IFA Sold Embodied AI. What Shipped Was Vacuums Rated in Pascals.
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Meta Disabled Cameras on Thousands of Smart Glasses With Tampered Lights
Covering the capture light temporarily locks the camera and reverses when the tape comes off. New hardware detection of...
JioPC Streams a Desktop to India's Old Laptops for ₹4,000 a Year
Reliance Jio has opened its cloud desktop to any Indian internet user. India has more than 65 million installed PCs and...
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Nobody Broke Into X. The Reset Emails Were the Point.
X says it has found no evidence of a breach, and the described method needs nothing but public usernames. The value to t...
Android 17 Hides the Domain Name. The IP Address Is Still in Plain Sight.
Three things identify a destination: the DNS lookup, the SNI field and the IP address. Encrypted Client Hello addresses...
Instagram's AI Profile Rule Has No Date and No Detection Method
The rule binds creators who were going to be honest. The operator running a synthetic persona for fraud has every reason...
He Beat an Energy Firm With £175 of AI. The Facts Won It.
The AI researched the case law and he checked every citation existed. What it actually bought was not legal advantage bu...
Toyota's Hands-Off 2028 System Is Still Level 2, and the Driver Is Liable
Level 2++ is not a level. It is an industry coinage for the capable end of Level 2, and what defines Level 2 is not how...
Waymo's Software Injured 16 Test Drivers. The Record Says Transdev.
Every public argument about robotaxi safety concerns passengers and pedestrians. The only injuries anyone has counted ha...
New Jersey's Robotaxi Bill Would Exclude Tesla Without Naming It
S1677 mentions no manufacturer and mandates no technology. It requires a camera system plus two further sensing modaliti...
ChatGPT's Temporary Chats Can Now Read Your Memory and Be Saved
A personalised temporary chat uses your memories, custom instructions and plugins while still creating none of its own....
Nokia's New $38 Phone Only Works Where 2G Still Runs
The Nokia 300 Charge launched first in the Philippines with a 40-day standby claim and a port that charges other devices...
London's Robotaxis Are Late Because the Regulator Has Not Written the Rules
Uber and Wayve, Waymo and Baidu are all stalled at the same point, and it is not engineering. Transport for London has n...
Meta Fixed the Smart Glasses LED Bypass. The LED Was Never the Problem.
Covering the capture light mid-recording no longer works, which closes a real loophole. Deliberate concealment was never...
A Phone Sold on Child Safety Was Pulled Over Location Exposure
The HMD Fuse pairs on-device nudity detection with continuous location. A researcher found flaws that could expose that...
Samsung's Cheapest S26 Is the One That Matters in This Region
The Fan Edition carries the flagship's camera and AI to a lower price by economising where buyers notice least. Which th...
AMD Passed 30% of the x86 Market, Which Is Not the PC Market
Mercury Research puts AMD at 30.3 per cent against Intel's 69.7. The denominator excludes Arm entirely, so Apple Silicon...
Samsung's LPDDR5X-PIM Does the Arithmetic Inside the Memory Chip
LPDDR5X-PIM reports 614 GB/s against 76.8, but that is the bandwidth inside the memory. The host interface is unchanged....
Xiaomi's Homegrown 3nm Chip Is Designed in Beijing and Made in Taiwan
The XRING O3 is the first mobile processor to support LPDDR6, which matters more for on-device AI than its 4.35GHz peak....
Apple Put Its First 2nm Chip in an $899 Mac mini
The M6 brings 12 cores and two 16-core Neural Engines. The spec comparisons are drawn against the M5 and the speed compa...
Nvidia's Vera Has Six Dies and One of Them Holds Every Core
Coverage has compressed the disclosure into 88 cores across six chiplets. The cores sit on a single monolithic die and t...
Apple Music Will Label AI Tracks, Using Whatever The Distributor Declared
Made With AI labels arrive later this year, tagged by labels and distributors rather than detected by Apple. A label tha...
From 30 September, Indonesia, Singapore And Thailand Get Android's New Sideloading Rules First
On certified devices in four launch markets, apps will need a verified developer behind them to install or update normal...
Nevada Approved Thousands Of Robotaxis. Tesla's Own Engineer Says They Will Not Arrive.
The Nevada Transportation Authority granted Tesla up to 5,000 vehicles, Waymo 1,000 and Uber 1,000 across Clark County o...
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