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In the same year, hackers affiliated with Iran displayed the slogan "down with Israel" on the screens of water-control equipment made by an Israeli firm. Now France has attributed an attack on supermarket fridges to…
The decision follows recent changes to Billboard’s chart formula, which now gives more weight to ad-supported streams. The disagreement began in December 2025 , when YouTube said it would stop sharing its streaming data…
Meta built it for the small jobs AI agents repeat all day. These include calling tools, coding subtasks, routing requests, pulling out data and parsing long documents. Ember costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50…
Trying to snap a picture of the moon with your iPhone can be an exercise in frustration. You frame it up and everything seems fine, but after clicking the shutter, your photo is either a ball of light with no detail or a…
The company says the new models “show improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, and vision” and communicate more clearly with users. Notably, Anthropic is lowering the cost of Fable from $10 to $8 per million input…
They are new versions of its most powerful AI models. Both are faster than the 5.1 versions from September, and Fable is cheaper. The launch comes as Anthropic nears its stock market listing , which could happen as soon…
On Monday, it announced a $240 million Series C at a $3 billion valuation led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and co-led by Insight Partners. This follows the company’s announcement in March of a $155 million Series B…
This is the latest in a string of destructive cyberattacks attributed to Iran this year, following a spate of hacks targeting U.S. water providers and other online intrusions that caused mass-disruption to U.S. medical…
The US military has published a Request for Information on a federal procurement website signaling interest in deploying a “proliferated cislunar constellation” consisting of an unspecified number of satellites…
This compares with barely a third (30%) of all full-time workers, making IT workers among the most likely to have side hustles – 23% freelancing and 7% having a more traditional second job, according to a Careerminds…