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Brendan Carr claims Big Tech “worked with marketing, ad, & ‘fact checkers' to punish free speech outlets” and asks tech leaders about NewsGuard partnerships (www.pcmag.com)
4 days ago

UK mobile operator Virgin Media O2 creates Daisy, an AI-generated “scambaiter” tool that mimics the voice of an elderly woman to waste scammers' time (www.pcmag.com)
7 days ago Mobile AI

OpenAI makes the ChatGPT desktop app for Windows available to all users, following an October release limited to paying ChatGPT subscribers (www.pcmag.com)
8 days ago

Google researchers detail Project Big Sleep, formerly Project Naptime, which used an AI agent to discover a previously unknown and exploitable bug in SQLite (www.pcmag.com)
21 days ago Google AI SQLite

Chrome begins disabling uBlock Origin as part of Google's plan to phase out Manifest V2 extensions; uBlock Origin has 39M+ downloads on the Chrome Web Store (www.pcmag.com)
2024-10-16 Google Chrome

CrowdStrike's president appeared at DEF CON to accept the “Most Epic Fail” Pwnie Award, saying “we got this horribly wrong” and “it's super important to own it” (www.pcmag.com)
2024-8-13

Intel delays its Innovation event, slated for September and expected to include details about new CPUs, until 2025, citing its financial results and H2 outlook (www.pcmag.com)
2024-8-10 Intel

The US DOJ and its partners seized two domain names and 968 accounts on X used by Russian actors to create an AI-enhanced bot farm that spread disinformation (www.pcmag.com)
2024-7-10 Russia AI

In an interview, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says “some creative jobs maybe will go away” due to AI, “but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place” (www.pcmag.com)
2024-6-22 Interview AI

Google plans to disable extensions built with the older Manifest V2 framework on June 3, beginning with users of Chrome's Beta, Dev, and Canary versions (www.pcmag.com)
2024-6-1 Google Chrome

The Internet Archive says it has been under an intermittent DDoS attack for the last three days, making access inconsistent, however the collections remain safe (www.pcmag.com)
2024-5-29

The US will reactivate Trump-era tariffs on June 15 that apply to select imported goods from China, including graphics cards, motherboards, and desktop cases (www.pcmag.com)
2024-5-29 Trump China

Instant messaging client ICQ will stop working from June 26, recommends users migrate to messaging platforms from parent company VK; ICQ had 100M users in 2001 (www.pcmag.com)
2024-5-25

Slack confirms it is training some of its AI-powered features, but not its generative AI tool, on user content and uploads, with all users opted-in by default (www.pcmag.com)
2024-5-18 AI Slack

Onur Aksoy, who pleaded guilty to selling fake Cisco equipment on Amazon and eBay from 2013 to 2022, making over $100M, is sentenced to over six years in prison (www.pcmag.com)
2024-5-3 Amazon eBay Cisco

Google details Device Bound Session Credentials, a feature that aims to stop browser cookie theft and uses PCs' TPM chip, testing it in beta versions of Chrome (www.pcmag.com)
2024-4-3 Google Browser Chrome

These EVs Can Now Power Up at 15,000 Tesla Superchargers (www.pcmag.com)
2024-3-23 Tesla

Security Flaw Can Open Over 3 Million Door Locks, Mainly at Hotels (www.pcmag.com)
2024-3-23

Verizon Rolls Out FCC-Mandated Broadband 'Nutrition Labels' (www.pcmag.com)
2024-3-22

First Human to Receive Neuralink Implant Says It Lets Him Play Civilization VI (www.pcmag.com)
2024-3-22

Canadian regulatory agency ISED clarifies its stance on banning Flipper Zero, saying the aim is to restrict the use of such devices “to legitimate actors only” (www.pcmag.com)
2024-3-21 Canada

Lenovo updates its $1,239+ ThinkPad X13, available as a laptop or 2-in-1, and $1,199+ ThinkPad L-series, adding a 16" model, available with Intel or AMD chips (www.pcmag.com)
2024-3-20 Intel Lenovo AMD

Fitbit is working with Google Research to create an LLM based on Gemini to provide Fitbit mobile app users with personalized data and health recommendations (www.pcmag.com)
2024-3-20 Google Mobile

Is AI Ruining Etsy? Loosening Definition of 'Handmade' Frustrates Artists, Buyers (PCMag) (www.pcmag.com)
2024-3-18 AI

Mercedes Hires Humanoid Robots to Work at Its Factories (www.pcmag.com)
2024-3-16 Robot

Is AI Ruining Etsy? Loosening Definition of 'Handmade' Frustrates Artists, Buyers (www.pcmag.com)
2024-3-16 AI

FCC Officially Raises Minimum Broadband Metric From 25Mbps to 100Mbps (www.pcmag.com)
2024-3-15

This Software Engineer AI Can Train Other AIs, Code Websites by Itself (www.pcmag.com)
2024-3-13 AI

Google says it's working to fix Gemini's “inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions”, after some users complained about them (www.pcmag.com)
2024-2-22 Google

Google Backs Starlink Rival AST SpaceMobile for Android Satellite Support (www.pcmag.com)
2024-1-20 Android Google

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