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Dell's XPS range has long focused on combining premium design with portability, and this 2026 model continues that approach. The Dell XPS 13 packs plenty into a remarkably slim aluminum chassis. • Best for: Professionals, remote workers, and students who want an exceptionally light premium Windows laptop with a
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Thousands of startups applied. Just 200 made Startup Battlefield. Only 20 will pitch on the Disrupt Stage across all three days. Competition goes from October 13-15 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. It all comes down to one final decision. For our Startup Battlefield finalist judges, we set a particularly high bar:
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Google has temporarily closed its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP) to product vulnerability submissions, saying a growing number of automated reports, most of them invalid, prompted the move. The pause was announced on X on October 1. “This pause is due to a significant rise in automated
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U.S. Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton attends a meeting on artificial intelligence in the East Room of the White House on September 29, 2026 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images ByDavid DiMolfetta, Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW October 5, 2026 10:13 AM ET A new task force
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When you get security software, it works quietly in the background. So it’s pretty easy to forget about it, until it alerts you that it caught something. If you use or have used one in the past to keep your devices safe, we want to know what you think.
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Save $300: Why waste money on a separate vacuum and mop when the Roborock F25 XT can do both? Plus, you can snag this wet-dry vacuum for just $250 right now at Amazon as part of the retailer’s October Prime Day sale. That’s $300 off the list price
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Save $59: We’ve spotted a Prime Day deal that’ll get you a Bose SoundLink Flex (2nd gen) in coral peach for $99 at Amazon thanks to a discount of $59. We’re big fans of this speaker here at CNET, and now’s your chance to find out
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Some careers are planned. Kunal Aman‘s began with an iPhone launch. Seventeen years ago, Kunal was an engineer at Amdocs, working with telecom clients such as AT&T, when he watched Apple build months of anticipation for a phone and turn launch day into a queue around the
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The 1TB Samsung T9 SSD combines a compact design with modern connectivity and fast read and write speeds. If you're looking for a good price, it's on sale ahead of Amazon's Big Deal Days right now. • Best for: Professionals, students, photographers, and creators who
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Like September (or 'Techtember', as I like to call it), October is going to be another massive month for portable audio and hi-fi — and Amazon's kicking things off with its huge 'Big Deal Days' savings across two days. That seems like a mouthful though,
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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. Single-folder archival in Zoho Mail: What you need to know — Email archival
