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A quick checklist of pre-update preparations will help your iOS 27 upgrade go smoothly. DANIEL CONSTANTE/Shutterstock How to ensure a smooth transition to iOS 27 Yalcin Sonat/Shutterstock First, there are the core requirements. The update process requires room for temporary files along with the main download, so you&
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. A hot potato: Once again, a warning about AI development resulting in a catastrophe has come from one of the people building these models. Anthropic boss Dario Amodei says that an AI-powered botnet swarm
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* Krafton announced PUBG: Dednet atGamescom this year * The '90s-inspired shooter features some bonkers abilities * "We're kind of finding our own way here," explains game director Dave Curd Players slithering along the ground like snakes, swords for hands, a tiny doll wielding a power drill driving
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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Acer's new EP130K brings ePaper out of the e-reader and onto the desk, pairing a paper-like 13.3-inch panel with touch, color, and a surprisingly quick refresh rate. ePaper has spent years living inside e-readers, but the technology has been steadily creeping into monitors and smartphones built for
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A current debate is whether artificial intelligence (AI) is a force for good or bad; or perhaps both. What follows is the argued opinion of the author – it is not the inevitable outcome of current AI development. On August 26, 2026, Bill Gates published a 6,000 word memo on
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Microsoft is publishing a 37-page “humanist AI code of conduct” today, amid growing safety concerns over AI model progress. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a coordinated slow down of AI development over the weekend, after researchers warned recently that AI model progress could outpace our ability to safely deploy
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AI AND ML Rights committee demands watchdog with teeth as patchwork safeguards leave victims hunting for remedies UK lawmakers want an AI watchdog with the teeth to stop potentially dangerous systems reaching the public, warning that existing rules leave people exposed and struggling to hold anyone accountable. The Joint Committee
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7.2 Tbps module arrives ahead of standards, with promises of fewer repair headaches Huawei wants near-packaged optics (NPO) standardized for AI networks, pitching it as a replacement for conventional pluggable modules without the cost and maintenance headaches it attributes to co-packaged optics. The Chinese tech giant showcased an NPO
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OS Platforms Redmond's quality drive takes another detour through the known issues list Microsoft has confirmed that its latest security updates can disrupt Remote Desktop Services, silence some USB audio devices, and break pasting in Excel. September's Windows patches hardly support Microsoft's insistence that
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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British fintech giant Revolut is notifying a subset of users that their personal and financial information was compromised in a data breach. Based in London, the neobank and financial technology company provides banking and investment services to over 80 million users in 160 countries and regions. Late last week, the
