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ZDNET’s key takeaways * There’s a new scam involving ChatGPT. * The scam starts with a sponsored Google link. * The link leads to a custom GPT that gives malicious information. A new scam involving ChatGPT has emerged, and it might lead you to install malware on your computer if you’
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Days after a journalist claimed that Meta’s Muse app on Mac read their private messages — a claim that Meta disputed — Apple announced that it’s introducing additional controls around a setting called “Full Disk Access” on macOS. The feature was designed to allow backups to function properly, but AI
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It’s a tale as old as last week: OpenAI’s new agent platform, called Dots, is full of cute little guys who can do your bidding. But unlike the ultra-approachable Meta Muse, Dots feel very much like using workplace software that happens to be able to order you a
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Introducing Campus: The digital home for educational institutions — Every educational institution needs
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This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding AI as “super intelligence,” and
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Not much else differentiates them, which isn’t a bad thing. Apple While Apple's first-ever foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, grabbed most of the headlines after the "Surprise and Shine" event, John Ternus also introduced other devices in his debut as CEO. The iPhone 18 Pro
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In a throwback to MySpace-style internet drama, Shivon Zilis announced that she and the father of four of her children, Elon Musk, had broken up on X. To do so, she quote-tweeted a post from “Big Tech Alert,” an account that, among other things, monitors what accounts are following and
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Volantis has raised $88M to build a photonic link between AI compute and memory, using gallium arsenide lasers to avoid constraints in indium phosphide. The Netherlands is building a EUR 153M indium phosphide pilot line at Eindhoven that opens in 2027, the same year Volantis plans to ship. Volantis has
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Pope Leo XIV told artists at the Vatican on Friday that there is an ontological difference between art and what a machine generates from millions of images made by others. European law has required synthetic content to carry machine-readable marks since 2 August, but artistic and satirical work gets the
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Introducing Campus: The digital home for educational institutions — Every educational institution needs
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GreatScott’s autonomous lawn mower can navigate with centimeter-level precision using RTK GPS, but that accuracy comes at a price. After a viewer suggested replacing the expensive positioning hardware with a camera and AI, he decided to put the idea to the test. Instead of knowing exactly where the mower
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Choosing between these two powerhouse tablets is probably simpler than you think. Sam Rutherford & Nathan Ingraham for Engadget As ever, choosing a premium tablet in 2026 comes down to two very different philosophies. Samsung's Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra bets on sheer screen size, battery stamina and bundled
