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• Using The Blank Template To Create A Sidebar For A Single Post [Video]

  27-03-2022 23:51
  
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• Alibaba says Qwen3.8 is the world’s No.2 AI model. It has shown no proof.

  20-07-2026 13:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  Days after a rival Chinese lab shook Silicon Valley, Alibaba has fired back. The company previewed Qwen3.8, its most powerful model yet, and made a bold claim: it trails only one model on Earth. Alibaba unveiled the model at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. Its Qwen team said on X that Qwen3.8 is […]
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• China’s car market is heading for its worst year since 2021. Sales fell 20% in the first half.

  20-07-2026 13:08 via thenextweb.com
  
  China’s passenger car sales fell 20.2% in the first half of 2026 to 8.7 million units, and the China Passenger Car Association has lowered its full-year forecast to a 14% decline, projecting 20.4 million deliveries, down from a record 23.7 million in 2025. Citic CLSA’s Xiao Feng expects a 20% full-year drop. “This is going […]
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• The EU just fined AliExpress €550M, its biggest DSA penalty yet

  20-07-2026 12:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  Alibaba’s AliExpress has been hit with a €550 million ($629 million) fine from the European Union. Brussels says the Chinese shopping platform failed to keep illegal, unsafe and counterfeit products off its site. The penalty, announced on Monday, is the biggest yet under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA). That law forces very large platforms […]
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• Kenya investigates hack of Ruto’s official website after bitcoin ransom demand

  20-07-2026 12:49 via thenextweb.com
  
  Kenyan authorities are investigating a cyberattack that defaced President William Ruto’s official website over the weekend, replacing the homepage with a ransom message and a cryptocurrency wallet address. The government pulled president.go.ke offline on Saturday and has since said it found no evidence that sensitive data was taken. The intruders demanded five bitcoins, worth roughly […]
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• Kimi K3 is so popular Moonshot ran out of GPUs and paused new sign-ups

  20-07-2026 12:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  Moonshot AI has a problem most startups would envy. Its new Kimi K3 model proved so popular that it ran out of computing power to serve everyone. So the Chinese lab has hit pause on new sign-ups. Over the past 48 hours, demand “pushed close to the limits of our current capacity,” the company said […]
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• Prysmian signs €5.5bn fibre deal with Molex to wire AI data centres

  20-07-2026 12:26 via thenextweb.com
  
  Prysmian has signed a €5.5bn, 10-year agreement with Molex, the Koch Industries-owned connector and cable maker, to supply optical cable for use inside AI data centres. Unusually for a supply deal of this size, Molex is putting €550m on the table upfront, a rare piece of cash certainty in a market where most commitments arrive […]
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• An AI agent hacked Hugging Face. Another AI caught it.

  20-07-2026 12:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  The machines are now hacking each other. Hugging Face, the world’s largest hub for open AI models, says an autonomous AI agent broke into its production infrastructure. Its own AI defences spotted the intrusion and picked it apart. The company disclosed the incident in a statement on 16 July. It called the attack different from […]
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• Trump Media reportedly pitched traders a $100,000 feed of the president’s posts

  20-07-2026 12:08 via thenextweb.com
  
  Trump Media & Technology Group has reportedly been asking financial-trading firms for about $100,000 a month for the fastest possible feed of Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts, according to the Financial Times, a price tag that turns the president’s typing into a subscription product. The pitch, described to the paper by people familiar with the discussions, offers […]
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• Samsung’s new laptop OLED hits 1,600 nits and lasts twice as long as the panel it replaces

  20-07-2026 11:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  Samsung Display has begun shipping tandem OLED panels for laptops that reach 1,600 nits peak brightness, more than 40% above the 1,100-nit ceiling of conventional single-layer OLED. The panels meet VESA’s new DisplayHDR True Black 1400 certification, announced this month, which requires 1,400 nits at 10% on-pixel ratio while maintaining black levels of 0.0005 nits […]
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• SpaceX pushes Starship Flight 13 to Thursday after aborted countdown

