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TL;DR Apple’s updated privacy policy for the Store app reveals a coming “Virtual Shopping Assistant.” It collects chat, device, and location data. Not live yet. Partial opt-out only. Apple is preparing to add an AI-powered shopping assistant to the Apple Store app, according to a privacy policy update
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TL;DR GPS jamming in Ukraine is driving demand for alternative drone navigation. Q-CTRL (quantum), ASIO (vision), and ANELLO (laser gyro) showed solutions at Farnborough. GPS spoofing and jamming have become standard countermeasures on the battlefield in Ukraine, separating drones from their operators and rendering some guided munitions useless. US-made
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Etched has a simple pitch. Nvidia builds chips that do everything. Etched builds chips that do one thing, inference, and claims to do it far better. On Thursday the bet got a lot more money behind it. The startup raised $300 million in a Series C round that values it
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OpenAI said today it is making ChatGPT Health, a feature that helps users with health-related queries, available to all U.S.-based users over 18 across all plans. The announcement comes a day after a Florida-based pastor sued the company for giving a near-fatal suggestion not to consult a doctor.
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Phishing for dummies Kremlin cyber goons have been breaking into government and commercial networks for at least a year by exploiting a Zimbra bug with a novel twist on Russia’s usual phishing expeditions: this attack occurs as soon as the victim looks at an email, with no need to
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* Beginning September 1, 2026, passkeys will become the default for Entra ID * Microsoft is retiring SMS/phone call authentication from February 1, 2027 * Victims are more likely to open AI-assisted phishing emails Microsoft has confirmed plans to make passkeys the default or preferred authentication method for Entra ID beginning September
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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. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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If you manage a front office trading desk at investment banks, you know the challenge: traders need real-time insights into client behavior, trade patterns, and market trends from vast amounts of data to make split-second decisions. However, they rarely have the time during the day, nor the coding ability, to
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET key takeaways * BastionGuard promises serious security for Linux desktops. * Scans, VPNs, backups, updates, a password manager, and more are available. * Does this free platform live up to the promises, or does it need more time? I've been
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Now Prime Video has a games section, with Amazon’s cloud gaming platform Luna built in to let you start playing right away. by Stevie Bonifield Jul 23, 2026, 4:39 PM UTC Image: Amazon Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at
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If you’re operating AI agents at scale, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore surfaces a category of insights you’ve probably experienced but struggle to detect: your dashboards show green across the board. 99% completion rate, healthy latency, zero error spikes. And yet customer complaints trickle in about incorrect outcomes. An order
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By Ashish Gupta, Managing Director (India) and Head of Engineering, Rubrik India For most of the past decade, enterprise AI governance centred on a reasonable anxiety: that machines might make mistakes humans hadn’t foreseen. Whether that be review cycles, approval workflows, or human checkpoints, the entire architecture of enterprise
