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On June 1, 2026, MiniMax officially launched its M3 model, featuring MSA—a new sparse attention architecture—that supports a context window of up to 1 million tokens. M3 also natively handles image and video inputs and can operate desktop computers. The API is already live. The model is accessible through MiniMax Code, the MiniMax Token Plan, and the MiniMax API. As the successor to M2.7, M3 aims to be the first open-source model to merge advanced coding performance, massive context capacity, and native multimodal processing in one unified system. The technical report and model weights will be released within 10 days.…

Healthcare expenses keep going up year after year, and there’s no sign of things getting better anytime soon. For government workers, retiring brings even bigger financial challenges. Once you leave federal service, your Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) premiums can no longer come out of your paycheck before taxes hit. On top of that, Medicare introduces new costs, and most people naturally use more healthcare as they get older. A new report suggests that men should have about $212,000 set aside, and women around $252,000, just to have a 90% shot of covering their medical bills in retirement. Here’s the…

Jack Wallen/ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET’s key takeawaysMX Linux Xfce AHS is a Linux distribution designed for modern hardware.From laptops to desktops, MX Linux AHS is ready to run without any extra setup.MX Linux is free and open for anyone to download.MX Linux is a collaborative effort from the antiX and MX Linux communities, delivering a suite of open-source operating systems all built on the rock-solid Debian Stable foundation. Thanks to its Debian roots, MX Linux is incredibly stable and delivers excellent performance across a wide range of PCs — from aging machines to mid-tier…

Here’s the paraphrased version: My own Raspberry Pi cyberdeck build. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a trusted source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways The term “cyberdeck” was originally introduced in the 1984 sci-fi book Neuromancer.These are homemade machines that can channel a futuristic, tech-noir aesthetic.Not up for making one yourself? You can always purchase a pre-built cyberdeck instead.Lately, cyberdecks have been everywhere in the conversation. And I’ll admit — it’s a term I haven’t come across in ages. Before you think this has anything to do with Star Wars, let me clarify: the concept was actually dreamed up by…

The future of America’s cryptocurrency market could come down to a crucial Senate vote anticipated this month, and few are following it more closely than Coinbase Chief Policy Officer Faryar Shirzad. During an interview on Fox Business’ Mornings with Maria earlier today, Shirzad argued that the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act—referred to as the CLARITY Act—is the most consequential piece of financial regulation since Dodd-Frank, and that its passage is now within grasp. “This will be Congress’s most significant financial regulatory legislation in years, certainly since Dodd-Frank,” Shirzad stated. “What it does is bring much-needed clarity to the crypto industry.”…

A fresh supply chain attack campaign known as Miasma has targeted @redhat-cloud-services packages. The attackers compromised these packages to steal sensitive information like credentials and secrets from developers’ machines while also deploying a worm designed to spread on its own. “Think of this as a smaller-scale version of the Shai-Hulud attacks: it relies on identical core strategies such as running during installation, gathering credentials, targeting CI/CD pipelines, exfiltrating encrypted data, and potentially spreading further,” Socket explained. The identity of the attackers remains unclear. This is largely due to the fact that TeamPCP, a well-known cybercrime group, previously open-sourced the tools…

Both Claude Code and Codex are remarkably capable AI coding assistants on their own. After testing each one extensively, I’d say they’re roughly equal in quality — at least when comparing Claude Opus 4.8 against Codex running GPT-5.5. That said, each one shines in certain areas while falling short in others. Depending on the situation, I’ll reach for Claude Code one moment and Codex the next. In this piece, I’ll walk through how I pair these two tools together and explain when I choose one over the other. Keep in mind that this entire space is evolving at breakneck speed.…

Here is the rewritten HTML with text rephrased for better readability: As we unveiled in What’s Next with AWS 2026, we’re now making OpenAI GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4 models, and Codex available on Amazon Bedrock for general use, providing you with cutting-edge models and a coding software agent. OpenAI reports that GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4 models perform exceptionally well at coding, reasoning, agent-based workflows, and intricate professional tasks. GPT-5.5 is your go-to for the most demanding customer workloads, while GPT-5.4 offers the best value for performance. You can reach them through the Responses API on Amazon Bedrock’s new inference engine built for outstanding…

Asimily has introduced Segmentation Orchestration, a brand-new capability that bridges the gap between connected-device risk insights and enforceable network policies — no manual translation required. No competitor offers a unified platform that delivers full asset visibility, risk-driven vulnerability prioritisation, and powerful segmentation orchestration, all purpose-built for the expanding AI-era attack surface. “AI has dramatically increased both the volume and complexity of network attacks targeting connected devices. Security teams are finding that visibility tools and manually written policies simply can’t keep up,” said Shankar Somasundaram, CEO of Asimily. “Attackers are actively exploiting the gap between what organisations can observe and what…

NVIDIA provides AI agent tools for creators of robotics and self-driving vehicles. During GTC Taipei and Computex today, NVIDIA Corp. introduced a range of open-source tools and capabilities for physical AI. These offerings aim to assist creators working on robotics, self-driving cars, visual AI, and industrial digital twins. The company stated that these resources can significantly cut down the expenses, duration, and difficulty involved in creating large-scale physical AI workflows. Included within the NVIDIA Agent Toolkit, these fresh capabilities enable AI agents to expedite the processes of creating data, running simulations, training, testing, and launching robots, autonomous vehicles (AVs), factories,…