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This year's severe drought has dramatically reduced water levels in Italy's famous Brenta River.Credit: Simone Padovani/Getty Images A new data center project in Florence, Italy, could provide a blueprint for how other data center developments could be structured, eliminating many of the environmental problems
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Audacity is a free and open source audio software for multi-track recording and editing. It can record live audio through a microphone, mixer, or digitize recordings from other media. With some sound cards, and on any recent version of Windows, Audacity can also capture streaming audio. Import sound files, edit
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* Socket's Threat Research Team found 737 fake VPN and proxy extensions on the Chrome Web Store, with more than 75,000 combined installs * The add-ons pose as trusted names like Proton VPN and NordVPN while routing your entire browser session through proxies run by one operator * Hundreds are
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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. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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In Brief 9:13 AM PDT · August 14, 2026 Google announced on Friday that it will now allow users to remove a visible watermark from its AI generations, including images, videos, and songs. The company specified that this won’t affect the invisible SynthID watermark and C2PA standard-related metadata. Josh
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Marco Arment, the indie developer who created popular apps like Overcast and Instapaper, and who previously served as Tumblr’s chief technology officer, is out today with his latest creation — an alternative to Apple’s Reminders designed for procrastinators, called Unforgetful. The new iOS and Mac app works with your
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It feels like 2026 is another superhero-heavy year for TV and film, giving fans a good run with Daredevil: Born Again, Spider-Man, Spider-Noir, X-Men ’97 and the upcoming VisionQuest. And now, Lanterns is set to take viewers into America’s Heartland this summer. The new live-action series from DC Studios
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Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? It might make you want to hit the beach. And be sure to check out the colorful design that flows across the puzzle and reflects the theme of the clues and answers for 6-Across, 7-Across and 8-Across. Each one is slightly different
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Save $99: Amazon is currently offering the Apple Watch Ultra 3 with a Titanium Milanese loop at a $99 discount, dropping the price to $800 on both the natural and black options. Several other colors are available, but prices may vary. This price drop on Amazon is genuinely a good
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The legal machinery for class action settlements grinds slowly, but a court order today in Apple’s $250 million case over its iPhone AI features potentially speeds things up by seven months. Apple settled a false advertising lawsuit in May, agreeing to pay $250 million to customers who bought some
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Right now, you can score the Anker Solix C1000 power station $170 off. You can also get almost half off the Eufy 11S Max robot vacuum. Finally, you can grab the Soundcore Boom 2 speaker for over 30% off, all at Amazon. I’ve been tracking the prices of tech
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In multi-turn reinforcement learning (RL), your custom reward function decides what the model actually learns. A subtly wrong reward can quietly teach the wrong thing while every training curve looks healthy. Designing a reward that holds up over multi-turn, agentic tasks is one of the hardest parts of customizing Amazon
