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Neuromancer was supposed to be unfilmable. That was one theory about why this 40-year-old novel, winner of Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick awards, had yet to be made into a film or TV show. After all, how do you visualize “bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void”
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Today’s Wordle answer isn’t a tough one, with an unusual repeated letter. Read on for hints and the answer. Before we show you today’s Wordle answer, we’ll give you some hints. If you don’t want a spoiler, look away now. Wordle hint No. 1: Repeats
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Save $135: All pet parents know that fur has a way of getting everywhere, from carpets and couches to everything in between. If you’re ready for an upgrade, the Dyson Ball Animal 2 Plus vacuum is currently discounted to $315, making now a great time to invest in one
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Save $85: The Neat Bumblebee II has dropped to just $15, making it one of the most affordable USB microphones we’ve seen with premium recording features. Whether you’re a gamer, content creator, podcaster or something else, this 85% discount is almost impossible to say no to and proves
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Organizations today generate, process and share more sensitive information than at any other point in history. Customer records, financial transactions, healthcare information, intellectual property, employee data, operational telemetry and AI training data sets routinely move across cloud platforms, SaaS applications, development environments, analytics pipelines and third-party ecosystems. While encryption has
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Confusion is the typical first reaction. They hold the new Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 in their hands, marveling at the passport-sized cover screen, and ask without irony or sarcasm, "Is this new?" I'm finding that people think the Z Fold 8's design is
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It’s probably fair to say Meta is facing serious public backlash to its AI glasses. Musician Lorde took time at a recent concert to tell her audience, “Don’t get the glasses,” many online are branding them “pervert glasses,” and activist group Everyone Hates Elon has put up spoof
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Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US government supporting a potential slowdown of sorts for frontier AI development — or at least a speed-up of global coordinated governance efforts. “Al could help
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Secret to their success: Using the right model for the right security job Two agentic bug-hunting systems from Microsoft and Google-owned Wiz show that when it comes to finding and remediating software vulnerabilities, at least two models’ minds work better than one - and Wiz tells us it’s adding
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AIs not only make life-and-death targeting decisions on the battlefield, but also involve humans in only some stages of the decision-making process. To illustrate how that happens and prompt greater scrutiny of model-enabled killing, Airwars, a not-for-profit transparency watchdog, has published a detailed report, taking apart the ways machine learning
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Is it time to ditch that old, worn-out mattress? If you’re not getting quality sleep at night or are waing up with aches and pains, a new bed may make all of the difference. Upgrading your mattress no longer requires spending hours wandering around a store looking for the
