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    Pebblebee’s Halo can help track lost items and keep you safe, and it’s on sale for $50

    If you’re planning to travel this summer, both a Bluetooth tracker and a personal safety device can come in handy, especially if you’ll be exploring on your own. The Pebblebee Halo combines those two gadgets into one, and it’s currently on sale for $49.99 ($10 off) at Amazon, which is…

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      This could be Windows’ M1 moment — but expect it to cost a ton

      Nvidia’s announcement that it’s getting into the consumer laptop chip space with RTX Spark is huge. Apple has proved for years that Arm-based chips can perform incredibly well while also delivering great battery life — at least on the Mac. In the Windows world, performance hasn’t fully matched up under…

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        Gemini’s new AI agent is about as good as Google’s demo

        Google’s new “24/7” AI agent, Gemini Spark, can be shockingly good at doing things on your behalf. But I’m not sure it’s worth the financial cost and potential privacy tradeoffs. The company gave me access to Spark last week. Google advertises Spark as an AI agent that can take on…

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          Meta’s AI support chatbot made it ridiculously easy for hackers to take over Instagram accounts

          Meta says it's working on securing accounts that were affected by a hack. Source

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            Meta’s own AI was exploited to hijack Instagram accounts

            Meta’s AI support chatbot helped hackers hijack Instagram accounts, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a video shared on Telegram, a hacker shows how they could take over an account by asking Meta’s chatbot to switch the email associated with someone else’s profile and then reset the password. Meta…

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              Casey Neistat’s guide to posting every day

              Some news: The Vergecast is now a daily podcast! Starting today, we’ll be posting every weekday, with even more gadgets and rankings and conversations and feelings and podcasts-within-podcasts. We’re excited for all the ways this new schedule lets us tell new kinds of stories, experiment with new tech and new…

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