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Stop waiting for the next sale to start scoring big savings. Walmart offers some amazing deals year-round, and CNET’s shopping experts are here to help you make the most of them. We’re bringing you some of the absolute best bargains every single day, and you’ll find our
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My kindergartener’s school supply list doesn’t include stacks of loose-leaf paper and rulers, like mine used to. Maybe because more assignments are being completed on Chromebooks and iPads. My school district provides students with these devices for in-class use, but parents are still responsible for accessories, such as
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Microsoft's ISO downloads for Windows have ballooned in size. * In the last 10 years, the download has doubled to more than 8 GB. * The most likely cause is Microsoft's AI files
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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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The growing number of high-profile AI security incidents making headlines around the world are not simply cybersecurity failures. They are architectural failures, according to OpenMatter Network Co-Founder and CEO Renee Davis. “Recent incidents involving increasingly autonomous AI systems – including OpenAI’s widely reported cyber evaluation that resulted in the compromise
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * The OpenAI rogue model attack went beyond Hugging Face. * OpenAI's agentic AI escaped a sandbox in the attack. * We still don't have all the details of exactly what happened. How dependable
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The AI cloud is heading into the vault. CoreWeave rents high-end GPUs to the biggest AI labs. Now it wants to run that same cloud inside the sealed facilities where America keeps its secrets, with the contractor Leidos as its guide. The two companies announced the collaboration on Thursday. CoreWeave
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ByteDance is quietly winning a race in China that most people are watching in America. The company behind TikTok now makes about $4bn a year from artificial intelligence. That is the largest figure any Chinese firm has publicly claimed, the South China Morning Post reported. To press that lead, ByteDance
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A hidden line of text in a Word document can quietly halve the numbers in your financial report. Then it can smuggle a copy of itself into the clean file you send on. And 144 days after a researcher warned Microsoft, it still works. Håkon Måløy, a Norwegian data scientist,
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Amazon’s Zoox has become the first company allowed to charge for rides in a robotaxi that has no steering wheel and no pedals. US regulators granted the exemption on Wednesday. It is a first for the driverless-car industry. The clearance came from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and
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A year after its founder left for Meta, Scale AI has a new boss. The choice says a lot about where the company is heading. It has named Francis deSouza, a veteran enterprise-cloud executive, as chief executive. deSouza starts on 10 August, Scale announced. He replaces interim chief Jason Droege,
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A startup wants companies to stop asking real people what they think, and ask fake ones instead. Simile has raised $200m at a $2bn valuation to build “agentic twins,” AI stand-ins for real consumers that firms can survey by the million. Greenoaks led the round, the New York Times reported,
