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It was supposed to be a standard, run-of-the-mill maintenance task—the kind of routine database housekeeping that backend engineers perform dozens of times a month without a second thought. A small batch of customer account records needed a minor state update so they could be placed back into the queue
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In my early tech journey, I’d always see the phrase “End-to-End Encryption on WhatsApp” and feel a bit skeptical. How could WhatsApp not see my messages when their servers were the ones handling them? I honestly thought it was just a clever marketing gimmick. My curiosity grew when I
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Today, we’re announcing Google Cloud Modernize, an end-to-end transformation portfolio to help enterprises collapse multi-year roadmaps with the power of AI. Google Cloud Modernize brings together Google Cloud’s proven migration and modernization tools, including Migration Center, Google Cloud VMware Engine, Google Cloud Mainframe Modernization and our new EKS-to-GKE
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PwC and Cohere have announced a global alliance to sell secure enterprise AI, beginning in Canada, with no client, value or timeline disclosed. Cohere markets itself as a sovereign AI company while completing a merger with Germany’s Aleph Alpha in which Cohere shareholders take roughly 90%, as Europe drafts
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Apple will add new controls to Full Disk Access on the Mac. Users will only be able to give an app that level of access “with very explicit user action”. The company announced the change on its developer news site on Friday and said AI agents were the reason. “As
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Hans Anders, one of the largest Dutch eyewear chains, has stopped selling Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium. The chain told Reuters on Friday that privacy concerns were behind the move. Dutch online retailer Wehkamp has also paused sales, Business Insider reported. “This decision follows the
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OpenAI’s own AI models changed parts of its Jalapeño chip, and its engineers could not always say why. In one example, they saved more than 13% of die area, Richard Ho told Ian Cutress of More Than Moore. Ho leads OpenAI’s hardware team, and the interview was published
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Collibra has acquired trail ML, a Munich startup whose agents work out which AI rules apply to a system, check whether its controls work, and block agent actions that break policy, with no price disclosed. The market exists because of the EU AI Act, whose enforcement powers arrived on 2
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Ask anyone who has worked in a security operations center what the job actually involves, and you’ll hear a lot about alerts. Thousands of them, most of which turn out to be nothing. For the past decade, AI’s role has been to help with that pile: spot something
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A federal judge in Oklahoma has ruled that a deputy’s warrantless search of Flock’s licence plate reader network broke the US Constitution. In an order dated 1 October, Judge Sara Hill called the system “a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance”. Jason Koebler of 404 Media first reported the
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Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The prize rewards optogenetics, a method that switches nerve cells on and off with light. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm announced it on Monday, according to its press release. Deisseroth
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Connecting the dots: Like other tech companies expanding their data center infrastructure across the US, Amazon is facing backlash from rural and small-town residents over rising power bills, groundwater depletion, and severe noise and
