Month: August 2025
Google’s Pixel 9A is cheaper than ever right now
The Google Pixel 9A is a midrange phone done right, offering a great balance of hardware, features, and value. Normally it costs $499, but now you can scoop up the 128GB model for an all-time low of $399 ($100 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and the Google Store. The Pixel…
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TikTok Promotes Stickers for Secretly Recording Meta Ray-Ban Video
Millions of TikTok users are watching videos promoting a “ghost dot” sticker that conceals the recording indicator light on Meta’s smart glasses. Source
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Democrats ask how Trump’s government will regulate Trump Mobile
When a Trump-branded phone on a Trump-branded mobile network launches sometime this year (if all goes according to plan), US regulators will face what’s become a recurring conundrum in Donald Trump’s presidency: how to regulate a product with ties to the head of state. Six Democratic lawmakers are confronting key…
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Google says it will switch off energy-heavy AI usage at critical points if needed
Google says it plans to pause data centre usage at key times Data centres use huge amounts of energy, straining the grid Global energy demand is surging as AI is widely adopted It’s no secret that AI and data centres are consuming energy (and water) at an alarming rate, and…
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New malware avoids antivirus detection, unleashes a “plague” on your devices
Nextron Systems found a malicious Pluggable Authentication Module They named it Plague after finding pop culture references The malware is capable of wreaking havoc across high-value targets Security researchers have found a piece of highly capable Linux malware which somehow flew the radar for a year. Nextron Systems reported finding…
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Google DeepMind’s Genie 3 can dynamically alter the state of its simulated worlds
At start of December, Google DeepMind released Genie 2. The Genie family of AI systems are what are known as world models. They're capable of generating images as the user — either a human or, more likely, an automated AI agent — moves through the world the software is simulating.…
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