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Thursday November 13, 2025. 10:37 PM
Consumer advocacy researchers at PIRG tested four AI toys, and none of them passed muster Picture the scene: It's Christmas morning and your child is happily chatting with the AI-enabled teddy bear you got them when you hear it telling them about sexual kinks, where to find...
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Chinese suppliers such as Huawei will be excluded from the country's future telecommunication networks on security grounds as he pushes for more digital sovereignty. From a report: 'We have decided within the government that everywhere...
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Browser maker scolds AI objectors, 'The web is changing, and sitting it out doesn’t help anyone' Mozilla is apparently a lot more excited about adding AI features to Firefox than its community. The org has decided that AI deserves its own new environment in the browser, a...
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bobthesungeek76036 writes: Beijing's proposed regulation aims to tame rapid launches by forcing cars to boot up in a restricted performance mode after every ignition. Under a proposed update to the National Standard, every passenger car would need a default mode in which it...
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In text messages from 2017, Jeffrey Epstein seemingly represented himself as positioned to pass information from the Trump White House to Bill Gates through an intermediary.
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Michael Burry, the investor made famous for his bet against the US housing market ahead of the 2008 financial crisis, is closing his hedge fund [non-paywalled source] as he warned that market valuations had become unhinged from fundamentals. From a report: Scion Asset...
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Checkout.com will instead donate the amount to fund cybercrime research Ransomware is a huge business, because affected orgs keep forking over money to get their data back. However, instead of paying a ransom demand after getting hit by extortionists last week, payment...
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China's state-sponsored hackers used AI technology from Anthropic to automate break-ins of major corporations and foreign governments during a September hacking campaign, the company said Thursday. From a report: The effort focused on dozens of targets and involved a level...
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You could save big on Apple's most recently released and most powerful wrist hardware.
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Chinese search giant plans to bring custom silicon to the rack scale in 2026 with 256- and 512-chip systems Chinese search giant Baidu unveiled two new AI accelerators this week amid a national push to end reliance on Western chips.…
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Robinhood Markets is betting its Gen Z and millennial clientele are as eager to send out for delivery of a wad of cash as they are to order pizza or a pint of ice cream. The brokerage is joining with food-and-drink delivery app Gopuff to...
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Lawmakers warn of ‘information gap’ lets immigration agents sidestep states’ data safeguards Democratic lawmakers say some states that don't want to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may be unintentionally allowing the agency access to residents' driver...
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Mozilla announced on Thursday that it is building an AI Window for Firefox, a new opt-in browsing mode that will let users interact with an AI assistant and chatbot. The feature will become one of three browsing experiences in Firefox alongside the existing classic and...
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Militia leader Stewart Rhodes, who was convicted for his role in the January 6 attack, is asking potential new members and supporters to send money. Former allies are unconvinced.
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BrianFagioli writes: Popular privacy firm Proton is floating a plan on Reddit that should unsettle anyone who values privacy, writes Nerds.xyz. The company is considering recycling abandoned email addresses that were originally created by bots a decade ago. These addresses...
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Verizon is planning to cut roughly 15,000 jobs, looking to reduce costs as it contends with increased competition for wireless service and home internet, according to WSJ, which cites people familiar with the matter. From the report: The cuts, the largest ever for the...
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Under a third of PoCs make it past testing, but those that do often boost productivity It is the best of AI times; it is the worst of AI times, depending on whom you ask. Nearly a third of firms are seeing almost total failure of their AI proof-of-concept (PoC) projects,...
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Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian said he had serious doubts a decade ago about sharing the platform's data with Sam Altman. Ohanian recounted on the 'Brew Markets' podcast that between 2015 and 2016, Altman asked Reddit to let him 'aggressively scrape' the site's content....
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The goal of 'oxidizing' the Linux distro hits another bump Two vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 25.10's new 'sudo-rs' command have been found, disclosed, and fixed in short order.…
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An anonymous reader shares a report: France has lifted its travel ban on Telegram founder Pavel Durov, who is under investigation over illegal content on his messaging app, judicial sources close to the case said Thursday. The entrepreneur, 41, was detained in Paris in 2024...
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