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Verizon Is Appealing to Longtime Customers With Verizon Shine Loyalty Program

Verizon customers looking for reasons to stick with the carrier have a new weekly incentive. Verizon Shine -- say it out loud to kickstart a slow morning -- features discounts from partner companies, a new Verizon Dollars credit program and opportunities to win big-ticket items like breakfast with football legend David Beckham at the World Cup finals.

Verizon Shine is available now to all subscribers of Verizon's postpaid unlimited plans. Customers can opt-in to the program in the My Verizon app on their phones.

Mondays will bring daily drops of deals and products, such as free coffee from Starbucks and FIFA World Cup 2026 merch. Verizon says other examples of drops can include concert and sporting event tickets, dining vouchers and gift cards. This sounds strikingly similar to the T-Mobile Tuesdays weekly perk giveaways that Verizon's rival carrier used to win over subscribers, especially in its early years.

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Apple just made iPhones significantly safer as iOS 26.6 quietly fixes 78 hidden security flaws across the system

Apple has rolled out iOS 26.6 and iPadOS 26.6, bringing one of its biggest security-focused software updates in recent months. While the update does not introduce major new features, it fixes 78 security vulnerabilities that could have affected iPhones and iPads. The company says there is no evidence

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Smart rings are looking like my kind of AI gadget

Over the last few months, I’ve spent a lot of time talking to my computer. One underrated feature of the LLM revolution has been a remarkable leap in all kinds of dictation technology — even the fastest, cheapest models are getting very good at understanding and processing speech. I’ve

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Hyperscale, hypersensitive: US teacher cuffed for applauding datacenter critics

Public meeting over proposed AI bit barn ended with zoning approval, a physics teacher arrested, and fresh questions over whether clapping now counts as disorderly conduct A Kansas physics teacher discovered that in at least one corner of America's AI buildout, applause can apparently earn you a trip

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Too many AI agents can get in each other's way

AI and ML For enterprise agents, less is more Anthropic and OpenAI have both proposed the deployment of agent armies as a way to maximize the notional benefits of artificial intelligence systems. But the optimal agent workforce isn't necessarily the largest. Researchers affiliated with the NTT Research'

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Apple just made iPhones significantly safer as iOS 26.6 quietly fixes 78 hidden security flaws across the system

Smart rings are looking like my kind of AI gadget

Hyperscale, hypersensitive: US teacher cuffed for applauding datacenter critics

Too many AI agents can get in each other's way