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Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET’s key takeawaysSettings can make Messages cleaner, more secure, and easier to use. RCS, filters, mentions, and backgrounds help to modernize Messages. On every new iPhone, I check these settings and features first.There are a few Apple apps I constantly use, and Messages is one of them. It’s great from the moment I open it on my iPhone and start firing off the first texts. It works across my Apple devices, has a clean interface, and includes plenty of fun features to try.Also: Use Google Messages? I…

AGIBOT, a developer of embodied AI and robotics, hosted the UK AGIBOT Partner Conference (APC) 2026 in London, marking a key step in the company’s European growth strategy and its continued effort to build long-term commercial value for humanoid robotics through technology innovation, real-world deployment, and local partnerships. At the conference, AGIBOT underscored its commitment to building a sustainable embodied AI ecosystem in the UK and Europe. The event brought together product innovation, flexible commercial models, and local deployment practices, with highlights including the European debut of AGIBOT A3, the introduction of a UK Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) model and the company’s…

virus spreading through big tech. Engineers are being judged, directly or indirectly, by how much AI they can consume. More tokens, more output, more compute. Some companies even had leaderboards. It’s the 2026 version of ranking engineers by lines of code. Less is more Tokenminning is the antithesis of tokenmaxxing. Token efficiency becomes increasingly important as your usage grows. Every unnecessary token increases cost, latency and complexity. Tokenminning is a new pattern, which systematically minimizes token use while maintaining, if not improving, the performance of your AI agents. In this article, I cover practical strategies for tokenminning that I use…

Comcast (CMCSA) stock keeps falling while its sector rises. The company earns most of its money from home internet and cable TV, a shrinking business, and splitting itself in two has not fixed that. That is why a dramatic breakup failed to lift the shares, which trade around $23.73, near a 52-week low. The problem sits inside the company, not the market. CMCSA Stock Levels: CMCSA The Sector Is Rising, but Not for Cable The gains did not spread evenly. The communication services sector, where Comcast sits, rose about 1.4% over the past six months. However, that gain came from…

Traditionally, an audit independently examines records, processes and controls to verify compliance and assess financial and operational integrity. In the modern world, such an approach should extend to the software development lifecycle (SDLC) – especially in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) or large language model (LLM)-assisted code. Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and their teams need proof that developers are producing protected products, because one in five organizations has experienced a serious security incident directly tied to AI-generated code. Getting to the root of the problems requires visibility into who is leveraging AI, what tools they are using and…

The Google Health API is the official successor to the Fitbit Web API. It targets the Google Health API v4 and moves developers onto Google OAuth 2.0. Now an open-source CLI command-line tool called ghealth wraps that API for terminals and AI agents. The tool is a single Go binary under the Apache 2.0 license. It exposes 40 verified data types as structured JSON. That design lets you pipe sleep, heart rate, and step data into an agent’s context. What is ghealth? ghealth is a wrapper over the Google Health API v4. You build it from source with go build…

Posted on July 1, 2026 by ChengHao Yang, CNCF Ambassador CNCF projects highlighted in this post Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) recently reached GA in Kubernetes v1.35, and I believe many of us are eager to give it a try. Adding to the momentum, NVIDIA has moved dra-driver-nvidia-gpu into Kubernetes SIGs, with the documentation dropping the Beta label — a sign that the technology and its standards are gradually maturing. For this post, I borrowed all the NVIDIA GPUs currently available at CNTUG Infra Labs to learn how to elegantly allocate devices and resources with DRA. CNTUG Infra Labs: Lab environment…

TXOne Networks has introduced Virtual Portable Inspector, a software-based OT inspection tool designed for industrial environments where physical inspection is difficult to scale.The product extends TXOne’s Element inspection portfolio into connected and distributed OT environments, including sites spread across multiple locations, assets without accessible USB interfaces or HMIs, and facilities where on-site inspection adds deployment overhead.Software-based inspection for distributed OT sitesTXOne said Virtual Portable Inspector is designed for connected and distributed OT environments, including geographically distributed sites and assets that are difficult to inspect physically.TXOne said OT inspection commonly takes place during scheduled maintenance windows, manual checks, or physical access…

From left to right: The FANUC LR Mate 200 iD, the KUKA KR QUANTEC, and ABB’s IRB 6700. | Source: FANUC, KUKA, ABB Robotics Robotics professionals know how much the industry will grow in the coming years, especially because of the numerous disruptive advancements that keep entering workflows. While automation is the goal, experts are recognizing the importance of mechanical positioning and its impact on the machine’s mobility, range and speed. Considering these characteristics more comprehensively could yield greater efficiency in automated assembly operations. How precision positioning and components enhance robotics Positioning is essential for a robot’s success because it…

In the Wild What’s trending in AI right now, from the app charts to the community feeds. Our trackers pull the app charts every two hours and the video and community feeds every six; below is the latest snapshot at press time. Full roundup here. Meta AI climbed to #4 on the US App Store productivity chart this week, up two spots in our tracking. Meta’s assistant keeps converting its built-in distribution into downloads. Claude vs Gemini Make Shaders From Scratch is one of the fastest-growing AI videos right now, at 129,000 views and counting. Two models write Minecraft shaders…