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* Windscribe said Bill C-22 won't change its privacy policies * The bill would require service providers to retain user metadata * Canada's Senate is set to discuss Bill C-22 in September A Reddit user recently put a blunt question to Windscribe: is paying for a Canada-based VPN a
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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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Midjourney, an AI lab best known for its LLM-powered image and video generators, has acquired the social astrology app Co-Star, according to Bloomberg. The deal terms were not disclosed. Co-Star, which reportedly has about 4.3 million monthly active users, is mostly used to help people determine their astrological birth
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As demand for local, privacy-focused artificial intelligence continues to surge, enterprise developers and researchers are searching for hardware capable of running heavy Large Language Models (LLMs) without relying on potentially costly cloud APIs or power-hungry server racks. Enter MSI's new Pro Max Edge AI+, a mini PC that
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Astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to capture cosmic 'bullets' streaming from V445 Puppis, a unique stellar explosion in the Milky Way firing clumps of gas into space at a blistering 20 million miles per hour. When V445 Puppis erupted in late 2000, it instantly stood out
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Digital manufacturing specialist HeyGears has launched a crowdfunding campaign for what it is positioning as the world's first desktop full-color 3D and ultraviolet (UV) printer: the HeyGears G1X. "Most desktop UV printers only print on surfaces or simple textures. They can't create 3D objects from
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Open hardware specialist MNT Research, the firm behind the Reform family of laptops and an upcoming ultra-compact desktop, has launched its latest device: a standalone version of the ortholinear keyboard and trackball originally designed for the Pocket Reform. "Equipped with a micro-optical trackball, the MNT Pocket Reform Standalone Keyboard
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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. Boox’s new Tile lineup will take on Xteink’s popular e-readers that are small enough to stick on the back of an iPhone
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ai and ml Makes agreement under nose of Oracle, which gets its own $7 billion defense deal The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded Salesforce a $1.6 billion, three-year contract to spread AI through the government service. The CRM giant has inked an Agentic Enterprise License Agreement
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Two license plate readers torched in Georgia amid backlash against the surveillance network Dougherty County Police Department (DCPD) near Albany, Georgia, is appealing for help from the local community after someone set two Flock Safety cameras on fire. Police initially investigated whether the automated license plate readers (ALPRs) had malfunctioned.
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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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The Trump administration unveiled the first “Genesis Mission” grants on Thursday, directing $5 billion toward hundreds of AI-driven science projects in an effort the White House has described as “comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project.” At roughly the same time, Trump’s science adviser Michael Kratsios was
