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Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery
The woman claimed that AI tools are "taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse."
An eval harness found what qualitative review couldn't: AI models are most confident when wrong
There is a step in the development process for large language model (LLM)-assisted tooling that most teams skip because it's tedious, time-consuming, and doesn't produce results…
Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work
How will the watermarking actually work? Can it be hidden with editing? And how does this affect code?
SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition
AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX.
How to tell if your AI platforms’ accounts have been hacked
A guide on how to check if hackers have broken into your accounts on the most popular AI platforms.
Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M
Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies.
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No space for bookshelf speakers? The Victrola Soundstage sits neatly under my turntable
The Victrola Soundstage is ideal for those who want to build their vinyl system up rather than out, with plenty of digital and analog connections for every kind of listener.
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GLM-5.3 is here with advanced cyber capabilities — and reportedly already found a 'serious vulnerability' in Cursor
Chinese AI startup Z.ai, known internationally for its growing lineup of powerful, largely open source GLM series of language models, today released GLM-5.3 with substantial gains…
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Talks to sell PayPal to Stripe and Advent are heating up
PayPal is still reportedly negotiating a potential sale to Stripe and private equity firm Advent, as the fintech firm's new CEO attempts to turn the company around.
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Self-driving trucks are officially testing on California highways
Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI, two companies developing self-driving trucks, have received permits from the California Department of Motor Vehicles.
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Thrive’s Joshua Kushner chides Silicon Valley VCs over AI euphoria
The AI opportunity is huge, but "it would also be a grave error in our minds to let excitement weaken our investment discipline," Kushner warns in his first-ever investment letter.
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What we know about the alleged Iranian hacks on US water utilities
Over the last couple of weeks, hackers have targeted and broken into the systems of several water plants in the United States. Here’s what we know and don’t know about this wave…
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Read-it-later app Pocket shut down — here are the best alternatives
Pocket users have until October 8, 2025, to export their saved articles and other items, including lists, archives, favorites, notes, and highlights.
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Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation
Screen-sharing bug lets remote hackers log in without a password.
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PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider
"We don't have access to the data on the hardware/servers," Iron Mountain told Ars.
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Google Meet can take notes for your in-person meetings now - here's how it works
Google's Gemini-driven meeting software can now save a transcript, send it to Google Drive, and email you a copy.
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Unforgetful is a new reminders app for people who can’t stop hitting snooze
Unforgetful, the latest app from longtime indie developer Marco Arment, is designed to make reminders harder to ignore — or accidentally dismiss.
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I tested an Android app that lets anyone fight censorship - and shows your impact in real time
Most apps make our personal lives easier. This one helps the oppressed communicate by turning your phone into a Tor proxy. No technical knowledge needed.
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Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations
Turning off this setting won't affect invisible benchmarks used to identify an AI generated file.
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Apple is warning users of new spyware attacks - what to do if you're a target
New spyware attacks are aimed at journalists, activists, politicians, diplomats, and others. Here's how Apple is notifying them and what they should do - after turning on Lockdown…
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ChatGPT's new Computer History tracks your Mac activity to create a timeline - but should you let it?
Rolling out to ChatGPT's Mac app, Computer History creates a timeline from your activities across the apps and websites you use on your Mac. Is that a privacy risk?
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Dell XPS 13 review: The first budget laptop to rival Neo raises the bar for all PCs
The Dell XPS 13 flaunts build quality rarely seen at this price point, but not without trade-offs.
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OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground
US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.
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I used OpenFactory to build my own Linux distro overnight - this AI tool is going to be big
Need a custom Linux distribution, but don't have time to learn how to build one? OpenFactory can help you.
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This free Android assistant fixes my biggest Gemini frustration - and keeps my data private
With Google set to retire Assistant, and Gemini not exactly the replacement many of us want, Dicio is a solid option. There's one catch.
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I tried the new ChatGPT Desktop App for Linux - but I'll stick to my browser for now
This preview release of ChatGPT Desktop for Linux supports Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora is here.
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Three Claude agents given conflicting orders sabotaged each other on a shared server — then didn't tell users what they'd done
Every Claude model Anthropic tested turned on its own, and no attacker made them do it. Given three agents, four hours on one server, and conflicting orders none knew the others…
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Private security firms will soon be allowed to hack overseas cybercriminals
Trump memo is first time gov't has authorized private sector to perform cyberattacks.
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Google’s Gemini 3.7 Flash targets coding and agents with a 50% introductory price cut
Google is rolling out Gemini 3.7 Flash , a new version of its workhorse AI model that puts coding, agentic workflows and knowledge work at the center of the upgrade — while…
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Gemini voice calling on Android Auto keeps failing me - and Google has until September to fix it
With Google Assistant shutting down this fall, Android users will be left with inferior voice calling, thanks to Gemini.
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DeepSeek Harness launches as open source rival to Claude Code, alongside V4-Pro on API with higher prices
DeepSeek is expanding beyond the model layer and deeper into the software developers use to put AI agents to work. The Chinese AI lab on Thursday launched the official version of…
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This Micro RGB TV rivals pricier OLED models - and I'd recommend it, especially on sale
The Samsung R95H is built with an all-new Micro RGB panel that delivers truly impressive color and contrast.
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I wore Samsung's and Apple's Ultra smartwatches for 3 weeks - apps made all the difference
The Apple Watch Ultra 3 and the Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 are top-tier rugged smartwatches with similar features, but one stands out.
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Why Capital One built its multi-agent AI platform around open-weight models
Presented by Capital One At VB Transform 2026 , Kel Vanee, MVP of machine learning engineering at Capital One, spoke with Sam Witteveen, Senior Technology Contributor at…
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Writer says its new Palmyra X6 model cuts AI agent costs by 52% as token spending surges
Writer , the enterprise AI agent platform used by Fortune 500 companies including Accenture, Uber, and Vanguard, released its new flagship model Palmyra X6 today, alongside a…
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Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack
The data was scraped and exfiltrated from 2,500 users of a compromised AI package.
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DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight
FBI Atlanta confirms it's looking into the incident, no arrests made.
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Chrome adopts what may be the best protection yet against account takeovers
Device-bound session credentials thwart an increasingly common form of account takeover.
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New Pass-ta-key attack reveals all the things we didn't know about passkeys
Why passkey apps treat Windows differently than other operating systems.
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Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers
Baseboard management controllers from the world's biggest manufacturers are a security mess.
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Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies
Had the hacks used conventional methods, someone would likely go to prison.
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Max-severity Exchange server flaw under active exploitation by Kremlin hackers
Exploits can give persistent server access that survives credential rotation and disk re-imaging.
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Mythos attack on 3rd-round PQC algorithm candidate puts it out of commission
HAWK withstood years of testing that had yet to uncover a fatal weakness found through Mythos.
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