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The best keyboards for 2026
A keyboard is one of those pieces of gear you interact with constantly, yet it’s easy to overlook how much it affects your day-to-day comfort. From firing off emails to long coding sessions or late-night gaming, the right keyboard can make everything feel smoother, faster and less fatiguing. Some setups call for slim, quiet boards…
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AI threats will get worse: 6 ways to match the tenacity of your digital adversaries
WhataWin/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET:Add us as a preferred sourceon Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways The more powerful AI gets, the more threat actors will harness it to attack. Organizations and individuals must match their adversaries’ tenacity. Experts recommend best practices for avoiding catastrophe. When was the last time you wondered if that mysterious phone caller…
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Why encrypted backups may fail in an AI-driven ransomware era
matejmo/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET:Add us as a preferred sourceon Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways AI-driven ransomware now targets backups, too. Malware can dwell for weeks, mapping recovery systems. Your clean restore point may already be corrupted. We all know the benefits of backups, right? If a computer or server goes down or is otherwise compromised,…
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Will AI make cybersecurity obsolete or is Silicon Valley confabulating again?
ValeryBrozhinsky/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET:Add us as a preferred sourceon Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google tools can automate code debugging. But cybersecurity is too complex a problem for these tools to solve. AI’s biggest contribution may be to reduce avoidable software flaws. Can you trust the companies that are building AI to…
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Tech workers urge DOD, Congress to withdraw Anthropic label as a supply-chain risk | TechCrunch
Hundreds of tech workers have signed an open letter urging the Department of Defense to withdraw its designation of Anthropic as a “supply-chain risk.” The letter also calls on Congress to step in and “examine whether the use of these extraordinary authorities against an American technology company is appropriate.” The letter includes signatories from major…
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X adds Paid Partnership labels so creators can ditch the hashtags | TechCrunch
Social network X on Monday announced the introduction of a new “Paid Partnership” label that creators can apply to their posts to indicate they’re advertisements. The feature could help improve creators’ authenticity, so fans know when a product recommendation is an original sentiment, versus a paid sponsorship, while also complying with regulations that say ads…
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Starlinks next-gen satellite network could provide 150 Mbps speeds by end of next year
Starlink is getting ready to launch its second generation of satellites, and it’s expected to match the speeds of a traditional terrestrial network. During a keynote at Mobile World Congress, Starlink execs detailed the roadmap for the company’s upgrade towards the next generation of satellites called V2. “The goal of Starlink Mobile … is to…
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Instagram and TikTok are using your content to sell junk
In late February, Puck reported on a strange case: An influencer with more than a million followers was inadvertently promoting products on Instagram. On some of Julia Berolzheimer’s posts, a “Shop the look” button hovered in the corner. When followers clicked it, they were fed similar items to what Berolzheimer was wearing. Her job is…
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Anthropics Claude reports widespread outage | TechCrunch
Anthropic experienced widespread disruptions on Monday morning, with thousands of users reporting problems accessing Claude services. The outage seems to be affecting Claude.ai as well as Claude Code, though the company said the Claude API is working as intended. Most users experienced the error when attempting to log in, as in the screenshot below. Image…
