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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
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Most companies still cannot say who, or what, has access to their systems at any given moment. Oak, an Israeli startup, has raised $60M to fix that, and it is betting AI agents make the problem urgent. The company came out of stealth with the seed round, it said. Its
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The UK looked set to crack down on VPNs as it tightens the rules for children online. Instead it has backed off, and its own research is the reason why. Online Safety Minister Kanishka Narayan put it plainly on the BBC. “We decided not to limit VPNs,” he said. A
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Forever Physical: Sony's recent decision to move away from disc-based gaming sparked a wave of controversy, analysis, and debate about the future of physical releases. One resourceful PC gamer has even found
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* Russian hacker “bandcampro” used Google’s Gemini CLI to control an eight‑device botnet at a dental clinic * The attacker tricked the AI by posing as a pen tester, directing it to migrate C2 infrastructure, troubleshoot connectivity, and prepare payload bundles * The AI assisted with daily operations like password guessing
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Travel agency Fora announced a $60 million Series D round led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, valuing the company at $1 billion. Fora, founded in 2021, is a two-part platform: it lets people easily become travel agents by providing the infrastructure to support client communication and travel planning; it also
