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 Google today said eligible college students in the United States can get a free year of Google AI Pro. Google AI Pro is normally priced at $19.99 per month, and it includes 4x higher usage limits in Gemini, access to Gemini Spark, Gemini in Google apps like Gmail and Google Docs, and 5TB of storage space.
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 Apple yesterday updated its App Store fees in the EU to comply with the Digital Markets Act and to put an end to its ongoing conflict with the European Commission. Apple cut the Core Technology Fee and simplified its pricing structure, so apps distributed through alternative marketplaces or through the web will pay less than before.
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Ukraine's former defense minister has called for a wartime election, in direct challenge to the sitting President. Elections have been suspended since 2022.
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 Meta today launched a new ?Meta? AI app for the Mac, which is available in a beta capacity.
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A GOP memo obtained by The Post urges the tech industry to take action to improve the image of the controversial facilities.
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The deal is significant for the artificial intelligence industry, uniting Stripe's payments business with OpenRouter's helping businesses direct their spending on A.I. models.
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Unitree Robotics surged 629% in its Shanghai debut, giving investors a new public-market bet on China's fast-growing humanoid robotics industry.
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NEW RESOURCES designboom: open-source paint archive explores reusable biomaterials and earth pigments for fine art. "The Experimental Paint Archive by Sophia Collender is a publicly accessible and open source collection of biodegradable, […]
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Loudoun County, Va., hosts more than 250 data centers that bring in huge tax revenues. But some officials and residents worry the county has become too dependent on that cash.
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Amazon says it will serve nearly 500 US towns and cities with Prime Air deliveries by the end of the year.
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OpenAI is tightening security controls and rethinking its Preparedness Framework as advanced AI models create new cyber risks and computing costs.
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NEW RESOURCES Mashable: Have you been Flocked? This website lets you find out. "A website called Have I Been Flocked? lets you enter your license plate number and check whether it appears […]
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The milestone by the private company, LandSpace, could put China closer to challenging SpaceX's rule in lower-cost spaceflight.
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The new Google Pixel 11 Pro XL doesn't dramatically reinvent the company's flagship smartphone formula. From a hardware perspective, this year's model represents an incremental update. But after spending time with Google's latest full-featured Pixel, I've found that some of its most meaningful improvements for business users aren't necessarily the things that stand out on a spec sheet or benchmark chart.
Starting at $1,299 with 256GB of storage, the Pixel 11 Pro XL features a 6.8-in. Super Actua LTPO OLED display, Google's new Tensor G6 processor, a 5115mAh battery and an updated triple-camera system. Google also pledges seven years of operating system, Android security and Pixel Drop updates.
The hardware is very good, but Google's deeper integration of Gemini with Android and other thoughtful software features are what make this device more interesting.
Tensor G6 performance: The numbers don't tell the whole story
Google's Tensor processors have never been benchmark chart-toppers, and the Tensor G6 doesn't change that. In Geekbench 6, the Pixel 11 Pro XL scored 2,736 single-core and 7,399 multi-core numbers. That's a healthy improvement over the Pixel 10 Pro XL's 2,326 and 6,413, respectively, but well behind devices like Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra (at 3,683 and 11,243) powered by Qualcomm's latest SoCs.
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The previously little-known White House aide has garnered growing attention after Sen. Jon Ossoff mentioned her in an attack on Trump.
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The $330 Xbox building set includes a controller that interacts with three game-inspired dioramas.
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Whoop is known for its wearable fitness tracker. Now it wants to become your source for lab testing.
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Comedians used to post footage of their performances to build a following. Now, some are finding that comic strip-style panels with captions pack a bigger punch.
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New conversational add-in lets users create, edit, and review presentations with AI directly in PowerPoint
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Apple has changed its App Store fee structure in the EU in a move to further satisfy the requirements of the Digital Markets Act (DMA). While critics continue to argue the changes don't go far enough, the European Commission welcomed the changes made and plans to monitor how they're implemented.
The new fee structure
Specifically, Apple introduced a less complex system than it had offered before, with a lower, but universal, 5% Core Technology fee applied on digital transactions in apps distributed outside the App Store. Apple changed its commission structure and eliminated some fees, including initial acquisition and store services fees. It has also expanded the scope of eligibility to operate alternative app marketplaces. The new changes go into effect Oct. 1, and include (verbatim from Apple's statement):
For App Store apps using Apple In-App Purchase, the commission will be 26%. For the vast majority of developers, including those in the App Store Small Business Program, Mini Apps Partner Program, or Video Partner Program, and for auto-renewing subscriptions after their first year, it will be 15%.
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The Falcon 9 crash was not intentional, but NASA said lunar-surface impacts are actually an "accepted and safe" method of disposing of hardware.
