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Workers who use Microsoft software seem to be having as many conversations with Copilot AI as with real humans in Outlook and Teams, Microsoft said Wednesday during its fiscal year 2026 fourth-quarter earnings call. “The number of conversations per [Copilot] user nearly doubled year over year,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
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* Google Threat Intelligence Group is replacing its inherited Mandiant and TAG identifiers with two-word cryptonyms, starting with several dozen of its most-tracked groups * The second word encodes attribution or motive, with CASTLE for China, ION for Iran, NEPTUNE for North Korea, RELIC for Russia, and COMET for criminal crews not
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A four-rotor drone built by N3XT, the experimental arm of German company Quantum Systems, has reportedly reached 699 km/h (434 mph) in level flight. That speed makes it the fastest battery-powered drone ever recorded. The company claims the flight took place during an internal test on June 26, and
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Dolby Atmos gets plaudits as the more popular immersive 3D sound format, but a lot of its love from home theater enthusiasts isn't about the spatial audio, but is more about the lossless audio quality you get on 4K Blu-ray. It's not the only game in
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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 Wednesday'
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Looking for a different day? A new NYT Connections 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 Wednesday'
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Looking for a different day? A new Quordle 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 Wednesday's
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Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is trying to sell investors on his prediction for the future — one where billions of people will have their own personal AI agents in the next five years. (Let’s hope that future also comes with data centers efficient enough to power all those
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If you’ve been staying inside all summer due to heat domes and poor air quality from the wildfires, August is shaping up to be a good month to get out of the house and look up at the sky. Among the various cool events happening is a planet parade
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Lori Grunin/CNET 8.0 Pros & Cons * Very clever foldable design * Really small * Good exposure, focus and white balance adjustment and solid background blur performance * Software works well on both Windows and MacOS * Background removal is terrible * Autoframing doesn't work consistently * Mobile device operation is hit and
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Anthropic’s Claude is coming back from a major outage on Wednesday. The site experienced major errors for part of the day, but reports of problems on DownDetector, which tracks service outages on various websites, have dropped significantly. Earlier, more than 4,000 users reported issues accessing Claude. But as
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* Hidden AI debts are attracting fresh scrutiny across America's biggest technology companies * Massive data centre spending is testing investor confidence like never before * Meta reportedly carries the largest off-balance-sheet obligations among the five companies An investigation by Nikkei Asia has claimed five of America's largest tech
