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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. If you've purchased a new Windows laptop anytime in the past year or two, you may notice the presence of a dedicated Copilot key on the keyboard. Located to the right of the spacebar, this key quickly launches
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DoorDash is launching a new drone delivery program called DoorDash Air. The largest food delivery app in the US said that it has approval from the Federal Aviation Administration that clears the way for drone delivery in the near future. DoorDash said it has received a Part 135 air carrier
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AI AND ML More than 1,200 industry staff sign petition seeking international guardrails for automated research More than 1,200 employees of frontier AI companies have signed a petition calling for US government support to develop ways of slowing automated AI development if necessary. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI
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Watchdog asks whether customers were clearly told how to avoid the costlier AI-equipped plans Microsoft faces an investigation by the UK's competition watchdog over whether customers were misled when it added features to Microsoft 365 subscriptions and raised prices. The issue dates back to January 2025, when Microsoft
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. WTF?! In an almost Star Wars-esque echo of "We don't serve their kind here," United Airlines and Delta Air Lines have joined other airlines in banning humanoid and animal-like robots
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For all the attention given to sophisticated cyber threats and zero-day vulnerabilities, most organizations are overlooking a far more immediate danger: the risks they already know about – but haven’t fixed. President of Technology and Services at Arctic Wolf. Recent research paints a sobering picture of enterprise security today. Across
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When it comes to getting the right accessories for my home office, I'm usually focused on not only performance, but also comfort. Like many of us, my mouse and keyboard are key parts of my home working set-up, which is spread across a laptop and external monitor, and
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6:00 AM PDT · July 29, 2026 Spotify is adding a new mode to its phone app for people who like to listen to music on runs. The new running mode cues up songs based on different phases of runs, and selects tracks based on your preferences and tempo. Paying
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DoorDash is building a drone delivery business, including its own aircraft, as part of an effort developed by its robotics and autonomy team, which will eventually operate within the company’s delivery app. The company unveiled the new business, called DoorDash Air, after receiving a Part 135 air carrier certification
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FrontiersResearch Highlight As businesses are increasingly held legally responsible for societal harms caused by social media, GenAI adult content may expose vendors to more liability. Siddharth Bhattacharya, Yun Young Hur, and Gal Oestreicher-SingerJuly 29, 2026Reading Time: 7 min Topics Frontiers An MIT SMR initiative exploring how technology is reshaping the
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Catches rogue AI agents – and stops them in live production before they cause damage MachineLearning & Artificial Intelligence Sweet Security, the proactive runtime enforcement company for cloud and AI, today announced its further expansion into AI security with Agentic AI Blocking. Sweet now blocks rogue agent behavior in real time
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Credit: NurPhoto/Getty Images Certain chats with Anthropic's Claude were briefly visible in Google Search over the weekend. According to a handful of Reddit posts, entering a specific Google query caused shared Claude conversations to appear in search results, allowing strangers to read exchanges that the affected users
