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From the BBC, this is The Interface,
the show that explores how tech is rewiring your week and your world.
This isn't about quarterly earnings or about tech reviews.
It's about what technology is actually doing to your work and your politics, your everyday life.
And all the bizarre ways people are using the internet.
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As the conflict in the Middle East enters its fifth day,
we will be bringing you the latest developments in Iran and across the region,
but we will also be looking at other stories from around the world as well on the programme.
But let us begin in Washington, where in the past couple of hours,
the US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has been speaking at a news conference at the Pentagon.
He confirmed that the US had sunk an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Sri Lanka.