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Gettyimages.com / Fotograzia ByRoss Wilkers, Senior Staff Reporter August 18, 2026 12:56 PM ET The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a sources sought notice that describes its desire to bring in a company that can help manage enterprise license and materials purchases. * Contracts * CISA The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure
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Save $6: Right now, Amazon is offering the Anker power strip 900J for $24 — a savings of 20%. This 35-watt power strip typically runs for $30, and it’s just $1 more than its lowest-ever record price. Amazon’s deals tend to go fast, so it’s best to act
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Apple is once again overhauling App Store rules in the European Union, which the company says will resolve its “disagreements with the Commission over business terms and alternative distribution.” As part of the changes, every developer that distributes apps will be moved to a single set of business terms, and
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In a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, current Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki discussed the direction of Sony's entertainment business, including the future of the PlayStation 6. As Totoki notes, a CEO's "most important task" is ensuring the business' survival, and considers
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Apple appears to have leaked its own camera-equipped AirPods. A demo video sat inside the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate, and MacRumors found it there on Monday. Juli Clover reported that the earbuds look nearly ready to launch. The clip runs 13 seconds. A man holds up a book
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Congressional staffers and outside groups are using Claude and ChatGPT to draft legislation. The lawyers who check that work cannot keep up. Owen Dahlkamp reported the strain on the House Office of Legislative Counsel for Politico on Monday. He drew on interviews with eight current and former officials who work
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Reddit has started converting some text posts into short videos narrated by AI voices. Sarah Perez of TechCrunch reported that the test began on Monday on the web. The iOS and Android apps followed on Tuesday. It covers select English-language posts in a sample of communities. A toggle appears above
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Secretlab's running a big back-to-school sale right now, with discounts on furniture like the Magnus Pro standing desk and the excellent Titan Evo - the most comfortable gaming chair we've ever tested. But if you're looking for a true office chair, I strongly recommend
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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 9:39 AM PDT · August 18, 2026 Comcast has rolled out a new motion sensing technology to its latest home routers, allowing homeowners to receive notifications about activity detected inside their house while they are away. The free feature, called Wi-Fi Motion, turns newer Xfinity gateways into motion
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When an artificial intelligence image generator produces a portrait, whose work went into it? The question sits at the center of lawsuits, licensing deals, and proposed regulations worldwide. Artists want credit. Companies want clarity. Policymakers want a way to assign responsibility. New work from a team of researchers at MIT&
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