  20-07-2026 11:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  SpaceX has moved the next launch attempt of its Starship rocket to Thursday, 23 July, the latest delay for a flight that has now been scrubbed once and rescheduled twice. The company had been targeting Monday evening from its Starbase site at Boca Chica in Texas, and said it needed more time to finish work […]
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• Blackstone invests in South Korea’s Futronic to ride the robotics boom

  20-07-2026 11:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  Blackstone is buying into Futronic, a South Korean maker of the high-precision actuators that let machines move, in a wager that the least visible hardware in a robot is where the next returns will sit. The firm did not disclose the size of the investment or the stake it is taking, saying only that the […]
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• New X phishing scam copies real login alerts down to the pixel to hijack accounts

  20-07-2026 11:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  Scammers are sending phishing emails that are near-exact replicas of X’s legitimate login notifications, warning recipients of a login “from a new device” in a location they have never been. The emails include X’s logo, correct formatting, proper grammar, and the same colour scheme as real alerts. They ask the recipient to click a link […]
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• Data centre backlash goes national as protests hit 42 US states

  20-07-2026 11:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  On Saturday, American opposition to data centres stopped being a scatter of zoning-board arguments and started behaving like a movement. More than 140 rallies across 42 states unfolded under a single banner, in what organisers billed as the first national day of action against the industry pouring the concrete for artificial intelligence. The rallies were coordinated […]
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• Facebook and Instagram stumble for users in Sunday-morning outage

  20-07-2026 10:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  Meta’s two biggest social networks spent part of Sunday morning refusing to behave for a good number of the people who reached for them. Facebook and Instagram both faltered on 19 July, greeting users with login failures, frozen feeds, and error screens that promised a fix was on the way without saying when it would […]
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• Bentley hired an orchestra to solve the EV silence problem. Drums were the answer.

  20-07-2026 10:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  Bentley recorded a V8 in a studio, analysed it, and discovered that rhythm, not mechanical tone, is what makes the engine emotionally compelling. To test the theory, the team set up parabolic speakers with the V8 playing on one side and a live drummer on the other. Walking between the two revealed striking similarities in […]
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• UK finance chiefs are warming to AI, even as they keep spending in check

  20-07-2026 10:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nearly three-quarters of the finance chiefs at Britain’s largest companies now say they are optimistic that artificial intelligence will improve business performance, a striking figure from a group not given to exuberance. In Deloitte’s latest quarterly UK CFO Survey, 73% expressed that optimism, up from 59% at the end of 2025 and just 39% two […]
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• Samsung cuts 739 New Jersey jobs as its US headquarters heads for Texas

  20-07-2026 10:13 via thenextweb.com
  
  The glass campus in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, is barely a year old. Samsung opened it in September 2025 to replace the Ridgefield Park headquarters it had kept since 1992, and now roughly 739 of the people who work there are being told they can follow the company to Texas or start looking elsewhere. The […]
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• Dutch company ASML is $300bn from a trillion. AI could close the gap

  20-07-2026 09:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  ASML has spent 2026 getting steadily, expensively larger. The Dutch company whose machines print the world’s most advanced chips is now Europe’s most valuable listed business, worth around $700bn (€600bn), and enough of the investors who own it now say the next round number out loud that the question has stopped sounding fanciful: could ASML […]
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• Korea’s AI chip market is now the opening bell for global stocks

  19-07-2026 18:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  Fund managers in London, New York, and Tokyo have added a new step to their morning routine: checking South Korean stocks. Korea’s $4 trillion equity market is now offering an early read on global AI risk appetite, as swings in SK Hynix and Samsung ripple through chip stocks worldwide. “We are all Korean investors now,” […]
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• Victoria proposes forcing social media platforms to unmask anonymous accounts accused of vilification

