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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
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In an escalating effort to give the federal government power over the AI industry, some members of the Trump administration have reportedly tried to implement a “de facto ban” on foreign-made open-source AI models. This ban would apply to any non-US-made AI model, but the goal seems to be to
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I am not by any means an expert at finance but I think I do now have some advice for people who are: Do not name your hedge fund anything that will be hilarious if it blows up. Don’t use a name like “Long-Term Capital Management,” or “Amaranth Advisors”
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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’s iPhone and Mac sales are on the rise even as a global memory shortage squeezes device makers. In its third-quarter
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The lucky dip of stumbling on a cheap seat on a popular flight is starting to disappear. Airlines are handing their pricing to artificial intelligence, and on busy routes that mostly means one thing: higher fares. Carriers have long priced seats with analysts and rules of thumb, such as bumping
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The US wanted to keep Chinese robots out. Beijing’s answer: do this, and we will hit back where it hurts. China has threatened “resolute” retaliation after Washington moved to bar imports of Chinese-made humanoid robots. Its commerce ministry called the measure discriminatory and warned it “severely” damages trade relations,
