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iOS 27 Hide Location: Pause Find My Sharing Without Alerts

Aaron Thomas12 hours ago16 hours ago010 mins

Apple adds a more flexible way to pause Find My location sharing with a specific person. Here is how iOS 27 Hide Location works, what others see, and what it means for privacy and safety.

Inside the Flock Camera Hack That Exposed 1.6 Million Images

Aaron Thomas14 hours ago16 hours ago012 mins

A reported compromise involving roughly 1.6 million Flock camera images offers a rare look at how automated license plate surveillance collects, analyzes, and shares vehicle data.

Ubuntu 26.10 Completes Its Rust Coreutils Migration: What Changed

Aaron Thomas16 hours ago16 hours ago012 mins

Ubuntu 26.10 has completed a major migration toward Rust-based core utilities. Here is what changed, why it matters, and where GNU compatibility still counts.

The AI Productivity Paradox: Why Automation Creates More Work

Aaron Thomas18 hours ago18 hours ago011 mins

AI automation can accelerate tasks while increasing oversight, output expectations, and digital workload. Here is how companies can turn activity into real productivity.

AI Data Centers Without the Grid: Texas Turns Solar Into Compute

Aaron Thomas20 hours ago20 hours ago012 mins

Texas solar farms increasingly produce electricity when the grid cannot fully absorb it. Co-located AI data centers could convert that curtailed energy into useful computing, provided operators solve the challenges of intermittent power, cooling, connectivity, and workload scheduling.

.NET 11 Performance Improvements: Faster Apps, Lower Costs at Scale

Syed Atif22 hours ago22 hours ago010 mins

Explore how .NET 11 improves JIT compilation, garbage collection, memory use, startup, and ASP.NET Core performance improvements for faster, more efficient applications.

MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro: The 2nm Rival to Apple, Qualcomm

Aaron Thomas1 day ago2 days ago010 mins

MediaTek enters the 2nm mobile era with the Dimensity 9600 Pro, targeting faster AI, stronger gaming and greater efficiency against Qualcomm and Apple.

Beyond GPUs: Why AI Inference Is Hardware’s New Battleground

Aaron Thomas2 days ago2 days ago010 mins

The AI hardware race is shifting from training giant models to serving them efficiently. Here is how GPUs, specialized accelerators, memory systems, and rack-scale architectures are competing for inference workloads.

Why OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Are Teaming Up on AI Safety

Aaron Thomas2 days ago2 days ago010 mins

OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind compete to build leading AI models, but shared frontier risks are giving the rivals compelling reasons to coordinate on safety.

Google Maps Adds Always-On Speedometer for Android Auto Drivers

Aaron Thomas2 days ago2 days ago010 mins

Google Maps can now display your driving speed in Android Auto even when no destination is active, expanding Maps into a more useful everyday driving dashboard.

The Internet of Compromised Things: Why IoT Devices Betray Trust

Aaron Thomas3 days ago3 days ago011 mins

Smart cameras, routers, sensors, and appliances can become hidden attack paths. Learn why IoT trust is broken and how zero-trust defenses reduce the risk.

Aitech Rugged AI GPGPU Bring 9,728 CUDA Cores to Defense Edge Computing

Aaron Thomas3 days ago3 days ago010 mins

Aitech rugged AI GPGPU boards bring high-performance NVIDIA acceleration closer to defense sensors, vehicles, and mission systems, offering up to 9,728 CUDA cores in hardware engineered for demanding edge environments.