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Meta quietly releases StoryKit, a new mobile app that uses AI to create personalized children's stories, including illustrations and original music, in Mexico

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Apple says it fixed a vulnerability in its Hide My Email tool that let anyone see a user's real email address; researchers first reported the issue in June 2025

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Instagram now lets you swap out the music in your old posts

9:15 AM PDT · July 21, 2026 Instagram announced on Tuesday that users can now swap out the music on their published feed posts and carousels. Until now, users could only change the music on a post by deleting it and then re-uploading it. With a newly launched “Replace Audio”

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Apple Might Want to Record Your Next Genius Bar Visit

Apple is reportedly testing an AI tool called Live Notes that records and summarizes conversations at the Genius Bar, Apple's in‑store technical support. Per Bloomberg's notable Apple insider Mark Gurman, the system listens to discussions between customers and technicians and then generates a text transcript

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A Sneaky Hacking Tool Targeting AI Infrastructure Is Lurking in Victims’ Blind Spots

As AI tools proliferate and become deeply ingrained in software development around the world, new research from the cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike shows how attackers are actively targeting the AI toolchain to steal access credentials, gain deeper access to a target environment, exfiltrate sensitive data, and even destroy target files and

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Pop singer Lorde slammed Spotify’s AI ‘About the Song’ feature, claiming it’s full of nothing but false details — and now subscribers are starting to catch on

* Singer Lorde called out Spotify's AI 'About the Song' feature * She says it featured incorrect details and limits free interpretation for listeners * Users are starting to catch onto its flaws Spotify is always dropping new tools to enhance your listening experience, but one of its newest

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'$3.7B lost to deepfakes' — Why social media is the perfect launchpad for AI fraud

* Surfshark's study puts total recorded deepfake fraud losses at $3.7 billion * Social media is the leading origin point, accounting for 47% of losses * 2025 and 2026 alone are responsible for 89% of the damage Deepfakes have graduated from an internet curiosity into a serious financial threat. New

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University of Tennessee Research Foundation sues Anthropic in Delaware for allegedly infringing neural network patents, the first such case against Anthropic

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Supercharge pgvector: 4x Faster HNSW with AlloyDB

AlloyDB is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service built for your most demanding enterprise workloads. It combines the best of open source PostgreSQL with Google’s advanced technology, offering massive scalability, high availability, and native AI capabilities. It serves as a performant relational store, a unified backend for vector and

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Best Smart Home Gyms for 2026

If you’re tired of paying for a gym membership and would rather get the same experience at home, then a smart home gym that offers multiple functions in one device can fit the bill. As CNET’s resident fitness expert, I’ve tested many popular smart home gyms over

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OpenAI executive Chris Lehane says Sam Altman plans to brief the Trump administration and US lawmakers next week on the company's upcoming generation of models

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Behavioral biometrics: How to detect non-human threat actors | TechTarget

As Anthropic's Mythos model makes clear, AI is a cybersecurity game changer. When released in preview, Mythos proved unexpectedly effective in finding and exploiting bugs in software. Anthropic says the preview release found more than 10,000 critical vulnerabilities across every operating system and application it encountered. In