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AI
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella introducing the company’s Copilot Plus PC initiative. Two and a half years later, Microsoft and Qualcomm seem to be admitting the brand is already dead. Windows Central 's Zac Bowden reports that even though the new 12-inch Microsoft Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop technically meet the system requirements for a Copilot Plus PC, Microsoft is not calling them by that name anymore.
Chips & Hardware
Speaking of tested, you get self-checking testbenches in there to make sure everything’s working, and there’s even formal verification, at least for some things.
AI
After surpassing last year’s goal of saving 250,000 employee hours, Okta raised this year’s target to 1 million. The Dex AI agent is helping Okta Inc. It also serves as a testbed for the identity controls the company offers customers.
AI
That makes visibility and permission limits necessary, but it also raises a harder question: How does a company recover from […] The post AI agents creating a new insider security risk: theCUBE’s Oktane keynote analysis appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Technology
Under the hood, though, there are some obvious similarities to the platform that started it all: OpenClaw.
Technology
That's finally changing: After a multiyear effort, the team has just announced F-Droid 2.0 is rolling out. F-Droid's Android app store has been rebuilt from the ground up.
Technology
Google is rolling out some new Chrome browser features that are designed to make it easier to research and study complicated topics.
Bitcoin & Crypto
Bitcoin Magazine [[alloc] init] Releases Shielded Bitcoin Proposal For Private Bitcoin Transactions Shielded Bitcoin, a proposal from [[alloc] init], would enable Bitcoin transactions with strong privacy.
Bitcoin & Crypto
Ondo has launched three onchain portfolio tokens based on model portfolio strategies developed by BlackRock.
Bitcoin & Crypto
HIFI raised $37 million in Series A funding led by Left Lane Capital to scale tokenized settlement infrastructure.
Cybersecurity
AI illustrationCISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.
Cybersecurity
These logs remain accessible on removable storage after the support operation has completed.
Cybersecurity
Chips & Hardware
Knowledge management startup Stravito AB today introduced a Model Context Protocol server that lets people access the company’s consumer and market research from AI tools such as OpenAI Group PBC’s ChatGPT, Anthropic PBC’s Claude and Microsoft Corp.’s Copilot.
Chips & Hardware
Lead LVFS/Fwupd developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat announced Fwupd 2.1.8 today as the newest feature release for this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems.
Robotics
Epson Robots has expanded its six-axis robot line with the AX6, a lightweight force- and power-limited arm. The post Epson introduces AX6 cobot with compact design, no-code programming appeared first on The Robot Report.
Robotics
O-ID, a Tokyo-based company founded by two Brits building one of the world’s first fully modular humanoid robots for industrial manufacturing and logistics, has raised $1.2 million in pre-seed funding.
Robotics
ANYbotics partnered with dormakaba and LEGIC Identsystems to enable the ANYmal quadruped to gain access like a badged employee.
Startups & Business
Clastix, a Naples-based infrastructure software company helping enterprises run Kubernetes more efficiently at scale, has raised €2.9 million in a Seed round.
Startups & Business
The AI-powered feature builds a virtual wardrobe from your photos, and is now broadly available after first rolling out to Android users in June.
Startups & Business
It brings the company’s […] The post Pat Gelsinger-backed startup PicoJool raises $27.5M to boost bandwidth for AI clusters appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Science & Space
Announced last year, Suncatcher is Google's "moonshot" effort to design orbital AI data centers, which AI boosters like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have pitched as an alternative to divisive terrestrial data centers.
Science & Space
Otter is due to lift off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base no earlier than Oct.
Science & Space
Rocket launches are some of the most violent travel methods man has ever created. They generate millions of pounds of thrust and convert that into intense g-forces.
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