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Right on cue, Amazon Prime Day in Australia has delivered a much better price on the Apple AirPods Pro 3, dropping Apple’s latest noise-cancelling earbuds to just AU$299. That’s a mighty AU$130 saving on their AU$429 RRP, and more importantly, it’s the lowest price
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Meta’s year so far hasn’t exactly been a picnic. But that didn’t stop one nut-loving creature from seeking some joy inside one of the company’s offices this week. A squirrel apparently got loose inside a building in Bangkok, Thailand where some of the tech giant’s
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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. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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Each year, as the Super Bowl approaches, all three major US carriers announce their latest upgrades to ensure the stadium hosting the Big Game has enough high-speed network capacity to handle the hordes of fans attending with a smartphone in every pocket. But every year, some are left complaining that
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* Buffalo reverses Blu-ray exit decision after securing more components * Customers face 33-51% price hikes for remaining portable drive stock * Manufacturing will eventually cease once current component supply runs out Japanese firm Buffalo has reversed its decision to stop selling Blu-ray drives (via PC Watch), announcing it will continue selling several
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It's more of a baa-ter arrangement. Volkswagen has some woolly new unofficial employees flocking to one of its European facilities. There are now 100 sheep grazing at the solar farm that powers the car company's manufacturing plant in Poznań, Poland. Electrek reports that in addition to
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SonicWall has announced its participation as a founding Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) partner in OpenAI’s Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, aiming to bring GPT-5.6 Sol-powered AI cybersecurity capabilities to mid-market and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) through its global channel partner network. The cybersecurity vendor said the initiative
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A busy 24 hours for AI and deep-tech money, from a $300m quantum bet to Paris voice AI and Europe’s energy startups. Here are the rounds worth knowing. The cash keeps flowing into AI and deep tech. The past day alone brought a $300m quantum raise, a fresh billion-dollar
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TL;DR NHTSA issued a directive demanding AV developers fix first responder interference by end of July. It cited vehicles blocking ambulances and ignoring flares. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a directive on Wednesday demanding autonomous vehicle developers present solutions to a “clear pattern” of driverless vehicles interfering
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An economics professor at Brown University suspects most of his class cheated with AI, and he has the numbers to make the case. Roberto Serrano watched his take-home midterm average hit 96 out of 100. When he switched the final to an in-person test, the average fell to 48. He
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NATO is building a vast AI network along its eastern flank, designed to spot an attack early and strike back fast. The plan is called the Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative, and internal documents name one adversary outright: Russia. German tabloid BILD obtained the papers and shared them through the Axel
