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A Chinese-speaking threat actor has expanded its activity to India, using Hindi-language phishing emails impersonating the Income Tax Department to target organisations, according to threat research from Proofpoint. The campaigns, observed in July 2026, used fake tax notices, penalty demands and threats of legal action to trick recipients into opening
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India’s vast faith economy is increasingly acquiring a digital layer, as startups take services such as astrology consultations, poojas and spiritual commerce online. The country’s broader religious and spiritual market has been estimated at around $58.6 billion, while the astrology-app segment is expanding rapidly. According to an
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Adi Robertson is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered virtual and augmented reality, the history of computing, and more for The Verge since 2011. Some banter from the tiny show I’m at in rural upstate New York tonight (lightly
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TL;DR PwC projects U.S. data center investment will hit $118.4B by 2027, up 116%. Deloitte shows data center job postings grew 64% vs 4% economy-wide, with electrical technician postings up 180%. Patrick Doyle argues the industry is pulling workers from restaurants and grocery stores into high-risk construction
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The fallout of an $18 billion lawsuit against Meta, announced on Wednesday, is already here. A new announcement from Meta is designed to meet the terms of the settled lawsuit while helping to prevent teen social media addiction. In its post, Meta outlined a series of changes to both Instagram
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* This torpedo could glide through the air before quietly entering the ocean * Silent Anvil must enter the water at angles between 45 and 90 degrees * Its glide phase could extend submarine hunting far beyond torpedo range The US Navy is weighing two paths toward a new class of Silent Anvil
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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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The hype around humanoid robots isn’t particularly new. Thank Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his Optimus robot, as well as the myriad videos of Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot, for that. Behind that hype, though, there is real progress. The physical capabilities of robots continue to improve, and researchers now
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…" Charles Dickens didn't write this in regard to red team testing, but the paradox illustrating how people experience the same event in different ways could relate to how various organizations' systems might fare
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AT&T filed a lawsuit against Charter on Friday, alleging that its marketing of “fiber-powered” internet is misleading customers. The argument centers around an ad campaign from Charter, which sells home internet under the Spectrum brand name. Fiber is widely considered the gold standard for home internet. It’s
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Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Google is now automatically expanding its AI search summaries at the top of the results page for some searches, as reported by Search Engine Roundtable. The change,
