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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Something to look forward to: Microsoft has vowed to improve Windows 11 for most of this year, and at IFA 2026, the company made a few more promises. The tech giant says that it
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Dell is running a surprisingly small Labor Day sale this year with hardly any laptop deals in it. However, there is one offer that rises above the rest and is really the only one that matters if you're shopping for a new device in today's sales:
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* OpenAI hid an incident where a model hijacked a wiki page to use as an AI agent communication board * The incident was hidden while the company dealt with the fallout of the Hugging Face attack * The company is now working on a framework for disclosing incidents of 'misalignment'
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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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You're not still getting by with tinny audio from your television's built-in speakers, are you? To be fair, TV makers have made an effort to equip modern models with better sound, but they still can't compete with discrete speaker solutions. The problem is, setting
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OS PLATFORMS Debian and Xfce – solid, sensible choices – with a pretty skin Kumander Linux has been around for a few years now and version 3.0 is nearly ready, with some strong nostalgic appeal. We recently came across Kumander Linux and thought it was an interesting distro – although not technologically
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OS PLATFORMS Most hardware works, although graphics, sleep, and external displays need more attention The Asahi Linux gang has announced support for Apple's M3 silicon, with a few ifs and buts for owners that want to try out the code on their hardware. According to the project, "
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Self-described white hats promise to return 'most' of the 4,000 BTC once the vulnerability is fixed Hackers have drained roughly $320 million in Bitcoin from the federation wallet backing the Liquid Network, while claiming to be the good guys. Liquid, a Bitcoin sidechain developed by Blockstream and
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Commission reportedly seeks third-party views, although no formal investigation is underway The European Commission (EC) may be laying the groundwork for an investigation into Oracle's software licensing practices, according to reports. The scrutiny follows the EC's investigation into fellow enterprise software vendor SAP, which ended with
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Nothing says ‘For internal use only’ quite like emailing it to the press Nightwing CEO Bob Coleman wanted to thank his employees for their hard work over the Labor Day weekend. Unfortunately, he also thanked The Register. The cybersecurity and intelligence contractor, which prides itself on “secure communications,” appears to
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* GPT-6 Astra has arrived, and it's being called AGI * This includes by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang * Huang's celebratory X post also promotes Nvidia's GPUs, saying we need to get 400K of them online Over the weekend, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took to social media
