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Tech Titans and the Israeli Military: A Year of Data Dominance

Guardian's award-winning investigations uncover deep ties between tech giants like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon with the IDF, impacting future warfare. Revelations include Israeli mass surveillance on Microsoft's cloud, military's ChatGPT-like tool, and Google and Amazon's unique contracts with Israel.

The Rise of Tech Bros in Hollywood

Hollywood's portrayal of tech billionaires as villains peaked in 2025, with jargon-spouting blowhards dominating screens. Stanley Tucci's role as a digital visionary in Netflix's "The Electric State" adds to the trend, but falls short of expectations.

2026 Tech Trends to Watch

TechScape host Blake Montgomery predicts 5 tech trends for the coming year: global datacenter expansion, increased billionaire wealth, self-driving cars in new areas, AI in the workplace, and innovative consumer tech designs.

Doomsday Predictions at the AI Hub

Safety researchers in Berkeley warn of catastrophic risks posed by AI models, including AI dictatorships and robot coups. They fear San Francisco could become the epicenter of a future technological disaster, akin to Wuhan's role in the Covid pandemic.

AI Improving A&E Wait Times in England

AI tool helps NHS trusts predict peak demand, improving staffing and bed space planning in English hospitals. Algorithm uses historical data like weather, holidays, flu, and Covid rates to forecast A&E visits.

Mastering AdaBoost Regression with scikit

Regression problems aim to predict a single numeric value using techniques like decision tree regression and ensemble methods like random forest and gradient boosting. A demo of AdaBoost.R2 in Python's scikit-learn library shows improved prediction accuracy with weighted decision trees.

Race Against Antibiotic Resistance

Dr. Margaret Chan warns of dwindling antibiotics, urging a shift in drug development to combat resistance effectively. Only 16 new antibiotics since 2017, mostly variants of existing ones, posing a challenge to finding effective solutions.

The Impact of AI: Bernie Sanders Speaks Out

Senator Katie Britt proposes AI companies be held criminally liable for exposing minors to harmful ideas, while Senator Bernie Sanders criticizes AI's impact on economic insecurity, calling for a potential moratorium on new datacenters. Sanders warns of AI's transformative power, labeling it as the most consequential technology in history with far-reaching implications.

Preparing for Automation: Lessons for Labour

Retail productivity is rising as technology replaces costly human labor with self-service checkouts and AI facial recognition cameras. This shift towards automation could signal a new era of tech-driven growth and efficiency in low-paying sectors, sparking a potential renaissance in productivity.