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Looking through a recent thread on Reddit comparing images created with the same prompt on Nano Banana 2 and ChatGPT, I noticed an interesting trend — users seem to think that Nano Banana 2 has actually gotten worse over time. “Nano 2 had a serious downgrade” said one user, with another
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Editor’s note: This article contains descriptions of imagery depicting child sexual abuse. Reader discretion is strongly advised. Over the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements,
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Hark, the secretive AI startup founded earlier this year by serial entrepreneur and roboticist Brett Adcock, today announced Handoff, a "computer use agent" (CUA) that it says is among the top-performing in the world at navigating the open web on a user's behalf — ordering dinner on
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An attacker on Tuesday took over the GitHub account of the developer who maintains keyv, a small key-value storage library that npm serves roughly 127 million times a week. Within hours, poisoned versions of keyv and its sibling caching packages were live on npm, carrying a credential-stealing worm. By midday,
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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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Gartner has predicted that no enterprise AI workload at scale will run on quantum hardware through 2028, with classical accelerated AI expected to remain the dominant platform for production AI workloads. The research firm said there is currently no peer-reviewed evidence demonstrating a quantum advantage for production AI workloads, adding
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* PIA has added 22 streaming-optimized VPN server locations * No update, reinstall, or plan change is needed to access new servers * Countries getting the label for the first time include France, Spain, Brazil Private Internet Access (PIA) has more than doubled the size of its Streaming Optimized network, growing from 13
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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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LocalSend is a free, open-source alternative to AirDrop and Quick Share that lets you transfer files between nearby devices, regardless of which operating system they use. It supports Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS, making it easy to move photos, videos, documents, folders, and text between phones, tablets, and computers.
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There's no question about it - Dell is behind some of our favorite business laptops, and right now the Dell 16 is down to $760 (was $980). And whether you're prepping for back-to-school or looking for an office upgrade, this everyday productivity machine is worth a
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* Securonix uncovers SMOKE#SCREEN, a campaign tricking users into installing weaponized ScreenConnect via fake Zoom/Adobe updates and business docs * Attackers gain persistent remote access, evolving tactics to disable protections and abuse trusted services like Dropbox/Cloudflare for delivery * Victims observed on Windows and macOS; businesses urged to verify updates
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It's no secret that component prices are sky-rocketing, but I've spotted a deal on the 32GB Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5-6000 kit for $422 (was $490) at Newegg when you use code BTSF989. The dual-channel kit includes two 16GB modules for a total of 32GB, running at
