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For decades, the logic of industrial manufacturing was relatively straightforward. Engineering designed the product, the factory made it and the customer used it. The information generated at each stage rarely travelled far enough upstream to fundamentally alter the next product. That model is beginning to look inadequate as software, sensors,
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET key takeaways * Mozilla has released Smart Window beta. * This AI tool is powerful, flexible, and free. * You can test it on MacOS and Windows. For most of the past decade, Firefox has been given the short shrift within the
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* UK Prime Minister was targeted by a scammer posing as a top US aide * Personal devices bypass "national security perimeters," warns Surfshark * GenAI tools allow low-level criminals to clone high-profile identities The recent revelation that UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham was targeted by an impersonator pretending to be
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When cybercriminals look at a small and medium-sized enterprise (SME), they see a route into a larger organization or supply chain with a bigger payout. SMEs operate with the same level of connectivity, supply chain reliance and regulatory responsibilities as larger organizations, but nowhere near the security budget or cyber
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Tencent Cloud plans to establish its first cloud region in Malaysia, while Alibaba Cloud has launched a third data centre in South Korea, adding capacity in two Asian markets as global cloud infrastructure spending continues to rise. Both announcements were made on August 18. Tencent’s planned Malaysia region will
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When the mainstream market responds cautiously to the arrival of new technologies it is a well-rehearsed vendor gambit to showcase itself as its own “customer zero” for the new approach. In this vein, Mike Ferris, Red Hat's Chief Strategy and Operations Officer, recently briefed analysts on how Red
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Claude is becoming more than an AI chatbot, with Anthropic expanding its ability to take actions across connected apps. The latest update brings a more useful Gmail integration, allowing Claude to draft replies and, with user approval, send emails on their behalf. For the past seven years, I have tracked
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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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Google and Mozilla on Tuesday announced fresh Chrome and Firefox security updates that address multiple critical- and high-severity vulnerabilities. Firefox 154 was released to the stable channel with patches for 58 CVEs, including 20 high-severity flaws, roughly half of which are memory safety bugs that could be exploited for code
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Not all Linux distributions will eventually include AI. * Developers' ethos often runs counter to AI technology. * Jack Wallen expects these six distros will continue to shun AI. AI is everywhere, and the technology'
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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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The automotive world doesn’t slow down. But what’s changed most is what we value when we get behind the wheel. Not long ago, the story of a new car could be told through horsepower, cylinders, torque and exhaust notes. For next-generation platforms, differentiation increasingly comes from driving assistance,
