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In Brief 11:56 AM PDT · August 31, 2026 Snow day? Microsoft on Monday confirmed a widespread, multi-hour outage affecting Outlook users, leading to email delays and failures, authentication issues, and other problems. In a post on X, Microsoft reported the issue was impacting its Exchange Online service, its cloud-hosted
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Tim Cook is departing from his long-held role as Apple’s CEO — and a wave of top executives are heading for the exits as he does. On Monday, Bloomberg reported that Phil Schiller, long the head of Apple’s App Store, stepped down from his position in recent days. Schiller
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The Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra gets a bigger battery, a brighter display and almost a crease-less design. But is it worth the ‘ultra’ name? Read to find out. Prefer HTon Google Samsung brought its Galaxy Z series on par with its flagship Galaxy S series smartphones by launching not two
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Multi-tenant agentic chat assistants have become a frequent request for large-scale customers, and document chat sits at the top of the list. A user uploads a contract, a report, or a product manual, and then researches or asks questions about it immediately or in the future. The conversational interface is
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In Brief 11:53 AM PDT · August 31, 2026 Kalshi has banned former Republican Rep. George Santos from its platform for life, the first time the prediction market company has taken such an action. Kalshi also penalized and suspended several political candidates accused of betting on their own races, including
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There's plenty of good and bad news abound for Microsoft and Windows 11 this week, but two new Known Issues have been getting a lot of attention. Namely, there's an issue where Windows erroneously reports that "Microsoft Defender Antivirus is turned off" and an
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Fifth-generation DDR SDRAM, known more commonly as DDR5, launched in its "LP" form with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 865 in February of 2020. Those chips were first found in the Xiaomi Mi 10 smartphone. It's been almost seven years since then, and the growing demand for
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David Lawrence was a Harvard Law student when an on-campus shooting involving a police officer sparked intense controversy over police conduct. Realizing that most policing errors occur when officers lack instant access to department rules, Lawrence dropped out to tackle the problem with AI. He teamed up with co-founders Amit
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Lead story -Tokenomics - where are we now? Another day, another one million AI token(s). But what are we learning? The diginomica tokenomics megaseries rolls on. Start with Stuart's Tokenomics - "It was never about tokenmaxxing," insists Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy. Choice quote: It boils
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Earlier this year, I went on record saying that 2026 would be the year of the AI agent. With the seemingly never-ending rollout of agentic AI since then, I feel validated in that prediction. However, I may make one amendment to that statement now: It’s the year of the
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Save $150: A high-end gaming monitor can make a noticeable difference in fast-paced games, but you don’t necessarily need to pay full price for one. The Alienware AW2725DF is now $150 off, bringing its price down from $650 to $500. With an OLED panel, 360Hz refresh rate and nearly
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In a nutshell: The RTX 5090 and its predecessor, the RTX 4090, have been plagued by reports of catastrophic thermal failures that can cause the 16-pin power connector to melt, often destroying the card
