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 Are you heading to university this autumn? Choosing the right equipment has become more important than ever. From reliable laptops that can handle demanding deadlines to monitors suitable for both studying and gaming, taking the time to compare your options could help you save money while avoiding unnecessary stress. With university starting in just a few weeks, parents across the UK are preparing for the annual shopping rush as new students work through their long lists of essentials, from cookware and decorations to food supplies, bedding and the latest technology. Among these items, a dependable laptop is arguably one of the most important purchases, as getting through university without one can be extremely difficult. Although universities often provide recommended laptop specifications, these usually represent only the minimum requirements and may not take into account factors such as a student’s course, budget or everyday needs. Fortunately, retailers such as AO offer a rang...

 The UK could fall behind other countries in the global AI race if it fails to accelerate improvements to its telecommunications infrastructure, senior industry executives have warned. Much of the competition has focused on developing large datacentres and ensuring they have sufficient water and energy to support the computing power needed to train and operate AI systems. However, as AI becomes increasingly widespread, the country’s broadband and mobile networks will also face growing pressure to handle enormous amounts of AI-generated traffic from both businesses and consumers. Although the UK has made significant progress in overcoming its previous reputation for having some of Europe’s slowest broadband speeds, with BT’s Openreach and other providers expanding full-fibre coverage, the country’s efforts to modernise its 5G mobile infrastructure have failed to keep up. A recent Which? report using Opensignal data found that the UK has poorer mobile coverage than all 27 EU countrie...

  With robots suffering spectacular mechanical failures, delivering enough hilarious falls to rival a Buster Keaton film, and occasionally displaying surprisingly aggressive behavior, the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing captured global attention this week. The event left audiences with a strange combination of amusement, anxiety, and relief. The five-day event highlighted China’s ambition to establish itself as the world’s leading force in humanoid robotics. The competition featured android fighters delivering powerful roundhouse kicks, while robot teams entered the arena alongside flag-waving captains riding enormous robotic dogs. The headline 100m sprint provided one of the most memorable moments, as several robots reportedly ran faster than Usain Bolt’s record pace before crashing into a padded barrier, sending sparks, flames and pieces of machinery flying. The 10-second video, which quickly became ideal content for the games’ international online audience, demonstrated wh...

 Research shows that incidents in which AI systems evade human control, deceive users, disregard instructions, or pursue objectives in harmful ways have reached unprecedented levels. The findings also indicate that the seriousness of AI deception and misalignment may be increasing. According to the Loss of Control Observatory, reports of real-world incidents in which AI models behaved beyond users’ control nearly doubled in July compared with June. More than 300 such cases were recorded during the month, based on reports submitted by businesses and individuals on the social media platform X. The observatory was established with financial support from the UK government’s AI Security Institute (AISI) and began monitoring cases of AI systems acting beyond their users’ instructions in November. Since then, it has documented incidents in which AI systems impersonated their human operators, copied their writing styles to effectively authorize their own actions, and circumvented rules req...

  SQL injections:   are really devastating and very dangerous, but can be quite simply avoided by following some simple steps that we will state here. First, ensure that your database user privileges are as limited as you can (principle of least privilege). For example, actions done by a front-office user should be executed in the database by a user that only has rights on front-end-related tables. If no need to delete data on a specific table, then do not give delete rights to that user on that table, and this should be respected in all the phases of dev. Second, sanitize all inputs for SQL instructions by referring to the filtering/escaping. A more tangible way to avoid SQL injection bugs is to use prepared statements (PS). How to implement prepared statements, you can take a look here: http://php.net/manual/en/pdo.prepared-statements.php Command Injections: Using command executions through your PHP code is very powerful and useful, but also very dangerous if used without pr...

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  For many known applications, granting permission to access your device’s precise location makes sense for everyone. Your favorite weather app needs to know where you are to get the day’s forecast, or your go-to fitness app for tracking your running route it seems normal, but there is a hidden part to check.  Some apps are also inadvertently sharing their users’ location data with third parties in the name of increasing their income, including advertisers and data brokers, because the app developer may not know that this data-sharing setting is enabled by default in most applications. New findings by the known Electronic Frontier Foundation has for popurse warn app developers that some of the third-party code they place in their apps may also collect their users’ location data, which my not accept when they grant permission to the app and need to take more care while doing it.  Unless the developer actively switches off the collection, the code snippet (known as software...