February 5, 2025

Hardware

Netgear Issues Critical Security Alert For These Gaming Wi-Fi Routers

Netgear has issued an urgent security update for six of its popular WiFi home gateways, including three Nighthawk Pro gaming routers, after researchers uncovered severe Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities. These flaws, which allow attackers to run arbitrary code on the devices without authentication, have been patched—but users must manually update their firmware to stay protected. The vulnerabilities have been rated 9.8 on the CVSS severity scale, meaning they’re about as critical as security exploits

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Robotics

After slow 2024, A3 optimistic about robotics sales moving forward

A3 executive vice president Alex Shikany speaking at Collaborate North America 2025. | Credit: Brianna Wessling, The Robot Report While 2024 was a slow year for the robotics industry, the Association for Advancing Automation (A3) is more optimistic about 2025.  After a slow first three quarters of the year, A3’s latest robotics statistics show a strong ending to 2024. North American companies ordered 8,277 robots valued at $506 million in Q4, reflecting 8% growth in

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TechCrunch Sessions: AI lowest ticket rates | TechCrunch

AI is heating up, and we’re diving in! TechCrunch Sessions: AI is officially open for registration. Secure your spot now and save up to $300 on select tickets before prices go up. From startup founders to AI investors to aspiring innovators — TC Sessions: AI is where the entire AI ecosystem comes together. Whether you’re building, funding, or learning, immerse yourself in the latest breakthroughs shaping the future. Register your ticket at the lowest rate.

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Hardware

Humans Hate Reading Legal Contracts So Adobe Built An AI To Do It For You

Reading legal documents can be tedious, and understanding contracts can be tricky. However, Adobe has introduced a new feature in its Acrobat AI Assistance tool, tailored to simplify this process. It promises to help maximize your time by simplifying legalese, providing concise analysis, and offering additional insights based on your queries and goals. According to Adobe, this tool will provide information that users can verify with a click. It should also be able to identify

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AI

Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone

In December, we kicked off the agentic era by releasing an experimental version of Gemini 2.0 Flash — our highly efficient workhorse model for developers with low latency and enhanced performance. Earlier this year, we updated 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental in Google AI Studio, which improved its performance by combining Flash’s speed with the ability to reason through more complex problems. And last week, we made an updated 2.0 Flash available to all users of

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Hardware

Confirmed: AMD’s RDNA 4 Radeon RX 9000 Series GPUs Arrive In Early March

AMD has confirmed its Radeon RX 9000 series GPUs will launch in early March, ending weeks of speculation. The company initially briefed press at CES 2025 but omitted the GPUs from its keynote, leading to uncertainty about their release timeline. After a brief period of silence, AMD took to Twitter to confirm a March launch window. Now, CEO Lisa Su has provided further clarity, stating in an earnings call that the cards will launch in

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Hardware

Apple Invites Help Get The Party Started And Keep It Going

The rumor mill was spot on regarding Apple’s plans for its iCloud integrated service, which was codenamed “Confetti.” The company has now officially unveiled what it’s calling Apple Invites, which is both an app and web service users can access to create and manage custom invitations for various types of events. Although, there is more to Apple Invites than keeping track of who’s coming to your next soiree. The main draw for this new app

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Ultra-Sensitive Quantum Sensors Deliver Security, Too

4 min read Margo Anderson is senior associate editor and telecommunications editor at IEEE Spectrum. Remote sensing—a category broad enough to include both personal medical monitors and space weather forecasting—is poised for a quantum upgrade, much like computing and cryptography before it. A new type of quantum sensor that promises both higher sensitivity and greater security has been proposed and tested in proof-of-concept form. What remains to be seen is how broadly it will be

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Hardware

Amazon Fire TV Stick Deals Bring Big Savings Up To 40% Off For Super Bowl Streaming

Are you ready for some football? How about some streaming goodness? Well, you can have both if you take advantage of Amazon’s deals on its entire Fire TV Stick lineup, as well as its flagship Fire TV Cube, which is a more powerful streaming device that…brace yourself for this…is shaped like a cube. Imagine that! Let’s dive in. The top Fire TV Stick is the Fire TV Stick 4K Max and it’s currently on sale

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AI

From Resume to Cover Letter Using AI and LLM, with Python and Streamlit | Towards Data Science

DISCLAIMER: The idea of doing Cover Letter or even Resume with AI does not obviously start with me. A lot of people have done this before (very successfully) and have built websites and even companies from the idea. This is just a tutorial on how to build your own Cover Letter AI Generator App using Python and a few lines of code. All the code you will say in this blog post can be found

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