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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Ripple effect: Social media addiction has been a subject of public debate for years, but time spent on apps like TikTok and Instagram keeps climbing. Meta has now confirmed it's using AI
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The threat landscape changed the moment generative artificial intelligence became broadly accessible. Adversaries are no longer just nation-states and elite criminal organizations, but anyone with AI tools and a prompt. And the public sector agencies least equipped to respond to that shift are often the ones with the most sensitive
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Since the US launched its war against Iran in late February, the country’s hackers have struck back with retaliatory intrusions that have ranged from paralyzing medical supplies company Stryker to breaching the personal email of FBI director Kash Patel. Now, after an unprecedented wave of disruptive cyberattacks hit water
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The Samsung surge continues. The company confirmed on its earnings call this week that it will launch the Galaxy S26 FE phone and Tab S12 Android tablet later this year. The announcement comes a week after a Galaxy Unpacked event in London, where Samsung introduced the eighth-generation Galaxy Z foldable
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If you hadn’t heard, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently a ban on foreign robots. While there’s no specific ruling against robo vacs yet, the language of the FCC’s statement includes a ban on “advanced robotic devices,” that are “capable of locomotion, obstacle avoidance, navigation or movement
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“It’s not red,” IBM’s design center manager patiently explained. “It’s magenta.” The safety function officer wasn’t buying it. Between his fingers, he held up a small, rubbery disc that looked like a pencil eraser. “You know it’s red and I know it’s red,” he
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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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Daniela Rus, director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Panasonic Professor of Computer Science, has received the 2026 High-Tech Prize of the Bavarian Minister-President for her contributions to robotics, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems. Awarded jointly by the Bavarian State Government and the
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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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Bank of America announced on Thursday that it plans to acquire UK-based information security consultancy MDSec Consulting Limited. The transaction is expected to close during the fourth quarter of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals. Financial terms were not disclosed. Headquartered in Macclesfield, England, MDSec provides technical information security consulting services
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Missing laptops are no longer an IT headache; they’re a board-level risk. Last year alone, EU watchdogs issued €1.2 billion in GDPR fines, showing how quickly an untracked asset drains budgets. Meanwhile, nearly half the workforce now toils from kitchen tables, cafés, and co-working hubs, turning every device
