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* Whoop has opened up its Advanced Labs blood testing service * You can now use it without a Whoop membership or wearable device * That brings down the costs involved significantly Whoop’s Advanced Labs program was originally designed to let owners of Whoop devices better understand their health through a series
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* Amazon has made Alexa+ free to use on Fire TV devices * You can ask it to find movie recommendations and also integrate it with other smart home devices * The best part is that you don't need an Amazon Prime membership to make the most of it Access to
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In Brief 5:11 AM PDT · August 20, 2026 Meta on Thursday announced a new Mac app for Meta AI with built-in system-wide dictation. The app can also look at the current screen and answer your questions based on the context using its Muse Spark model. The company said that
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Threat actors have been exploiting a recent MLflow vulnerability to steal sensitive information, including credentials and secrets. An open source AI engineering platform, MLflow allows users to manage the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle and deploy AI agents, LLMs, and ML models in production. It has over 27,000 GitHub stars
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The Pixel 11 Pro Fold's spotlight feature is its durability. / Abrar Al-Heeti/CNET 8.4 Pros & Cons * Durable build * Thinner design over last year * Slimmer bezels and slightly larger cover screen * Plenty of handy AI and software updates * Cameras and battery are a step down from other
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Incogni's new study of 13 AI platforms ranks them by privacy risk. * The largest AI platforms turn out to be the most privacy-invasive - with one exception. * Here's what to know
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Jess Weatherbed is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Slack is introducing dedicated channels where teams can vibe code together with AI agents instead of jumping between different tools and conversations. The Slack Code
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Public-facing workers are being filmed, harassed, and creeped out by AI-powered smart glasses. by Mia Sato Aug 20, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC Mia Sato is features writer with five years of experience covering the companies that shape technology and the people who use their tools. In August, Toru Hinkle
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Meta has filed a US patent application describing AI glasses that could recognize people, analyze their expressions and actions, and create personalized video highlights from social events. The application (US 2026/0238876 A1), filed in February and published last week, is titled "Smart Cameras with Assistant Systems." It&
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Google's course builds practical AI skills from basics to app building. * The hands-on Gemini training is broad, useful, and well-built. * Move fast to beat the trial clock and avoid Coursera's fee.
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AI AND ML Affected users say support cannot restore their previous approval or override the new decision OpenAI says a technical stuff-up booted some vetted security researchers out of its Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program, only for its recovery process to decide some of them aren't welcome
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Cisco on Wednesday announced patches for 15 vulnerabilities across its products, including critical- and high-severity flaws in Crosswork and Secure Workload. Crosswork version 7.2.1-SP was released with fixes for four critical-severity CVEs. Three of them, CVE-2026-20030, CVE-2026-20357, and CVE-2026-20358, have a maximum severity rating (CVSS score of 10/
