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Summer sales events like Amazon Prime Day are just around the corner. But before those arrive, Memorial Day sales are already underway. For many people, the holiday weekend signals the unofficial beginning of summer, and major retailers such as Amazon, Best Buy, Target, Walmart, and others are still marking the season with discounts on home goods, outdoor equipment, tech, clothing, and much more.Also: How to get Amazon Prime for half off: Two ways to qualify in 2026As ZDNET’s deals and shopping editor, I track sales around the clock, and I’ve picked up plenty of tips on spotting the best bargains…

Last week, Nvidia’s stock soared to a new record high, surpassing $236 and bringing its market value close to $5.7 trillion. The shares jumped 3.7% in one day and have been on a steady upward run, signaling growing investor optimism as the company approaches its earnings report. The outlook for Nvidia’s stock is shaped by two opposing factors: surging worldwide demand for AI technology, especially from China, and increasing geopolitical tensions along with concerns about the stock’s high valuation. With NVDA holding above important technical benchmarks but showing signs of being overbought in the short term, the stock’s next direction…

Cybersecurity experts have revealed details about a new Linux-based malware called Showboat, which has been actively used in attacks against a Middle Eastern telecom company since at least mid-2022. According to a report from Lumen Technologies’ Black Lotus Labs, shared with The Hacker News, Showboat is a flexible post-exploitation tool built for Linux environments. It can create remote shells, move files between systems, and act as a SOCKS5 proxy for network traffic. Researchers believe the malware has been used by one or more threat groups linked to China. Connections were found between the command-and-control (C2) servers and IP addresses traced…

Jada Jones/ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET’s key takeaways360 Reality Audio was first introduced at CES 2019, with Sony aiming to bring it to streaming platforms.Apple and Dolby’s collaboration brought spatial audio into the mainstream.Lacking a streaming service or a strong foothold in hardware, Sony’s format struggled to gain traction.Each year at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), technology companies from across the globe—ranging from well-known corporations to fledgling startups—converge in Las Vegas to present their latest innovations. At the 2019 event, Japanese electronics leader Sony unveiled its 360 Reality Audio spatial audio format.Also: I tested Sony’s…

Here’s the rewritten HTML content with improved readability while keeping the HTML structure intact: # Introduction While AI has advanced to generate vast amounts of code, system design remains a crucial skill that can’t be easily replicated. Coding is just one aspect of developing real products. Creating systems that are scalable, dependable, and efficient still demands expertise, careful trade-offs, collaboration with stakeholders, and sharp engineering decision-making. Precisely for this reason, system design holds significant importance in technical interviews. It goes beyond simply knowing the correct answers. It’s about your thought process, your ability to deconstruct complex problems, and how you…

Cloudflare is expanding its Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) service to include support for the Claude Compliance API. Security and compliance teams can now track how Claude is used directly from the Cloudflare dashboard, with no need for agents installed on endpoints.Enterprise security teams have traditionally had difficulty monitoring user interactions with both authorized and unauthorized applications. The widespread use of AI tools has added new complexity. Employees now spend considerable time in these emerging digital spaces, engaging in activities that differ from conventional SaaS interactions—uploading files, typing unstructured text prompts, and receiving outputs that might contain confidential information.Cloudflare CASB…

Key Takeaways: The Auburn Research and Technology Foundation has started construction on a new $22 million, 100,000-square-foot RFID Lab facility set to be completed by summer 2027. The upcoming lab will serve as the cornerstone of a 45-acre research hub dedicated to advanced manufacturing, focusing on RFID, automation, AI, robotics, and supply chain advancements. One of the leading RFID research universities in the country is growing. Officials from the Auburn Research and Technology Foundation (ARTF), the City of Auburn along with its Industrial Development Board (IDB), and Auburn University recently came together at the Auburn Research Park (The Park) to…

themes from a call corpus to the customer table. Customers without transcripts get NULL. NULL gets filled with zero, or with “no issue mentioned,” or quietly omitted as a reference category. In one line of preprocessing, the pipeline converts did not call support into did not experience billing frustration. The regression that follows looks clean. The coefficient on “billing frustration” is significant, signed the way the product team expected, large enough to matter. It gets pasted into a roadmap document. Nobody asks where the variable came from. This article is about what got smuggled in with that fill value, and…

AUSTIN, Texas – May 20th, 2026 – To mark Bitcoin Pizza Day on May 22, Unchained — a Bitcoin financial services firm launched in 2016 by Joe Kelly and Dhruv Bansal — is teaming up with Bitcoin Park to host free screenings of “The New Rules of Bitcoin,” a short documentary created in collaboration with The Atlantic’s creative brand studio, Atlantic Re:think. The events will take place across ten major U.S. cities. The film explores three central ideas: Bitcoin isn’t what you might assume, Bitcoin rewards long-term thinking, and Bitcoin represents genuine ownership. These themes form the foundation of what…

In recent years, cryptocurrency theft operations have evolved far beyond isolated phishing pages and fake NFT mint scams. What once consisted mainly of individual actors running malicious wallet-connection pages has increasingly developed into a structured underground service economy built around “Drainer-as-a-Service” (DaaS) platforms. Unlike traditional malware operations, crypto drainers typically rely on social engineering rather than device compromise. Victims are lured to fake crypto, NFT, airdrop, or DeFi websites and asked to connect their wallets. Once a malicious transaction or wallet signature is approved, the drainer can transfer cryptocurrency assets directly from the victim’s wallet, often within seconds. An analysis…