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Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI. The new Fire TV Stick 4K will be a little easier to set up than Amazon’s previous 4K streaming sticks since it no
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Effective March 27, 2026, HackerOne paused accepting new submissions to its Internet Bug Bounty program. Its explanation pointed to a growing imbalance: AI-assisted research is increasing the speed and coverage of vulnerability discovery, while open-source maintainers haven’t gained matching capacity to assess and remediate those findings. The same imbalance
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Alexa+ will be able to process more complex questions. Amazon Starting in November, Fire TV users in the US will get access to new Alexa+ experiences on their TV interface and the mobile app. They will feature a new hub for the AI-powered assistant, with personalized prompt suggestions based on
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ZDNET’s key takeaways * Pearson will acquire the AI skills platform Workera in H2 2026. * A recent Workera report in ZDNET indicated gaps in AI upskilling. * Together, the firms hope to develop the future of AI skills training. Pearson, a global learning and assessment company, announced on Sept. 29 that
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. First look: AMD is pricing its upcoming Epyc 9006 Venice server processors from $700 to $14,904, covering systems from small single-socket servers to dual-socket machines with 512 Zen 6 CPU cores. The lineup
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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Apple plans to launch its long-delayed range of smart home devices on 13 October, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The launch would be a key product expansion for the company under John Ternus, who became chief executive on 1 September. At the center of the
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Pharos Network, a financial Layer 1 blockchain, announced an Agent Native upgrade on the Korea Blockchain Week keynote stage. It introduces protocol-level infrastructure and AI-powered tools designed to let AI agents operate as native participants in onchain finance. The rollout begins today and continues through the fourth quarter. It includes
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Enterprise AI has moved from experimentation to a material line item. Companies can count tokens, licenses, agent runs and lines of AI-generated code. Yet many still cannot answer the question that determines what happens next: which AI initiatives are actually worth scaling. Ascerta was built to give them that answer.
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AI agents built on Chinese models have lied, hidden their failures, and got around limits in tests, a Reuters review of more than 200 research documents has found. The same kind of behavior has worried experts about US systems. Reuters has identified at least 20 studies and tests conducted since
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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We now have the full details of the “morally binding” AI safety deal announced by President Trump yesterday, in which top executives agreed to self-regulate their artificial intelligence technology. The accord, officially titled the Joint Commitment On Frontier Responsibilities, was shared online by tech founder and presidential advisor David Sacks,
