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If you’ve been holding off the entire season for some great deals on major purchases like appliances or outdoor pieces, now is a great time to pick them up, as retailers are clearing away stock. We’ve searched the internet far and wide for deals to save you cash on your next big splurge. Be sure to take a look at our picks for best Labor Day deals below. Must read: More: The best refrigerators of 2022 However, there are multiple factors at play this year....

We don’t really articulate what we know, in other words. The signature achievement of artificial intelligence in the past two decades is classifying pictures of cats and dogs, among other things, by assigning them to categories. But AI programs never explain how they “know” what they supposedly “know.” They are the proverbial black box. A recent innovation from Google’s AI researchers seeks to provide an answer as to how AI knows such things....

You shouldn’t try. It’s far too hard and human beings are far too capricious, hyprocritical and plain infuriating. Still, some time in the past, a Samsung customer expressed their thoughts about the (then) new Galaxy Z Fold 2 and I have a feeling the company kept it imprinted on its soul. Leaping to the people’s forum, Reddit, the customer – handle flamo-damo – offered: “This is the worst phone I’ve owned....

Meeting these goals requires significant support, including in cyber and IT roles. Many of the over 100 jobs available in the Air Force involve computer science and technology. Read more to learn about some of these jobs and how they equate to civilian positions. Air Force careers in cyber and IT The Air Force uses alphanumeric codes called Air Force Specialty Codes, or AFSCs, to categorize and identify military jobs....

Alibaba has been under fire from Chinese regulators. China’s government has been reining in its tech giants and many of them have been whacked in the US market. For the first quarter, Alibaba reported revenue of RMB205.74 billion ($31.86 billion), up 34% from a year ago. Net income was RMB45.14 billion ($6.99 billion) and non-GAAP earnings were $6.46 billion. On an adjusted basis, the company earned 16.60 yuan per share....

The preferred method for gaining targets is spear phishing, with the group sending around 5,000 emails a day, and setting up similar domains with different TLDs – such as using example.co for example.com users – in an effort to fool those on the receiving end. It also began with fake personas, but recently started ripping publicly available data from sites like RocketReach and CrunchBase to impersonate users. The group also used public file-sharing sites including TransferNow, TransferXL, WeTransfer, or OneDrive to pass payloads onto users and make it harder for defenders to detect, since the sites are legitimate....

Other tech companies are similarly pushing back plans to open their offices as Covid-19 cases once again surge. Earlier this week, Microsoft said it was once again pushing back the earliest date for the full opening of its US worksites to October 4. Google is also extending its voluntary work-from-home policy through late October. Both Google and Microsoft will start requiring workers to be vaccinated before coming into the office....

Also: 7 ways AirTags can simplify your life Sidewalk is made up of a combination of small portions of each one of these bridges’ internet bandwidth, which combine to create a shared network. As a result, the more people have Sidewalk bridges with the feature enabled in a region, the stronger the network will be. Also: How to find out if an AirTag is tracking you

Also: How to get (great) free books on Kindle Now the Pen is getting a fountain pen for writing calligraphy, a marker for highlighting text, and a pencil for sketching. Plus, each brush type gets five thickness options. The existing options included the pen, highlighter, and eraser. On the Premium Pen, the new brush options are available in the customizable shortcuts button, and it features a dedicated eraser. Review: The best e-readers aren’t all Kindle The update also brings the ability to create subfolders for organizing content in notebooks....

The results land after strong results from Intel, which is expanding its foundry business. AMD is benefiting from gaining share in the data center as well as PCs. The company reported second quarter earnings of 58 cents a share on revenue of $3.85 billion, up 99% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings were 63 cents a share. Wall Street was expecting AMD to report second quarter revenue of $3.62 billion with non-GAAP earnings of 54 cents a share....

