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AWS is currently experiencing an issue where usage figures of several trillion yen are being displayed.

Checking the AWS outage information page reveals that there is a global issue with the AWS billing console. AWS appears to have recognized the problem and started an investigation at 5:33 PM JST on ...
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CoMaps is a free, offline map app that doesn't require an internet connection. It's open-source, ad-free, and doesn't track personal information.

While map apps on smartphones are incredibly convenient for checking maps in unfamiliar places, they can be useless in areas without network coverage, leaving you stranded. CoMaps is an open-source ...
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Apple and Google ordered to remove 'nude apps' from their app stores.

San Francisco, California, has ordered Apple and Google to remove so-called 'nude apps' from their app stores that can undress people in photos. California law prohibits 'intentionally promoting' or ...
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A study suggests that rising summer temperatures are linked to a rise in youth suicide rates.

The sweltering summer heat reduces human vitality. New research has revealed that summer heat is linked to an increased suicide rate among young people under the age of 24. Children are considered to ...
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Thirty years after the birth of the cloned sheep 'Dolly,' experts explain how far cloning technology has advanced.

Dolly, the world's first somatic cell cloned mammal, was born on July 5, 1996, and will celebrate her 30th anniversary in 2026. In this article, Satana Duschanten, an academic expert and senior ...
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'Firefox in WebAssembly' has emerged, allowing Firefox to run entirely within a browser tab; the AI costs for its development totaled over 4 million yen.

Puter Labs has released 'Firefox in WebAssembly,' which allows you to launch the entire Mozilla Firefox browser within a web browser tab. It's not just a Firefox-like interface; even Gecko, which ...
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Chinese government agencies have announced that Claude Code contains a backdoor.

The Chinese government's National Information Security Vulnerability Database (CNNVD) has announced that a 'security backdoor vulnerability' has been found in Anthropic's AI coding tool, 'Claude Code.
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OpenAI officially releases 'GPT-5.6,' demonstrating coding performance exceeding Claude Fable in third-party tests.

GPT-5.6 is an AI model that was released on June 26, 2026, to a limited number of organizations. GPT-5.6 is divided into three types: the flagship model 'GPT-5.6 Sol,' the balanced model for daily ...
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ChatGPT, an interactive AI, has the ability to

According to OpenCage, a company that provides an API for determining latitude and longitude from an address, or vice versa, recently ChatGPT said, ``Using the OpenCage API, you can determine the ...
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Automotive giant Ford is facing a situation where AI-driven automation is not working well, forcing them to rehire veteran human engineers.

With the advent of AI, some jobs previously performed by humans are increasingly being automated, and it is said that unemployment will increase significantly in the future as AI takes away job ...
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A public enterprise's 'proprietary AI' was found to be merely a mixture of two existing models, as revealed by weight analysis.

IplanRIO, a public IT company in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has announced that it developed an AI model called 'Rio 3.5 Open 397B.' However, it has been pointed out that this model may be a mixture of ...
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Today is the monthly 'Windows Update' day

This month, too, there was a Windows Update that delivers monthly Windows security updates and bug fixes. Let's update as soon as possible. We have released the Microsoft Monthly Security Update for ...