Traditional RAG has a visible failure mode: it retrieves the wrong chunks once. Agentic RAG can retrieve the wrong chunks creatively for ten minutes. The model rewrites the query, selects another source, asks a sub-agent, follows a relationship, reflects on the...

Count the items on your deployment checklist. If there are more than a handful, the list is not telling you that your team is careful. It is telling you how much infrastructure your product team still owns. That is the argument of this article. A deployment checklist...

Opinion and insight: Brands are rushing to count mentions inside ChatGPT and other AI platforms, yet many still cannot show whether those citations produce readers, enquiries or revenue. Okay, so you’ve picked up a few AI citations. Great. But are they actually doing...

A counter-drone system can have a million-dollar radar, a steerable thermal camera, and a rack of GPUs, yet still be undone by a seagull. This is the bird vs. drone problem, and it is the most consequential unglamorous challenge in counter-unmanned aircraft systems...

You’ve spent years optimizing your way onto the top of Google rankings. Now in 2026, a developer opens ChatGPT, types "best error tracking tool for Rails", and gets a nice paragraph that recommends your competitor. And you are not even in a footnote. The audacity.AEO...

The price fell across the board, yet total spending on AI hit a record this year, and that gap is reshaping what actually makes an AI company worth backing.Every time an app answers a question using artificial intelligence, someone pays a real bill for that single...

A package gets installed. A login prompt opens. A box sits exposed to the internet. Nothing looks unusual yet. That’s roughly the mood this week. Trusted tools turn hostile, old weak spots get fresh attention, AI makes exploit work cheaper, and researchers keep...

Training for a fall marathon? Snag one of these Garmin running watches we've tested at a discount.

Work on Linux kernel 7.3 is underway, and a bug fix just came in from an unusual source: Linus himself. Well, kind of… The new bug fix has the title of Don’t hand out the flat CCS storage as usable VRAM, and it comes from emperor penguin Linus Torvalds . Now that...

One of the fun aspects of open source software is that you can often find so many libraries and tools that implement the functionality you need, but ease of use for e.g. artists is often not a priority. This is where [Edin Spiegel] ‘s annoyances with photogrammetry...

The Solar Roof URL already redirects to Tesla's panel offerings.

General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space and time, is in talks to raise at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from new investors including Valor Ventures, Point72 Ventures, Seven Seven Six.

It's been a bumpy road for Mozilla's browser, but as the dust of doubt settles, Firefox has once again become my default browser on all platforms.

Millions of Tesla vehicles are being recalled in China over the brand's hidden door handles, which regulators worry could present a danger in crashes. Minimalist door handles have long been a feature of Elon Musk's electric vehicles. However, Chinese regulators are...

Inside the frontier lab’s push to bring AI agents from software engineers to the masses.

The Pebble Time 2 is a no-frills smartwatch that helps you disconnect from the digital world.

Nike has been quietly shuttering Nike Well Collective stores, its small-format neighborhood shop concept. At least 24 stores have closed across a dozen states, a Fast Company review has found. The closures appear to be happening alongside a broader restructuring.  In...

Be prepared to pay more for an Echo Dot, 16 GB Kindle, Fire TV Stick HD, and Amazon eero 7 mesh router, among several other products.

As Oracle launches its Exadata service on Database@AWS — a year after it went live for lower-level databases — experts have warned there are trade-offs in getting value for money and cautioned over Oracle FUD around the cloud migration decision-making. Earlier this...

In another, the driver of a 2024 Blazer EV said they had to "deliberately steer the vehicle into a concrete curb" to slow it down and avoid a "catastrophic intersection collision."

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged two new malware families called WordlistLoader and SynkLoader that's used to deliver next-stage payloads and likely sell access to ransomware groups. According to findings from Gen Digital, WordlistLoader is being used to deliver...

ShinyHunters has claimed another cybersecurity scalp, but ReliaQuest says the crew's social engineering attack only got as far as one employee identity before its defenses slammed the door. The ransomware baddies listed US-based infosec biz ReliaQuest on its leak site...