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Meta Will Pay Up to $16.7 Billion to Settle Its Social Media Harms Case—and That’s Not All
In addition to sending billions of dollars to states, Meta will make substantive changes to its platforms as part of a l…
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PeopleFinders’ New Website Runs Background Checks on Your Dates
The site, called Stud or Dud, helps daters dig up dirt on potential paramours. It’s fueled by the same public data as Pe…
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Court blocks Trump FCC order that could flood broadcast TV with more election ads
Republicans demanded that parties and fundraising committees be given lowest ad rates.…
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Researchers get two genetic codes to work at the same time
Messing with the genetic code might have gotten a bit easier to do.…
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The Download: the Kids issue arrives, and Bill Gates reveals his AI fears
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going o…
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Raised on AI
When my oldest child was born, I immediately set up Gmail and Twitter accounts in her name. I broadly announced her birt…
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The fix for the AI agent that hijacked a company's DNS: it can propose the change, but it can't approve it
A security agent read a Cloudflare log, found an attacker’s prompt-injection payload sitting inside it, and rewrote the …
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Orchestration is the new challenge for CX in the age of AI agents
Presented by Tata Communications Enterprises are deploying AI agents, voice AI, and automation across messaging, voice, …
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Preorders for Xbox's anniversary collection are open (for some) and the bundle costs $900
The Xbox 25th anniversary bundle includes a translucent green Series X, a similarly-colored controller and a digital dow…
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Apple announces September 9 date for 'Surprise and shine' iPhone event
Is it finally time to see the foldable iPhone?…
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Apple announces iPhone 18 Pro and foldable iPhone Ultra event: ‘Surprise and shine’
Apple has officially announced its next product event, where it will unveil the iPhone 18 Pro lineup and its first folda…
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Pioneer releases its first collection of iPhone accessories
Pioneer, the maker of many of our favorite CarPlay head units, is expanding into iPhone accessories for the first time. …
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Memory crunch: Cloud operators may be pushed to splurge 68% of capex on DRAM and NAND
Rising costs of new kit due to soaring memory prices likely to feed into cloud service bills…
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Boston Scientific discloses 'global disruption' in ongoing cyberattack
No timeline to restore IT systems as probe remains ongoing…
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Google Pixel 11 Review: Why the base model is still my favorite, even this year
In a year of iterative upgrades, Google is introducing smart features that make the base Pixel still the one to buy for …
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July was the worst month for ransomware victim claims in 2026 - or was it?
We shouldn't ignore agentic AI ransomware threats, but the claims of a new ransomware group might be skewing the numbers…
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9to5Mac Daily: August 12, 2026 – Apple exec changes, more
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts …
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Report: Apple seeks publisher deals to give Siri AI better access to current events
The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple has been pursuing content deals worth up to nine figures to improve Siri AI’s…
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The Best Photos of the Big August Solar Eclipse
It’s been a century since the Iberian peninsula has been in the full shadow of the moon. Here’s what it looked like in t…
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Toddler's tragic death from brain-destroying amoeba offers lessons for doctors
Boy's unusual symptoms could help identify the next case sooner.…
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How to stop Twitch from training AI on your streams
And why the company didn't make the feature opt-in.…
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WhatsApp starts rolling out username support when creating new contacts
As WhatsApp approaches the official rollout of usernames, the app now lets users save a contact’s username alongside the…
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Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them cheating at their jobs, classes
Is Anthropic's new watermarking system a travesty? Some have taken to social media to complain that it is.…
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AI nuclear power firm Fermi finally has a new CEO
Lee McIntire, an independent member of Fermi's board, has been hired as CEO, more than three months since the company fi…