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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. WTF?! If you're interested in the recent report about Apple partnering with Klarna to launch a hardware leasing program, here's something you should probably know: based on code found in
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* The Flock backlash is growing, and city officials have started covering ALPR cameras with trash bags * Some cameras are even being smashed up * A handful of Flock cameras have been spotted inside speed signs out of sight from drivers The recent backlash to security company Flock highlights severe privacy concerns
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* Steam gifting and wishlists have received big improvements in recent updates from Valve * Users can now gift games to friends and family directly via email * Wishlists now have categories and a new 'Demo Available' highlight Valve's updates to Steam have consistently enhanced the user experience for
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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. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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* NordVPN has begun a server-by-server upgrade until the end of 2026 * Every machine gets a newer Linux distribution, kernel, and IP address * App users should notice little beyond the occasional reconnection NordVPN has kicked off a months-long overhaul of the software running its VPN servers, a rollout that started in
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It’s an exciting time to be in the digital marketing space. The rise of agentic AI means that you can deliver targeted, relevant content faster than ever before. However, with this growth also comes pressure to move quickly when selecting a content platform. You can generate all of this
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NVIDIA is pushing out a new hotfix driver (version 610.82) to address separate issues in Halo: Campaign Evolved, which is now playable via early access ahead of the game's broader July 28, 2026 release when preordering the premium edition, and Path of Exile 2, also available to
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Dev ops Code shack also putting new limits on first-time researchers, and reserving the biggest rewards for a hand-picked group of proven hunters GitHub has decided that, if everyone with an AI chatbot can file a bug bounty report, it may as well stop paying them like seasoned security researchers.
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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. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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For ages, astronomers have categorized the skies into tidy buckets: stars, planets, and moons. However, a new object 71 light-years from us could completely disrupt that thinking. A team of astronomers led by Kevin Hoy of Chile’s Universidad Diego Portales and the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has detected the
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It seems like everybody has video doorbells these days. They are one of the most popular components in a modern smart home, but they come with an uncomfortable tradeoff. Every motion event, visitor, and package delivery can end up passing through a company's cloud servers before reaching the
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Internet of Things (IoT) and industrial automation specialist Sfera Labs has announced a new Raspberry Pi 4- or 5-powered edge server system, designed for DIN-rail mounting and packing a Raspberry Pi RP2354 as a real-time coprocessor: the Strato Pi Plus. "Sfera Labs has begun shipping Strato Pi Plus, a
