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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * The latest Linux kernel incorporates many AI fixes. * Cache-aware scheduling will speed up processing. * The latest kernel boasts other improvements. Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux kernel 7.2 over the weekend. He wrote,
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The Motorola Razr 2026 is a great flip phone when compared to rival foldables of a similar price. The design is lovely, the cover screen is wonderfully intuitive across a wide range of apps, and the battery comfortably lasts a day. However, all this could be said of the phone
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Bad news for those who get their updates through RSS feeds: Feedly, the largest standalone RSS reader worldwide, has experienced technical issues for over a week, and paying users are upset that the web app has been “unusably slow.” Some users have also reported that the company has ignored their
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The first thing I learned at Defcon was that I apparently didn’t know what a badge was. I already had one hanging around my neck: the press credential that got me through the door at the annual hacker convention in Las Vegas in early August. Yet everywhere I looked,
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AI + ML Facewatch says its technology worked as intended before humans mishandled the result UK supermarket giant Sainsbury's temporarily suspended live facial recognition (LFR) at one of its stores after staff wrongly ejected a shopper in response to an alert – the second such incident this year. Matt Arnold,
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AI gets things wrong, it kills jobs, and when the bubble bursts, it will take the economy down with it. When all's said and done, however, AI will still be standing and fundamentally change our lives and work. Get used to it. I get it. There's
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AI and Ml Microsoft realizes the side pane should be enough for anyone Microsoft will retire Excel's COPILOT() function on September 14, barely a year after its preview debut. Introduced in August 2025, initially for Beta Channel users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license and later for Excel
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AI AND ml Cheaper tokens won't help when complex workflows consume so many more of them, Gartner warns The cost of agentic AI workflows is forecast to increase more than fivefold by the end of 2028 as users adopt more complex applications of the technology. As Nvidia and
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After raising $2.8M, the project has entered production, but company comms have done little to reassure buyers Do you love lasers and hate mosquitoes? For $1,000, you can install your very own bug-zapping surface-to-air missile rig at home – no military-grade budget required, provided the startup behind it delivers
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Copilot also wobbles as another outage tests developer patience Microsoft's GitHub source shack is reporting a 50 percent error rate on repository content downloads. GitHub Copilot is also "experiencing degraded availability." The problems began at 1340 UTC, when the company's status page reported "
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Experimental feature to block some, but not all, ads Firefox for iOS now includes an optional ad blocker, or it will soon. According to Mozilla, the experimental feature "is being introduced to the Firefox user base through a progressive rollout." As such, it might not have turned up
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Don't worry, this one was via a bug bounty program An AI broke Snowflake’s code; then another AI, an attack agent, autonomously found the bug, exploited it, and extracted credentials without human intervention. Luckily, this wasn’t yet anothercase of rogue AI agentsdoing evil things. It was
