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Updated: about 17 hours ago
- When your AI browser becomes your enemy: The Comet security disaster
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Updated: less than an hour ago
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Updated: less than an hour ago
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Updated: 2 days ago
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- Google's Gemini will now generate presentations for you
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Updated: 2 days ago
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Updated: about 20 hours ago
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Updated: 1 day ago
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- Tech billionaires are now shaping the militarization of American cities
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Updated: 1 day ago
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- Sneaky Mermaid attack in Microsoft 365 Copilot steals data
- Sora makes slurfect deepfakes of celebs spewing racial epithets
- Uncle Sam's new power plan will plug AI farms into the grid faster
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Updated: less than an hour ago
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Updated: 7 days ago
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Updated: about 6 hours ago
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- After Teen Suicide, Character.AI Lawsuit Raises Questions Over Free Speech Protections
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- Ford’s Profit Jumps on Strong Sales but Company Lowers its Outlook
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Updated: 2 days ago
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Updated: about 1 hour ago
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Updated: less than an hour ago
- Swift releases Swift SDK preview for Android, allowing developers to build Android apps in Swift and making it easier to share code across iOS and Android (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
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- Sources: Apple is working on a vapor chamber for the next iPad Pro in 2027 and plans to start selling ads in its Maps app as early as next year (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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- The US AI data center boom is consuming capital, power, and people that the rest of the economy needs, and is crowding out Trump's manufacturing revival plans (Bloomberg)
- Defakto, which lets enterprises secure automated interactions between internal systems and AI agents or other non-human actors, raised a $30.75M Series B (Chris Metinko/Axios)
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- Seneca, which is developing autonomous firefighting drones, raised $60M in seed and Series A rounds led by Caffeinated Capital and Convective Capital (Christopher Marquis/Forbes)
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Updated: about 2 hours ago
- Apple may introduce search ads to Apple Maps starting next year, per report
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Updated: 2 days ago
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Updated: about 1 hour ago
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Updated: about 4 hours ago
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Updated: about 2 hours ago
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- Apple may finally increase the RAM beyond 8GB in the standard iPhone 18
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Updated: about 1 hour ago
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Updated: about 4 hours ago
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Updated: about 3 hours ago
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Updated: less than an hour ago
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Updated: less than an hour ago
- US–China reach trade framework that could avert 100% tariffs and pause rare-earth curbs — development comes as Trump and Xi prepare to meet this week
- China's ByteDance reportedly building a Steam competitor — 'GameTop' for overseas markets will distribute and publish games like any other store, while harboring a social space with AI-assisted creator tools
- Space Invaders arcade game ran faster as enemies died due to Intel 8080 bottleneck — expert coder asserts 'hardware accident' to blame
- Sam Altman says AI could eliminate jobs that aren’t ‘real work’
- Gigabyte drops 2TB SSD to all-time low around $0.10 per GB — Aorus Gen5 14000 SSD now at $208.68
- ‘Never in your life buy a 5090 Founders Edition’: repair tech slams Nvidia’s flagship card design for train wreck melting 16-pin power connector
- Kingston Fury Renegade G5 2TB SSD Review: The Renegade is Back
- Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs
- 8-bit PC Hercules Graphics Card from 1984 gets revisited — Hercules GPU from the IBM era shaped the modern graphics we know today
- Cooler Master apologizes for telling users to pry apart melting-prone 16-pin connectors to fix them, instructs customer support teams to stop recommending modifications — company also discontinues problematic right-angle connector
Updated: about 2 hours ago
- Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App
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- Apple's 11-Inch M5 iPad Pro Hits New Low Price of $949 on Amazon
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Updated: about 2 hours ago
- Debian Establishes Archive Operations Team, Licensing & New Packages Team
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- EXT4 Patches Enable Block Size Greater Than Page Size Support
- Intel Sends Out Initial Graphics Driver Patches For Multi-Device SVM
- Linux Prepping For "Extreme" Mode On Lenovo Legion Devices
- AMD Begins Sending In "New Stuff" For Their Graphics Driver In Linux 6.19
- Resources 1.9 Brings Intel Xe GPU Support & Other System Resource Monitoring For GNOME
- NVIDIA Starts Posting Open-Source Nova Driver Patches To Prep For Next-Gen GPUs
- Servo's Demo Browser Adds Experimental Mode & More Performance Improvements
- KDE Plasma 6.6 Will Cater To Windows Power Users With "winver"
Updated: about 8 hours ago
- BrowserOS - The Open Source Agentic Browser - Privacy-First & AI-Powered
- Chirpz - Uncover unknown citations with AI
- Kodus - Open-source AI Code Review that won’t let you break prod
- SuperIntern v0.3 - Major Release - Always-On Meeting AI: Live Notes, Instant Answers
- AI Cleaner by Lilucat - Free up space instantly with AI. Simple, fast, and private.
- Keepsake - Collaboratively write and print stories
- Friday - AI that calls you for self-reflection
- DoDot - Daily prompt-based social media
- Google Skills - Build AI skills for tomorrow, today
- Voicetypr - Speech to text for writing thoughts faster & privately
Updated: about 5 hours ago
- The TechBeat: From Cloud to Desk: 3 Signs the AI Revolution is Going Local (10/26/2025)
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- GitHub’s Copilot Adds Cloud Agent to Draft Pull Requests Autonomously
- GitHub Rolls Out Open-Source MCP Server to Expand Copilot’s Reach
- What You Need to Know About Advanced Patterns for Symfony HttpClient
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- The HackerNoon Newsletter: Best AI Visibility Tools for 2025 (10/25/2025)
- TikTok Wrongfully Banned Her Account: How Decisions Like These Impact Creators
- The TechBeat: Introducing Agentic Postgres, the Database for AI Agents (10/25/2025)
- New Gemini Diffusion Model Promises Text at Five Times the Speed