Destination

2026-08-21

Redefining Authority in the C-Suite: What Fostering a Relationship with AI Actually Requires

I have spent 25 years on the buyer's side of security operations, and I have never once lost sleep over a firewall rule. However, I have lost sleep over AI. Traditional automation, no matter how complex, follows logic you can trace. However, in this unprecedented scale of agentic AI, systems are being trusted to make judgement calls that engineers aren’t always able to fully explain – thi [...]

thenextweb

2026-08-21

Mark Zuckerberg bought a castle, while the rest of us get one made of sand, once a year

Strancally Castle stands above a bend in the Blackwater, half an hour’s drive from Youghal, in a stretch of Co Waterford where the river runs wide, and the light is mostly grey. James and George Richard Pain built it around 1830 for John Keily, MP for Clonmel, and set it in front of the ruin […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

thenextweb

2026-08-21

DeepSeek launches an experimental multimodal model to rival Anthropic

DeepSeek released an experimental multimodal model on Friday and said its agent performance is close to Anthropic’s Opus-4.8. On DeepSeek’s own published table, it beats that model on three benchmarks out of eleven. DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp is live on the company’s API platform. It takes the text-only V4-Flash and adds the ability to read images and screenshots. […]<br /> This st [...]

Destination

2026-08-21

Are your PC games crashing after the latest Windows 11 update? Microsoft is investigating whether a nasty new bug is the cause — but there are workarounds

Microsoft is investigating reports of a nasty bug that breaks some PC games following the latest Windows 11 update. [...]

Destination

2026-08-21

DDR5 prices are painful right now, but you can save on 32GB of V-Color Manta XFinity RGB RAM with Newegg's special coupon

V-Color's DDR5 RAM kit has 6000MT/s speeds, CL30 timings, and stylish RGB lighting, and a discount at a time when when every dollar off expensive memory helps. [...]

Destination

2026-08-21

Tired of expensive printer ink? Canon's MegaTank G3270 is our top budget ink tank printer, loaded with enough to print thousands of pages and a big discount at Amazon

Of all the ink tanks we've tested, Canon's MegaTank G3270 (known as G3570 in the UK) is our number one budget pick, and it could save you a fortune on replacement ink. [...]

zdnet

2026-08-21

A low-tech solution from the past may be your best defense against AI deepfakes

AI-enabled identity theft is getting too sophisticated to have predictable tells anymore, so experts recommend answering with a seemingly old-fashioned approach. [...]

qz

2026-08-21

Gold surges toward a three-month high as U.S. debt fears and dollar weakness fuel rally

Spot gold rose 1.6% to $4,591 an ounce on Friday and is on track for a third consecutive weekly gain [...]

qz

2026-08-21

Abbott agreed to pay $670 million to settle preterm baby formula lawsuits

The deal covers about 2,000 claims, including a $495 million jury verdict against Abbott that had been upheld on appeal [...]