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Apple recently filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the AI company of a pattern of misconduct aimed at getting current and former Apple employees to share confidential information. (In response, OpenAI said it is “not aware of any evidence that this complaint has merit.”) On the latest episode
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TL;DR Korea’s market now sets global AI sentiment. The Kospi-Nasdaq correlation has nearly tripled. SK Hynix’s US listing extended Korea’s influence into 24-hour trading. Fund managers in London, New York, and Tokyo have added a new step to their morning routine: checking South Korean stocks. Korea’
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The CERT Coordination Center warns that Wi-Fi routers built by Tenda may have a hidden, authentication backdoor in firmware. Researchers from CERT, the Computer Emergency Response Team for the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, discovered this Tenda router vulnerability and revealed that if a hidden default password is
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Lenovo has officially confirmed its return to the streaming hardware sector by teasing the Legion C700, a dedicated cloud-first gaming handheld scheduled to debut in August 2026. Developed in partnership with Tencent to natively integrate its START cloud platform, the device marks a distinct shift away from running hardware-heavy programs
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Indian smartphone manufacturer Lava has officially disclosed the core specifications and features of its upcoming Virat V1 5G and Virat V1 4G handsets. Scheduled to debut in India on July 24, this launch signals a major shift in the brand’s market approach. While Lava has traditionally focused on offline
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Bharti Airtel has officially updated the fine print on its website to state that its promotional “Unlimited 5G Data” benefit cannot be broadcast through mobile hotspots. The explicit clause clarifies a long-standing point of confusion for consumers, legally establishing the data perk as a smartphone-only service. Policy Enforcement and Data
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Chinese artificial intelligence startup Moonshot AI has officially unveiled Kimi K3, signaling a major leap forward for the global open-source AI community. Touting 2.8 trillion parameters, Kimi K3 is designated as the world’s largest open-weight AI model to date, designed to aggressively compete with premier closed-source models from
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Google is officially consolidating its suite of artificial intelligence tools by rebranding its popular research and note-taking assistant, NotebookLM, as Gemini Notebook. The tactical name change moves the platform squarely into Google’s unified Gemini family, placing it alongside core offerings like the standard Gemini app and Gemini Live. Initially
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Xiaomi sub-brand Poco is reportedly gearing up to introduce the Poco M8 Power and Poco X8 in the Indian market. According to details shared by industry tipster Yogesh Brar, the smartphones are scheduled to debut later this quarter. The upcoming handsets are not entirely fresh designs but are instead expected
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* Anthropic’s Claude extension flaws allow fake clicks to launch sensitive AI workflows * Researchers found vulnerable handlers unchanged across eight extension updates * Synthetic clicks bypassed checks designed to confirm real user actions Security researchers at Manifold Security have claimed Anthropic's Claude for Chrome browser extension contains two unpatched
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* Watch World Cup final free on BBC / free on ITV (UK) * UNLOCK STREAMS with NORTON VPN (try risk-free) * Spain vs Argentina – Kick Off: 3pm ET / 8pm BST The 2026 World Cup finalis here as Spain take on Argentina to be crowned champions. It is being billed as Lamine Yamal versus
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* World Cup final halftime show: Sunday, July 19 | 8:50pm BST / 3:50pm ET / 7:50am AEST (Mon) * Watch free on BBC iPlayer & ITV (UK) / SBS (AUS) / CazéTV's YouTube (Brazil) * Unlock your free streams with Norton VPN (60-day money back guarantee) While Spain vs Argentina battle it
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Are you a Google Chrome or an Apple Safari user? These two web browsers are the default options for Android and Apple phones, respectively, and over the years they have utterly dominated the market. In fact, according to Yaguara, over 85% of people are now using one of those two
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I would never go so far as to say there’s no place for AI in music (I’m a fan of Holly Herndon, after all). But I generally find music made with generative AI to be offensively boring, especially the outputs of Suno. So I’m having a bit
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Editorial independence is core to our work. Some links may earn us a commission, without influencing our opinions. If battery and performance and even entertainment is what you are focusing on, the Nord CE6 is second to none. For camera lovers, it leaves you wanting more. Shweta Ganjoo is a
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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TL;DR Researchers found AI advice suppressed judgment suspension from 44% to 3%, accuracy from 27% to 9%, while confidence rose from 30% to 76%. People trusted wrong AI answers. Researchers from three French and Italian universities found that access to AI advice collapsed people’s willingness to say “I
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TL;DR Victoria proposes “demasking” powers to force platforms to identify anonymous accounts in vilification cases. It would also make it easier for families to sue platforms for harm to children. Victoria’s premier Jacinta Allan announced on Sunday that the state would propose laws granting the Victorian civil and
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* US Federal workers must install an app powered by a Russian-founded software vendor * Security researchers discovered outside code controlling parts of the government application * Elfsight’s Russian operations continued growing despite global geopolitical tensions The FAA and other federal employees must now install a $1.4 million White House app
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Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths. According to the New York Times, federal agents have been told that the FBI will no longer be investigating confrontations involving ICE
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The Anthbot M9 is a surprisingly adept wire-free mower, which can master lawns of up to 1,000 sq m (around a quarter of an acre) for a fraction of the price of its famous competitors. And, importantly, it's incredibly easy to use, making it a great option
