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When Tony Fadell entered New York City’s 28th Street Subway Station, he did not expect to come face-to-face with an advertisement for a product he designed over 20 years ago. But there it was: a five-by-four-foot poster promoting the iPod Shuffle, luring passersby with the promise of “Zero screen
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It takes a particular kind of dysfunction for an employee to hijack a company-wide livestream and demand the hosts pass a message to a senior executive: that he is, in not so many words, garbage. That happened inside Meta this month. According to a recording heard by WIRED, the outburst,
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Every software company is racing to bolt an AI agent onto its own product. Gradial is betting the real money is in the gaps between them. The Seattle startup has raised $65mn in Series C funding to build what it calls an operating system for marketing: a layer of AI
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Designing a chip is hard. It takes years, hundreds of millions of dollars, and a tiny pool of experts. Most of them sit inside a few large companies. Architect Labs wants to change that with AI. The Palo Alto startup left stealth on Thursday with a $24mn seed round. Its
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For years, the scarce resource in AI was chips. Now it is power. Verse Enterprises wants to unblock that bottleneck. The San Francisco startup has raised an oversubscribed $54mn Series B. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round. GV, Nvidia and Norrsken VC also took part. The race to AI is
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A data breach at a Texas state government department allowed hackers to take the driver’s license information and passport numbers of more than 3 million people, according to the state’s attorney general. The incident is one of the largest data breaches to affect the state this year. In
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The majority of internet-accessible REDCap servers are running outdated software versions, making them prime targets for state-sponsored threat actors, according to internet intelligence firm Censys. A browser-based platform used for building and managing clinical research data in the medical field, REDCap is developed by Vanderbilt University and is used by
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Microsoft's new Media Player for Windows 11 is drawing criticism now that tests have found it to use far more memory than the classic Windows Media Player. Moreover, the new player hides some popular codecs behind paywalls. The modern Media Player is said to use around 377MB of
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. With Prime Day kicking off next week, consumers are flocking to Amazon for all the best deals. But one of the best things about Prime Day is all the other major retailers looking to cash in on the shopping palooza,
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The Onion’s InfoWars officially has a launch date: On July 2nd, the conspiracy network previously run by Alex Jones will return as a comedy and media platform. The reboot comes more than a year and a half after news broke that the satirical news site was working to acquire
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OS platforms Canonical reveals Myna, its local speech-to-text app Bird-branded AI will ride on Stonking Stingray Canonical has published more details about the local speech-to-text engine that will take dictation in the forthcoming Ubuntu version 26.10, aka "Stonking Stingray." In a post on the company’s Discourse
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Citrix now lets you run virtual desktops like a cost-conscious private equityeer Soaring PC prices make alternatives to hardware refreshes interesting Your next work PC could live in the cloud. A couple of years ago, the Cloud Software Group – the private-equity-owned vendor that mashed up Citrix with Tibco – built a
