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You don't need to be a streamer or do tons of data entry to make use of a standalone macro pad. Here are your options and why you should use them.

When I wanted to get more serious about backing up my family's data, I bought a refurbished Mac Mini and set it running headless in my closet. It's right for me.

Hidden instructions in a Word document can make Microsoft 365 Copilot rewrite figures in a report, then copy the same instructions into the finished file. Håkon Måløy disclosed the technique on July 28, 144 days after reporting it to Microsoft. In his proof of concept, the internally generated file triggered the same behavior when it was used in a second Copilot drafting session. Måløy's

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A minimum-energy ballistic arc covering 750 km needs roughly 2.64 km/s at burnout and peaks near 181 km.

FTC says Meta and Snap received sensitive patient information while customers faced unexpected prescription charges

You can now upgrade your Wii U from an 8GB or 32GB internal storage to more than a TB with this SSD kit. You'll have to install the Aroma custom firmware on your console to use it, though.

Network firewalls are the workhorses of modern cybersecurity. They are trusted to protect the network, blocking malicious traffic and preventing intrusions and breaches. And for decades, network security teams have built controls around a relatively stable model: users connect to applications, applications exchange data, and security tools inspect packets, protocols, and destinations. Firewalls

Georgia's largest power supply company is reclaiming 30 homes that lay in the path of its power line expansion project through sale or eminent domain. The company says the project is not for a data center, but the substation the line is connecting to sits less than five miles from a massive data center.

At the AI Engineer World's Fair 2026, UC Berkeley professor Frank Coyle argued that agentic systems need ontologies as deterministic guardrails around probabilistic LLMs, calling the convergence 'neurosymbolic AI.' He noted that established web ontologies like Schema.org, FOAF, and Dublin Core are already in LLM training data, so developers can prompt for them directly rather than inventing new ones. Neo4j CEO Emil Eifrem outlined three ontology types for running agents at scale: business-facing ontologies, technical metadata ontologies, and execution traces from agent runtime signals.

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Support for the MySQL build ends in September as the company develops separate premium replication technology

Save $100 on a Gigabyte Aero 16X gaming laptop with a Ryzen AI 7 350 CPU, 32GB of RAM, and an RTX 5060 GPU in today's limited-time sale

Legendary Windows developer Dave W. Plummer has shared details and screenshots of a version of Task Manager for Apple Mac computers.

South Korean authorities and four security firms have disclosed a state-sponsored campaign that compromised trusted domestic websites. The attackers used those sites to exploit locally installed financial-security software and infect targeted visitors with SIGNBT or COPPERHEDGE backdoors. A compromised page could infect a system running a vulnerable AnySign4PC version without a prompt or

The Chinese cybercrime group known as Silver Fox has been observed using new drivers as part of bring your own vulnerable driver (BYOVD) attacks targeting a Japanese organization in the industrial manufacturing sector to ultimately deliver ValleyRAT (aka Winos 4.0) for persistent remote access. "In this campaign, the group combines new vulnerable-driver abuse, newly observed abuse of legitimate

This 27-inch LG OLED gaming monitor with a 280Hz refresh rate has dropped is on sale right now for $399.99 in a deal that'll save you $200.

Opening a booby-trapped message unleashes a browser implant that can survive password changes and device rebuilds

Minecraft enthusiasts come together to archive Minecraft's 2b2t server, which currently weighs over 80TB but is compressed to a mere 15TB.

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Touch ‘n Go Digital (TNG Digital) is supporting the Public Service Department (JPA) in a new financial inclusion initiative, offering TNG eWallet as an alternative payment channel for eligible pensioners. This move is aimed at retirees who face challenges receiving their monthly pensions through conventional banking channels, particularly in situations where bank accounts are frozen […]

i-CATS University College has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with French software firm Dassault Systèmes to boost Sarawak’s aerospace and digital engineering capabilities. The partnership aims to bring the 3DEXPERIENCE platform directly into local classrooms and laboratories, laying the groundwork for a skilled high-tech workforce. Southeast Asia’s first Digital Aerospace Showcase Under the MoU, […]

Survey finds more workloads run off-site than at in-house corporate facilities for the first time

OpenAI announced lower prices and faster performance for GPT-5.6's Luna and Terra model variants, claiming efficiency gains from the model's self-optimization are being passed to customers. The post frames this as advancing price-performance across enterprise workloads.

Netscape still ruled the browser market, but Microsoft had Windows 95, WorldNet, and a very valuable foothold