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Alphabet went into its second-quarter results on Wednesday carrying one question louder than the rest: whether the tens of billions it is funnelling into AI infrastructure has started to earn its keep. Judged by the after-hours share price, the answer was not yet. The company reported revenue of $119.8bn
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The European Commission fined Google €890 million on Thursday for breaking the Digital Markets Act, the first time Brussels has penalised the company under the rulebook it built to rein in the largest technology platforms .The penalty divides in two. A €460 million share covers search self-preferencing, where Google gave
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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. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Marcus, a senior data engineer at a mid-sized logistics firm, spent three weeks building a scraping pipeline that pulled competitor pricing from a dozen public-facing websites. It worked beautifully in staging. Then, two weeks into production, three of the target sites updated their layouts, one introduced a new CAPTCHA variant,
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Taking part in a motorsport event requires a lot of kit; there is the race car, then there are the tools to ensure its competitive, spare parts, safety equipment and clothing; but then there is everything else that is required for a number of days trackside: clothing for a change
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* Courtesy of Amazon Aero Cordless Vacuum I love cordless vacuums for so many reasons, including portability and how easy they are to use. But, the downfalls of cordless vacs are frustrating and sometimes yucky emptying, and awkward charging ports. This self-emptying stick vac from Levoit fixes all of that. With
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* South Korean government discloses ten‑month cyberattack on the National Diplomatic Academy’s online education system * Data stolen included user IDs, names, emails, and encrypted passwords of at least 6,000 individuals * MFA shut down IT systems, deployed enhanced security, and delayed disclosure due to diplomatic sensitivity Current and former
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From the scourge of Generative AI to the RAM crisis, from PlayStation axing discs to Xbox cutting legendary studios off at the knees, it seems like gaming is under attack from every angle. The industry is in dire straits, with studios seemingly no longer able to bank on the success
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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. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Pros & Cons * Adorable * Compact * Clever selfie mirror * Image quality is poor, though maybe that's OK * Extremely easy to take unusable photos If I could recommend a product on looks alone, the Polaroid Go Gen 3 would be it — it’s absolutely adorable. It looks every bit the
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Mozilla walls off your online identities as MZLA unleashes a bumper repair job Mozilla released Firefox 153 on Tuesday, closely followed by MZLA with Thunderbird 153 – codenamed "Meadow" for reasons that remain obscure for now. Firefox 153 is Mozilla's new Extended Support Release (ESR), so it
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. What just happened? Nvidia has released more information about its upcoming Vera data center CPU this week, including key details about the custom Olympus cores that are purpose-built for agentic AI workloads. The company
