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Joe Root will be hoping to make a winning return as captain at Headingley as England take on Pakistan in the first Test of a three-match series. This first encounter sees the hosts looking to move on from the ‘Bazball’ era following former skipper Ben Stokes’ recent international retirement 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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PERSONAL TECH Zuck's empire declares triple the appetite of Apple or Microsoft, while Google packs the leaderboard, dev survey shows A study of mobile apps claims that Meta collects three times as much user data on average as tools published by Apple or Microsoft. Google is also one
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Gaps in expiry checks could let dead plastic make purchases again Researchers affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst have found that you can get payments out of certain expired contactless credit cards, a process detailed at the recent USENIX Security 2026 conference. Raja Hasnain Anwar, Gerard DeCunha, and Muhammad
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Organizations are deploying AI agents at unprecedented scale. Gartner found that while the average Fortune 500 enterprise used fewer than 15 agents in 2025, that number will balloon to more than 150,000 by 2028. Given recent incidents of AI agents escaping their testing environments, executives and board members are
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Microsoft nemesis Nightmare-Eclipse is at it again, this time with a bypass exploit for his original RoguePlanet Windows Defender privilege escalation exploit. The new exploit, dubbed ShieldBreak, also allows for elevation of privilege within Microsoft Defender. Based on what we know about RoguePlanet, that exploit hinged on a race condition
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Save $502: With football season just around the corner, you may be looking to upgrade your watch setup, and a new TV doesn’t have to break the bank. Amazon just slashed a whopping $502 off this Hisense U6 Pro, so you can snag the 65-inch model for $598 right
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Today’s Connections puzzle is a fun one. Moviegoers should be able to solve the purple grouping fairly easily. Read on for hints and today’s Connections answers. Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and
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* US Marines have been training to handle drone attacks, using rifles, shotguns, and grenade launchers * The simulated threats used small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS), consumer drones typically equipped with explosives, or used for recon * The exercise aimed to build confidence in US Marines with their standard-issue weapons When troops are
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Etched has raised $700mn at a $21bn valuation in a round led by Jane Street, doubling the $10.3bn it was worth on 23 July. It has also completed its first customer delivery, a rack shipped to Jane Street. Etched has raised $700mn at a $21bn valuation, led by Jane
