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Democrat James Talarico’s resounding victory in the Texas Senate race has caused a great stir in the media for Republicans – and for Elon Musk. According to the Financial Times,The billionaire’s political action committee (Pac) contributed $47m (£35m) to the campaign of Republican candidate Ken Paxton, on top of the $158m he gave to the Senate Leadership Fund in September. The money was not enough to hold the seat for a Democrat for the first time since 1988. In his acceptance speech, Talarico said, “We just proved that all the money in the world is no match for the people of Texas.” “Guess my election-disrupting space lasers didn’t work this time,” Musk joked on X. BBC.

and the temperatures in three cold stores stocking vital blood products, in an apparent escalation of recent cyber attacks on fridges and freezers across Europe. The French blood service (EFS) said the temperature and detection thresholds were raised to “very high levels” in the attack, adding that its alert systems allowed technicians to intervene before the products were compromised. The Guardian

According to a reputed Chinese leaker on Weibo, the upcoming iPhone 18 will receive performance and battery upgrades, in line with the current iPhone 18 Pro lineup.

This year, Apple shook things up by only announcing the Pro models of the iPhone 18 lineup, but reports suggest that the company will announce the vanilla models in early 2027. At least the wait could be worth it, as the report suggests two major upgrades coming to next year’s base iPhone. Battery life will see an improvement this year, and it won’t just be because of the new, more efficient chipset. GSMArena

In Apple’s earnings call for Q4 2026, new CEO John Ternus joined CFO Kevan Parekh and COO Sabih Khan to discuss the results of the previous quarter. During the discussion the trio quietly confirmed that Siri AI may soon have usage limits. Now we’ve put Siri AI through its paces and found it to be a remarkably good life assistant across Apple’s fleet of devices after years of Siri directing difficult questions to ChatGPT. But a usage limit could seriously hamper the effectiveness of your Apple Assistant.

Revolut says that in less than a year it has managed to reduce its AI coding costs of about 90 percent by making self-hosted models its standard rather than relying primarily on commercial services such as Claude. Speaking at the AI ​​Engineer Conference in New York last month, David Abitbol, ​​ops and infrastructure lead at the British fintech, described how it saw a 60 percent improvement in coding time and a 70 percent improvement in lead time after its rollout of AI coding tools to around 2,000 engineers. Revolut initially adopted GLM-5.1 before moving to GLM-5.3, which it now serves with 56 Nvidia B200 GPUs. The register

Five years after Virgin Media and O2 merged to create a £31bn telecoms giant, VMO2 is struggling with falling revenues, ongoing customer losses and over £22bn of debt. His answer? An £800m annual cost-cutting programme, including £300m in workforce savings and a freeze on further full-fibre upgrades over existing commitments. But the restructuring also includes wider issues in Britain’s broadband industry, where years of network investment have left operators scrambling to compete for customers in an increasingly saturated market. City AM

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