Birdbuddy released its latest line of smart bird feeders equipped with cameras that can detect birds by species on Thursday, and it’s never been a better time to start birdwatching at your home. The reason is a new model called the Birdbuddy Nook, which starts at $99 and offers its AI features for free with no subscription needed. Read more: The Best Smart Bird Feeders, Tested and Reviewed Most of the smart bird feeders we’ve tested, including past Birdbuddy models, cost around $200 or more. The particularly affordable Nook includes a 2K-resolution camera with both portrait and landscape orientations, plus a 3.8-cup birdseed container. It wakes up via motion but can keep recording for longer periods of time when there’s lots of activity. All the alerts and species recognition features happen on your phone, via the Birdbuddy app. The Nook comes in both a standard model for $99 and a model with a solar panel built into the roof for $159. I’ve tested many solar-powered security cameras, and these small panels really do help keep …

It’s already Friday, October 23 in Australia and New Zealand, which means customers who pre-ordered an iPhone Duo are beginning to receive their devices. We are seeing first impressions and early photos from actual customers on the MacRumors forums, Instagram, Reddit, and other social networks. If your ‌iPhone Duo‌ has been delivered, let us know what you think of it in the comments below. MacRumors reader Boardiesboi is always one of the first to get a new iPhone and share images. Priced starting at $1,999, the ‌iPhone Duo‌ is Apple’s first foldable device, featuring a 5.4-inch outer display and a 7.6-inch inner display. Apple says retail stores in select countries will have a limited number of iPhone Duos for walk-in purchases on launch day, and it expects stock to sell out fast due to “extraordinary” demand. There is no Apple Store in New Zealand, so store stock in Australia will give us an idea of what in-store availability might look like worldwide. Apple Stores in the United States, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Italy (select stores), …

Increasingly, the answer depends on the serving harness—the engineering system surrounding the model, including the architecture, memory management, scheduling, and optimization decisions that determine how efficiently model intelligence becomes a production capability. For technical executives, that changes where AI investment should go—and what they should demand from the architecture supporting it. Start with the workload, not the model There is no universally “best” model or AI architecture. There is only the right solution for the business problem. A customer-facing assistant optimized for fast responses has fundamentally different requirements from a document-processing pipeline that can run overnight. An internal knowledge application and a high-volume customer service platform may use the same foundation model but require very different serving architectures. The workload defines the constraints. The constraints should determine the architecture. That sounds simple, but it runs counter to the way many organizations have approached early AI deployments. During a proof of concept, model accuracy naturally dominates the discussion. Production introduces constraints that are much easier to ignore when only a handful of users are involved: latency, …

One of the biggest tech tips for PC owners is to enable XMP/EXPO profiles in the BIOS to use the manufacturer-intended clock speeds, because by default, RAM won’t run at its rated speeds. However, most guides overlook the fact that there is more than one XMP/EXPO profile, and selecting the wrong one might cost you latency and instability. Related My computer felt slow for months until I realized my RAM was never running at full speed A simple BIOS setting unlocked the full speed my RAM promised. Your RAM runs slower than advertised by default Why JEDEC speeds come first RAM close up RAM usually doesn’t run at its advertised speed out of the box because JEDEC-compliant profiles are the default. These are the standardized baseline speeds that every board runs unless you enable a faster profile. To reach the rated speeds, enable XMP/EXPO, manufacturer-approved overclocking profiles that are safe to use. For instance, you buy a DDR5 memory kit capable of running at 6,400 MT/s, but the default JEDEC profile sets it to 4,800 …

ZDNET’s key takeaways Amazon is officially rebranding Kindle Unlimited as Kindle+. Audiobooks are becoming a bigger part of the Kindle+ subscription. The list of audiobooks will include titles narrated by AI. Amazon just rebranded its Kindle Unlimited subscription to become Kindle+, and will continue to offer unlimited reading from an eligible Kindle catalog for $12 a month. It will also expand its audiobook category to include books read by AI narrators. Expanded audiobook selection with Kindle+ The upgrade expands the already available audiobook category through the subscription. It’ll also give authors the option to include more eligible audiobooks in Kindle+, including AI-narrated titles. Amazon hopes to enhance the reading experience by letting users continue their ebooks with virtual narration as they go about their day after putting down their Kindle. Amazon is offering the Virtual Voice service free to authors in the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) program. With Virtual Voice, authors can have their books narrated by AI at no cost, potentially reaching a wider audience. Also: Got an old Kindle? How to resurrect your …

Updated on Thursday, Oct. 22 at 11:15 a.m. ET — The PHP security issues known as PHP2Shell sent the cybersecurity world into a frenzy yesterday, and now we have some data on the fallout. VirusTotal, a cybersecurity tool owned by Google, reported that there are about 5.1 million IP addresses running PHP, showing just how widespread the vulnerability is. Cogent Security, an agentic AI cybersecurity company, released data on how the issue affected big companies. Cogent reported that the average Fortune 500 company had 2,266 affected assets, with an average of 16 assets demanding immediate action. As of 8 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Cogent reported that less than 1 percent of affected assets had been patched. PHP2Shell caused outages across the web, including at Wikipedia, and many government, gaming, and business websites required emergency maintenance. By Thursday morning, most services had been restored. The PHP Foundation, the non-profit team behind the PHP coding language, released emergency security updates on Wednesday to fix two critical vulnerabilities, a day after details about the flaws leaked online. The UK’s …

There have been “millions” of exploitation attempts since a “critical” security flaw affecting websites around the world emerged, according to a major tech company. A number of government and business websites went offline on Wednesday as a security measure after an urgent software update was issued over vulnerabilities in PHP, a programming language used extensively across the internet. The developers of PHP said that a set of new ​updates fixing two previously identified critical vulnerabilities was now ​live, and strongly encouraged ‌users to update software immediately. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince wrote on X: “In the 10 hours before it was publicly ​announced, across the network we saw ‌thousands of attempts to exploit it. That jumped to tens of ​thousands in the 45 minutes post announcement, hundreds of thousands within two hours, and millions ​now.” Amazon Web Services also said this flaw is now “being broadly exploited in the wild” – and has revealed that suspected hackers tried to capitalise on the vulnerability days before it was publicly announced. You need javascript enabled to view this …