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* Proton VPN received 47 legally binding data requests in the first half of 2026 * The company could turn down every single one * Proton's no-logs policy means the data authorities want does not exist When a government comes knocking for user data, most companies face a simple choice: comply
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X is taking a tougher stance against people who try to abuse its creator revenue-sharing program by soliciting engagement and stealing content from others. It’s common for viral content to be recirculated, especially on platforms like X, where that content can be rewarded with likes, follows, and, in some
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Newly documented stealer ClickLock comes for the more trusting Mac user with spot of social engineering Threat intel outfit Group-IB has detailed a previously undocumented macOS information stealer that doesn't bother hunting for software bugs. Instead, it persuades users to pwn themselves by pasting a command into Terminal,
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Neverclick avoids being limited to certain apps by ditching accessibility APIs for a quick, lightweight computer vision model. Imagine never having to reach for your mouse to navigate around Windows again. Sounds like a dream, doesn’t it? Well wake up: We have some peripherals to burn. Neverclick, from developer
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Forrester warns price hikes and usage charges will pump up software budgets next year Forrester warns that customers should brace for bigger software bills next year as software and AI vendors raise prices and pile on usage charges. Working from a survey of more than 2,600 business and technology
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High-capacity NAS drives are far from cheap, so it's often easy to focus on the sticker price rather than the long-term value. I was looking through a selection of NAS drives on sale at Best Buy and Newegg when something occurred to me. Although the 24TB Seagate IronWolf
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* Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden says developers need to lead with innovation to justify the increasing cost of consoles * He says studios are "limiting our reach just because of the games we’re building now" * While Grand Theft Auto 6 will be a hit, Layden says "there
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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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For years, the smartphone has served as the universal key for interacting with the world around us. It displays boarding passes at the airport, QR codes for event tickets, digital payment credentials, and countless other pieces of information that scanners and kiosks expect to see. But as extended reality (XR)
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European authorities dismantled the VPN service in May following a yearslong investigation. 3 min read The US Department of the Treasury this week sanctioned First VPN Service, saying it enabled cybercriminals to launch ransomware attacks against American companies and institutions. The Office of Foreign Assets Control, an intelligence and enforcement
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The enterprise AI industry has a math problem. Cisco data shows 85% of enterprises are piloting AI agents, but only 5% have shipped them to production. At VB Transform 2026 on Tuesday, Bryan Silverthorn, Director of AGI Autonomy at Amazon, explained why that gap persists — and why the answer isn&
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The race in AI has been about who builds the best model. A new company backed by Anthropic thinks the real money sits elsewhere: in getting those models to actually work inside big companies. That company is Ode with Anthropic, and it launched under its full name this week, the
