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Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI. Now a text prompt is all it takes to generate reality-warping images using Google Earth’s satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery, like these images
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Brad Bourque Brad Bourque is a tech journalist and commerce writer based out of Portland, Oregon. He’s contributed to sites like Digital Trends, Business Insider, and WIRED. Looking to start your own island paradise full of Miis of family, friends, and celebrities, but don’t feel like paying full
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The best streaming services have added more new movies in August, and even though we're light on the horrors this month, I've still managed to find seven new arrivals. Prime Video doesn't have any new horrors this month, but thankfully Paramount+ has stepped up
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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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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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Federal CIO Greg Barbaccia speaks during the July 16 Government Efficiency Summit. Zaid Hamid/Nextgov/FCW July 31, 2026 12:41 PM ET The federal CIO’s departure comes after a turbulent period for the federal technology workforce where thousands of technologists left the government. * Leadership * OMB * Industry Federal Chief
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Ranking first in Google no longer guarantees a mention when a customer asks ChatGPT the same question. A study of more than half a million pages that ChatGPT pulled in found that 85 percent of them never made it into a single answer. That gap, between being found and being
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * LinkedIn announced a "Seems like AI slop" button. * Users can report low-quality AI-written posts. * AI slop posts are ubiquitous on the internet. As LinkedIn has solidified itself as a corporate influencer site-slash-job-hunting search
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Test agents trying to escape secure enclosures is a frequently discussed behavior. * It's unknown how much OpenAI considered that behavior prior to the Hugging Face attack. * The incident was a teachable moment for
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Anthropic revealed three incidents in which Claude hacked organizations. * Three different AI models went rogue during security challenges. * Anthropic identified three lessons learned. Anthropic has revealed three separate incidents in which Claude models hacked real-world
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Just how private are the conversations you have with your favorite AI? Earlier this week, news broke that conversations from Anthropic's Claude AI could be accessed through a Google dork (translation: advanced search query). Yes, people had already shared these conversations with others via active links. But I&
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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 &
