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In this article, you will learn five practical strategies for managing context windows in long-running AI agent applications, along with the key tradeoffs each approach introduces. Topics we will cover include: Why context windows become a critical bottleneck in agent-based AI systems designed for sustained, autonomous operation. Five distinct context management strategies: sliding windows, recursive summarization, structured state management, ephemeral context via RAG, and dynamic context routing. The inherent tradeoffs of each strategy, from memory loss and information compression to retrieval blind spots and maintenance complexity. Introduction Long-running agents are those capable of exhibiting sustained autonomous execution over time. In…

  # Introduction  Have you ever thought, “If I had programming skills, I could launch my own startup or build the app idea I have been thinking about”? For many non-technical founders, creators, and professionals, the hardest part is not coming up with ideas. It is turning those ideas into working products. You might start exploring tools like Claude Code or other terminal-based AI coding assistants, only to realize that you still need to handle setup, security, deployment, hosting, scaling, and a lot of technical decision-making. That is where AI coding platforms come in. These tools cost more than basic coding…

Have you ever been travelling, had to make a big payment and realised you left your hardware wallet back home? Perhaps you are a key holder in a business’s Bitcoin treasury, or an emergency came up, and a big payment has to be made, some cold storage Bitcoin has to move, but the keys are elsewhere.  Key Teleport, a feature developed by the hardware wallet manufacturer Coinkite, may be the most secure way to handle key material at a distance. The feature is only available to the Coldcard Q, the premium, feature-rich Bitcoin hardware wallet developed by the company.  Before…

A Brazilian banking trojan called Ousaban is going after Windows users who bank in Spain and Portugal. Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs identified the campaign in May 2026. It opens with a phishing PDF disguised as a corrupted file, checks that the visitor is really in Spain or Portugal, and hides its real payload inside an image. The goal is the usual one: steal banking logins and take over accounts. Ousaban sits quietly on a Windows PC and waits for the user to open a banking site. When a target bank loads, it can capture screenshots and keystrokes, tamper with the clipboard, show fake…

One year ago, we declared the first Content Independence Day, and we gave website owners the means to take back control of their content. The deal between crawlers and website owners that had held up for 30 years — we crawl you, and you get referrals — was no longer true. AI was taking everything and sending back nothing, presenting an existential threat to website owners. And so we launched a one-click “Block AI Bots” option, along with a Pay-Per-Crawl marketplace.A lot has changed in a year. Last July, conversations around “AI bots” centered around blocking AI training without compensation,…

By Marc Kavinsky, Lead Editor at IoT Business News.Myriota has added cellular connectivity to its HyperPulse 5G non-terrestrial network and AssetHawk tracker, creating a single hybrid service for assets that move between terrestrial and remote environments.One of the persistent weaknesses in industrial IoT is not the lack of connectivity options, but the gap between them. Cellular networks are efficient where coverage exists; satellite fills the remote-area problem, but can be harder to justify for assets that only occasionally leave terrestrial coverage. The difficult category is the asset that moves between both worlds: trailers, generators, containers, field equipment and distributed infrastructure…

Apptronik offers a bipedal configuration for movement through spaces built for people, while a wheeled base offers stability and efficiency for high-throughput environments. | Source: Apptronik Apptronik yesterday made two major announcements. First, the company launched Apollo 2, its updated humanoid robot. Second, it opened its newly expanded Robot Park, its flagship data collection and training facility for humanoid robots in Austin, Texas. Apollo 2 comes in both bipedal and wheeled-base configurations. Apptronik said it designed the robot to learn real-world work through large-scale data collection. It enables the company to gather diverse data across a wide range of tasks…

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET’s key takeawaysProton debuts Lumo 2.0, overhauling the chatbot for increased security and responsiveness.The maker of ProtonMail and ProtonVPN says its AI bot is never trained on user data.The latest Lumo targets consumers and businesses that want to keep conversations private.Proton, best known for its ProtonMailVPN and encrypted email service ProtonMail, has announced Lumo 2.0, the second iteration of its ‘privacy-first’ AI chatbot, featuring “the most significant change since launch.”First announced in 2025, Lumo arrived as a privacy-preserving alternative to popular AI models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude. While…

Study designTo identify circRNAs in blood associated with AD, we generated RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) data from 816 CU individuals and 405 participants with AD, covering the entire AD continuum (Fig. 1, Table 1, Supplementary Table 1 and Supplementary Fig. 1). The mean age at blood draw was similar between individuals with AD and CU individuals, with average ages of 76.8 and 74.5 years, respectively. A total of 717 samples had CSF Aβ and pTau181 measurements, 776 had amyloid-PET data, and 915 had plasma pTau217. We used multiple circRNA bioinformatic tools to perform high-quality and robust circRNA calls (Supplementary Table 2). Next,…

Defense contractors face a new restriction beginning Tuesday as a provision from the fiscal 2025 defense policy bill takes effect, prohibiting the Pentagon from contracting with companies that retain consultants lobbying for certain Chinese military-linked firms.  Section 851 of the fiscal 2025 defense authorization bill bars the Defense Department from entering into contracts with companies that retain “covered lobbyists” — entities that engage in “lobbying activities” on behalf of companies designated by the Pentagon as Chinese military companies under its Section 1260H list. The provision is essentially making lobbying and consulting firms to either drop certain Chinese clients or risk…