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Jess Weatherbed is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. When a premium car brand like BMW says it has a “special surprise” in store for drivers, I’d expect something more luxurious than having
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What to expect as BSides, Black Hat, and DEF CON descend on Las Vegas As the entire security industry descends on Las Vegas this week for Hacker Summer Camp – not one, but three conferences – attendees can count on two hot topics dominating the discussion. First, a literal hot-topic: the triple-digit
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Claiming 'it's my server' was often enough to persuade models to help If you want to bypass AI guardrails designed to stop models from assisting with cyberattacks, you often just have to ask the right way, according to researchers from Cisco Talos. Simply claiming you own
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. AI Gold Rush: Two of the world's "big three" memory manufacturers began collaborating on a new memory standard for accelerating AI workloads in 2025. Now, the first technical specification for
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* Third-party data centers now host more enterprise workloads than corporate server facilities * AI infrastructure is steadily pushing rack power requirements to unprecedented operational levels * Rising electricity costs continue squeezing already stretched data center operating budgets everywhere Corporate IT infrastructure is increasingly moving beyond company-owned facilities as organizations rely more heavily
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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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Let’s cut to the chase: Starting today, you can take an additional $100 off your founder, investor, or attendee TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass, which is a nice bonus on top of our current discounted pricing. This flash sale will run all week, up until Friday, August 7 at 11:
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Bingers, a new TV show and movie tracking app, has arrived to fill the hole that TV Time’s closure left. The new app is developed by one of TV Time’s original founders, Antonio Pinto, who said last month he would attempt to rebuild the best features of TV
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One of my favorite places online is Reddit’s r/isthisAI. Every day, people upload photos of people they’re chatting to on dating apps, holiday snaps, cute viral videos of kittens, photos of receipts, pictures of pregnancy tests, and so much more, all along with the same question: is
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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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Adding security to AI often treats the large language model (LLM) or AI system as a black box, focusing on analyzing the tokenized inputs and outputs but not what goes on inside the model. The resulting techniques are often complex and individualized to specific models. A group of offensive-security researchers
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Specialized application security scanning tools embedded in the development pipeline can do wonders to harden code and bolster software supply chain security. But if engineering teams aren't careful, these security scanners can also become a gateway for attacks deep in the supply chain. The development and security worlds