  19-07-2026 18:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  Victoria’s premier Jacinta Allan announced on Sunday that the state would propose laws granting the Victorian civil and administrative tribunal power to order social media and AI platforms to reveal the identities of anonymous account holders accused of online vilification. The “demasking” powers would be the first of their kind for an Australian state. Allan […]
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• AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident, researchers found

  19-07-2026 17:35 via thenextweb.com
  
  Researchers from three French and Italian universities found that access to AI advice collapsed people’s willingness to say “I don’t know” from 44% to 3%. Accuracy dropped from 27% to 9%. Confidence, meanwhile, rose from 30% to 76%. “People became much worse, the accuracy was only one third, but they were twice as confident,” said […]
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• Rob Gurzeev on Why AI Has Changed Cybersecurity’s Biggest Blind Spot

  19-07-2026 14:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  Artificial intelligence is transforming how software is built, deployed, and secured. While AI has accelerated innovation across industries, it has also expanded the number of internet-facing assets organizations need to protect. According to Rob Gurzeev, CEO and Co-Founder of CyCognito, the challenge is no longer just identifying known vulnerabilities. It is understanding what is actually […]
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• Common Sense Media says Google’s AI Search poses an “unacceptable risk” to students. Google cannot turn it off.

  19-07-2026 14:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  Common Sense Media concluded that Google’s AI-powered Search poses an “unacceptable risk” to young users and recommended that students stop using it entirely until schools can disable the AI features. The child safety watchdog found that AI Mode readily completed homework assignments for minors, repeated misinformation with an air of authority, and exposed children to […]
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• The Company Brain and the Future of Go-to-Market Strategy

  19-07-2026 13:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  Founders eagerly bought into the promise of autonomous agents over the past year, and software usage skyrocketed across the industry as teams rushed to adopt the latest tools. Despite this massive investment in new technology, sales pipelines remained completely flat. This is the ultimate paradox facing modern revenue teams today. The average business-to-business go-to-market team […]
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• Moonshot plans to list in Hong Kong within six months at a $30 billion valuation

  19-07-2026 11:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  Moonshot AI has told investors it is preparing to list in Hong Kong in as soon as six months, Bloomberg reported on Saturday. The company has distributed a shareholder resolution seeking backing for the IPO and is wrapping a fundraising round that may value the three-year-old startup at more than $30 billion. Annual recurring revenue […]
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• China is rebuilding the smartphone around AI agents. ZTE’s NaviX sold out in hours.

  18-07-2026 20:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  ZTE showcased the NaviX Ultra at the World AI Conference in Shanghai this week, calling it the world’s first agentic AI smartphone. The device, built under ZTE’s Nubia brand, runs ByteDance’s Doubao AI agent and can be activated by voice or a dedicated button. It comes in four colours and was prototyped in December at […]
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• France and Germany pledge to build a European rival to Palantir’s military AI software

  18-07-2026 16:16 via thenextweb.com
  
  France and Germany pledged on Friday to develop a European alternative to Palantir’s military AI software. A joint declaration signed after talks between Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz committed the two countries to examine “a European sovereign digital backbone” covering data-centric security, AI, and cloud solutions. France’s Arcadia, an AI-powered command-and-control platform, was named as […]
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• The White House is now deciding who gets access to frontier AI models, not the labs

  18-07-2026 16:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Trump administration is now dictating which companies and entities get access to frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI, CNBC reported on Friday, citing two people familiar with the matter. Until now, the labs made that decision themselves. Anthropic controlled access to its Mythos cybersecurity model through an initiative called Project Glasswing. OpenAI ran […]
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• Chinese car sales in the UK jumped from 384 in 2015 to 285,000 last year. The tariff gap explains why.

  18-07-2026 16:14 via thenextweb.com
  
  Brits bought 384 Chinese-made vehicles in 2015. Last year, they bought 285,000, according to automotive consulting firm Mobility Global. The growth is accelerating. BYD nearly doubled its UK sales in the first half of 2026 to over 37,000 units, and Chinese brands collectively hold roughly 13% of new car registrations in Britain, double their share […]
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