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pros and cons Pros Half the price of an AirTag.Good for five to seven years.The non-replaceable battery makes it much harder to disable. Cons iOS only.Bulky.The inserts aren’t glow-in-the-dark.Masses of documentation for something so small. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.I’ve spent years using Apple AirTags and genuinely admire their design and functionality. They were my first experience with smart tracking tags, and I was instantly impressed — but after prolonged use, I’ve come to recognize their imperfections. Yes, even as a devoted iPhone user, I can acknowledge that AirTags aren’t flawless.Also: I hid 4 Bluetooth…

. Production agents fight over the same GPU — and on one shared card, a latency-sensitive agent’s p99 latency quietly got 66% worse while every pod still reported healthy. Here is what that fight actually costs, measured to the p99, not hand-waved. This is Part 2 of the “Production-Grade Agentic Inference” series. Each part removes one kind of redundant work from an agentic LLM pipeline. Part 1 kills redundant prefill. Part 2 (this part) tackles redundant waiting — how multiple micro-agents share one GPU through time-slicing. Part 3 keeps RAG retrieval on the GPU with a custom CUDA Top-K kernel.…

In this guide, we’ll create a complete 3D medical image segmentation system using MONAI to identify the spleen in CT scans from the Medical Segmentation Decathlon Task09 dataset. We’ll handle volumetric medical images by applying essential preprocessing steps like aligning image orientation, standardizing voxel spacing, adjusting intensity ranges, extracting foreground regions, and sampling patches. Then, we’ll train a 3D UNet model specifically designed for binary organ segmentation. Along the way, we’ll employ mixed-precision training for efficiency, DiceCE loss for optimization, sliding-window inference for accurate predictions, Dice score evaluation during validation, and visual comparisons to see how closely our model’s predictions…

Terry Gerton: A new report has been released examining home and community-based care under Medicaid. The report begins with a straightforward premise: while fraud in Medicaid must be tackled, it should not come at the cost of the very people the program is designed to support. Could you explain who this program is intended for and how that balance is currently playing out? Leslie Ford: Absolutely. Medicaid was established in 1965 under President Lyndon B. Johnson, and from the start, one of its core purposes has been to support individuals with disabilities. We’re talking about people with significant conditions—someone with…

Cesar Cadenas/ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET’s key takeawaysThe Motorola Razr+ proves you don’t need a top-tier phone to enjoy a top-tier experience.In everyday use, it performs just like the pricier Razr Ultra in nearly every way.The Razr+ stands out as the top pick in Motorola’s 2026 lineup, offering the ideal mix of power and value.Not long ago, choosing a smartphone was straightforward. There was the regular model and a larger, upgraded Plus version for those ready to pay a little extra. Then the market got crowded. Brands started rolling out Pro editions, Ultra variants, Fan…

Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET’s key takeawaysWi-Fi slowing down, or unfamiliar devices on your network? You may have an intruder.There are various ways to quietly confirm your suspicions.Here’s how to verify whether someone is using your Wi-Fi and how to stop it.Monitoring is becoming an ever-present part of daily life. Facial recognition cameras are scattered across public spaces; our online activity is constantly tracked, and it’s uncommon to go to a social gathering without someone pulling out their phone to record.Yet the thought of that kind of monitoring invading our own homes can…

A powerful convergence of events is set to impact global markets over the next three days, as four significant developments across geopolitics, business, and monetary policy come together. Experts caution that this combination could create major swings in stocks, oil, the Japanese yen, and cryptocurrency. From diplomatic negotiations to central bank decisions, these are the key factors likely to drive market movement in the hours ahead. 🚨 THE NEXT 72 HOURS COULD BREAK THE GLOBAL MARKETS.And this is not due to one but a total of 4 big events.Starting with the US-Iran peace deal first.So far, the US-Iran peace deal…

European law enforcement agencies have taken down AudiA6, a cryptocurrency laundering platform that was widely exploited by ransomware operators and other cybercriminal groups. According to a statement released on Thursday by Europol, the takedown of AudiA6 severed a “critical financial channel used to clean hundreds of millions in criminal proceeds.” Since its inception in 2021, the service is believed to have laundered upwards of €336 million (approximately $389 million). “The platform evolved into a primary meeting point for ransomware operators and cybercriminals looking to convert stolen digital currencies into cash while obscuring the flow of money from investigators,” the agency…

companion in Enterprise Document Intelligence, the series that constructs an enterprise RAG system from four foundational components. Article 5 (document parsing) built the parser using PyMuPDF (fitz), which extracts the words from a page. This companion replaces the engine with a vision LLM that interprets the page as an image, delivering the words plus the one capability text-based parsers lack: the content of the visuals. where this companion fits: it extends Article 5 (document parsing), within Part II (the four components), with an alternative parsing engine – Image by author Present a PDF parser with a chart and it perceives…

Terry Gerton We always enjoy chatting with the team at ARPA-H. You’re doing incredible work there. Today, we’re discussing IGOR—not Dr. Frankenstein’s assistant, but the Intelligent Generator of Research. To start, what issue does ARPA-H believe IGOR can address? Paul Sheehan Thanks for the question. We believe IGOR’s main goal, and the core problem it can tackle, is truly about making research more efficient. Scientists face daily hurdles as they try to advance their work, develop new treatments, and push forward. It’s not just that biology is complex, but the practical, day-to-day process of conducting research is also demanding. This…