Month: February 2025
Google Pixel 9a: five of the biggest upgrades
If you’ve been keeping up to date with tech news then the Google Pixel 9a won’t hold too many surprises, as ahead of launch it leaked in even more detail than most phones. But it has officially arrived now, so all the specs and details have been confirmed. And while…
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Google Pixel 9a: latest news, rumors, and everything we’ve heard so far
The Google Pixel 9a could prove a compelling alternative to the Google Pixel 9, since this upcoming mid-ranger is likely to cost less, yet might not be much of a specs downgrade. Nothing is known for certain yet, but the Pixel 9a has been extensively rumored, pointing to a phone…
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Elon Musk’s DOGE storms federal weather forecasters’ headquarters
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has reportedly infiltrated the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the agency that collects and shares vital weather and climate information. Sources have told The Verge, as well as other news outlets, that they’re worried about drastic changes that could…
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Researchers trained an OpenAI rival in half an hour for less than $50
To do this, researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington used a method known as distillation — which allows smaller models to draw from the answers produced by larger ones — to refine s1 using answers from Google’s AI reasoning model, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental. Google’s terms of…
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I’ve seen most of 2025’s flagship robot vacuums and let me tell you, things are about to get weird
CES is the launchpad for many of the biggest upcoming tech releases, but this year you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s the new stage for Robot Wars owing to the sheer volume of whacky and innovative robot vacuums roaming the trade show’s halls. Robovac manufacturers from across the globe flocked…
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How to combat exfiltration-based extortion attacks
The vast majority of cyberattacks are conducted solely to disrupt organizations, but one type of attack has more than just an organization-wide effect; it also has a personal impact. Conducted primarily by ransomware threat groups, data exfiltration-based extortion is becoming far more prominent -in fact, a notorious Russian ransomware group…
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