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Load balancers buckled after a monitoring blind spot allowed traffic to spiral GitHub has published its account of this week's nearly eight-hour outage, tracing the developer pain to saturated load balancers, a faulty autoscaling policy, and a "latent retry bug in Visual Studio Code." According to
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Modern laptops are the thinnest they’ve ever been. But this sleek form factor has a cost: optical drives are a thing of the past, full-size USB ports are becoming less common, and card readers are often an optional extra. BluHub is aiming to restore a lot of this lost
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Not surprising — 85% of knowledge workers now use Artificial Intelligence (AI). Quite surprising — only six percent of executives can point to clear, organization-wide return on investment (ROI). That gap is the whole problem, and as token usage climbs and licensing bills multiply, it’s growing. When transformation stalls, many IT
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Hayden Field is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. The Apple AirTag may be a jack-of-all-trades — people use it for keeping track of keys, suitcases, backpacks,
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Richard Sutton thinks the AI industry’s answer to running out of training data is a mistake, and he has picked a blunt word for it. “ That’s just a big mistake,” he said of the turn to synthetic data on Sequoia Capital’s Training Data podcast, published on Tuesday
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Alphabet priced its first Australian dollar bond on Wednesday at A$5.5bn, about US$3.9bn, roughly 10% more than the market had pencilled in when the deal was trailed at the start of the week. It is the largest corporate bond sale ever done in the Australian market.
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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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The US this week announced charges against 17 members of the Iran-based company Mabna Institute for hacking into hundreds of organizations in the US and abroad. According to a 14-count superseding indictment, Mabna Institute was founded in 2013 to help universities and research organizations in the country steal non-Iranian scientific
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. A hot potato: There have been plenty of headlines about Flock's license plate-scanning technology lately, but that's not its only controversial business. The company says its Drone as First Responder,
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* Bluesky confirms 24‑hour outage was caused by a DDoS attack on August 17 2026 * Researchers linked it to Iraq‑313 Team, using DiamWall‑based DDoS‑for‑hire infrastructure * Company upgraded defenses; no details yet on attackers, traffic origin, or user impact The recent outage on Bluesky was the result
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The most important aspect of the new ChatGPT for Teens feature will probably also annoy teenagers the most. If they ask it to do their homework for them, the chatbot is supposed to recognize it, and will instead steer the student toward figuring it out themselves rather than produce a
