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The HP OmniBook 3 is the fastest - and I think the best - laptop you can buy under $500 right now in the US. You can buy it direct from HP for as little as $449.99, a saving of 50% (or $450) off its SRP of $900. But
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Every new consumer technology category seems to go through a similar cycle. Companies race to expand what a product can do, packing devices with as many features, sensors, and capabilities as possible to stand out. Privacy questions often become more urgent only once those products are already in people’s
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Rob Juncker is chief product and technology officer at Mimecast. Is he a hacker? “Unequivocally yes,” he says. “And I think every security leader should be able to answer ‘yes’ to that question, for so many reasons.” He started early, when his parents brought home an Apple IIc. He was
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Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have created a new optical-neural processor that uses light to help identify deepfake videos quickly and accurately. Unlike conventional systems that typically examine videos one after another using digital hardware, the UCLA technology can analyze 15 or more video streams at
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AI is helping us find software vulnerabilities faster than ever. That’s great news for cybersecurity. But, there’s a consequence we don’t talk about nearly enough: More vulnerabilities discovered means more vulnerabilities to fix. More vulnerabilities to fix means more patches. And more patches mean more pressure on
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* Critics claim a competition-winning video was made using AI * They cite unusual movements in the cells shown in the footage * Contest organizer Nikon says it is investigating Last month, a video depicting airway cells in motion in a child’s body wowed the world and took home first prize in
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* New Microsoft report shows cyber activity is increasing around the globe * AI is reducing the timescale of attacks, but its also helping defenders detect intrusions * The UK faces the most state-sponsored cyber activity in Europe As AI becomes more widely available and lowers the barrier of entry into cybercrime, hackers
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The AI startup Photon is so sure that agents will eventually come to replace mobile apps that it held a funeral for the latter — yes, a real funeral in a church, with speeches and everything. Photon, which helps developers build agents that work over iMessage and WhatsApp, now has $4.
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Every engineering leader has had this conversation at least once. A team is scoping a new performance engineering initiative, and someone floats the obvious first option: why not just use an open-source tool? It’s free to download, there’s a big community behind it, and the team already knows
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It’s easy for dust and dirt to build up on a floor when you’ve got pets, toddlers and a husband who loves working in the yard. Before you know it, the floor has a layer of muck on it that makes it look like I’ve never cleaned
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Artificial intelligence is moving deeper into enterprise infrastructure, bringing a broader risk horizon with it. As AI progresses from generating text in isolated environments toward initiating transactions, influencing decisions, and contributing to production code, the consequences of an error may extend across interconnected systems. Splunk’s 2026 research, released by
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DeepSeek has open-sourced a set of programming tools for Huawei’s Ascend AI chips. They include a version of TileLang, a programming language DeepSeek offers as a simpler alternative to Nvidia’s CUDA. The Chinese AI lab announced the release on Wednesday in a post on its WeChat account. The
