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ESET ResearchThreat Reports A view of the H1 2026 threat landscape as seen by ESET telemetry and from the perspective of ESET threat detection and research experts. 08 Jul 2026  •  , 2 min. read The first half of 2026 shows how attackers continue to improve the efficiency and scalability of their operations. Rather than relying on entirely new methods and tools, they are quickly adapting established techniques to new platforms, technologies, and user behaviors. Artificial intelligence is playing a growing role in this development. In H1 2026, ESET analyzed nearly 900,000 AI skills – small functional components used by…

Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Volkswagen is in trouble. Two weeks ago, Germany’s Manager Magazin reported that CEO Oliver Blume had floated an idea to close four factories and eliminate 100,000 workers, both in Germany and around the world, by 2030. It said the plan would be made public at a company board meeting on July 9. The factories affected were said to be those in Hanover, Zwickau, and Emden, as well as the Audi factory in Neckarsulm. If implemented, the plan — known internally as the Group Target Picture — would effectively transform Volkswagen…

IoT technology is quietly reshaping how forex traders access and act on market information. Traders can now monitor news feeds, financial indicators and social media sentiment by linking smart devices directly to live data streams.Understanding IoT in the Financial MarketThe concept of the Internet of Things is simple at its core. It is simply a network of everyday objects that connect to the internet to share information. IoT involves sensors for data collection, microcontrollers for data processing, and communication modules.Those three can transform a simple object into a device that helps users gather data and get useful information. Smartwatches and…

Mint Mobile offers some of my favorite Android phone deals on the web, but when these promotions go out of stock, they’re usually gone for good. Fortunately, that’s not the case with the Samsung Galaxy S26, as the prepaid carrier just brought back one of my favorite deals of 2026 thus far.Purchase the Samsung Galaxy S26 with one year of the Unlimited plan and Mint Mobile will give you $500 off the phone AND 50% off the wireless. That means you’re getting a powerful 2026 flagship phone and a full 12 months of T-Mobile-powered wireless service for only $580 upfront…

Clare Liguori, a Senior Principal Engineer who works on developer tooling and agentic AI at Amazon Web Services, speaks with host Sri Panyam about the Amazon Strands Agents SDK. This episode explores the philosophy, design decisions, and emerging patterns behind building production-grade AI agents. Clare frames any agent as three core components: a model, a set of tools, and a prompt. During this interview, she describes the origin story of Strands, the model-driven approach vs. workflows and custom orchestration, steering hooks, tools and MCP, sub-agents and multi-agents, memory layers, production readiness, testing and evaluation starting with use cases where trajectories…

Quantum phenomena are usually associated with extremely small objects such as individual atoms, molecules, or photons that must be carefully isolated from their surroundings. But can those same strange quantum effects also exist in objects large enough to see and hold? Researchers at TU Wien have now provided compelling evidence that they can. By studying a centimeter-sized crystal made from a type of material known as a strange metal, the team detected a high degree of quantum entanglement, one of the most remarkable features of quantum physics. They accomplished this using a technique from quantum information science called quantum Fisher…

Recent moves by Temenos, FIS, and Backbase point to a significant shift in banking technology strategy. Over the past few weeks Temenos acquired additiv, a Swiss fintech specializing in wealth orchestration, FIS partnered with InvestCloud to deliver an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered advisor workspace integrated with its processing platforms, and Backbase acquired Kasisto, an early pioneer in conversational and agentic (AI) for banking.  At first glance, these appear to be independent transactions addressing different market opportunities. But they are all responding to the same structural shift: AI orchestration is emerging as the next strategic control point in banking technology.  Value is moving toward the layer that can connect customer intent, enterprise data, workflows, policies, and execution. Providers that can own this…

AI-based language analysis has recently gone through a “paradigm shift” (Bommasani et al., 2021, p. 1), thanks in part to a new technique referred to as transformer language model (Vaswani et al., 2017, Liu et al., 2019). Companies, including Google, Meta, and OpenAI have released such models, including BERT, RoBERTa, and GPT, that have achieved unprecedented large improvements across most language tasks such as web search and sentiment analysis. While these language models are accessible in Python, and for typical AI tasks through HuggingFace, the R package text makes HuggingFace and state-of-the-art transformer language models accessible as social scientific pipelines in…

Managing petabytes of search data means making tough choices: keep everything fast and expensive, or make it affordable but read-only. UltraWarm is a proven, cost-effective solution for read-heavy historical data. However, some workloads occasionally need to update historical records, such as late-arriving data or compliance corrections. With UltraWarm, you must migrate those indices back to hot, perform the update, and migrate back. What if you could write directly to your cost-effective warm storage instead? In this post, I show you how writable warm storage removes the costly migration cycle. You can reduce your infrastructure costs by up to 48 percent…

Large data centre projects intended to support AI and cloud workloads are facing power shortages and grid delays. Some are also facing planning disputes, land-use concerns, and rising construction costs.A report by The Guardian, citing data from the Uptime Institute, said 250 data centre projects requiring more than 100MW of power each were announced globally between 2021 and 2024. Uptime estimates that about half of those projects will either be delayed or not proceed.Data centre projects need land, grid connections, and substations before they can support cloud and AI workloads. They also require cooling systems, construction capacity, and local approvals.Projects…