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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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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET key takeaways * Apple lets you change your Messages backgrounds in iOS 26. * This can help you stop sending the wrong message to the wrong person. * However, the recipient's background will also change. For years, iPhone users were
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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/
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The GEN-1.5 robot model from Generalist AI learns new physical tasks from one demo, without gradient updates. The company describes GEN-1.5 as the first model it knows of to show one-shot and few-shot learning of physical skills at scale. That claim points at a specific trade-off: whether teaching
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Topics Frontiers An MIT SMR initiative exploring how technology is reshaping the practice of management. More in this series Summary: Most digital tools are designed for efficiency, not exploration — and that can stymie innovation. New research shows that standard ... Read More + Listen to “Algorithms Trap Us in the Familiar. Can
