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The Verge Tech

Read the Apple document explaining how new listening features still protect your privacy

At Wednesday's iPhone Duo launch event, Apple announced a handful of new Siri AI Audio Intelligence features, including Siri Recap, Live Rewind, Sound Recognition, and Music Recognition. Alongside its announcement, Apple released a document laying out how it plans to balance AI "ambient listening" and users' privacy. It says the raw audio from the new features "is handled within dedicated hardware, is not saved as a file, and is not accessible to the operating system, apps, or Apple." Apple expl

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The Verge Tech

How the new Apple Watches compare to the last-gen models

The new Apple Watches come in a variety of material and strap combinations. Apple rolled out the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 at the "Surprise and shine" event. The new watches feature sizable improvements to the health sensors and tracking, plus the ability to recite audio transcriptions and summaries, plus a ceramic case option for the Series 12. Despite the new features, the watches start at the same base price as their previous iterations. The Apple Watch Series 12 costs $

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AWS Compute Blog

Architecting SASE solutions using AWS Local Zones

Organizations with geographically distributed workforces face a trade-off between security and low-latency access. This post explores how to use AWS Local Zones and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions to deploy virtual security appliances closer to end users, covering key design principles, capacity planning, and traffic routing.

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NVIDIA Technical Blog

When to Use Encode-Prefill-Decode Disaggregation to Accelerate Multimodal Model Serving

Encode-prefill-decode (EPD) disaggregation is an inference optimization technique for multimodal models that separates the vision encoder stage from the prefill... Encode-prefill-decode (EPD) disaggregation is an inference optimization technique for multimodal models that separates the vision encoder stage from the prefill and decode stages. It is most effective for image-heavy prompts, short-to-medium outputs, and quantized mixture-of-experts (MoE) models. This post shows when and how to use EP

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NVIDIA Technical Blog

CUDA Toolkit 13.4 Adds Windows on Arm Support and Greater Control over Shared GPUs

Every NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit release adds functionality and performance improvements that help developers get more from NVIDIA GPUs and the broader NVIDIA software... Every NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit release adds functionality and performance improvements that help developers get more from NVIDIA GPUs and the broader NVIDIA software platform. CUDA Toolkit 13.4 adds support for Windows on Arm. CUDA applications have long been supported on Arm platforms through Linux; this release extends that capability to

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GitHub Changelog

Enterprise managed permissions for GitHub Copilot agent operations

If you administer GitHub Copilot Business or GitHub Copilot Enterprise, you can now centrally control which agent operations are blocked, require human approval, or can proceed without a prompt. Managed… The post Enterprise managed permissions for GitHub Copilot agent operations appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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