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Fortinet on Tuesday released patches for 10 vulnerabilities across its products, including critical security defects. The first critical bug, tracked as CVE-2026-84390 (CVSS score of 9.6), is described as an inclusion of sensitive information in source code issue affecting the FortiMonitorOnSight web portal. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could exploit
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* Sony has seemingly been caught testing dynamic pricing again * PS5 users are seeing different discounts for Star Wars games based on unknown account factors * Some regions seem unaffected by the experiment Dynamic pricing is back in the gaming news, as PS5 players are yet again seeing the wild disparity between
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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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The adoption of AI tools by businesses slowed in August, according to spending data at 70,000 companies collected by the payments company Ramp. The latest survey shows 56% of Ramp customers paid for AI products in August, rising just 0.4% from the month before. This isn’t the
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Closed-toe shoes? Check. Bags on the ground? Check. Phone in airplane mode? Check. Why all this prep? I took a ride on the Goodyear Blimp, y’all, and hung out with a pilot who dressed like one. On Wednesday, Goodyear and Spirit Halloween dropped a new collaboration for 2026: the
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The bottleneck on sophisticated cyber operations that target nation states is breaking. Conducting a large-scale cyber attack used to mean scaling expert talent. When the cost of adding a capable attacker approaches the cost of compute, the economics of offense fundamentally change. This is already operational: Dream's threat
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Most privileged access management (PAM) content focuses on the buying decision. But choosing a platform is only the beginning. The value of PAM comes from how completely you bring privileged access under control: discovering accounts, protecting credentials, limiting when and how privilege can be used, monitoring activity, and producing evidence
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Valve's updated Steam hardware survey for the month of August reveals an interesting development within Team Red's camp. Serving as a notable milestone for AMD's graphics lineup, the company's flagship Radeon RX 9070 XT is now its most popular discrete GPU on
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An AI safety researcher who just quit Anthropic has ignited another debate over existential risk, claiming/warning that humanity faces a real threat of extinction from unaligned superintelligence within the next decade. The alarm comes from the mouth of Jacob Coxon, a key researcher who spent three years leading pretraining
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Analog Devices (ADI) has announced the acquisition of low-power fusion-processor specialist Alif Semiconductor for $1.35 billion in cash — as part of its renewed focus on what it terms "Physical Intelligence." "AI is moving out of the data center and into the physical world, where latency, power,
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It’s almost time for part two of Nintendo’s double feature this week. On Tuesday, the company hosted a showcase all about the Legend of Zelda franchise, including footage and a November 5th release date for the Switch 2 Ocarina of Time remake. On Wednesday, the company will be
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Cameron Faulkner is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware. He joined in 2018, and after a two-year stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. Asus’ Cetra Open wireless earbuds are some of the best that I’ve tested, despite being open-style earbuds. Their drivers sit outside
