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What, you didn't think the top gangs were busy watching agents escape their sandboxes too, did you? Ransomware attacks jumped nearly 20 percent in July, with UK firm Comparitech counting 799 incidents, up from 668 in June. Of those, 51 had been confirmed by victims. The tally makes
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AI and ML Agent Plugins 1.0 defines a write-once-run-anywhere container for passing tools and skills across different agent platforms The AI giants have joined forces to ask the world’s developers to all please write their agentic skills and tools into the same format. In return, coders will be
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Calling all defenders With at least 12 US states’ water systems having been hacked - most likely by Iran - we have to get better at cyber defense, according to retired General and Ex-NSA chief Paul Nakasone, who was speaking to reporters at DEF CON. “We have to have higher
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Fenix now claims he’s ‘never said I didn’t use AI,‘ to make his hit song. by Terrence O'Brien Aug 7, 2026, 8:01 PM UTC Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. AI Shovelware: Long ago, users had to press physical buttons and navigate on-screen menus to set their brand-new gaming monitors to their preferred settings. Now, Asus is proposing an AI-based solution that could do
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* Hivemind completes first autonomous swarming mission on water in Taiwan * Drone boats identified and escorted a vessel during a coordinated surveillance exercise * SeaShark 600 and 800 vessels operated together under a single autonomous command An autonomous software system called Hivemind has directed a group of unmanned boats through a live
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Late last month, Samsung teased us with the Galaxy Z Flip 8 and today is the offical date for this new phone to hit the shelves. The Flip 8 carries over many of its predecessor’s best features which earned the Flip 7 a place on our list of the
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Today’s Strands puzzle features an entertaining theme. Some of the answers might be difficult to unscramble. If you need hints and answers, read on. Hint for today’s Strands puzzle Today’s Strands theme is: It has its ups and downs If that doesn’t help you, here’s
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Li Rui/Xinhua via Getty Images ByDavid DiMolfetta, Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW August 7, 2026 03:24 PM ET The confirmation comes as the tech diplomacy shop he would traditionally lead in his new role has seen significant reorganizations in the last year. * State Department * Leadership * Congress The Senate on
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Windscribe, a consumer VPN and privacy-software company, launched deGDID, an open-source PowerShell script that targets Microsoft's Global Device Identifier (GDID) on Windows. GDID tracks a specific Windows installation across Microsoft services and stays the same even if the network address changes. This is important because even though a
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* A developer has a 28.9-million-parameter model generating TinyStories-style text at 9.88 tokens per second, fully offline, on a $10 microcontroller * It was achieved by fitting a language model on a chip with 512KB of RAM by leaving most of it in flash storage * The project is available on
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GMKtec is behind some of the most capable mini PCs we've ever tested, and the K8 Plus is no exception. And I just found the GMKtec K8 Plus mini PC for $810 (was $940) at Amazon. This configuration features the high-performance Ryzen 7 8845HS processor, paired with 32GB
