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* US Army commits $447 million to surveillance balloons despite drone vulnerabilities * Cheap drones continue challenging expensive military surveillance systems across modern battlefields * Hezbollah attacks exposed growing risks facing large airborne surveillance platforms during conflicts The US Army has awarded TCOM LP a contract worth as much as $447 million to
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Apple says it has now topped 1.5 billion subscribers for its services business, up from 1 billion in January 2025. However, this segment of Apple’s business, which includes the Apple Store, AppleCare, music, video, and cloud services, was the only miss in what was otherwise a record-breaking quarter
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Amazon reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings on Thursday, and investors loved what they saw. Net sales rose 20%, and cloud revenue stood out as a particular bright spot. This combination of positive results was enough to send Amazon’s stock up nearly 10% in after-hours trading. Crucially, Amazon isn’t slowing
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Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Apple may allow users to pay to increase their AI usage limits. During an earnings call on Thursday, Apple CEO Tim Cook
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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is urging water and wastewater system (WWS) operators to protect operational technology (OT) against malicious activity targeting programmable logic controllers (PLCs). The alert is a fresh call to action that comes just days after a coordinated cyberattack disrupted automated controls at dozens
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The business world generates data at a rate that’s hard for the human brain to comprehend. That’s why it has embraced modern tools for working with information. However, if you ask five CEOs whether they trust the data from corporate dashboards, three of them will sigh heavily. Inconsistent
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After a massive Xbox “reset” that laid off thousands of employees and spun off four studios, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma wants to get Xbox back to growth. In a memo obtained by The Verge, Sharma told staff by the end of fiscal year 2027 (which runs through next June), “we
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When it comes to long-standing TV franchises that I'm most terrified to cover,Star Trekis easily at the top of the list. With so many seasons, opinions, and legacies developing in popular culture since the mid-1960s and the original series, I feel like I'm a dunce
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With AI, the genie is out of the bottle, and there's no turning back. That's the overriding viewpoint across science and in Silicon Valley, where execs are increasingly building powerful systems. Beyond just building smarter machines, many among them have actually invoked quasi-religious imagery to describe
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The recent Hugging Face-OpenAI incident is raising questions about how to secure AI as it becomes more autonomous and integrated into business operations. During a controlled security exercise in mid-July, OpenAI models accessed systems they weren't supposed to reach by exploiting a vulnerability in the surrounding infrastructure, eventually
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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 30, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day,Medicare Created in 1965, Lunar Rover Was First Used in 1971, Percy Went to Mars in 2020, and we present you with these
