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China’s latest ChatGPT rival, Kimi, is now available for download on the Apple App Store, so I downloaded it on my iPhone, intending to test it against ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. I had the prompts ready; I had the comparison planned. Then Kimi presented me with a very modern
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The Apple Watch is the best smartwatch companion for anyone with an iPhone, but there’s more than one model to choose from. In 2026, Apple sells three: the flagship Series 11, the rugged Ultra 3 and the budget-friendly SE 3. Which is best depends on how much you want
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Save $600: Everyone loves having a pool, until it’s time for pool maintenance. It isn’t exactly anyone’s favorite summer chore, but the latest generation of robotic cleaners can handle nearly all the work for you. Right now, our favorite pool cleaner, the Aiper Scuba V3, is down
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Gamers looking to start off the week by relaxing with the Xbox might need to find something else to do. On Monday, Microsoft reported that several issues were preventing gamers from using the platform. According to the Xbox Live Status page, the problems range from sign-in issues to difficulty viewing
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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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Apple is being sued for alleged negligence regarding its App Store security measures. In a lawsuit filed on Friday in the U.S. District Court of Northern California, three plaintiffs claim they were tricked into downloading and installing a fraudulent crypto wallet app, leading them to collectively lose more than
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Microsoft on Monday launched its first cybersecurity-specialized model alongside a new AI cybersecurity platform at a small event in San Francisco, taking a big swipe at major players in the space — namely Anthropic, Google and OpenAI. The company describes MAI-Cyber-1-Flash as a model that’s built “to find challenging vulnerabilities
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If you read that headline and thought, "so?" then you're on the right track. AMD's Socket AM5 has already had a pretty good run, with four distinct processor families spanning two different CPU architectures and three different GPU designs inhabiting the socket. If we
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TL;DR Enigma raised $70M seed from Index and Ribbit to study human-robot interaction at scale. 100+ proprietary robots controllable online. Founded by Microsoft’s youngest-ever employee and his Unit 8200 co-founder. Enigma, a robotics research lab less than a year old, is emerging from stealth with a $70 million
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Nvidia has taken a stake in a company with no product, no revenue and no plans to sell anything soon. Safe Superintelligence, the lab Ilya Sutskever founded after leaving OpenAI, said on Monday that Nvidia had made a “substantial” investment as part of a long-term partnership. Neither side disclosed the
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TL;DR ASML fell 6.5% after The Information reported a Shanghai company is mass-producing DUV lithography tools. China’s share of ASML sales dropped to 14% in Q2 from 19% in Q1. ASML shares fell as much as 6.5% in Amsterdam on Monday after The Information reported that
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TL;DR Microsoft is seeking Supreme Court permission to appeal the ValueLicensing ruling that pre-owned software resale is legal. It lost at the CAT and Court of Appeal. A related class action could reach billions. Microsoft is seeking permission to appeal to the UK Supreme Court after losing twice in
