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* Meta's Model Capability Initiative installs mouse tracking software on company-issued PCs * User activity is monitored to train future AI models to autonomously control computers * Workers fear that future AI systems could replace human jobs Employees at Meta have started protesting against the company's rollout of mouse
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Malware research group vx-underground, which says it has the largest collection of malware source code, said in a post on X that its archive of data amounts to about 30 terabytes. A reply by Bernardo Quintero, founder of VirusTotal, an online service that scans files for malware across multiple antivirus
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Smith Collection/gado/Getty Images LinkedIn is the latest major tech company to announce large-scale layoffs. According to Reuters, the company is letting around five percent of its workforce go. Given that LinkedIn has more than 17,500 full-time employees, that means it will be dismissing approximately 875 people. A
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Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Instagram is once again cribbing from competitors like Snapchat and BeReal with a new photo-sharing format it calls “Instants,” which are ephemeral photos that you can’t
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* Microsoft is working to make WinUI 3 speedier * This is the contemporary framework for the user interface of the OS * With WinUI 3 being employed more widely across Windows 11, and tweaked for better performance, it's another key way in which the OS could be made faster We&
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* A new report says Apple wants to “streamline” Liquid Glass in iOS 27 * This could mean design changes for apps like Camera, Weather, and Safari * Liquid Glass’s transparent effects might not change much, though With iOS 27 set to be presented to the world in less than a month
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The current crop of consoles are nearing six years old, and both Microsoft and Sony are hard at work at developing their next generation gaming systems. Unfortunately, development is happening during a memory and storage shortage, which has caused significant price increases across the industry. For the PlayStation 6, that
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Financial institutions process thousands of complex documents daily. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) errors in financial data can propagate through interconnected calculations, affecting analytical accuracy. While a single OCR error in a standard legal document might require only a quick manual correction, the same mistake in financial data can cascade through
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Kenyan President William Ruto speaking at the Africa Forward Summit in May 2026.Credit: Anadolu/Getty Images A proposed 1-gigawatt AI data center in Kenya is facing scrutiny after it became clear it would consume a third of the country's power. With the President warning that operating Microsoft&
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Wally Skalij/Getty Images Shockingly, Meta employees aren't too keen on training their robot replacements. Reutersreports that workers have begun circulating flyers at multiple US offices to protest the company's installation of tracking software on their work computers. "Don't want to work at
