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Kwai Chung, Hong Kong, August 26th, 2026/Chainwire/--CoinMarketCap has obtained a SOC 2 Type 1 attestation report, following an independent examination of the controls protecting the systems behind its market data. CoinMarketCap also completed the SOC 1 Type 1 examination. Both reports add to the international certifications the company
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Checkpointing is an easy feature to sell: If the agent crashes, it resumes where it left off. That sentence is reassuring and incomplete. A workflow engine can restore its own state. It cannot atomically restore the external world. Between “call the refund API” and “save the successful checkpoint,” the refund
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It’s become impossible to avoid microplastics; they’re in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the products we use around the house and, yes, even the food we eat. A 2024 scoping review found that microplastics have been detected in eight of 12 human organ systems, including
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6.5 Pros & Cons * Great retro design * Fast filter access is a solid improvement * Threads for lens filters is a great idea * Image quality is unchanged from original * Good price but spending a little more gets far better image quality The Camp Snap 2 is a small, screen-free digital
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An internal spreadsheet where Microsoft employees swap pay details now carries a column for monthly AI spend, with a median of about $300 over 28 days across roughly 350 entries. Business Insider found no meaningful link between heavy AI use and bonuses, raises or promotions. Microsoft employees have started comparing
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OpenAI’s technical report on the Hugging Face breach says an internal team saw its models reaching the open internet from their sandbox in late May, and that a June alert did not stop the evaluation. It also found that training sometimes rewarded agents for exploiting their own environment. OpenAI
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In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI agents to talk to each other using a secret “message board,” and hacked into the internal systems of a different AI lab, Hugging Face. It took nearly
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The chip company made over $96 billion in the past quarter, most of it from its data center business. by Stevie Bonifield Aug 26, 2026, 9:40 PM UTC Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop
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* Product Finder * PC Games Overview Pros/ConsReviewsPrice: $50 Star Wars Zero Company is an excellent tactical game that does a fantastic job of slathering on the same cinematic look and feel we saw in Respawn's Star Wars Jedi games, incorporating strong characters and a storyline that's
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* Ukraine claims Russia's newest drones can carry a full metric ton offshore * Some unmanned vessels reach speeds of fifty-five knots at sea * The BEK-1000 travels over five hundred kilometers before refuelling again Ukraine's military intelligence agency has claimed Russia may now operate a wide range of
