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IoT botnet Dysphoria has infected over 200,000 devices, hiding command servers on Ethereum and Solana blockchain domains. The botnet family first appeared in the wild in March 2026, and X Lab, the research arm of QAX, has tracked its development since. X Lab published its findings jointly with the
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ASRock has jumped the gun on revealing a surprise new entry-level addition to AMD's RDNA 4 graphics card family, the Radeon RX 9050, which is evidently being offered in both 4GB and 8GB variants. The add-in board (AIB) partner went live with a couple of product pages for
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There’s now a new way to own an Apple product. Starting from today in the US, you’ll be able to lease an iPhone, iPad, Mac or Apple Watch directly from the company via its new Apple Upgrade program. Enabled by Klarna, prices for leasing Apple products will start
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Token-maxing to support agentic AI is unsustainable. * Business leaders must create a strategy for token use. * Give people room to explore agents within guidelines. Twelve months in AI is an eternity. Steve Lucas, CEO at
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Ripple effect: Just when it seemed like graphics card prices couldn't get much worse, the memory crisis has delivered another unpleasant surprise. Nvidia and AMD GPU prices have surged in China, with
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The data center industry has found itself in unchartered waters recently. The boom in demand for AI tools and services has led to a 17% increase in electricity consumption. And despite a rapid decline in power consumption per AI task, energy consumption is set to triple for AI-focused facilities. Recent
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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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Apple is introducing a new leasing program in partnership with the “buy now, pay later” service Klarna, giving eligible customers the option to pay for Apple devices through monthly installments, the tech giant announced on Tuesday. The program is available for the iPhone, Apple Watch, Mac, and iPad on the
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AI did not make buyers easier to reach. It made everyone cheaper to interrupt. A modern AI sales agent can research a company, identify a plausible buying signal, compose a personalised email, schedule follow-ups, evaluate the response, and hand a qualified opportunity to a human salesperson. Major CRM vendors now
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New research puts a hard number on something a lot of IT leaders already suspected. Most AI pilots never make it into production, and the spend behind them isn’t disappearing, it’s just sitting in limbo. Jon Bitz, chief relationship officer and co-founder at KloudStax, says that limbo isn’
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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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For a $1,000 investment, traditional routes into US equities create a round-trip friction cost of approximately $130. This substantial figure encompasses bank foreign exchange spreads, international wire transfer fees, account minimums, per-trade charges, custody fees, and multi-day settlement delays. Stablecoin settlement changes that equation. By allowing eligible users to
