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Some inexpensive Android TV boxes were shipped with preinstalled software capable of disguising the devices as smartphones, clicking online advertisements, and routing other people’s internet traffic through owners’ home connections, according to new research from Bitsight. Bitsight researcher Pedro Falé identified the operation while examining factory backdoors left active
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AI agents are only as good as the instructions and context you give them. When we launched Google Agent Skills, our goal was simple: encode Google Cloud domain knowledge into structured, open-source instructions that make AI coding agents significantly smarter, safer, and more accurate. Today, I want to take you
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Turning two Mars testbeds into one lunar explorer may prove anything but cheap NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has stated "we simply will not fly it" if claims about the costs of the repurposed Mars rover engineering model prove anywhere near accurate. Isaacman was responding to the Planetary Society&
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ExfilSquad claims 135,000 contact records weeks after hitting the Department for Education The Police National Legal Database (PNLD) is the latest UK public sector outfit to admit that cybercriminals made off with its data, including the names and work email addresses of police officers, justice staff, government partners, and
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As AI copilots, autonomous agents, and conversational companions continue their march into the mainstream, the teams tasked with evaluating them are no longer asking: Did the model produce the correct answer? Increasingly, they are asking whether the system was engaging enough and created enough value for users to return tomorrow,
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* Watch The Sky at Night forfree on BBC iPlayer (UK) * Unlock your stream with NordVPN (save up to 75%) Cue At the Castle Gate. Almost as enduring as the BBC itself, The Sky at Night is one of the longest-running TV programmes anywhere. First shown in 1957, it's
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Delivering new software to users isn’t the finish line—it’s actually the starting point. Once a solution is successfully deployed many IT teams walk away, believing the job is finished. That’s why projects often stall after go-live; user adoption is left to the users. When users aren’
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * ZimaOS is a NAS platform that's free and easy to use. * ZimaOS is based on Linux and is reliable and secure. * You can expand the feature set with apps. I've tested
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This is a very capable and solidly built mini PC, with a processor that offers the might and AI potential but lacks any serious support from the rest of the components. The Ultra 9 185H performs as expected, and for office and light creative work the IT13 Max is an
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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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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * AI is great for ideas, but weak for real logistics unless it's nudged. * Tag everything you can: bags, keys, wallet, and passport. * Freeze your travel card until the moment you pay. There'
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Whether you're running out of storage, thinking of upgrading an ageing system, or building a new creative rig, fast NVMe SSDs remain one of the easiest ways to breathe new life into a desktop PC. And right now, the 2TB Samsung 990 SSD is down to $370 (was
