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For decades, cybersecurity defenders have relied on a relatively straightforward model: a vulnerability is disclosed, security teams assess exposure, test available fixes, deploy patches into production, and ultimately close the risk before attackers can exploit it at scale. That model increasingly reflects a world that no longer exists. Today’s
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WhatsApp announced Tuesday that it has two new security features to help prevent accounts from being hacked — upgrading PINs to passwords and allowing users to add more passkeys. The Meta-owned app also announced that when you receive calls from someone outside your contact list, you’ll get more information and
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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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* OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is worried that powerful companies are dominating the evolution of AI * Altman has also expressed concern over AI’s potential for acting autonomously and possibly escaping human control * The comments are believed to be a reference to his rival, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Are too few
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Running cutting-edge AI models requires a lot of computing power, which is easy enough to provide when you have a rack full of servers at your disposal. Things get much more difficult when that computing power needs to fit inside a robot or drone. In these cases, there are strict
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Dip your toes into the world of industrial control and automation. It won’t take long before you’re appalled at the cost of a PLC (Programmable Logic Controller). A new Allen Bradly PLC can easily cost you more than $1,000 and that’s basically just a fancy Arduino,
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DEEP DIVE Intel's Xeon 7 platform, better known by its codename Diamond Rapids, was supposed to launch this year with up to 192 cores backed by a whopping 16 memory channels. But that's not going to happen. This being Intel, the launch was, to no one&
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Intuit is moving Mailchimp out of its main business and into a segment of its own. The first standalone forecast it has ever published for the marketing tool is for no growth at all. Mailchimp will bring in $1,256mn to $1,266mn in fiscal 2027, Intuit said on Tuesday.
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Brazil has fined TikTok’s owner over the way it handled children’s data, and the ruling covers people who never had an account. The National Data Protection Agency imposed a penalty of 153.7 million reais on ByteDance on Tuesday, worth about $29.9m. It cited irregularities in the
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Australia will bar wholly AI-generated tracks from its official music charts from Monday. The song that prompted the rule was still sitting at number four on Tuesday. The Australian Recording Industry Association set the test in a statement. A track qualifies only if “humans wrote the song and performed the
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* The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has released a preview of select winning images for its 62nd year * Wildlife Photographer of the Year is developed and produced by the Natural History Museum, London * The full set of 100 winning images will be exhibited at the Museum following the full
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Gamescom 2026 kicked off on Tuesday with Opening Night Live, the trailer showcase for some of the games coming out later this year and next. Europe’s major gaming event of the year, based in Cologne, Germany, it showed off a bunch of new games, but it was the remaster
