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If you're looking to get ahead for college in the fall, then a VPN is one of the most sensible back-to-school staples to tick off your list now. You're going to spend a lot of time connected to campus Wi-Fi and it's often not
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In Brief 7:53 AM PDT · July 28, 2026 WhatsApp calls have been for years only supported on the smartphone app or its native desktop app. Now, Meta is finally letting users make and receive audio and video calls using WhatsApp for Web. Similar to the smartphone and desktop apps,
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X is launching its X Money app for paid X subscribers in the United States. Users get an X Visa debit card, which they can immediately add to Apple Pay and use to make instant peer-to-peer transfers within the app without fees or limits. They will also receive a physical
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Data Protection Oasis Security recently raised $120 million in Series B funding for its agentic access management platform. Data security company Cyera announced on Tuesday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire agentic access management provider Oasis Security. Cyera confirmed to SecurityWeek multiple reports that this is a
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By 10 a.m., the golden California hills were already baking in 80-degree heat. Not exactly ideal trail running conditions, but perfect for the endurance test I had planned — not for me, but for a smartwatch. I wanted to know whether Samsung’s new trail running mode on the Galaxy
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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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Credit: Philip Fong/Getty Images Nvidia has launched a new coalition of more than 30 major tech firms, including Microsoft, SpaceX, and the Linux Foundation, called the Open Secure AI Alliance. The aim of the group is to build and distribute open-source tools that improve safety and security against AI
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David Imel is a technology reporter who has been covering the industry since 2007. He co-hosts the Waveform podcast with MKBHD. A former engineer, he now specializes in topics like computational photography and social media protocols. For years, we’ve heard rumors of a new home hub device from Apple,
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Washington rallies allies to shape next-generation networks after spending 18 months rattling them America wants its allies to come together and help it lead the way in defining 6G communications standards, with security and resilience seen as key goals for next-generation networks. The latest effort to corral international work on
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Hugging Face rebuilt around a third of its infrastructure from clean images as part of a sizable cleanup effort following the OpenAI security mishap earlier this month. The revelation is among several additional details disclosed in a postmortem published Monday by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), with input from Hugging
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NASA reports some cable damage near Madrid as its antennas and ESA's Cebreros station emerge largely intact Radio antennas for the European Space Agency and NASA appear to have escaped the worst effects of wildfires in Spain, though NASA's site sustained some cable damage. Over the
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Customer funds safe, but 14,000 organizations may have to phone in time-sensitive payments CAF Bank, which serves 14,000 charities, has suspended online banking as it fixes a vulnerability in how third-party software connects to its portal. The outage has left some organizations struggling to run payroll after being
