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Phishers find a new use for invisible Unicode tag characters Fraudsters have found a new use for ASCII smuggling, typically used to hide malicious prompts intended for AI models, in an old-school attack method: email phishing. Microsoft uncovered a massive phishing campaign using invisible Unicode tag characters that peaked at
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AI workstation promises to put up to 576 GB of HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth on your desk Machine learning researchers have a new and expensive option for doing local AI. AMD just raided its spare parts bin and cobbled together a DGX Station rival boasting up
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AI and ml Now comes the harder sell: Convincing customers and merchants to trust AI with purchases Anthropic has blueprints for building e-commerce bots that shop on behalf of clients. That's not something many consumers want at the moment, but the AI biz this week published a set
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. The big picture: Windows critics have long complained about the operating system's bloated default software stack and its steady stream of notifications. Microsoft seems to be acknowledging the issue to stay popular
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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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In Brief 2:12 PM PDT · September 4, 2026 Nscale, a British AI infrastructure company founded just two years ago, has said it may go public as early as later this month. Ahead of that expected IPO, the company is reportedly in talks to raise an additional $3.5 billion.
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Following its launch last November, I spent several weeks testing Withings’ BeamO, a three-in-one, FDA-cleared device that functions as a stethoscope, an electrocardiogram and a thermometer. One of my takeaways was that while the device is great for measuring your temperature and listening to your heart and lungs, these readings
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Nscale is in talks to raise up to $3.5B ahead of a US listing, including $1.5B of convertible notes led by Third Point and about $2B from Nvidia. It is briefing investors that its contracts total roughly $103B, most of the increase coming from a $45B Anthropic deal
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The AI training-data company micro1 has offered $12.5M for Spirit Aviation’s internal records, topping Google’s agreed $10M and proposing an ombudsman chosen by Spirit’s advisers rather than the buyer. European law would treat the deidentification promise as a question about capability rather than a label, but
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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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* Nvidia's NVHBM moves the memory controller off the accelerator die and into the HBM stack's base die, allowing it to claim a potential 30% more bandwidth, 15% lower HBM power, and 25% more compute area versus standard HBM4E * Nvidia's NVHBM performance comparisons are linked
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One of the most frequent criticisms of robots has long been that they have to be specifically programmed to do every task individually. Modern vision-language-action (VLA) models promise something different. Instead of using hard-coded behaviors, a VLA-powered robot understands natural language, processes camera feeds, and determines its own actions. But
