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The internet’s mad scramble on Wednesday to patch a pair of critical vulnerabilities in PHP, a widely used web scripting language, was already too late to stop every attack, newly released details reveal. Wednesday’s release of fixes for two critical vulnerabilities in PHP caused administrators and security staff
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The inaugural Bangalore Climate Data Week (BLR-CDW) 2026 concluded today, bringing together stakeholders from the climate, data, and technology ecosystems across Bengaluru. Organised by Climate Collective Foundation (CCF), with Google as Anchor Partner and Karnataka Digital Economy Mission (KDEM), Karnataka Innovation and Technology Society (KITS), and Startup Karnataka as State
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Indian enterprises are strengthening their ability to monitor artificial intelligence (AI) systems, with a growing focus on controlling costs, improving security, and ensuring reliable performance as agentic AI adoption expands, according to Cisco’s Splunk State of Observability 2026: Restoring Predictability in the AI Era report. Based on a survey
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HCLTech announced the launch of its AI-powered Verification and Validation (V&V) offering, powered by NVIDIA’s simulation stack, agentic capabilities and open model strategy. Designed for automotive vehicle manufacturers and Tier 1 suppliers, the offering combines agentic AI, physical AI-powered simulation and intelligent orchestration to help automate elements
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ByShivprakash S. Mogali, Founder & CEO of Digitory I have been in busy restaurants on weekend nights where, on paper, everything was digital. Orders were going into the POS, tickets were showing up on the kitchen screen and billing was automatic. Still, some tables had been waiting far too long
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eScan has extended its Enterprise DLP solution with Screen Watermarking, addressing a growing threat vector that traditional data protection overlooks: the photograph of a confidential screen. Modern smartphones have sophisticated cameras. Capturing screen content has become trivial. A bank employee viewing customer account details at an ATM. A financial advisor
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By Milind Borgikar, Co-Founder & CTO, Ayekart Agriculture still employs about 43% of India’s workforce, according to an SBI Research analysis of Periodic Labour Force Survey data. Meanwhile, India has 958 million active internet users, 57% of them rural, according to the IAMAI–Kantar Internet in India 2025 report.
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* AI agents made more than 2,600 attempts to query Alibaba’s Amap * Researchers traced all 17 inspected message inboxes to Tencent Cloud servers * Some AI agents explored alternative access methods after encountering map restrictions A group of AI agents repeatedly sought information from Alibaba’s mapping service before researchers
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A powerful, free Flock surveillance-tracking platform is now hosted by Proton, the creator of Proton Mail and Proton VPN. The move provides extra technical and legal protection for the interactive mapping tool, which Flock has repeatedly attempted to shut down through legal threats. The deal, announced on Wednesday, gives the
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ZDNET’s key takeaways * GridCraft is almost the MS Excel clone it intends to be. * GridCraft is both free and open-source. * The only thing missing is a strong template feature. ArtCraft, the development team behind PhotoCraft (and a number of other similar apps) reverse-engineered yet another de facto standard app:
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Video game publisher Electronic Arts is closing the venerable studio BioWare, maker of legendary series like Mass Effect and Dragon Age, it announced on Wednesday. Recent years have seen record layoffs across the gaming industry as companies scaled back expansion during the COVID-19 pandemic, disrupting tens of thousands of careers
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Over the weekend, I found myself saying, “I’ve had it with you, Google Maps!” It was a straw-that-broke-the-camel’s-back situation: The app wasn’t working as expected, failing to start navigation, and the ever-growing klunkiness of the interface was really getting to me. Also: Got an old car? Android
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* Mesh networking chips from Shenzhen Xingkai Technology have been found to be installed in Russian drones in Ukraine * The discovery was made after a Gerbera was downed during a recent attack on Ukrainian targets * The discovery was made after a Gerbera was downed during a recent attack on Ukrainian targets
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If the rumors are true, next week could mark the introduction of the first-ever touchscreen MacBooks. That's a Mac laptop with a touchscreen. People will probably embrace them and, no, I don't think their arms will fall off. Steve Jobs famously hated the concept of a
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As far as public opinion goes, artificial intelligence is not a bed of roses. With the Nov. 3 elections looming nationwide, an issue that was barely a blip a year ago has become a full-blown backlash and a likely spoiler in the midterm elections. A new poll from ABC News,
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We’re about to be immersed in the busiest shopping season of the year, and if Mark Zuckerberg has his way, people will completely hand over the responsibility of buying stuff to their own personal AI agent. In fact, according to the Meta CEO, that is already happening. During the
