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In South Yorkshire, thousands of residents in Thurnscoe lost broadband access after thieves stripped copper cable from Openreach infrastructure. It's a stark reminder that the physical layer underneath our digital lives remains stubbornly vulnerable — and that old-fashioned crime can bring modern connectivity to a halt.
Shifting to artificial intelligence, a new framework from the team at deepsense.ai is asking a question the industry has been quietly avoiding: just because your AI agent passes an evaluation, does that actually mean it's ready to ship? The piece argues that most current evals measure narrow task completion while missing the broader, messier failures that emerge in real-world deployment.
And in the streaming world, Netflix has struck a partnership with Bengali platform Hoichoi that will bring every new Hoichoi series to Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu audiences over the next two years. New titles will land on Netflix in those three languages simultaneously with their Bengali debut — a signal that regional content pipelines are becoming serious infrastructure for global platforms.
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