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Walk onto most factory floors and you’ll hear the same story: legacy systems bolted onto newer ones, pockets of automation surrounded by paper logs, and a leadership team perpetually firefighting instead of forecasting. NASH Group, a major precision sheet-metal and engineering components manufacturer serving the automotive and industrial sectors,
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Olight's most powerful flashlight can do a bit of everything. / Tyler Lacoma/CNET Art Olight ArkPro Ultra Flashlight 8.5 Pros & Cons * Very, very durable custom aluminum design with a stylish flat shape under 5 inches * Bulbs for a spotlight, floodlight, UV light and laser pointer, reaching
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* There's more evidence of a tie-in with Philips Hue and Nanoleaf * An official support page appeared and then disappeared * We could get an announcement about this later in the week A few days ago we heard some whispers that Philips Hue would be adding support for Nanoleaf Shapes,
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* Researchers found unclaimed llms.txt references on 120 domains, exploitable by cybercriminals * AI agents could install malware if they execute hallucinated or outdated documentation commands * Fixes: clean documentation and restrict AI agents from treating docs as executable instructions Cybercriminals are able to now abuse hallucinated, outdated, and outright incorrect website
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* ShinyHunters leaked 12.9 million Carhartt customer records after failed $3.3 million ransom talks * Data stolen from Databricks platform included names, emails, phone numbers, and addresses * Group now focuses on exfiltration via vishing and SaaS breaches, abandoning encryption Millions of user records belonging to customers of clothing giant Carhartt
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Comulytic Note Pro AI voice recorder4 / 5Very good pros and cons * Mic pickup quality is excellent. * Battery life is superb. * The card is small, unobtrusive, and easy to use. * Not a fan of proprietary charging cables. * The app works hard to upsell users to paid tiers -- and they'
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This week, Nokia launched new retro phones, and we got an extended look at GTA 6. To catch up on all of this and plenty more, scroll down for our recap of the week’s biggest tech news stories. And if you want to test your memory of last week’
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A security camera is supposed to protect a factory. But if it runs old software and remains connected to the production network, the same camera can give an attacker a way in. That is not a hypothetical risk. A command-injection vulnerability affecting some Hikvision cameras generated 43 million detection events
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The fallout of an $18 billion lawsuit against Meta, announced on Wednesday, is already here. A new announcement from Meta is designed to meet the terms of the settled lawsuit while helping to prevent teen social media addiction. In its post, Meta outlined a series of changes to both Instagram
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* McKinsey report into the state of AI finds more businesses are deploying agentic solutions * 20% of organizations have been constrained by operating costs but plan to increase investments into AI * However some are still concerned about job cuts due to AI replacement More companies are adopting agentic AI solutions, but
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If you're still running Windows 10 on your gaming PC, I don't blame you, but you should be aware that Microsoft has terminated mainstream support for your operating system. Unless you've signed up for Extended Security Updates, you're running a dangerously unpatched
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Anthropic has opened a research preview of its Model Hardware Standard, letting AI agents operate lab and factory hardware. The specification, called MHS, is going first to a small group of scientific research labs and advanced manufacturers, not to the public. Anthropic says the standard lets an AI agent run
