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A leftover three-ton SpaceX rocket stage is set for an unavoidable collision course with the Moon at a speed of 5,400 mph (or seven times the speed of sound) in the early hours this Wednesday, August 5. The rogue hardware in question is the spent upper stage of a
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Presented by NTT DATA AIVista At VB Transform 2026, NTT DATA AIVista CEO Bratin Saha joined VentureBeat CEO and editor-in-chief Matt Marshall to discuss the last-mile challenge of operationalizing frontier models in regulated production, where reliability, context, guardrails, and security determine whether AI delivers enterprise value. The conversation centered around
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Cameron Faulkner is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware. He joined in 2018, and after a two-year stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. Next to buying RAM, finding a fast, high-capacity NVMe SSD at a reasonable price has been a challenge during RAMageddon. I don’
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AI AND ML Taiwanese silicon biz believes it can take up to 20% of $80B market with upcoming ASIC chips Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek is lining up $5 billion in financing to expand into AI datacenter silicon, targeting a slice of a market it expects to be worth up to $80
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* Surfshark is retiring its private Search tool, blaming a lack of usage * Already begun on mobile, the full shutdown is expected by the end of 2026 * The company says the move frees up resources for its Antiscam Hub Surfshark is preparing to shut down Search, its built-in private search engine,
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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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MSI is pitching its new Pro Max OLED 271UPJW12 as the world's first 27-inch inkjet-printed (IJP) OLED display with a 4K resolution and 120Hz refresh rate. Calling it the "ultimate display," it arrives nearly two years after TCL began touting the benefits of its IJP OLED
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Some inexpensive Android TV boxes were shipped with preinstalled software capable of disguising the devices as smartphones, clicking online advertisements, and routing other people’s internet traffic through owners’ home connections, according to new research from Bitsight. Bitsight researcher Pedro Falé identified the operation while examining factory backdoors left active
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AI agents are only as good as the instructions and context you give them. When we launched Google Agent Skills, our goal was simple: encode Google Cloud domain knowledge into structured, open-source instructions that make AI coding agents significantly smarter, safer, and more accurate. Today, I want to take you
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Turning two Mars testbeds into one lunar explorer may prove anything but cheap NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has stated "we simply will not fly it" if claims about the costs of the repurposed Mars rover engineering model prove anywhere near accurate. Isaacman was responding to the Planetary Society&
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ExfilSquad claims 135,000 contact records weeks after hitting the Department for Education The Police National Legal Database (PNLD) is the latest UK public sector outfit to admit that cybercriminals made off with its data, including the names and work email addresses of police officers, justice staff, government partners, and
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