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Meta says it paused a Muse feature that lets you share conversations with the AI assistant after researchers found the URLs publicly available on the web, as reported by Ars Technica. In a report published this week, researchers at the security firm Claroc say they found more than 6,800 Muse …

It’s a time of apocalyptic worldviews in Silicon Valley. The latest AI doom cycle is driven by effective altruism, a philosophy that has lurked around the fringes for years but recently burst into the mainstream because its adherents are embedded across the AI industry, from Anthropic to newly appointed AI …

Google is launching a new browser safety feature for Chrome that aims to keep you better informed about how malicious a website might be before you open it. The new suspicious site warnings, available when Chrome’s Enhanced Protection is on, build on a similar two-stage system introduced for Chrome file …

AMD has just revealed that it’s bringing its latest upscaling technology, FSR 4.1, to the Xbox Series S and X consoles, as well as laptops, 6000-series GPUs, and handhelds like the Xbox Ally X devices. FSR 4.1 will start appearing for Radeon RX 6000-series GPUs today, as well as Ryzen …

Arturia is adding to its Freak line of proudly weird digital synths with the MiniFreak 49. Under the hood, it’s almost identical to the current MiniFreak, but it adds a number of more professional features and some interface improvements. The most noticeable change is that, rather than the MiniFreak’s 37 …

Last week over 200 packages of graded trading cards being shipped back to their owners were stolen from a Fedex truck parked outside the headquarters of Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA) in Santa Ana, California, according to a report by The Athletic. PSA is one of the largest third-party sports and …

Earlier this year, we relaunched CNET’s tech news team and now we’re releasing an app to make news even bigger and more accessible. I’m excited to announce TechPulse, which replaces the venerable CNET app with an all-new experience. Our goal is to satisfy your thirst for real tech journalism. We …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Take a look inside your wallet. There is a good chance at least one piece of plastic in there does little more than display a barcode. Maybe it is your library card. Perhaps it is a gym membership, grocery rewards card or …

Spotify says it has removed more than 50 million songs considered AI-generated slop or spam from user recommendations over the past year. That’s according to an announcement on Tuesday, which says Spotify has also made changes to its recommendation system to highlight more music made by human artists. “Our editors …

Low-cost carrier TextNow is launching its first child-friendly phone on Tuesday, pairing a heavily discounted Motorola handset with a software portal that lets parents control who their kid can call or text. Yello is a customized Moto G Play that costs $150 — $100 less than the standard model’s current …

TikTok was repeatedly warned by its own staffers about risks its platform posed to child safety, according to court records obtained by NPR. The publication reports that employees were frustrated over TikTok executives failing to appropriately act on concerns they raised, including minors bypassing age-restricted content, and appearing in “transactional …

Last year’s Antigravity A1 is the best beginner drone I’ve ever tried. I put a friend who’d never flown into its virtual cockpit and didn’t worry one bit. The A1’s also nice for people who’d prefer to think about flying rather than filming, because you can reframe its 360-degree footage …

From Ashburn, Virginia, to South Dublin, Ireland, the data centers that journalist Paris Marx visited all looked remarkably similar: large industrial facilities with loud air-conditioning units running to keep racks upon racks of servers cool. But it was the security measures around the data centers that struck Marx more than …

UK smartphone users could benefit from new payment, ticket and travel apps if Apple widens access to its contactless payment tech, the competition watchdog says. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) also wants the fees Apple charges firms to use its contactless tech to be “substantially lower”. It believes the …

Spotify is enabling podcast creators to earn more money through the platform by providing their fans with a way to pay to access exclusive content. First announced in May, the new Memberships subscription feature is starting to roll out in 34 regions today, allowing podcasters to offer perks including additional …

Hate calling restaurants to check wait times? Yelp is rolling out a new AI-powered tool to handle just that, along with other tools as the platform deepens its employment of agentic artificial intelligence. “This release is another step forward as we transform Yelp with AI, with updates across every category …

Some Google Home Speaker owners are currently experiencing an issue in which hundreds of gigabytes of data are being continuously downloaded to their device in the background. The bug, reported by 9to5Google and several Reddit users over the last week, may be caused by the speakers failing to correctly download …

Baseus PimeSentinel W1 Window Camera Pros & Cons 4K resolution Great magnetic, indoor design Adjustable camera angle (unusual in window cams) MicroSD card slot for free local storage Free motion and AI object detection for people, vehicles and animals Privacy and motion zone options to customize where and how the …

When I was asked to test the 9Barista espresso machine, I couldn’t wrap my head around why a brewer that looked like a modern moka pot would cost $740 or more. After testing the 9Barista Pro espresso machine for a couple of months, I realized the company’s claim of making …

Revolut has been by an outage which it says is impacting “multiple services”, as thousands of customers report problems. Users of the British bank have flagged being unable to make some payments or access funds via its app on Tuesday morning. Platform outage monitor Downdetector had seen more than 1,500 …