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Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 5, its most agentic mid-tier model yet. It runs close to the flagship Opus 4.8 on many tasks, but costs less than half as much. Anthropic said on June 30, 2026 that Sonnet 5 is available today across every plan. The company built it
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TL;DR Hotel WiFi captive portals have quietly become both a security attack surface (HTTP-only pages, DNS hijacking, rogue networks) and a programmatic ad channel collecting first-party data. Most VPN clients fail at the handoff. KeepSolid built a Captive Portal Network Checker into VPN Unlimited to detect and reconnect automatically.
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TL;DR Clicks released a video showing the pre-production hardware of its $499 Communicator, a BlackBerry-inspired phone shipping in Q4. Clicks Technology released a video on Tuesday showing the pre-production hardware and internal software of its Communicator, a $499 smartphone with a physical keyboard that is the closest thing to
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TL;DR Google launched Nano Banana 2 Lite, an image model that generates in four seconds for under four cents per thousand images. Google on Tuesday released Nano Banana 2 Lite, the fastest and cheapest model in its Nano Banana family of AI image generators. The model produces images in
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Three former DeepMind researchers who created an AI that beat humans at poker have now applied the same technology to trading stocks — and the bet appears to be paying off. Their Prague-based AI lab, EquiLibre Technologies, is now valued at $500 million after raising an undisclosed-sum Series A, TechCrunch learned.
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So much for magic. Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images Netflix has worked with ElevenLabs to develop a recreation of Gene Wilder's voice for use in an upcoming unscripted reality show inspired by Roald Dahl's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Wilder played chocolate factory owner Willy
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NASA astronauts will have to spend quite some time building a lunar base before they can actually benefit from it.Credit: NASA On Tuesday, NASA held a livestream offering updates on the Moon Base program. Though it didn't reveal any groundbreaking announcements, it did provide granular updates on
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Apple filed an appeal after being found in contempt of an order related to App Store fees. The antitrust case between Apple and Epic Games is heading to the highest court in the US. The Supreme Court will hear an appeal from Apple over a contempt ruling in a legal
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In the past two years or so, Peacock has set a high bar for innovations in sports broadcasting. Since the launch of its Summer Olympics viewing hub in 2024, it's rolled out tons of great new features, from alternate views of sporting events, a multiview option that allows