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Our readers rant and rave about mobile virtual network operators, but what about major networks, like AT&T and Verizon?
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Police departments have powerful tools to track how officers use Flock's license-plate cameras. But across the country, agencies often don't perform oversight, leaving potential abuse to be uncovered by journalists, activists and victims.
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Stripe reportedly agreed to buy OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, highlighting the growing value of AI model gateways and infrastructure.
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Study finds X algorithm prioritizes ragebait that disproportionately impacts Democrats
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Google has paid $10 million in a bankruptcy auction for a large amount of data from the defunct Spirit Airlines, Bloomberg Law reports.
The purchase includes 100 million emails, 500 million messages, data from Microsoft Teams, as well as information on revenue, flight operations, marketing, personnel, and project management. The material also includes 30 million lines of program code, development data, and various software models and algorithms, as well as pricing data from 7.2 billion competing flights and approximately 7.5 billion passenger transactions.
No personal data will be included in the deal, and according to Google, a third party will review the material and remove any information that could identify individuals. Google said the data will then be used to improve the company's products and AI models.
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OpenAI president Greg Brockman on Sunday warned enterprise CISOs that they need to more aggressively embrace agents if they want to survive upcoming cyberattacks.
Brockman said in a blog post that it has become "increasingly clear" that company systems are hiding "significant flaws, and defenders need to find and fix them before attackers do."
He added: "The Hugging Face incident showed that we underestimated the real-world cyber capabilities of our AI models."
The details he shared about OpenAI's current defensive efforts, however, were mostly routine best practices familiar to enterprises.
"We continue to invest in secure architecture and controls, embrace strategies like defense in depth and least privilege, and are designing systems that require multiple independent controls to fail simultaneously for something catastrophic to occur," Brockman said. "Classic security controls like network isolation, workload hardening, monitoring, and safe patching and deployment will be more important than ever in the AI future."
To combat emerging threats, Brockman also advised enterprise CISOs to increase their use of agentic systems, not surprisingly recommending those from OpenAI.
"Give your securit
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The data center, one of the world's largest, could cost as much as $500 billion and will be leased by OpenAI.
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NEW RESOURCES Common Dreams: New Database Documents Over 100 Cases of Cops Abusing Flock Surveillance Cameras. "A new database launched Wednesday that details more than 100 cases of alleged abuse by law […]
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Toothless limitations aren't a great look for Flock's modern surveillance.
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 Satechi today launched the ChargeView 240W Desktop Charger, a successor to the 140W ChargeView released last year. The ChargeView 240W can power multiple devices at one time, splitting 240W across six USB-C ports.
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Meta rolled out a new 30-billion-parameter AI model optimized to run on a PC or Mac with a single GPU on Monday, offering a way to run always-on agentic workflows locally rather than relying on the cloud.
The company has dubbed it Muse Glimmer. However, its hardware demands, including a GPU with a minimum of 24GB of VRAM, could make it difficult to justify for deployment at scale.
Although analysts and consultants agree that there is a tremendous enterprise appetite for running models locally, determining whether switching more systems from cloud to local makes fiscal sense is much more complex.
The hardware costs are tricky to calculate even today, with the VRAM needed depending on the particular applications to be run. But the far bigger consideration is that there is no way to determine what RAM costs will look like over the next 12-18 months, and there is an identical lack of visibility into how cloud prices might increase during the same timeframe.
That makes determining the better financial choice impossible.
Agents become capex, not opex
Noah Kenney, principal consultant at Digital 520, noted that since RAM costs have increased "exponentially" over the last 12 months, cloud AI providers are also going to have to increase their prices. Beyond that, IT needs to anticipate logistical is
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New details of how ChatGPT maker OpenAI failed to notice that its models had launched a hacking spree raise questions about the industry's approach to safety.
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DeepSeek invests $20.8 million in Unitree's Shanghai IPO, deepening a partnership to develop AI models and applications for humanoid robots in China.
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Built using W&B Weave, ARIA turns experiment data into continuous model and agent improvement
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Claims by a billionaire TV star and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum that China and overseas propaganda drive American protests against data centers are based on scant evidence.
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Sometimes you can notice the signs of a failing SSD. For instance, the once-quick transfer speed slows to crawl, there are frequent program or system crashes, or file system access errors or SMART errors occur. If you notice these things, especially in combination, there's a good chance your SSD is on its way out. In that case, it's time to prepare for the worst and do the following:
Back up critical files
It goes without saying that the first thing you'll want to do if you think your SSD is on the blink is to back up your critical data. Backups should be done regularly anyway, but even if you're doing that, you'll still want to make a new backup of your critical files at this point to have them ready to go should your SSD suddenly die.
See our roundups of the best Windows backup software and
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