The best cheap Android phones to buy in 2025

You don’t need to spend a fortune to get a new phone that handles your daily tasks with ease. The best cheap Android phones pack impressive features into affordable price tags, making them great options for anyone who wants solid performance without stretching their wallet. Whether you’re scrolling social media, streaming videos or snapping photos, […]

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The Download: AI doppelgängers in the workplace, and using lidar to measure climate disasters

—James O’Donnell Digital clones—AI models that replicate a specific person—package together a few technologies that have been around for a while now: hyperrealistic video models to match your appearance, lifelike voices based on just a couple of minutes of speech recordings, and conversational chatbots increasingly capable of holding our attention.  But they’re also offering something […]

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Android Droppers Now Deliver SMS Stealers and Spyware, Not Just Banking Trojans

Sep 01, 2025Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Malvertising Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new shift in the Android malware landscape where dropper apps, which are typically used to deliver banking trojans, to also distribute simpler malware such as SMS stealers and basic spyware. These campaigns are propagated via dropper apps masquerading as government or […]

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Gen Z and сrypto: a daily ritual

a recent Medium piece, Paying Cash in 2025? Gen Z Laughs at You, caught my attention. more than half of Gen Z already use crypto, not as a novelty, not for spectacle, but as part of their daily routines. wallets like MetaMask or Trust Wallet serve as extensions of identity. cards like WhiteBIT Nova turn […]

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Open-source is for the people, by the people

August 29, 2025 Travis Oliphant, creator of NumPy and SciPy, joins Ryan to explore the development of Python as a data science tool, the evolution of these foundational libraries, and the importance of community and collaboration in open-source projects, including Travis’ current work to support sustainable open-source through the OpenTeams Incubator. Source link

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Feature Visualization

There is a growing sense that neural networks need to be interpretable to humans. The field of neural network interpretability has formed in response to these concerns. As it matures, two major threads of research have begun to coalesce: feature visualization and attribution. Feature visualization answers questions about what a network — or parts of a network — are […]

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Save hundreds on a MacBook this Labor Day, starting from just $999 with up to $300 off on upper-range models — Apple’s latest laptops are on sale

This Labor Day weekend, treat yourself to a new laptop—but not just any laptop—instead, opt for one of the best work machines available today. Apple’s MacBook is a go-to choice for reliable, recommended laptops that suit a wide range of users. With the advent of the M-series chips, they’ve become super competitive in terms of […]

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