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Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. LinkedIn actually announced a “Seems like AI slop” button on July 30th, and the company says that a lot of people have already used it. According to
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TL;DR Privacy is shifting from a settings toggle to a core selling point across four software categories: browsers (Brave, DuckDuckGo, Firefox blocking trackers by default), messaging apps (WhatsApp view-once, Signal growth), VPNs (independent no-logs audits, RAM-only servers), and AI tools (on-device processing, client-side encryption). The common thread: users now
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Show us the money Salesforce partners say they have yet to see any meaningful revenue from Agentforce, two years after the CRM giant launched its AI platform, promising spectacular growth. That's according to a recent report from TD Cowen, which surveyed Salesforce partners and found muted interest in
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If you spend your days building profitability and cost models, the August 2026 update to Oracle EPCM is worth a close read. The headline is a redesigned PCM Agent that finally lives where you actually work. But there are a couple of quieter improvements in this release that will matter
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Javier Ghersi/Getty Images ByHemant Baidwan August 21, 2026 04:38 PM ET COMMENTARY | Attacks now move faster than human-paced patch cycles can keep up with and a compliance program built around periodic reviews will not catch them. * Artificial Intelligence * IT Modernization * FedRAMP Pete Waterman did not mince words at
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In Brief 1:58 PM PDT · August 21, 2026 Apple is chopping down the team behind the Vision Pro, its long suffering VR headset, while eliminating positions across a number of other teams, Bloomberg reported. Over 200 positions, all told, have been cut, sources told Bloomberg, with around 100 from
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Are you reading more text written by an AI bot? A Pew Research study published this week says it’s very likely. That’s not breaking news if you’re aware of the Dead Internet Theory that dates back to 2021. CNET writer Trisha Jandoc dove into that theory last
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ai and ml Fahrenheit 203, the temperature GPUs stop gorging on literature AI companies are buying loads of physical books, hoovering up the texts for model training, and then physically destroying the originals. A group of 18 advocacy organizations on Friday asked the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate the
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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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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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* India-based developer Kuber Mehta uses Claude Code to create a macOS driver for the HP Laser 1008a * Previously, only the official drivers for Windows and Linux were available for the relatively obscure 2023 laser printer * The AI-generated driver was created over a series of meticulous prompts, and is now available
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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 &
