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Credit: The Light Phone, Inc. If you're annoyed by the drive to constantly look at your smartphone but aren't ready to switch to a "dumbphone," here's an in-between option: the Light Flip phone. Launched by the makers of the Light Phone on
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. We all depend on having a reliable Wi-Fi connection to get work done, to connect with friends and family, to power our smart home devices and streaming services, and so much more, so it's essential to have a
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Great news for 4K Blu-ray fans: the huge half-price sale on Criterion Collections discs is still running at Barnes & Noble, and Amazon has some of the same discounts running too. Slightly more concerning news: the sale ends on July 26, so you only have a few days left to
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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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White House science advisor Michael Kratsios said that Moonshot, the Chinese company behind the Kimi K3, the largest available open-weight LLM, built its model by copying Anthropic’s Fable LLM while using chips that aren’t cleared for export to China. “Large-scale, covert industrial distillation aimed at stealing proprietary U.
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In Europe, the rise in gas prices due to the Iran war has car buyers thinking about electrics more than ever before. Battery-electric vehicle (BEV) sales were up more than 33 percent in the first half of 2026 compared to the same time last year, according to data published by
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* Dataintelo reports that the used video game market is worth $7.2 billion * The firm thinks that Sony's decision to end the production of discs will cause it to decline * Analysts say the market will "keep shrinking and eventually disappear" The second-hand video game market could
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Last year, thousands of customers at one of the UK's biggest banking groups were locked out of their accounts. This cut people off from their own money, leading to declined cards, missed payments. VP Head of Data & AI at Valtech. Across the UK, major banks and building
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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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Data Breaches Hackers recently obtained non-sensitive customer information and other documents from the company. Texas-based consumer finance company Upbound Group, Inc. says recent cybersecurity incidents led to a data breach that resulted in millions of dollars in fraudulent contract losses. Upbound offers lease-to-own and flexible payment solutions through brands like
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IT SOUNDS like something out of a sci-fi film. On July 16th Hugging Face, an artificial-intelligence platform, announced it had notified law enforcement after an attacker had used an AI agent to breach its systems. On July 21st it emerged that there had been no human involved; the AI agent
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Samsung has unveiled its first Intelligent Eyewear with Gemini AI, Android XR, built in camera, open ear speakers and up to nine hours of battery life. Samsung has officially unveiled its first Samsung Intelligent Eyewear at the Galaxy Unpacked 2026 event in London. Instead of launching a pair of augmented
