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Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech As the World Cup enters its final stages, soccer-themed AI slop is proliferating on X-formerly-Twitter. Sure, it’s no secret that X has suffered some major brain drain under the Musk regime. But the latest deluge of World Cup drek is so ridiculous, it makes the app’s crypto scammers look like Pulitzer finalists. First spotted by Out Sports, the deluge of AI engagement bait mostly revolves around semi-erotic scenarios playing out in the grandstand. In a clip with over 7 million views, one clickfarm…

Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. Mistral Vibe is one of the more interesting AI platforms to come out of Europe. The product, formerly called Le Chat, was rebranded by Paris-based Mistral AI in May 2026 to mark its shift from a conversational assistant to a full agentic platform covering chat, work automation, and cloud-based coding. It’s a meaningful change, not just a naming exercise.Two new operating modes, Work and Code, are the engine behind…

Cord cutting has become quite popular over the past several years. With the rise of streaming services like Netflix, HBO Max, and Disney+, there’s much less of a reliance on traditional cable, especially since many of these services also offer live content. My problem with many of these streaming services is that I feel like I have to pay attention to what I’m watching. It’s not like cable where I can put something on for background noise. In many ways it is, but there will occasionally be prompts to make sure I’m still watching, and that’s something I don’t really…

Another cybersecurity expert from the United States, accused of helping a cybercrime gang while working as a ransomware negotiator, has been sentenced to prison. Angelo Martino, 41, of Florida, was sentenced on Thursday to 70 months in prison after he pleaded guilty in April.  Martino is one of the three individuals charged by US authorities last year over their role in ransomware attacks. The three men worked at cybersecurity firms, and two of them served as ransomware negotiators tasked with helping victims, but instead they helped the threat actors in return for a share of the ransom.  The other two…

London, United Kingdom, July 10th, 2026, CyberNewswire New platform gives network operators complete visibility into Internet routing while keeping all routing intelligence inside their own infrastructure. FastNetMon is introducing Netomics, a self-hosted BGP routing intelligence platform that combines live routing data, registry information, RPKI validation, routing history and AI-assisted querying into a single application. Built for Internet service providers (ISPs), cloud providers, Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) and enterprises operating large IP networks, Netomics provides complete visibility into global Internet routing without relying on third-party lookup services. Network engineers often need to consult multiple public tools to investigate routing incidents, validate…

A 21% price drop on the Pixel 9 Pro XL brings one of Google’s most powerful Pixels to its lowest recorded price. The Google Pixel 9 Pro XL is now $649, down from $823.99, and will save you 21% on a phone whose triple-lens camera system with pro controls and 20x Super Res Zoom Video already made the full asking price easy to justify. Under $650 and at an all‑time low, the Pixel 9 Pro XL is a worthwhile discount for a dependable phone Dropping to an all‑time low below $650, the Pixel 9 Pro XL becomes an easy, great‑value…

If you have a Samsung Galaxy, there’s a hidden menu in your Gallery app called Gallery Labs — and you unlock it with a secret gesture most people would never stumble onto. Once it’s on, you get a privacy vault that hides photos behind a fingerprint, tools to customize the photo viewer, and even a one-tap way to turn any photo into a PDF. I was surprised how much it adds. Here’s how to turn it on, and which features are actually worth it. Related 6 Samsung tricks that completely changed how I use my phone Tiny tweaks; massive difference…

Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. Garmin Forerunner 170: One minute reviewThe Garmin Forerunner 170 and 170 Music sit nicely between the cheaper Garmin Forerunner 70 and more expensive 570 and 970 duo, the latter of which features on our best Garmin watches guide. As such, both Music and non-Music versions are a bit of a halfway house; not quite cheap enough to be picked up on a whim by budget-conscious consumers, nor expensive enough…

Palo Alto Networks on Wednesday published advisories describing more than a dozen vulnerabilities affecting its products. The new advisories cover 13 vulnerabilities specific to Palo Alto Networks products, as well as more than 500 flaws patched recently by Google in Chromium, which the cybersecurity giant uses for its Prisma browser. The most severe of the newly patched vulnerabilities is CVE-2026-0288. Assigned high severity and highest urgency ratings, the CVE covers multiple buffer overflows in the PAN-OS software, which powers Palo Alto’s firewalls. An unauthenticated attacker with network access to the targeted firewall can cause a DoS condition and potentially achieve…

On June 24, 2026, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck northern Venezuela, followed under a minute later by a magnitude 7.5 mainshock. Together, the quakes left immense damage and loss of life across the region. In the days that followed, satellite-based maps of ground displacement revealed how the land surface moved, providing insight into the forces behind the severe destruction in locations such as La Guaira and other coastal cities in La Guaira state. This map was produced using data from the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite and processed by the NISAR science team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).…