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Rainmakers: The drones used to seed clouds

Cloud seeding is gaining attention as countries look to boost rainfall - will drones help?

Braid-creator Jonathan Blow on making the 'biggest puzzle game ever'

Order of the Sinking Star is due out on Thursday and has roughly 1,500 puzzles for players to try

Asos confirms hackers sent 'unauthorised' notification to app users

Asos confirmed an "unauthorised customer notification" was sent out via its app on Tuesday, after users raised alarm.

Finland orders halt to work on two Google data centres

The order affecting two planned data centres follows concerns over forest clearance.

Italian PM files to trademark her voice against AI threats

Giorgia Meloni submitted a four-second audio to a EU agency in a bid to protect her voice from deepfakes.

Ofcom investigates Meta over Instagram Instants feature

The regulator said Instagram had not fully assessed risks posed by its Instants feature prior to launching it.

Lego fraudster among last year's most high-profile insurance scammers

The person was sentenced to 28 months in prison after an investigation found the claims were made up, the insurance trade body, the ABI said.

Pentagon stops using Anthropic AI tools after blacklisting company, BBC told

It labelled Anthropic a "supply chain risk" in February after the firm refused to remove safety guardrails from its tools.

Trump chooses top spy boss to run new AI taskforce

The US president said his national intelligence chief will lead the group as worries over AI grow.

OpenAI fires workers for 'mishandling sensitive information'

The former employees were investigated for sharing data with an outside AI evaluation group.

Crypto thieves attack man in home and threaten to kill pregnant wife's baby in 'horrific' robbery

The man was beaten with hammers until he transferred hundreds of thousands of pounds of cryptocurrency.

Trump's AI rebrand causes 'unprecedented' demand for Slovenian website names

The president wants AI to be called super intelligence - or SI - the same initials used by Slovenian domains.

AI boom could trigger market shocks, Bank of England boss warns

Andrew Bailey says the central bank is watching the waves of cash being invested in artificial intelligence "very carefully".

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