for world’s largest electric ship — Ning Yuan Dian Kun is longer than a football field, weighs 10,000 tons, and uses 10 container batteries with a total 19MWh capacity

A Chinese electric cargo ship with 19 megawatt hours of batteries is completing trials, combining large-scale energy storage and automation.
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‘Exactly one photon’: European scientists have built the first block of a truly unhackable global quantum internet that can run on existing fiber networks — breaking what was once thought to be an impossible barrier to transmit identical light particles

Scientists break the telecom wavelength barrier that previously blocked long distance quantum communication over existing optical fiber infrastructure.
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Asus’s Intel Core i7-powered ROG Strix G16 is a high-performance laptop for creators and gamers — and it’s currently $100 off

Asus’s ROG Strix G16 laptop pairs an Intel Core i7-14650HX processor with 16GB of DDR5 RAM and a 1TB SSD for creative tasks, work and entertainment.
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QR code phishing surges 146% as Microsoft detects and analyzes 8.3 billion phishing threats in Q1 2026 – attackers are changing tactics to bypass security

Microsoft has seen attackers changing tactics to get around security tools, and they keep adapting even when disrupted.
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FBI says hackers are making millions from stolen cargo – losses ‘surged’ to nearly $725 million in 2025

Cybercriminals are infiltrating digital shipping supply chains to reroute cargo and use it to fund other crimes.

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Error in Medicare database exposes US healthcare providers Social Security numbers – Trump administration directory designed to modernize Medicare encounters another setback

A Trump administration directory designed to help seniors find healthcare inadvertently exposed Social Security numbers.
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Zuckerberg blames Meta layoffs on AI costs, says “compute and infrastructure” and “people oriented things” are biggest financial drain right now

Meta’s capex rises as the company spends big on AI data centers, and it’s having to reduce headcount to become more agile.
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‘An hour of scan time is all it took’: “Copy Fail” flaw impacts all Linux kernels released since 2017, so patch now or face the consequences

Linux users should update their servers now, or face possible attack.

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‘Trust cannot be claimed. It needs to be earned through our actions’: Microsoft thinks it’s doing pretty well in helping European firms manage their data, despite sovereignty complaints

In 2025 Microsoft set out five goals for itself in Europe – now its EMEA heads say the company is on track for good progress.
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Unlocking science: building AI researchers can trust

Over half of researchers now say they use AI tools in their work, but only two in ten believe generic AI tools are trustworthy.
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