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* Grand Theft Auto 6's romance between Jason and Lucia is completely optional, Rockstar confirms * Rob Nelson, the head of development and co-studio head at Rockstar North, says if players aren't into it, "don’t bother with it" * He says players will need to nurture
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Contains spoilers for episodes 1 - 7 of Furious season 1. Furious season 2 has been confirmed for Hulu (US) and Disney+ (internationally), and I'm thrilled at the news that the excellent crime series will continue. Ahead of the season 1 finale on August 31, Furious has been
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * AI agents risk spinning out of control and running up charges. * One provider recounted its issues with uncontrolled agents. * Look for high-end AI use case costs, not averages. AI agents are proliferating, often beyond IT
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A man and his sidekicks time travel through an infinite number of universes, arriving to unknown circumstances where futuristic drama inevitably lays in wait. Am I talking about Stuart Fails to Save the Universe on HBO Max, or legendary BBC series Doctor Who? At face value, they clearly could be
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Asia demonstrates the promise and perils of AI in the public sector Prefer HTon Google HOW MANY laws and regulations are needed to govern an archipelago, home to 287m people, spread across some 13,500 islands, and stretching more than 5,000km? For Indonesia, the answer is 251,232. Yet
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Google is offering some users a free AI Pro subscription. * College students can get 12 months for free. * A new device gets you a free subscription, or you can share one. Good news if you&
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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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Organizational culture and systemic gaps in Secure by Design adoption blamed for sorry state of affairs CISA is still crying out for software vendors to adopt Secure by Design (SBD) development practices, and says in its latest review that longstanding vulnerability classes are still the most exploited. The agency examined
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Anthropic got far enough into a plan to buy the AI chip startup MatX to have a number attached to it, roughly $7bn, before the deal stopped moving. Reuters reported the talks on Thursday, citing people familiar with them, and said the discussions have since evolved into a conversation about
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. What just happened? An iPhone 17 Pro survived a 100,418-foot fall over northern Sweden with no visible damage, giving phone case maker RhinoShield and aerospace company Sent Into Space a Guinness World Record
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Since early 2023, photographer Jingna Zhang and a small crew of volunteers have worked tirelessly to maintain an image-sharing social media and portfolio app called Cara. So far, it has attracted about 1.5 million artists. What drew them to the platform? A shared opposition to the unauthorized use of
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On Wednesday, Microsoft announced a new program that lets you make digital copies of your Xbox games. Although the program doesn't use the "Disc2Digital" project name teased earlier this summer, it works the way we expected. Through this program, players can insert an Xbox One or
