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If you haven't yet received a new Secure Boot certificate for your Windows PC, don't worry: Microsoft is still working on dishing them out. Secure Boot helps protect the startup process by verifying digital signatures before any code loads into Windows. The tool's original
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Ozlo Sleepbuds 23.5 / 5 pros and cons * Very comfortable, masks most disruptive noise. * Stayed in my ears each time I wore them. * Easy-to-use app. * Expensive. * The sleep data takes a while to load. * The sleep staging greatly overestimated and underestimated various cycles. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * The FCC has banned the sale and import of foreign-made robotic devices and power inverters. * The ban includes vacuums and lawn mowers from the world's largest robot manufacturers. * Robots previously imported into the
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Vehicles purpose-built to drive without human help received the first-ever approval in the US to pick up paid customers, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced on Thursday. The company, Amazon subsidiary Zoox, says it will soon begin to charge for rides in Las Vegas, where it’s been
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Less than a year after emerging from stealth to tackle non-human identity security, Israeli cybersecurity startup Hush Security believes the enterprise AI security conversation has fundamentally changed. The company, which earlier this week announced a $30 million Series A round led by returning investors Battery Ventures and YL Ventures with
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Every time a Mastercard gets tapped, the network has less than a tenth of a second to judge how likely the purchase is to be fraudulent. It made that call across 175 billion transactions last year. Now the buyer on the other side of that judgment is starting to change,
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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. Google is working on a way to apply Chrome updates without requiring you to restart your browser. In a post on Thursday,
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Lauren Feiner is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. ABC filed its formal opposition to the Federal Communications Commission’s effort to force
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The man who wrote the defining case for the AI boom just got wiped out betting on it. Situational Awareness, the hedge fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, has been forced to sell off its portfolio of public stocks after steep losses. Ken Griffin’s Citadel has bought
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Amazon has found that artificial intelligence can turn a trivial mistake into a seven-figure one. The company’s own internal metrics show projects running wildly over budget, including one that burned $1.8m before anyone noticed. Senior engineers called the results “catastrophically expensive.” The cases were laid out at an
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ChatGPT is about to become the first AI chatbot to face Europe’s toughest platform rules. The European Commission plans to place OpenAI’s chatbot and the gaming platform Roblox under the strictest tier of the Digital Services Act. The designation could come as soon as August. The move was
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Steven Bartlett has built one of the world’s biggest podcasts on the idea that the right people, obsessively managed, make the machine. Now four of those people have walked out the door. The star host of “The Diary of a CEO” has lost four core staffers in five months,
