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Amazon slashes Apple MacBook Pro M5 Pro price by $600 in major discount
The 14-inch 2TB M5 Pro model drops to $2,399 at Amazon, marking one of the deepest discounts of the year for Apple’s laptop lineup.
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Apple Opens iPhone Duo Preorder Prep Ahead of Friday Launch
Apple’s Get Ready feature lets users pre-save shipping and config details to speed up Friday’s preorder window for its first foldable phone.
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ShyGlass Mac App Uses AirPods Head Tracking to Blur Screen on Look Away
A new macOS utility blurs the display when AirPods detect the user looking away, raising questions about screen recording permissions required for the privacy feature.
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Google Location Accuracy Service Improves Android Positioning via Crowdsourced Data
Enabling the Location Accuracy Service on Android devices allows phones to use Wi-Fi, cellular, and sensor data to pinpoint position when GPS signals are weak or unavailable indoors.
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ASUS Googlebook 14 review: Hands-on with Google's new premium Android laptop
Windows Central tests the $1,299 ASUS Googlebook 14, finding a lightweight magnesium chassis and OLED display that challenges Windows dominance.
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Survey: 68% of IT Pros Name Human Error as Top Cyber Threat
A global Kaseya poll of over 1,100 professionals finds human error outweighs email scams as the primary security concern for managed service providers.
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Honeyjar Launches AI Platform to Automate Strategic Communications Workflows
Startup Honeyjar debuts an AI-driven tool designed to scale senior-level PR expertise for founders and unassigned communicators across various industries.
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WhatsApp tests scheduled messages in Android beta, raising European compliance concerns
WhatsApp is trialing a feature allowing users to schedule message delivery up to two weeks in advance, a move that intersects with strict European labor laws regarding after-hours work contact.
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AMD reveals Helion rack design for AI agents at OCP Summit 2026
AMD introduced the Helion rack reference design at the Open Compute Project Summit, offering flexible CPU and GPU configurations for agentic AI workloads.
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Tiny11 Builder Gets UI Overhaul to Streamline Custom Windows 11 26H2 ISO Builds
The customization tool receives a significant UI redesign that simplifies the creation of lightweight installation media for the Windows 11 26H2 release.
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Ukraine claims Yandex strikes silenced Russian social media bots
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says disabling Yandex data centers reduced automated pro-Russian accounts on social platforms.
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Googlebook OS Review Highlights Potential for Android on Desktop
A review of Googlebook OS suggests Google has created a more optimized desktop experience for Android users than previous tablet attempts.
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Solo developer ports Hideo Kojima’s P.T. to PC using original PS4 assets
An open-source project rebuilds the discontinued Silent Hills playable trailer for x86 systems, offering preservation and enhanced features for legacy content.
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Microsoft researchers reveal AI agents get trapped in idea basins
A new study shows clearing chat history helps autonomous agents escape local solution regions and improve results significantly.
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Google Gemini Spark automates tasks but warns users to monitor AI actions
Google’s new agentic AI assistant can perform background tasks in Workspace apps, but the company advises users to avoid sharing sensitive credentials.
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Anthropic researchers say small AI models may self-replicate on IoT devices soon
Internal experiments suggest compact artificial intelligence systems may soon possess the capability to copy themselves onto smart home hardware.
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Musk’s Grok Lego Order Screenshot Exposed Payment Details, Prompting Users to Manipulate Purchase
After Elon Musk shared a screenshot of an AI-driven Lego purchase, X users used the exposed data to attempt changes to the order, highlighting risks of oversharing.
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Applied Materials opens $5B Silicon Valley facility for chip R&D
The new EPIC Center aims to cut semiconductor development cycles by 30% through collaborative work with major industry partners.
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Sakana AI’s Self-Improving Model Risks Reinforcing Errors in New Study
A new self-supervision method boosts performance but may bake shared blind spots into future training cycles.
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Dell expands AI partner ecosystem to Silicon Valley builders
Dell Technologies is adapting its sales approach for West Coast enterprises that prefer building custom AI infrastructure over buying packaged solutions.
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Apple Opens iPhone Duo Preorder Configurator Ahead of Friday Launch
Customers can save payment and carrier details on Apple’s staging page to secure the foldable iPhone when preorders open at 5 a.m. PT.
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OpenAI Codex CLI 0.157.0 Installs Persistent Self-Updating Daemon by Default
A GitHub issue reports that the latest OpenAI Codex CLI version installs a background service that auto-updates and persists after sessions end, prompting user requests for change.
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Cyber Group BYOD Leaks Data From 3,615 Trump Mobile Customers
A new ransomware operation claims to have stolen personal records of thousands of prospective users, citing a lack of security response from the Trump Organization.
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WHO: Can't assess plague risk as Russia fails to confirm cause of researcher's death
The World Health Organization says it cannot assess risk or validate safety measures because Russia has not confirmed the cause of death for the researcher.