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4:00 AM PDT · July 16, 2026 Meta announced on Thursday that it will now notify parents if their teen discusses suicide or self-harm with the company’s Meta AI chatbot. Meta says it’s also working on the ability to contact emergency services if someone’s conversations suggest they
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Splunk and Zoom this week announced patches for multiple vulnerabilities across their products, including several critical and high-severity security defects. Only three of the five advisories that Splunk published address flaws that are specific to its products, while the other two resolve dozens of bugs in third-party components. The Splunk-specific
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Air India has rolled out a major upgrade to its mobile application, introducing a host of new digital capabilities designed to simplify every stage of the passenger journey—from booking and payments to airport services, baggage tracking and travel disruption management. The enhanced app, developed by the airline’s in-house
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Bercan Kilic got his dream job in 2023, designing aerodynamics for Red Bull Racing while it was winning everything. He found the engineering magnificent and the point of it thin. His Munich startup, microagi, has now raised $55m, which it says is the largest seed round a German company has
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Agentic commerce has become the latest obsession in ecommerce. The technology is certainly compelling. Instead of consumers browsing websites, comparing products and making purchases themselves, AI agents increasingly do the work for them. They search, compare, recommend and transact on our behalf. According to the hype, agentic commerce has the
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is here, and it looks like this remake has been a massive success. Ubisoft says that it’s already sold more than two million copies, with players all around the world discovering (or rediscovering) its wonderful 1700s Caribbean setting and all the twists
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There has always been data in elite football. Coaches have analyzed performances, reviewed video, and looked for patterns long before AI entered the game. What makes this year's FIFA World Cup different is the speed, scale, and accessibility of the data now available. Information that once took hours
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A business laptop is a critical decision that impacts productivity. Let’s just say, I’ve made the wrong choice before, and the results weren’t nice. But don’t worry, I learned from my mistake and made a much better choice. You can also learn from my experience, as
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* Google has shared a teaser video showing a phone in the Pixel 11 series * You can see it in a gold shade, with a colored light that must be the rumored 'Pixel Glow' feature * The company has also confirmed that pre-orders open on August 12 We’re now
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To meet the increasing AI demands for computing power, the competition is intensifying among the Companies to Beat in the AI semiconductor vendor race, according to Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company. In the Company to Beat insights from Gartner, analysts have identified market-defining AI leaders across more
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. A hot potato: Linus Torvalds' stance toward AI appears to be softening. After pointing out that AI tech was 90% marketing and 10% factual reality in 2024, Torvalds just said that Linux is
