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Email client follows Firefox onto two-week release treadmill Thunderbird is moving to fortnightly releases to keep pace with Firefox's accelerated schedule. Mozilla and its subsidiary MZLA updated their flagship apps this week, releasing Firefox 154 and Thunderbird 154, respectively. Since last month's version 153 releases are
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Developers can now invite the whole team along for their quality time with the coding bot Slack has decided that AI coding agents have spent quite enough time alone with developers and would be better off doing their work where everyone can watch: on Slack. The Salesforce-owned chat factory has
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Clever protocol wrangling gets iBiz-only people tracking working on a non-iGadget A young security researcher figured out a way to enroll a Linux device into Apple’s Find My network and read live location data from it. Find My is Apple’s app for, you guessed it, finding things – whether
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Northern Virginia alone accounts for nearly 12% of global capacity, though new builds are shifting inland The US now accounts for 15 of the world's 20 largest hyperscale datacenter markets, with Northern Virginia alone hosting nearly 12 percent of global capacity. US locations have increased their dominance of
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OS PLATFORMS Per-process NPU metrics arrive as one more venerable Windows utility risks feature bloat Once upon a time, Windows Task Manager was a stone-cold killer. Optimized to within an inch of its life, it struck fear into errant processes. These days, Microsoft also wants it monitoring AI workloads. Task
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Domyn has raised more than $1bn, which makes it one of the largest financings a European AI company has ever announced, yet only about a tenth of it is equity. The Milan company took roughly $1.1bn in total, split about 10% equity and 90% debt, according to Sifted. That
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Cinemas became the latest institution to move against Meta smart glasses on Thursday. The UK Cinema Association said many operators are introducing policies to restrict camera-enabled eyewear. It gave two reasons: film piracy, and customer privacy. Taken alone, that is a trade body managing a risk. Taken with the past
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Octopus Energy has launched Octopus Charge in the US, Canada and Mexico, aggregating more than 210,000 chargers from over 20 networks with no markup on energy prices. Its European equivalent covers 1.5 million chargers across more than 40 countries. A British energy company has put more than 210,
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NUS Medicine, data centre operator DayOne and Melbourne’s Cortical Labs have unveiled a biological data centre prototype in Singapore, built from a 20-unit rack of neuron-powered CL1 computers. The efficiency claim central to the project comes with no published figures. A rack of computers running on living human neurons
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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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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is built around one question for founders: How do you build an enduring company in the AI era? For investors, it’s the opposite: How do you find that company before someone else does? At Disrupt, the volume and competition are the point for investors, not a
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10:32 AM PDT · August 20, 2026 An unusual glitch has resulted in the xAI’s Grok chatbot speaking gibberish to many users. After asking the model to generate a PDF, one user received the response: “match it without and your they and two for planets can practical and often
