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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
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Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has reported that threat actors remained highly active across the Asia Pacific (APAC) region during the first half of 2026, with 250,000 ransomware attacks blocked between January and June. According to data from the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN), analysed by GReAT,
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As enterprises move from AI pilots to production deployments, the conversation is rapidly shifting beyond large language models and GPUs towards the infrastructure required to run AI securely, efficiently and at scale. While AI applications continue to evolve, technology leaders are increasingly recognising that long-term success depends on building platforms
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Dell XPS 13 (2026)4 / 5Very good pros and cons * Gorgeous build. * Excellent battery. * Display punches above its price point. * Very thin and light. * 8GB of RAM is limiting. * Only two USB-C ports. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Dell's new XPS 13 dropped
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google ZDNET's key takeaways * Apple is warning certain users about targeted spyware attacks. * These attacks are aimed at journalists, activists, politicians, and diplomats. * Anyone notified should enable Lockdown Mode on their iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Apple is warning certain
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Hauser sat down with CNBC’s The Tech Download podcast this month. Arjun Kharpal and Kai Nicol-Schwarz published the write-up on 14 August. His track record is the reason to listen. He co-founded Acorn Computers in 1978, helped create Arm, and now backs European deep-tech startups through Amadeus Capital. That
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SpaceX confirmed completion in a regulatory filing. Bloomberg’s Carmen Arroyo and Natasha Mascarenhas reported the close. The desk covered the binding agreement in June, when SpaceX filed an 8-K and said it expected to complete in the third quarter, subject to regulatory approval. That approval has now happened, on
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Emma Rapaport and Paul Smith reported the markdown for the Australian Financial Review on 14 August. The figure appears two ways and both are correct. It is $7.1bn in US dollars, and A$10bn, which is the number most headlines carried. The cut takes Blackbird and Airtree’s mark
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Lanterns is a much-needed ray of hope that lights the way forward for DC Studios after the DCU's darkest day — that being, Supergirl flopping at the box office. It falls just short of being a masterpiece but, as Green Lantern adaptations go, you couldn't ask for
