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Microsoft today issued updates to fix more than 1,400 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software. Today’s epic patch batch dwarfs September’s record of nearly 1,000 fixes, which was already about ten times the normal monthly patch load from Redmond. Just one of
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How Thunderbolt and USB-C replaced the need for a dedicated video port. Barry Paterson/Shutterstock We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For a while, Mini DisplayPort was one of the main options for video output on smaller devices. Apple announced it in 2008 to replace interfaces
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* Russia has updated the concept of barrage balloons to defend oil refineries * Barrage balloons were first deployed over 100 years ago to defend against air raids * It is not clear what the measures are defending against, as they only appear suitable for disabling smaller drones Russia has deployed barrage balloons
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An engineer at OpenAI allegedly concealed an audio recording device in a piece of toilet paper and attached it behind a monitor inside an executive conference room at one of the company’s San Francisco offices, according to a criminal complaint unsealed on Tuesday. Abdulrahman Alfozan, who federal prosecutors describe
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An OpenAI engineer has been arrested over a listening device found behind a television in an executive conference room, and is charged with endeavouring to intercept oral communications. OpenAI says no model weights, source code or customer data were taken. An OpenAI engineer has been arrested over a listening device
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Cerebras Systems CEO and co-founder Andrew Feldman believes we’re nearing a future where everyone will have an AI appliance in their own home. Speaking on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on Tuesday, the chipmaker executive answered a question about what would need to happen for AI to become a
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Science Corporation CEO Max Hodak announced that the company has implanted its vision-restoring chip, PRIMA, into its first patient with Stargardt disease, an inherited eye disease that gradually destroys central vision. Hodak, the former president and co-founder of Neuralink, the brain implant company, explained on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt how
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An engineer at OpenAI has been charged with secretly installing a recording device inside a conference room in what officials said Tuesday was an effort to capture sensitive conversations about the company’s technology. The employee, identified as a 35-year-old Saudi national named Abdulrahman Alfozan, was arrested Friday, a week
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The 2026 model is faster and can hear you from afar, but the 2022 box gets Siri AI as well. Apple It's taken Apple four years to bring us a new version of the Apple TV 4K, and along with it comes a now all-too-familiar price rise. The
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Google has a vested interest in collecting and selling your data, but that doesn't mean protecting yourself is impossible. Anelovski/Shutterstock Google Chrome is easily the biggest browser in the game — and the hottest commodity in that game is data. Whenever you surf the web, your personal data
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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 Tuesday'
