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I've been tracking Solana's Alpenglow upgrade since it entered community testing, and it's one of the more unusual moves I've seen in consensus design: a live network swapping out its entire finality mechanism while it keeps settling billions of dollars in value.
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The default way schools adopt AI is to send student work to a vendor's cloud. That choice creates three problems at once, and all three land hardest on the schools with the least money. First, student data leaves the building. Minors' writing, questions, and mistakes travel to
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Payroll and HR started as separate purchases for a reason. For years, the software that paid people and the software that managed them came from different vendors and sat in different databases. That split creates the tax every growing company knows, re-keying the same employee data into two systems and
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A category-by-category look at autonomous penetration testing, from attack-chain exploitation to continuous retesting Plenty of products wear the "autonomous" label. Fewer earn it. Per the Astra's State of Pentesting research most run a scheduled scanner, match your stack against a CVE list, and hand you a
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I’ve found past Aqara products, like the multipurpose security sensor, particularly useful, but at IFA 2026, the security company is swerving in an entirely new direction: smart lighting. Entering the lighting world is a bold move for Aqara, but I’m not totally surprised. Showing off a suite of
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Being in a low-fire, low-hire economy only makes matters worse. Job postings are scarce. Scams and ghost jobs are enough of a problem that some states are looking to write new laws to combat them. Both job seekers and employers say they're experiencing a breakdown of trust. Candidates
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The new extreme sport: Windows Updates BORK!BORK!BORK! Windows 10 is lingering on after its friends have gone home, plaintively flickering out an update notification on a digital sign at London's O2 arena. The sign was advertising the venue and some of the activities available inside, including
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Agentic commerce has cleared its first hurdle, that of consumer demand. ChatGPT handles an estimated 50m shopping queries a day, and AI-referred traffic to US retail sites rose by nearly 400% in the first quarter of 2026. The unresolved question is where that demand settles once a purchase is made.
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I compared six leading platforms for B2B revenue teams based on prospecting, CRM, sales engagement, pipeline management, automation, analytics, pricing, and overall fit. Sep 3, 2026 We may earn from vendors via affiliate links or sponsorships. This might affect product placement on our site, but not the content of our
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Great Hall of the People, Rendahuitang West Road, 前门 Xicheng District, China. Image: Dominic Kurniawan Suryaputra/Unsplash China removed 5.6 million pieces of AI-related content as regulators tighten rules for AI models, online platforms, labeling and app stores. Sep 3, 2026 China has removed more than 5.61 million
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US government sides with OpenAI in copyright fight. Image: Jonathan Kemper/Unsplash The US government backs OpenAI and Microsoft in a major copyright fight, arguing AI training is fair use and important to national security. Sep 3, 2026 The Justice Department has backed OpenAI and Microsoft in their high-stakes copyright
