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 As expected, the Apple Upgrade program launched today, allowing customers in the U.S. to lease most iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, and Mac models. While the program is offered by Apple, the leasing is handled by financing company Klarna.
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The free Android app shares knowledge from members of the Rainy Lake Ojibwe community.
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The program is an effort to make products more affordable as artificial intelligence sends some component prices soaring.
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For people who want the power of a phone that transforms into a miniature tablet, the Galaxy Z Fold 8 offers a better way to watch shows and movies.
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 Apple plans to release an all-new smart home hub at some point between October and early next year, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
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AI PROBLEMS Politico: Emails show how Virginia regulators downplayed data center health concerns. "When Virginia's top environmental regulator received an analysis warning of data center pollution, it took him less than five […]
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Better bass and a much newer processor are the main differences between the old Echo Dot and the newer Echo Dot Max.
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 New models of the Apple TV and HomePod mini are "nearly ready to launch," with Apple planning to release them "this fall," according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. In other words, the devices would likely launch around September or October.
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 North American tiny houses have been trending larger and more luxurious in recent years, but the eBoho Go takes the opposite approach. Measuring just 152 sq ft (14 sq m), the simple and affordable home provides a lesson in making every inch count.
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Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for July 28.
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 Apple today shared the full-length trailer for season four of its hit series Ted Lasso, ahead of the season premiere on Wednesday, August 5. Following the premiere, one new episode will be released every Wednesday through October 7.
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Checkmarx One for Government?provides?the essential?AppSec toolset in one platform
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 Apple will exclusively rely on Samsung Display for the production of OLED touch panels for its redesigned upcoming MacBook Pro models, according to a new report from Korea-based The Elec.
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The agentic MAI-Cyber-1-Flash model, with some help, outscores Claude Mythos 5 on CyberGym.
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The chipmaking giant is in talks with OpenAI to provide a $250 billion financial backstop for the project, which would be among the largest of the A.I. boom.
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Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue wants to see radical transparency from OpenAI after the company acknowledged that one of its AI agents managed to hack into the AI platform's systems during a test.
In a post on X, Delangue wrote that, among other things, he wants OpenAI to publish logs and traces from the autonomous AI agent so researchers can analyze what happened. He also called for better defensive tools and urged OpenAI to allocate $100 million worth of computing capacity to help the Hugging Face community develop stronger cybersecurity solutions.
"The first cyberattack by an autonomous AI agent is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response," Delangue wrote.
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Beijing is considering locking down its best AI models, mirroring a US export-control move that already took two frontier AIs offline this year. Australian enterprises want more access to AI, not less.
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Some players paid extra for up to five days of early access.
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Anthropic says Claude Opus 5 approaches Fable 5 performance at roughly half the price, targeting enterprise AI, coding, research, and agents.
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China says it will retaliate if the US sanctions Chinese AI companies over alleged model distillation and intellectual property theft claims.
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Xbox is down, and users are even having trouble playing disc-based games.
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Anthropic's Claude voice mode now supports Opus, Sonnet, connected workplace tools, and 11 languages across mobile, desktop, and web in beta.
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Now that Samsung has jumped into the crowded AI-powered glasses arena alongside Apple, Google, Meta, and others, CISOs and IT leaders are again having to think through whether it makes sense to establish enterprise restrictions on such devices, given the likely data leakage and privacy and compliance issues.
And even if those tech leaders decide that such policies might make sense, the logistical hurdles to universally enforcing them outside the office are all but insurmountable.
For example, it is up to individual wearers to choose their device's settings, making it difficult for IT policies around data acquisition and usage to be enforced. Worse, AI devices have a history of ignoring guardrails. That means that a setting that limits how data is used may not necessarily be obeyed.
One possible mitigating factor is that smart glasses typically have a light on the frame that activates whe
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Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for July 28, No. 673.
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 Apple's next high-end laptop is expected to bring the most substantial external changes to the MacBook Pro line since 2021. No renders, case leaks, or dimensions have emerged, but a series of reports have established much of what is set to change.
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The company is working to reassure people that the glasses won't be used to record them surreptitiously.
