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‘A spectacular spectacle in the mobile workstation world’: We gave the Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 3 five stars in our review, and it’s a massive $2530 off right now

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The ThinkPad P16 is one of our favorite mobile workstations, and our top pick for engineering students and professionals running graphics-heavy workloads. And the current deal here is unmissable, with the Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 3 now $4649 (was $7179) at Lenovo. That’s a massive $2530 discount on a workstation for engineers, architects, designers, developers, … Read more

Suno is now letting users press their AI music slop to vinyl, thus alienating streaming services, artists and audiophiles

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AI audio giant Suno has launched a vinyl pressing service Yes, it is seemingly just for AI tracks generated on its site It’s eco-friendly, apparently Among many audiophiles, vinyl records are considered sacred; I concur, which is why my turntable was the first thing I set up when I recently moved home. But that’s clearly … Read more

New ChainDrop worm poisons over 1,300 npm packages, Keyv and Cacheable among those hit

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Aikido researchers uncovers ChainDrop, a Shai‑Hulud variant infecting 1,300+ npm packages with an infostealer Attackers compromised GitHub accounts tied to popular libraries (Keyv, Cacheable, flat‑cache, file‑entry‑cache) and pushed tainted releases with 2B monthly downloads Malware exfiltrates developer/cloud credentials and secrets to a public GitHub repo; admins should treat affected systems as compromised even after removal … Read more

Google Assistant will shut down for good on Android and Wear OS in September — here’s what you need to do next

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We’re saying goodbye to Google Assistant on more devices September 4 is the cut-off point for Android and Wear OS The process of switching over to Gemini is pretty seamless Google Assistant had a good run — it made its debut in May 2016 as part of the Allo app (remember that?) — but Gemini … Read more

The cost of being half-hearted in AI and how to avoid the Solow Paradox

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Not too long ago, one of the world’s most data-driven companies admitted that its AI spending was becoming “harder to justify”. Uber’s President and COO, Andrew Macdonald, told the Rapid Response podcast that the company had blown through its entire 2026 AI budget in roughly four months, with around 5,000 engineers leaning on Anthropic’s Claude … Read more

Rethinking defense in the wake of OpenClaw attacks

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Thanks to rapid developments around AI, cybersecurity pros seem due for a reminder that the threat landscape has fundamentally changed. This time it’s OpenClaw ringing the alarm bells, but in truth we see the same cycle repeating itself time and time again, just with new technology. Within days of OpenClaw’s open-source, researchers discovered exposed management … Read more