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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
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The next time a company tells you it suffered a “cybersecurity incident,” don’t expect much of an explanation. The Identity Theft Resource Center tracked 1,803 publicly reported data compromises during the first half of 2026, according to its new data breach report. Those incidents generated an estimated 471.
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This year has marked a big transition for HP laptops as the company shuttered longtime brand names like Pavilion, Envy and Spectre and filled out its new OmniBook line and EliteBook series. For gamers and creatives, however, the familiar Omen line has continued. I’ve tested models from each series;
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For years, Laura Loomer’s position on Ukraine was crystal clear. It was “a country full of Nazi apologists” led by “a Jihadi apologist.” Loomer, a conspiracy theorist and avid Trump supporter, called American politicians who supported Ukraine in its war against Russia “traitors.” But Loomer, who traveled to Ukraine
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A Georgia man was charged with a felony for allegedly wiping his phone while being questioned by Customs and Border Protection. Samuel Tunick had something in common with others who have had their devices searched at airports: He was an activist. Unlike others who have had their phones seized with
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