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By Emma Lewis, bOnline The UK’s landline shutdown coming in January 2027 has been on the cards for years. But for many small business owners, it still feels vague, overly technical, or just one more can to kick down the road. Part of the problem is the language surrounding it. The phrase “landline switch-off” sounds abrupt and disruptive, as though businesses are about to lose their phones overnight, when in reality the process is far less dramatic. The UK’s old analogue phone network is gradually being retired and replaced with digital technology, which means phone calls will move from copper-wire…

Argentina’s government is moving to restrict banks, payment firms and crypto providers from serving unauthorized online gambling platforms as part of a broader crackdown on digital betting.The government presented a Bill for the Prevention of Gambling and Regulation of Online Gambling to Congress, according to an official notice from the Ministry of Health published on Tuesday.The bill seeks to address gambling addiction by tightening rules on payments, advertising and access to betting platforms.The legislation directly ties gambling regulation to financial infrastructure, including payment systems and crypto rails, potentially reshaping how unauthorized betting platforms access payment and crypto rails in Argentina.Crypto…

You could be forgiven for thinking that a simple request for a glass of tap water in a luxury hotel restaurant would be nothing more than a formality. Well… think again. It might not be as straightforward as you’d imagine. While many people will claim it’s simply a basic human right, one luxury hotel in Italy has just proved otherwise. An Italian court has ruled against a tourist who was refused tap water in a hotel restaurant. The incident happened at the five-star Hotel Sassongher in Corvara during the 2019 ski season but has just recently reached the Italian Supreme…

Children’s TV presenter Mister Maker has helped create a change kit for Gillingham that has divided opinion.In a week where the Gills have revealed the three kit designs for the 2026/27 season, it’s their third shirt that has created the biggest stir, inspired by their celebrity fan from the popular CBeebies art show Mister Maker.Mister Maker with Gillingham’s third shirt Picture: GFCMore: Gills reveal home and away shirt designsPhil Gallagher is a lifelong Gills fan and he created a short video for the club as they unveiled their latest shirt.Filmed at Priestfield, Mister Maker said being part of the Gills…

Just ahead of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June, Bloomberg has published leaked renders of what Apple’s planned AI upgrade could look like on iPhone — including a brand-new Siri app meant to rival ChatGPT and other AI chatbots — as well as how Siri’s new capabilities will be woven throughout the operating system. The images were produced by Bloomberg based on what it saw and learned from sources. While you’ll still be able to press a button in iOS 27 to trigger Siri, the animation and response will now emerge from the iPhone’s Dynamic Island — that’s the…

Visa has announced an undisclosed investment in AI coding platform Replit. The two companies are also exploring how to integrate Visa’s payment products into Replit, so that developers — and the AI agents they build — can accept payments directly from customers without leaving the platform. Visa added that more than 1,000 of its employees have been using Replit for prototyping and development. As part of the partnership, the companies are exploring how developers on Replit can use Visa’s suite for AI-powered payments, called Visa Intelligent Commerce, as well as Visa’s Trusted Agent Protocol — a system that allows AI…

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Spotted hyenas live in hierarchically organized groups (clans). An individual’s dominance over another determines priority access to resources such as food or mating partners, and thus reproductive success. However, the rank within the clan can be calculated using different metrics—and that matters. Using data from almost 500 hyenas collected over 28 years, scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) showed that different metrics best predict the animals’ reproductive success—depending on which reproductive trait they examined. Source link

The raging demand for computers to run AI models has only accelerated, but there are two major obstacles that anyone in the business needs to overcome: getting the right chips, and getting them into data centers where they can start generating revenue. General Compute, a new inference neocloud — a company that rents out AI processing power, specializing in the phase when models are running and responding to users rather than being trained — has answers to those questions that illuminate where the AI ecosystem is headed. Those answers helped it raise a $15 million seed round at a $60…

Thursday 28 May 2026 1:45 pm  |  Updated:  Thursday 28 May 2026 1:46 pm Rachel Reeves has ordered the Treasury to claw back Covid-19 losses. The Treasury has said it still needs to spend £5bn more on Covid-19 measures more than four years after the last lockdown restriction was lifted, taking the total estimated costs to taxpayers to £385bn. In a cost tracker update on Thursday, the government said it had already spent £380bn on Covid-19 support since the pandemic broke out in 2020. More than £80bn of the total funds spent on Covid-19 has been spent by the government’s health department, with…