Month: May 2026
Alexa+ is now available on a bunch of Bose speakers
This is the upgraded smart assistant's debut on a non-Amazon device. Source
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‘Phishing campaigns continue to improve sophistication and refinement’: Microsoft flags major ‘sophisticated’ phishing campaign targeting 35,000 users across 26 countries
Microsoft says a large phishing wave targeted over 35,000 users across 13,000 companies, mostly in the US Polished enterprise‑style emails with urgent prompts were used to bypass security checks Victims were funneled through PDFs and CAPTCHAs to harvest Microsoft credentials in real time Microsoft has warned about a large-scale phishing…
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OpenAI claims ChatGPT’s new default model hallucinates way less
OpenAI’s newest default model for ChatGPT might not make stuff up as much. Hallucinations have been an ongoing problem for AI models, but OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 Instant model has “significant improvements in factuality across the board.” The company claims that, based on “internal evaluations,” GPT-5.5 Instant produced “52.5%…
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Book publishers sue Meta over AI’s ‘word-for-word’ copying
Meta is facing a class action lawsuit filed by five major book publishers and one author over claims the company “engaged in one of the most massive infringements of copyrighted materials in history” when training its Llama AI models, as reported earlier by The New York Times. In their suit,…
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Microsoft’s new Xbox shake-up is all about platform changes
Microsoft’s new Xbox chief, Asha Sharma, has spent the past couple of months making her mark on the Xbox organization. After focusing on highly requested Xbox console features, reducing the price of Game Pass, and moving Microsoft Gaming back to Xbox, Sharma is reorganizing the Xbox platform team at Microsoft…
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From Alan Shepard to Artemis, celebrating 65 years of Americans in space
On the morning of May 5th, 1961, 37-year-old Alan Shepard woke up, ate a breakfast (consisting of a filet mignon wrapped in bacon, scrambled eggs, and orange juice), strapped into the Freedom 7 rocket, and blasted off into space, becoming the first American astronaut to do so. Shepard’s historic flight…
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