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A public preview of Muse Spark 1.1 is now available to developers. 3 min read Meta on Thursday announced the next version of its multimodal Spark AI model, Muse Spark 1.1, calling it a significant upgrade from its predecessor. The model is built specifically for agentic tasks and
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A 20-minute nap will count toward your daily sleep total. But is a quick power nap worth it? 2 min read Google is ready to recognize iOS users' cat naps. After the latest update to the Google Health app, naps greater than 20 minutes will now count toward your
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Originally announced on June 26 and with a release teased on Wednesday, the latest and greatest ChatGPT model family has arrived. ChatGPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna are available starting today in ChatGPT, Codex and the OpenAI API, OpenAI said in a blog post. The model family is currently rolling
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Even older emulation-focused handhelds can't escape RAMaggedon. Retroid, creator of a growing number of Android-based handhelds, is cutting a deal with recent purchasers of its Retroid Pocket 5 and Flip 2 handhelds. Anyone with an unfulfilled order of the company's entry-level models with 8GB of RAM
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Share one API key across five AI agents, and a single compromised agent inherits the reach of all five. The attacker immediately benefits from the accumulated permissions of every workflow that the key touches. The forensic trail goes cold at the credential level because five agents on one account leave
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ai and ml One in four long-form social media posts appear entirely AI-generated, with nearly half of those on Microsoft's and Elon's platforms involving AI in some form No surprise here. A study from AI detection platform Pangram suggests that social media posts are teeming with
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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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* Custom drone achieved a 261-minute flight after months of engineering refinements * Guinness World Records recognizes Cape Town pilot for record-breaking multirotor endurance flight * Software tuning unlocked crucial efficiency gains during the historic flight A Cape Town YouTuber and drone pilot has secured a new Guinness World Record after keeping a
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The latest adventure for the kooky camera looks skyward. Chris Graue Musician and retro tech fan Chris Graue made headlines last month after using a Game Boy Camera to take a photo of Jupiter. Obviously, a Game Boy Camera isn't capable of that kind of range on its
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Dive Brief In response to a European Commission investigation, SAP will clarify initial licensing terms and allow customers to choose different ERP support providers. Published July 9, 2026 Dive Brief: * The European Commission accepted SAP’s commitment to implement several changes to its aftermarket support services for on-premises ERP software,
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Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. OpenAI is already shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its browser that could do tasks for you on your behalf, less than a year after launching it. Atlas was
