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A hobbyist accidentally hacked 7,000 DJI robot vacuums using a PlayStation controller, revealing major flaws in smart home ...

Apple is bringing agentic coding to Xcode. On Tuesday, the company announced the release of Xcode 26.3, which will allow developers to use agentic tools, including Anthropic’s Claude Agent and ...

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A DJI Romo vacuum owner wanted to connect his device to a PS5 controller. He ended up revealing a huge security flaw.

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Has AI coding reached a tipping point? That seems to be the case for Spotify at least, which shared this week during its fourth-quarter earnings call that the best developers at the company “have not ...

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Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Mira Norian / Investopedia A bank identification number (BIN) is the initial set of four to ...