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* Starlink Mobile could become a reality in 2027 * It will likely rely on the very new Starlink V3 satellite * SpaceX's huge Starship will play a crucial role in the effort to compete with major carriers SpaceX's first earnings call this week as a publicly traded company
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Content warning: This article discusses self-harm. On Tuesday night, the gossip blogger Perez Hilton, aka Mario Lavandeira Jr., was hospitalized after showing up on a TikTok livestream naked, covered in a red fluid that looked like blood, and wielding what appeared to be a knife. The stream—which TikTok claims
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BLACK HAT –Two security researchers found a way to exploit vulnerabilities in Samsung software, including the virtual assistant Bixby, to hack mobile devices. The research was conducted by Dimitrios Valsamaras, senior security researcher at Microsoft, and Ken Gannon, head of mobile research at Mobile Hacking Lab. Gannon and Valsamaras demonstrated
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Jeff Dean, one of the longest-serving and most influential executives at Google, is stepping down from the search giant to launch his own AI startup. Coming with him as co-founders are several other top researchers at the company, including Sanjay Ghemawat, a top engineer and senior fellow at Google, Quoc
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Last week, prolific internet creator Hank Green addressed claims that one of his videos contained an AI-generated script. The YouTuber acknowledged he had used AI “to locate papers and other resources for learning about topics” and apologized for not being transparent. He said he would “readjust” and scale back his
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Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro confirmed Wednesday that the entertainment giant is considering adding a free option for Disney Plus as a way to attract more people to the streaming service. “We’re exploring a free product for consumers,” D’Amaro said during the company’s 2026 third-quarter earnings call.
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With everything being done digitally nowadays, there’s little reason to keep all those receipts like before (you know, “just in case”). And if you don’t carry cash, there’s no good reason to have those old-fashioned wallets, either. Minimal wallets allow you to carry just those few cards
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. The image above is not an Apple Mac Mini or even the Satechi CubeDock. It's Lenovo's new compact PC, the Yoga Mini Gen 11, featuring a round form factor and some unique features. It's
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Kaspersky has identified two previously undocumented Windows backdoors in a cyber-espionage campaign targeting government organizations and public institutions in Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and the Syrian Arab Republic since January 2025. The company named the malware OctLurk and SilkLurk. According to Kaspersky’s report, the affected organizations include healthcare
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. What just happened? With Valve continuing to ignore growing demand for a SteamOS-powered gaming PC, a YouTuber took matters into his own hands by installing SteamOS on an AMD Strix Halo-powered Windows 11 laptop.
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* Distillation sidesteps the logic of US export controls, which restrict the chips needed to train frontier models but cannot restrict the text those models produce * Review of more than 80 Chinese papers and patents found PLA-linked researchers distilling outputs from OpenAI and Anthropic models into small systems they can run
