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In Brief 7:37 AM PDT · August 26, 2026 Bill Gates posted a long essay to his Gates Notes site today, showing just how much the Microsoft co-founder has been thinking about the social impacts of AI. Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, arguing that Pacing The Frontier,
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Enterprises have no shortage of AI models. What they lack, according to Sanjoy Ghosh, Global Head of Technology, Engineering and R&D Services at HCLTech, is the engineering data foundation to run them at scale. In a wide-ranging conversation, Ghosh argues that the real barrier to enterprise AI isn’
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By Mayank Mishra, Senior Regional Director for India and SAARC, Cohesity India has gone digital at a fast and massive scale. In just a few years, platforms like Aadhaar (digital identity), UPI (real-time payments), and DigiLocker (secure digital document storage) have become indispensable tools for hundreds of millions of people.
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Tom Warren is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is officially announcing a new Xbox feature that will allow Xbox owners to digitize their existing physical game collections. The disc-to-digital feature, which The Verge
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* Flashpoint found ~34 insider threat posts daily on dark web between July 2025–26 * July 2026 saw 12,653 posts, with 75% from insiders selling access themselves * Report warns insiders are now the weakest link, urging external monitoring of illicit forums Every month, hundreds of people try to sell access
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With Apple unveiling the new Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro chips, I couldn't resist spotlighting this retro-inspired Wokyis M5 Retro Dock Station for $131 (was $170) at Amazon when you tick the coupon box. Ok, it might look like a miniature of the classic Macintosh. But
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Scary AI spend and weak access security controls are the flipside of the sharp rise in agentic AI. The answer lies in the form of a control plane that provides the visibility CIOs need. The past couple of years have seen enterprises press the fast-forward button on generative AI strategies.
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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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U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA said it has observed cyberattacks targeting over 100 internet-exposed systems across the U.S. water and wastewater sector, amid a wave of hacks targeting American critical infrastructure. The number of affected systems provides new context to the scale of the ongoing cyberattacks targeting water providers
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Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI. The special-edition translucent green Xbox finally has an official price. Preorders for the console start August 27th at 10AM ET / 7AM PT, although Microsoft
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Meta plans to launch a consumer AI agent within weeks. It has considered charging up to $199.99 a month for it. Three months ago it started selling access to its AI chatbot for $7.99 a month. The new product would cost 25 times that. Meta will launch its
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Reuters has been keeping a running tally of American companies breached during 2026, and read end to end, it is more instructive than any single entry in it. The names run from Nike and Coca-Cola to Novo Nordisk and Abbott Laboratories, and almost none of the incidents involve the kind
