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As of Aug. 27, save $100 on the iRobot Roomba Plus 575 Robot Vacuum & Mop Combo at Amazon.

Meet Microduck, Hugging Face’s $399 programmable robot duck that can waddle, roller-skate, carry objects, and learn new tricks.

The lawsuit claims child sexual abuse material depicting real people was used to train the chatbot.

Apple's new toxic hellstew is a battle over regulation, litigation, and keeping your data safe.

Microduck from Pollen Robotics runs on open source software, is just 25cm tall, and is ready to play out of the box

Low-skill hacktivists are now 'enabled with the same tooling and sophistication as a state-sponsored group,' according to cybersecurity consultant Unit 42.

As of Aug. 27, save $250 on the Segway Navimow X430 robot lawn mower at Amazon.

As SaaS giant gets a boost from Claudeforce, users might want to know how their AI use will be monetized

Can these new wearables deliver on the long-anticipated promises of AI earbuds?

OpenAI's agentic ChatGPT Work can sign in to your online accounts without any interaction on your part. Is that a privacy risk?

Rising cloud AI costs are pushing workloads onto pricier PCs – which just happen to be better for PC maker's margins

Samsung's new Galaxy S26 FE pairs flagship-level AI features with mid-range specs and price.

AI at Work roadmap is the new name for upcoming Microsoft 365 capabilities

Track record is merely desirable for the person tasked with shaping UK.gov's skills blueprint for 550,000 civil servants

Get the best robot vacuum deal. Save 40% on the eufy E25 at Amazon.

We could hear about at least two new AirPods models at the iPhone 18 event in September.

Complaints of undisclosed AI use have been submitted to New York's AG under a new law. But the FTC recently signaled the state may not have the authority.

F- for AI in test of reducing burden of teacher workload

Resistance is futile: .borg is on the list, along with .itiswhatitis, .therapy, and.hype. If that’s scary, might a cup of .tea help?

Also thinks Arm can give it a hand on the edge during RAMpocalypse

Biz describes its act of automated irresponsibility as 'a warning shot'

OpenAI's cyber agents banded together to perform a hack during a security test.

Chipmaker's $96bn quarter beat forecasts as demand for AI hardware continues to accelerate.

The price of Bitcoin has risen in August but is still far below its peak almost a year ago - and companies are refitting their mines.

The move comes weeks after a DJ admitted using AI to remix a Madonna song that topped the Australian charts.

The lawsuit alleges Twitch used streamers' videos to train AI without their permission or proper compensation.

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Agents are also the new attack surface - cue defenders' existential angst

Your irresponsibility is someone else's opportunity

“There are shadow agents running in almost every environment we look at,” warns Cisco’s VP of product for identity, who oversees the company’s Duo Agentic Identity product designed to solve the problem.

Nv's new chips need new datacenters, but you can't have bit barns without power

Show us the money

Fahrenheit 203, the temperature GPUs stop gorging on literature

Cloudy AI is Chinese giant’s ‘most certain’ path to growth as e-commerce slows

Corporate customers can look forward to easier management of agents in Google Cloud

v 1.27 expands generics to support methods

With Private Safety Processing, AI biz promises discreet, automated prompt surveillance

5 nm ML accelerators promise 1,000+ TOPS, ultra-low latency

We're already waiting for the new gen-AI-powered Siri, but a home hub may be on the way as well.

Three-quarters of organizations have found AI layoffs cost more than they saved, and as many as nine in 10 companies would rethink them given the chance.