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IoT is meant to drive operational efficiency and improve decision-making, largely by automating processes and reducing overall costs. But with these benefits come escalating cybersecurity threats that target IoT devices, which are notoriously vulnerable compared to traditional IT infrastructure. Several security frameworks address IoT, including the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and
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Smoke from devastating wildfires in Canada is blanketing a large swath of the Midwest and Northeast this week, causing cities across the region to issue air quality warnings. The extreme levels of smoke mean that even able-bodied adults would be wise to take some precautions to protect their health. The
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Looking for a different day? A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Wednesday'
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Looking for a different day? A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Wednesday'
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Looking for a different day? A new Quordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Wednesday's
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Brad Bourque Brad Bourque is a tech journalist and commerce writer based out of Portland, Oregon. He’s contributed to sites like Digital Trends, Business Insider, and WIRED. With storage and memory prices still at an all-time high, we’re happy to tell you about a solid deal on a
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A small number of T-Mobile customers could wake up on Aug. 3 with zero bars on their phones -- unless they take action now. After two years of outreach to subscribers, T-Mobile is turning off its 2G network. Any T-Mobile subscriber with an outdated phone can get a free 5G-capable
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An update to Apple's iPhone 17 selling FAQs closes a loophole that allowed buyers to choose an unlocked iPhone from T-Mobile and Verizon. Before this update, as noticed on Wednesday by Reddit users, you could pick an unlocked iPhone with the Verizon Device Payment Program or the T-Mobile
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The enterprise AI industry has a math problem. Cisco data shows 85% of enterprises are piloting AI agents, but only 5% have shipped them to production. At VB Transform 2026 on Tuesday, Bryan Silverthorn, Director of AGI Autonomy at Amazon, explained why that gap persists — and why the answer isn&
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Enterprises looking to move more of their agentic AI workloads to open weights models they can customize, control and run on-premises or in virtual private clouds have a strong new contender to consider. Today, Thinking Machines—the highly capitalized American AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati—released
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Across 101 enterprises, agent orchestration is consolidating onto model-provider platforms — Anthropic’s Claude leads by a wide margin — chosen for the gravity of the underlying model and judged on reliable multi-step execution. But the ambition runs well ahead of the reality: most deployed “agents” are still chatbot wrappers, the control
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Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI. An AppleCare Plus subscription for a Mac or iPad will cost more soon, with prices going up by $0.50 per month or $5