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 Not too long ago, shopping for an electric dirt bike from an American manufacturer meant your options were few and far between. The segment was largely dominated by European
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 Amazon is planning to deploy up to 5,105 low Earth orbit satellites that will use Globalstar spectrum to provide voice, data, messaging, and emergency services to devices like the iPhone. Amazon's project is expected to improve existing iPhone satellite features and support new features.
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Despite the temptation to enter what might become a $40 billion market, Apple has reportedly decided to delay the introduction of its smart glasses until 2027. The company apparently wants to figure out a better balance between privacy and convenience.
If it gets that right, Apple might be able to bring to market glasses people can wear in public without making everyone around them wonder whether they, their children, their private conversations or even corporate data are being quietly recorded or filmed.
It's a sensible move. During the first internet gold rush, many argued that trading privacy for convenience would be more than justified by the benefits. Years later, that bargain looks a great deal less attractive than it did.
We've seen this story
After all, since then we've seen the likes of Cambridge Analytica and the evolution of digital state surveillance (and state-adjacent surveillance "businesses" such as NSO). We've also seen the dubious rise of data brokers, creepy "personalized" ads that seem to follow private conversations around, and all the other parasites that breed in the murk when privacy is diluted.
None of these things is good. More people than ever now seem to understand that wh
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 Not all tiny houses feel tiny inside. A case in point is the Florence, which packs an impressive amount into its relatively compact frame. Despite measuring just 355 sq ft (33 sq m), it includes a spacious living area, a full-size kitchen, a downstairs bedroom, and even a home office.
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If you can't find the watch face you want in the Play Store, you can create your own Galaxy Watch face from scratch.`
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Here are hints and answers for the NYT Strands puzzle No. 877 for Tuesday, July 28.
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 A shortage of memory chips has impacted the entire computer market, affecting Macs and PCs alike. Apple and other companies have raised prices, but Apple is better positioned than its competitors. Machines like the Mac mini and the Mac Studio are in demand for on-device AI agent use, and Apple plans to take advantage by refreshing its Mac lineup across 2026 and 2027.
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A second gremlin is rolling through Spotify this evening.
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 Apple is on the verge of becoming a $5 trillion company based on market capitalization, which is the total value of all of the company's outstanding shares.
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 Apple today released iOS 26.6, iPadOS 26.6, and macOS Tahoe 26.6, all of which have a long list of security fixes.
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The road to the giant project was paved with secret meetings and an ever-expanding building plan.
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 Memory prices have doubled, Macs and iPads have gone up, and iPhones are expected to follow. Ed Zitron - who writes the Where's Your Ed At newsletter, hosts the Better Offline podcast, and has been described by Politico as the AI boom's most "acerbic gadfly" - has spent years arguing the buildout driving those costs will never pay for itself.
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A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.
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More than 300,000 people were evacuated because of wildfires in France and Spain, with fire crews battling the blazes for several days.
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The Apple team behind the upcoming smart glasses is reportedly exploring several tweaks related to user privacy.
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AI PROBLEMS University of Waterloo: Hidden risks in AI data centres spark new battery safety research. "As artificial intelligence (AI) drives a global surge in data centres in Canada and around the […]
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 Anthropic today introduced Claude Opus 5, an upgrade to Opus 4.8. Anthropic says Opus 5 was built for daily use, and it offers near Fable 5 performance at half the price. Fable 5 is Anthropic's most capable publicly available model.
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AI PROBLEMS Spectrum News: Ohio business says inaccurate Google AI summary of store is hurting sales. "About a week ago, [Chanel Bush] said a customer told her that the Google AI summary […]
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Apple's first high-end MacBook redesign in five years is expected to arrive in the near future, bringing a run of firsts to the Mac.
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 Meta today announced Facebook Verified, a free badge designed to confirm that a Facebook profile belongs to a real person rather than an AI-generated fake.
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OpenAI plans a 3.2GW Georgia data center, with power arriving from 2028 to 2032 and projected compute spending rising to $750 billion through 2030.
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 Apple today announced that "The Morning Show" will return to Apple TV for a fifth and final season at some point in 2027.
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Apple accelerated iOS 26.5.2 and macOS Tahoe 26.5.2 security fixes because AI tools can help attackers reverse-engineer patches faster than ever before.
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