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TL;DR 701x, a Fargo-based agtech company, closed an oversubscribed $10M+ Series B funded entirely by ranchers and local investors with no VC involvement. The company builds satellite-connected GPS ear tags and integrated software for beef cattle, has hit profitability, and is expanding to six countries. 701x, a Fargo-based agricultural
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TL;DR Germany-based Focused Energy raised an oversubscribed $240M Series A led by utility RWE to commercialise laser-powered inertial confinement fusion based on the NIF’s historic net energy gain experiment. The company plans a demonstration reactor at a decommissioned German fission plant. Focused Energy, a Germany-based fusion startup, has
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TL;DR OpenAI expanded Codex from a coding tool into an enterprise work platform with Sites (hosted web apps), Annotations, and role-specific plugins connecting 62 business apps. Non-developers now make up 20% of 5 million weekly users and are adopting 3x faster than engineers. OpenAI announced a major expansion of
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TL;DR Attackers brute-forced Dashlane’s 2FA system to register new devices on fewer than 20 accounts, downloading their encrypted password vaults. The vaults remain encrypted with master passwords Dashlane never stores, but users with weak passwords face offline cracking risk. Dashlane disclosed on Sunday that an external attacker launched
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TL;DR Microsoft unveiled Project Solara at Build 2026, a chip-to-cloud platform for “agent-first devices” that run AI agents instead of traditional apps. Two concept devices, a wearable badge and desk companion, are being piloted with Best Buy, CVS Health, Levi’s, and Target. Microsoft unveiled Project Solara at Build
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* Beelink equips EQ, EQi, and ME Pro-2 mini PCs with 10GbE networking * Intel's 18A process brings faster performance to compact desktops * Affordable mini PCs gain networking capabilities once reserved for workstations For years, high-speed networking remained a privilege reserved for expensive desktop motherboards and premium workstation models costing
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In Brief 12:11 PM PDT · June 2, 2026 AI is getting expensive, and some companies are cutting back on usage in an attempt to moderate costs. That cohort includes Uber, which recently instituted internal usage caps as a way to cut down on its exorbitant AI spend. Bloomberg reports
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Earlier today, Snowflake announced key changes to their platform that illustrate the industry is moving at a rate faster than ever. The core message is to do more with less. Fewer Platforms. More Capability. The era of stitching together six different platforms to run a modern data environment is ending.
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The Familiar Faces feature may store biometrics without people’s knowledge. PJ McDonnell/Shutterstock The hits keep coming for Amazon's smart home brand Ring. The company has been sued on claims that a feature on its doorbells and cameras allows the devices to collect and store photos of
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Microsoft is turning AI into a security triage tool. * Microsoft wants to secure code, agents, data, and models. * MDASH uses AI agents to cut through scanner noise. Last month, Microsoft introduced MDASH, its Microsoft Security
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Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth, the continuation of the retelling started by Final Fantasy VII: Remake, has finally made it to non-PlayStation consoles, and over the weekend, I’ve been blasting through the game on my Nintendo Switch 2 to answer one question: can the handheld handle it? The simple answer
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* An Intel exec has said that Nvidia's new CPU is 'a good thing' * Team Blue apparently welcomes the competition and it 'shows the importance of how critical the PC is' * There are surely some worried faces at Intel behind the scenes, though, as to
