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SpaceX Reportedly Interested in Purchasing Boost Mobile

SpaceX is reportedly interested in purchasing Boost Mobile, a move that could greatly accelerate its attempts to compete in the wireless market. SpaceX has spent billions buying wireless spectrum, with the goal of launching Starlink Mobile to compete with traditional wireless carriers. Needless to say, launching a new wireless carrier is no small proposition, as

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Anthropic Brought In Nearly $17 Billion Last Quarter and Slipped Back to an Operating Loss

Anthropic’s third quarter brought in almost $17 billion in revenue and still ended with an operating loss. In an amended IPO prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission this morning, the Claude maker put most of the swing on $5.0 billion of short-term compute, which costs it more than capacity bought under long-term contracts,

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The Retail Wall Around AI Shopping Agents: Who Lets the Bots Buy, and Who Shuts the Door

The Retail Wall Around AI Shopping Agents: Who Lets the Bots Buy, and Who Shuts the Door

The first holiday season of the AI shopping agent is arriving, and the biggest stores in America cannot agree on whether to let it in. Walmart has built a dedicated entrance for software that shops on a customer’s behalf. Amazon has posted a guard at the door. Most other large retailers sit somewhere in between,

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Suspected Second Cyberattack Hits EU Supermarkets

EU supermarkets appear to be in the crosshairs again in a suspected second cyberattack that raised fridge and freezer temps overnight. According to The Guardian, grocery chains across Belgium, Luxembourg, and Sweden saw temperatures in refrigerators and freezers rise overnight, with Dutch retailer Ahold Delhaize calling it an “IT incident.” “We started mobilising technicians at

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Google Giving Publishers More Control Over How AI Interacts With Their Content

Google announced plans for a major new feature, one that will give publishers and website owners far more control over how AI interacts with their content. AI has wreaked havoc on many publishers and websites, as many people use the technology in place of traditional search engines. Unfortunately for publishers, AI often still uses their

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Cisco Betting on AI to Revamp Its Codebase

Cisco appears to be all-in on AI-assisted coding, reportedly giving an engineer unlimited tokens to revamp 98% of the company’s legacy code in 24 months. AI is upending the software development industry and dividing software engineers along the way. Some engineers have fully embraced AI, while others continue to avoid it or use it only

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Cloudflare Makes Its Private Origins Publicly Available

Cloudflare announced that its services for private origins are now generally available, giving customers the ability to securely route traffic to their backend infrastructure. Cloudflare announced the general availability of private origins in a blog post: Today, Cloudflare services for private origins is generally available. Point a proxied DNS record at a private IP, and

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Swedish Government Approves Copilot, Blocks Claude and ChatGPT

Microsoft scored a big win on the AI front, with the Swedish government approving Copilot for continued use, while blocking Claude and ChatGPT. Governments are still struggling to use AI securely and ensure that sensitive information remains private. According to TechRepublic, citing Sveriges Radio, the Swedish Government Offices blocked browser access to Anthropic Claude and

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How Audio Technology Shapes the In-Store Customer Experience

Companies spend heavily on visual branding, digital marketing, store design and customer service, but they often give far less thought to what people hear when they walk into a store, restaurant, hotel or office. Background music can shape how customers see a space. Picking songs is only part of the job, though: a business also

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Canonical Revisits Ubuntu Core Desktop With Plans to Accelerate Development

Canonical Revisits Ubuntu Core Desktop With Plans to Accelerate Development

Jon Seager, Canonical VP of Engineering, took to Ubuntu Discourse to discuss the company’s Ubuntu Core Desktop, saying the company plans to accelerate development. Ubuntu Core Desktop is one of the more interesting concepts in the Linux community, a Snap-based Linux distro that could provide users with far more flexibility than current options. Core Desktop

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