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Ahead of the launch of 007: First Light, developers IO Interactive have reintroduced Le Chiffre, as played by Mads Mikkelsen in Casino Royale, as an Elusive Target in Hitman: World of Assassination. The Elusive Target mission is available as a free demo from the larger World of Assassination experience (which
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You gotta pump up those download numbers somehow. Lucky-photographer/Getty Images The Trump administration is planning to automatically install its White House app on government employees' work phones, according to a report from Government Executive. The report detailed that at least one agency will start installing the official White
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Sadly for our wallets, smartphones don't last forever. According to stats, most people keep their devices for between two and three years before buying a new one — but old phones don't just disappear from the world. If you throw them in the bin, they end up
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At the top of our guide to the best language-learning apps is the much-loved and widely used Duolingo. I’ve even written that “I never thought learning a language could be fun and addictive until I found Duolingo.” Duolingo offers gamified, bite-sized lessons that build everyday habits using a leaderboard,
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There is a category of production incident that engineering teams are not tracking yet — because it doesn't fit any existing postmortem template. The agent initiated an action. The action was technically correct given the agent's context. The context was incomplete. The infrastructure cascaded. And, by the
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TL;DR Drone strikes hit AWS data centres in the UAE. Oil surged 55%. Gulf AI investment decisions are pausing as the region’s risk profile changes. Two Amazon Web Services data centres in the UAE were targeted early in the Middle East war. Nearly three months later, oil prices
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TL;DR HP’s auto-installed BIOS update is bricking ZBook Ultra and EliteBook X laptops. Reverting requires a specific HP USB-C dongle. HP customers are reporting that BIOS updates pushed through Windows Update are rendering premium laptops unbootable. The affected devices include the ZBook Ultra G1a, a mobile workstation that
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One of the confirmed sessions at MozCon’s New York date is titled “Preparing for the Death of the Open Web.” The speaker is Mike King, founder of digital marketing agency iPullRank. It is not the most alarming talk title on the 2026 conference calendar. It might be the most
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The Department of Electronics, IT, and Biotechnology, Government of Karnataka, has opened the 25th call under ELEVATE, its flagship grant-in-aid programme for startups. Applications open May 25, 2026, with grants of up to ₹50 lakh for selected startups. This year’s edition marks a structural shift for the programme. For
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Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.
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TL;DR Zurich’s Orbit Robotics built a four-armed space robot called Helios. It targets the 35% of crew time spent on maintenance at $140K/hour. Orbit Robotics, a Zurich-based startup, has unveiled Helios, a four-armed robot designed to work inside space stations. In microgravity, legs are useless. Helios replaces
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TL;DR A chip shortage forced the NSA to keep using Anthropic’s AI despite a Pentagon blacklist. The White House approved $9B for classified data centres. The US government has a problem it cannot publicly resolve. The Pentagon has officially blacklisted Anthropic as a national security supply chain threat.
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Recently, the biggest trend in kitchen gadgets has been “hands-free” and AI-powered devices that act as automated countertop assistants. There are plenty of devices that exist now for people who want to cook more (or at least look like someone who has their life together) but don’t always have
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OPINION Dirty Frag, Copy Fail, and Fragnesia are less a random cluster of Linux bugs and more the public unveiling of how AI tools can pry open security holes with just a prompt or two. What they also have in common is their shared abuse of a core kernel abstraction:
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Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Robotaxis are here! And yet, they’re not. That contradiction neatly captures Waymo’s current reality. Anyone walking
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1. Background: Why Perform a Major Version Upgrade? Existing Environment **Current DolphinScheduler Version:**3.1.3 Current SeaTunnel Version: 2.1.3 Deployment Scale: 1 Master + 2 Workers, with over 3,700 workflow definitions and more than 20,000 scheduled tasks executed daily. Years in Production: The system has been
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Let's learn about Digital Transformation via these 362 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. As the world of business continues to change, more and more companies
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Previously in the series * The Bare Minimum Setup * CLAUDE.md Done Right * Models, Tiers, and Effort * The Context Window Tax * Hooks That Guard Your Code Introduction Claude Code is reasonably capable out of the box — it reads files, writes code, and runs shell commands. But real projects don't
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Schematic: Europe's coordinated cyber-defence posture — city nodes, threat vectors, and regulatory stack. Data: Mordor Intelligence. Europe has long been perceived as the world’s most regulation-heavy technology market. In cybersecurity, that reputation is evolving into something more consequential: a coordinated industrial strategy. Most global tech narratives still frame
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I spent a week tracing what happens behind a single ChatGPT query. Not the code — the physical stuff. The turbines, the copper, the billion-dollar bonds. It started with a news alert about Mississippi — America's poorest state — where 46 natural gas turbines have been running for a year without
