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Yahoo TechnologyAug 12, 2026
Google launches Pixel 11 smartphone line, including Pixel 11 Pro Fold, as Apple preps foldable iPhone


Mac RumorsAug 12, 2026
iPhone Ultra's Two Selfie Cameras Could Sit in the Same Corner
With Apple's upcoming iPhone Ultra there's been a lingering question over the exact placement of the selfie cameras in the device's folded and unfolded states - but today we may have stumbled upon the answer.


CNET NewsAug 12, 2026
Honor Has Radically Reinvented the Phone for the Robot Age. I Played With It, and It's Wild
I attended the launch of Honor's Robot Phone in China. I'm so glad this bold device is actually going on sale.

Time: TechlandAug 12, 2026
Trump Breaks Silence on Secret Plane Switch in Turkey Over Possible Iranian Threat
"I guess there was a threat out there. I didn't really ask too much about it. I get a lot of threats," Trump told reporters.

EngadgetAug 12, 2026
Google's Pixel 11 Pro and Pro XL have less RAM despite price increases
The Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, Pro XL and Pixel 11 Pro Fold all cost about $100 more than last year's models.

Mac RumorsAug 11, 2026
Latest iOS 27 Beta References Six Unreleased iPhone Models
Macworld reports that iOS 27 beta 5, released to developers on Monday, contains hidden code revealing six unreleased iPhone models - although you've probably heard of them before.


Mac RumorsAug 11, 2026
Apple Releases New iOS 27 AirPods Firmware for Public Beta Testers
Apple today released new AirPods beta firmware available for public testers. The firmware has a build number of 9A5336b, and it is available for the AirPods Pro 2, AirPods Pro 3, AirPods 4, and AirPods Max 2. It is the same as the AirPods beta released for developers last week.


ComputerWorldJul 28, 2026
Microsoft's Nadella calls out Big AI for hypocrisy — but what about his own company?
The 19th-century French novelist Honore de Balzac is believed to have said that behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

That's even more true today than it was 200 years ago — just look at how Big AI, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and others have built their trillion-dollar fortunes. 

They all use vast amounts of copyrighted material to train their large language models (LLMs) without paying the copyright holders. In other words, they steal it. They don't call it stealing, though. They call it "fair use," which in this case amounts to the same thing.

Generative AI (genAI) training requires massive amounts of text. The better-written and more information-dense that text is, the more it helps. AI gets a lot smarter a lot faster when it's trained on well-written books and magazine and newspaper articles than when it's trained on social media banter (or most everything else you find on the internet).

Since the dawn of AI, companies have been hoovering up copyrighted material wherever they find it — on the open web, behind paywalls, even in manually scanned books — and then used the scanned text. And they do it all without asking authors' or publishers' permissions, and without paying them.

It's the greatest intellectual property theft in history by a long shot — billions and b

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