Waymo Opens in Las Vegas With Dozens of Cars and a 100,000-Person Waitlist
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Siri AI Has Arrived With a Daily Limit, and Apple Says a Paid Tier Is Coming
The new Siri runs on iPhone 15 Pro and later, in English only, and not in the EU or China. Apple's release says expanded...
Apple Built the Privacy Case for the Wearer, Not the Room
Siri Recap keeps audio inside a secure exclave and deletes summaries after seven days. Every protection belongs to the p...
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A Humanoid Arrives in Living Rooms on Tuesday, Sold for Company
UBTech begins delivering the UWORLD U1 against 13,361 orders. Each carried a 3,000-yuan deposit, which on the cheapest m...
Apple Decides What Counts as Social Media Now, and the Test Is Functional
Any app with a feed users can like, comment on and share takes a 13+ floor. Fitness, shopping and recipe apps are about...
A Banking Trojan Now Hides Inside Android's Work Profile
The isolation that keeps an employer out of your personal apps also keeps a bank's malware checks away from the cloned c...
Google Play's Early Access Turns Off Reviews. Fake Reward Apps Moved In.
Early Access listings cannot receive ratings, which removes the control that catches apps that are deceptive rather than...
Two of the Five New Android Features Need a Phone Most of This Region Does Not Have
Google's September Android Drop adds five features, and two of them need Android 16 or 17. The best of the five is an ac...
iPhone Duo, a Camera With Real Aperture Blades, and No Standard iPhone 18
Apple's 9 September launch in full: the folding iPhone Duo at $1,999, the 18 Pro and Pro Max with a six-blade variable a...
IFA Sold Embodied AI. What Shipped Was Vacuums Rated in Pascals.
Three of this week's robot vacuums quote 40,000 pascals, a sealed-suction figure measured in a condition that never occu...
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...
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...
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