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An ECG takes a few seconds to record and costs very little. Researchers at Imperial College London have trained an AI system that can read one in under two seconds and identify signs of heart failure and valve disease that clinicians cannot detect from the same trace. The results were
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Amazon runs a second-price auction for its search ads, a system in which the winning advertiser is supposed to pay one cent more than the next-highest bid. The Federal Trade Commission now alleges that Amazon charged advertisers their full winning bid roughly 80% of the time instead. The agency and
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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WatchGuard has released patches for over two dozen vulnerabilities, including five critical-severity flaws leading to remote code execution (RCE) and account takeover. Three of the critical bugs impact the iked process of Fireware OS, the core Internet Key Exchange (IKE) daemon that handles cryptographic key establishment and manages IPsec VPN
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One area in which AI can undoubtedly do good and make a difference is drug discovery. In the future, AI might genuinely help to surface a cure for some cancers, as Anthropic’s Dario Amodei has urged the industry to do. But press a button to cure every disease? Sadly,
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Bill Gates is worried about AI. Nobody’s preparing for a future of mass unemployment, inhumanly powerful cyber attacks, and a massive accumulation of power and wealth among emperors of tech. Yes, that Bill Gates. Really. A mere 25 years since the Redmond global octopus squeezed its tentacles tighter with
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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* Dali launches budget-friendly subwoofer in colorful colors, to match its Rubik and Sonik 1 speakers * 8-inch downwards firing subwoofer with adjustable gain and phase, 170W RMS / 220W peak Class D amplification * Launching in October 2026 for $800 / £429 (about AU$815) Dali has a habit of making five-star speakers, including
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Details about the Hugging Face hack, critical infrastructure under attack, a spoofed in-flight Wi-Fi network, and more of this month's cybersecurity news 31 Aug 2026 With August coming to a close, it's time for ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe to look back at some of
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As noted on diginomica passim the value of AI in Life Sciences and Healthcare has been seen. That value and the policy and regulatory challenges that underpin that, were the subject of a recent Westminster Health Forum policy conference in London. The event highlighted a consensus among delegates that, while
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Anthropic has committed $35bn to a cloud provider most people have never heard of, for capacity in a Texas data centre being built by a former bitcoin miner. The Wall Street Journal reported the Lambda agreement on Monday, and Reuters confirmed it with a person familiar with the matter. Neither
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Virtzilla finding more ways to pull data out of DRAM to enable ‘densification’ and dodge the RAMpocalypse VMware is working to find new roles for its memory tiering technology, in the expectation that memory and hardware prices will remain high for years and users will therefore look for ways to
