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AI agents explained: What they are, what they can do and why they matter
Large language model basics: Training, prompting, hallucinations, and how to test reliability
Passkeys and password managers: A practical guide to logging in safely in 2026
Deepfakes and synthetic media: How to spot them, verify claims, and protect yourself
Cryptocurrency custody 101: Exchanges vs self-custody, wallets, seed phrases and scam prevention
Stablecoins Explained: How they work, what can go wrong, and the questions to ask
DeFi for beginners: Yields, lending, staking and the real tisks
Quantum computing explained: what it is, what it is not and why cryptography is the real story
AI in business: A laybook for adoption that does not collapse under security, cost, or culture
RAG explained: Why the promise of more accurate AI still comes with sharp edges
AI copyright and licensing basics: what creators and publishers should know
AI privacy risks put users and small firms on notice
Prompt injection and AI security: how attackers trick chatbots, and how to defend systems
Two-factor authentication explained: what works, what does not, and how to set it up safely
How to verify breaking tech claims: a toolkit for hype-resistant news consumption
AI search and zero-click: what changes for publishers, and what still works
AI model evaluation: how benchmarks work, and why they often mislead
AI hardware explained: GPUs, specialised chips, and why supply matters
Data centre boom: power, cooling, and the hidden constraints behind the AI arms race
AI in education: tutors, cheating and what schools can realistically do
AI and jobs: what is changing, what is not, and how to future-proof skills
AI procurement: the questions to ask before signing a contract
Model collapse and synthetic data: what happens when the internet fills with generated content
Artificial intelligence in finance: fraud detection, credit and the risk of black-box decisions
AI and elections: influence operations, deepfakes, and resilience
Open-source AI: benefits, risks, and how to assess projects responsibly
AI and misinformation: how falsehoods spread, and what actually reduces harm
AI translation and speech tools: accuracy, bias, and when to trust them
The economics of AI: why inference costs matter more than flashy demos
Prediction markets: A virtual time machine. Here's News Defused's guide to trading the future and avoiding the traps
Surveillance advertising: Trackers, fingerprinting, and what users can do
AI and IP for businesses: Protecting your content and your brand
I model updates, why tools change overnight and how to manage version risk
Biological age tests explained: What they measure, what they miss, and how to read the results
Lab-on-a-chip explained: Tiny microfluidic devices that could shrink the laboratory
Digital twins in medicine and engineering: How to tell a useful tool from an expensive mirage
Robot batteries explained: why they are not just smaller electric vehicle packs
CRISPR delivery explained: Why editing DNA is easier than getting the editor to the right cells
Biofoundries explained: Inside the robot labs, engineering biology at industrial scale
New antibiotics explained: Phages, bacteriocins and AI, and why none is a silver bullet
Brain-computer interfaces today: Real communication breakthroughs, stubborn engineering limits, and the hype traps to...
Why robots hate doorknobs: The small piece of hardware that exposes everything robots still struggle with
Organoids on a chip: Miniature human tissues that are changing how drugs are tested
Living medicines, strange ethics: the rise of engineered microbes that treat disease from the inside
The cell’s postal service: How extracellular vesicles could become the next drug delivery revolution
CRISPR’s next act: Editors that rewrite single letters without cutting the DNA
Batteries, not brains: Bioelectricity and the new map of how bodies heal
The immune system’s new teachers: Personalised cancer vaccines and the logistics of made-to-order medicine
The end of antibiotics, again: phage therapy, bacteriocins, and precision antimicrobials
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Google's September 2026 spam update: what it is, who it hits and what Google is trying to fix
The latest Google spam update is the September 2026 spam update, which Google released at 09:15 US Pacific time on 24 September 2026 and which is still rolling out as of 28 September; it adds no new policy and does not target AI content as such, but it strengthens the automated systems that punish content made at scale to manipulate rankings.