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20playtesters: a customer’s perspective on real-device Android testing
A customer and current partner shares why 20playtesters is worth considering for real-device Android testing, and how to prepare a useful testing round.
Google takes the nuclear option for €13B Finland expansion
Google plans to invest at least €13 billion ($15 billion) in digital infrastructure and supporting projects in Finland over the next two years.
Chinese researchers find egg-cellent way to keep space debris from scrambling craft
There’s a lot of garbage floating around in low Earth orbit that threatens both crewed and uncrewed spacecraft, but a new idea based on one…
Serial Microsoft 0-day hunter drops yet another Defender exploit
Zero-day researcher Nightmare Eclipse, aka MSNightmare, published yet another Microsoft Defender proof-of-concept exploit for a zero-day dubbed ShieldCrash, which they claim will allow attackers to…
Samsung to help fortify OpenAI’s semiconductor supply chain
OpenAI will design its next-generation AI accelerators with the help of South Korean foundry giant Samsung Electronics. This move could help the ChatGPT maker with…
Apple hawks $2k folding fondleslab
It’s been a long time since Apple introduced a truly new product. The world finally got one today in the form of the folding iPhone…

“It could kill us all”: what Anthropic’s own researchers really think about superintelligence
On Tuesday evening, Anthropic pretraining researcher Jacob Coxon announced on X that he’d resigned.

Automate user-level custom permissions for Amazon Quick
As Amazon Quick environments scale and new AI-powered capabilities expand what users can do, automating user-level custom permissions becomes critical to maintaining the principle of…
UK government says Fujitsu won’t use framework places to chase new customers
The UK government has told MPs that Fujitsu has promised not to pursue contracts with new public sector customers through frameworks potentially worth billions of…
Microsoft closes the book on Publisher and unplugs Project Online
Microsoft will retire Project Online and remove Publisher from Microsoft 365 over the coming weeks, while support for perpetual versions of Publisher and for Office…