The Instinct MI200 delivers up to a 4.9x boost in high-performance computing than existing data center GPUs, AMD says. The company also claims it’s the fastest for AI training, delivering up to 1.2x higher peak flops for mixed-precision performance. The accelerator contains 58 billion transistors produced with 6nm technology. This allows for up to 220 compute units, which increases compute density by over 80% compared to the MI100. It’s also the world’s first GPU with 128GB of HBM2E memory....

Instead, the update focuses on privacy improvements, such as limiting which photos an app has access to. With the second developer preview, Google is adding even more privacy features to Android 13. Apps are now required to request permission in order to send notifications. While not a direct privacy feature, it’s certainly one that’s long overdue on Android. Even apps that haven’t been updated to Android 13’s runtime will have a system dialog, making notification permissions a staple feature of Android 13, regardless of how old the app is....

Along with patches in iOS 16.3 and macOS Ventura this week, Apple released a rare patch in the iOS 12.5.7 update to protect iOS devices that couldn’t upgrade to iOS 15 when it was released in September 2021. These include the iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad Air, iPad mini 2, iPad mini 3, and iPod touch (6th generation). The update addresses a bug that can be exploited remotely to gain arbitrary code execution on an affected iPhone or iPad just by leading a victim’s browser to a maliciously crafted web page or web content....

Interest in this accessory surprises me because this isn’t a particularly new bit of kit. Debuting in December 2020, a lot of water has gone under the tech bridge since it was first released. I’m putting the renewed interest down to there being more people now who own both a MagSafe-enabled iPhone and an Apple Watch. That said, it is, in my opinion, the best iPhone and Apple Watch wireless charger around....

Interested in more tech deals and reviews? Subscribe to the ZDNet Recommends newsletter and let our expert reviewers scour the internet for only the top products, services, and deals for you. As mentioned before, the accessory sold out in less than a week – both online and in-stores – when first launched, so I’m not expecting anything different this time around. This is an online-only offer and if you place your order quick enough, Apple promises a delivery date as soon as this Friday....

When I switched up to an M1 Pro MacBook Pro, I knew a whole bunch of things would change. One of those was that it was the end of the line of being able to run the x86 Windows on the Mac. Yeah, I’m one of those people who run Windows on their Macs. Get over it. Review: Apple supercharges its flagship laptop This lack of support for x86 initially got me more than a bit worried....

Those features, however, are pretty useless if the camera functionality is buggy with your go-to photo apps. Apple on Monday confirmed that iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max users have reported difficulties taking pictures using popular apps such as Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat. Users have reported that their phone starts “shaking uncontrollably” and even rattling when they try to use the camera with these apps. Also: iPhone 14 innovation scorecard: Home runs and strikeouts “We’re aware of the issue and a fix will be released next week,” an Apple spokesperson told CNET, ZDNET’s sister site....

The future of legacy application data and the cloud – report found that only 35% of organizations store more than 50% of their legacy app data on cloud services. Yet more than 80% say their priority is to move their data within 12 months or sooner. Those plans, however, are made uncertain by three major issues: 60% said data compliance was a big concern with changing data regulations in California and in Europe; security is a huge concern for 55%, especially with the rise in ransomware and the large fines if hackers gain access to data, and about 50% said they had uncertainty over budgets for cloud-based IT plus there is a significant lack of IT talent in this area....

On Wednesday, Check Point Research (CPR) published an analysis on Mekotio, a modular banking Remote Access Trojan (RAT) that targets victims in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Spain, and Peru – and is now back with new tactics for avoiding detection. In October, law enforcement made 16 arrests in relation to Mekotio and the Grandoreiro Trojans across Spain. The suspects allegedly sent thousands of phishing emails to distribute the Trojan, then used to steal banking and financial service credentials....

Artwork Archive told ZDNet that the company was made aware of the security issue on May 25 and acted “within the hour” to tackle the security issue. The storage system was secured on the same day. Researchers say a platform used to connect artists and potential buyers potentially exposed information belonging to users. Artwork Archive said that “there is no other evidence that this was accessed by anyone other than the third-party cybersecurity company....