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Now it’s supposedly focusing on community instead of replies from people you don’t follow. by Stevie Bonifield Jul 14, 2026, 3:20 PM UTC Illustration: The Verge Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews
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CEO Krishna: Customers blew their Z budgets on servers and storage before prices spike, Q2 financials 'disappointing' IBM says customers spooked by soaring demand for AI infrastructure raided their mainframe budgets to stockpile servers, storage, and memory instead, knocking Big Blue's flagship Z business off course.
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HFI proposes a familiar PC-style route from power-on to operating system Another month, another ambitious idea from Yuri Zaporozhets: a proposal for a standard PC-style BIOS for RISC-V computers. The Harmonic Firmware Initiative, or HFI for short, is simple and appealing in principle, but will be considerably harder to implement.
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If you're building or upgrading a PCIe Gen 5 system, this is one of the fastest consumer drives you can buy. Right now, the 2TB WD_Black SN8100 is $400 (was $440) at Amazon, a $40 savings on a drive that tops out at nearly 15,000 MB/
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In Brief 8:14 AM PDT · July 14, 2026 The Iranian government abused well-known vulnerabilities in the global telecoms infrastructure to locate U.S. military personnel in the build-up to the Iran War, as well as in the early days of the conflict, according to The Financial Times. The Iranian
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New York became the first state to halt data center construction after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order today that temporarily bars the state from approving new permits for large projects. Hochul’s order applies to data centers 50 megawatts or larger, potentially affecting more than a dozen projects.
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Windows 11 users have long voiced their frustrations regarding the cluttered and confusing nature of the operating system's search function. For years, pressing the Windows key and typing a query often resulted in a messy screen filled with irrelevant web links and unwanted promotional materials. Microsoft is finally
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. TL;DR: Malicious programs designed to wipe hard disk drives clean are dangerous enough, but they become a systemic risk when that same capability gets built into a remote-controlled backdoor. Microsoft has now documented
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Dreame’s versatile two-in-one Z30 Pro Aqua vac-and-mop combo is a bit of a mixed bag. The cordless vacuum itself is excellent, delivering strong suction, refined handling and especially impressive carpet cleaning performance. However, the mopping attachment is more of a quick-clean companion than a genuine floor washer, mostly due
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* NSA, FBI, CISA, and 15 allied agencies warn Russia’s FSB Center 16 is exploiting weak/default credentials and old Cisco flaws to compromise critical infrastructure devices * Advisory highlights CVE‑2018‑0171 (Smart Install DoS/RCE) and CVE‑2008‑412813 (CSRF in Cisco IOS 12.4) as examples of vulnerabilities
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