Mastercard took down payments across Australia with a scheduled update
Mastercard transactions were declined across Australia on Saturday afternoon after what the company describes as a scheduled system update, with more than 1,900 outage reports
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Qwen is the world’s most downloaded open model, by a smaller margin than Alibaba says
Alibaba says its Qwen models have passed 3 billion downloads, making them the most used open-weight family in the world. The Hugging Face report published
Policy experts: Europe stuck between “rock and a hard place” on launch
A decade ago, SpaceX began to land the first stages of the Falcon 9 rocket with some regularity, but it’s only within the last five
Ars Live recap: How can we stop publishers from killing their own games?
Video Game Preservation: Saving Yesterday’s Games for Tomorrow’s Players | Ars Live This week, Ars hosted a live discussion with Ross Scott about the Stop
Your phone gets five years of updates by law. Your car gets nothing
Robert Ferris put the question to forecasters and executives for CNBC on 15 August. The average American car is now 12.8 years old, on Mobility
A phone company just lost 1.6 million records to a phone call
Have I Been Pwned logged the leaked records, and The Register reported the dump on 14 August. Jessica Lyons, its cybersecurity editor, wrote it. A
Overshared to an AI? Proton’s Tool Will Give You a Reality Check
Proton has launched AI Paper Trail, a free tool that shows people what their AI chatbot conversations reveal about them. It runs on Lumo (partner
Nitrux Shows Off a New Desktop Approach Other Distros Might Want to Take Note of
Don’t think that this move came out of the blue. Nitrux has been busy building this up since last year, when it swapped out KDE
Altman says four years of college may be more than the world now needs
Sam Altman told a summit of tech interns that two years of college was “the exact right amount of time” for him and that four
The US is about to tell 35 countries to choose between it and China on AI
Michael Martina reported the draft for Reuters on 14 August, citing a US official and an internal document. The letter goes to the 35 signatories
VisionQuest trailer kicks off Disney’s D23 fan event
It was a busy first day at D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event, in Anaheim, California, with Marvel Studios releasing the first trailer for VisionQuest.
Ukraine strikes major Russian rocket factory with cruise missiles
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed on Saturday that his country struck the Progress Rocket Space Center deep within Russia using ground-launched cruise missiles. “In Russia’s
Voyah recreated Mercedes’ upside-down tunnel ad, then launched the car for $33,800
Dongfeng’s Voyah launched the Passion S electric SUV on Friday after promoting it with a stunt in which the car drove a full loop around
Anthropic’s quarterly revenue passed $11.5bn, up more than 14-fold
Anthropic has told prospective investors that second-quarter revenue exceeded $11.5bn, more than 14 times the $787mn it made a year earlier, and that it recorded