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Andrew: Well, Megan, we’ve had a philosophy for a long time in Woodside from an innovation perspective, where we really want to think big, we want to prototype small, and we want to scale fast. We want to find big opportunities that we can go after, but we want to ensure that we look at how we deploy those on a small scale first, and then provide the right learning and insight that then can scale it everywhere. Something like maintenance intelligence is a good example of that, or our Startup Advisor, where we know that we’ve got multiple plants…

A formal complaint has asked Parliament’s standards watchdog to examine whether Reform UK leader Nigel Farage breached lobbying rules. This comes after Farage received donations from billionaire Christopher Harborne, who reportedly holds a 12% stake in Tether’s USDT stablecoin. Labour MP Phil Brickell filed the complaint on July 2. He asked Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Daniel Greenberg to review Farage’s private meeting with Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey in September 2025. Nigel Farage is already under investigation over an undeclared £5 million “gift” from Thailand-based crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne.Now he’s been reported to the Standards Commissioner over claims he…

SecurityWeek’s cybersecurity news weekly roundup offers a concise overview of important developments that may not receive full standalone coverage but remain relevant to the broader threat landscape. This curated summary highlights key stories across vulnerability disclosures, emerging attack methods, policy updates, industry reports, and other noteworthy events to help readers maintain a well-rounded awareness of the evolving cybersecurity environment. Here are this week’s highlights: Anonymous-linked hacker Aubrey Cottle jailed over Texas GOP cyberattack Aubrey Cottle, a Canadian hacker associated with the hacktivist group Anonymous, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for his involvement in a cyberattack on the…

Interfaze, a young YC’s startup, has open-sourced a new speech recognition model. It is called diffusion-gemma-asr-small. The model transcribes audio through a diffusion decoder, not an autoregressive one. It is described as the first multilingual audio diffusion ASR model. One adapter handles six languages. The research team trained only about 42M parameters on top of a frozen 26B backbone. That is roughly 0.16% of the model’s weights. Here two terms matter up front. Autoregressive models generate text one token at a time. Diffusion models refine all tokens in parallel. This model uses the diffusion approach for speech-to-text. TL;DR Claimed by…

Posted on July 3, 2026 by Dana Cazacu, Marketing Manager, VEXXHOST The core issue isn’t where your server sits. It’s who can be compelled to hand over what’s on it. For years, cloud providers treated sovereignty as a geography problem. Pick a region. Choose a country. Keep your data local. But laws such as the U.S. CLOUD Act changed the equation. Data access follows corporate control, not physical location. A hyperscaler operating infrastructure in Frankfurt remains subject to the laws governing its parent company. Region selection is a geographic control. Sovereignty is a jurisdictional one. That distinction is increasingly shaping…

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.Amazon’s Prime Day event has come and gone, but Fourth of July discounts have arrived in time for back-to-school shopping. We’re tracking the best July 4th deals on MacBooks and Windows PCs from all the major brands: Acer, Dell, Lenovo, Asus, and HP.Also: The best July 4 deals live now: Save on Anker, Garmin, Apple, and moreI only highlight laptops I’ve either tested personally or am familiar with, and suggest devices that have deals worth your time. Most of these devices were released within the last year, but if it’s older, I’ll call that…

The National Highway System. Source: Mark Sarmiento, U.S. Department of Transportation, ArcGIS Online On June 29, 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act. It authorized the creation of a network that today carries nearly 25% of U.S. automotive traffic and moves trillions of dollars of freight annually. Quarterhill Inc. is among the companies now working to digitize that transport infrastructure. Seventy years after the 41,000-mi. (65,983.1 km) interstate network was launched, 72.2 million Americans will travel around Independence Day this week, according to AAA. Concerns include aging roads and bridges, securing and managing freight, and improving safety…

WebBrain is a free, open-source browser agent for Chrome and Firefox. It reads pages, extracts data, and automates multi-step tasks. Unlike most browser AI plugins, it can also run entirely on a local model. It is built by Emre Sokullu and licensed under MIT. The full source lives on GitHub.  Run the agent against a local model, and no page data leaves your machine. Connect a cloud API when you want more capability. What is WebBrain? WebBrain lives in your browser’s side panel. In Chrome it uses Manifest V3 and the sidePanel API. In Firefox it uses Manifest V2 and…

A new class of Wall Street securities has grown from an experiment into a multibillion-dollar market in under two years, and a June 2026 research report from BitcoinTreasuries.net argues the expansion has just begun. The report, produced in partnership with the DeFi protocol Apyx, tracks the rise of preferred shares issued by public companies and backed by their bitcoin holdings. Such shares now carry a combined market value of about $13 billion. That figure represents close to 1% of the $1.3 trillion global preferred market, a share the report’s authors expect to reach 3 to 5% by 2030 and as…

A new report from the Citizen Lab has revealed that former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou had his mobile device repeatedly hacked with the notorious Pegasus spyware while serving on a committee that was tasked with investigating the abuse of such commercial surveillance tools in the bloc. “Through forensic analysis of his device, we found that the attackers could have had access to confidential documents and committee deliberations,” the Citizen Lab researchers John Scott-Railton, Bill Marczak, Bahr Abdul Razzak, Kate Pundyk, Siena Anstis, and Ron Deibert said. The infections have not been attributed to a particular government at…