The European Commission is considering EU-wide anti-piracy blocking orders as part of a Copyright Package due in 2027. A tech industry group warns this could force VPN providers to inspect and filter their users' traffic. France and Spain already make VPNs block pirate sites, and the results so far have been messy. Europe's next big copyright shake-up could change how your VPN works behind the sce…
Oracle will rent out Google’s tensor processing units (TPUs) in its cloud from 2027. That makes it the first hyperscale cloud outside Google to offer the chips. It is also putting OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Codex inside its business software. Oracle announced both deals on Tuesday, 27 October, at Oracle AI World in Las Vegas. New […] This story continues at The Next Web
In my review of Apple's iPhone Duo , I noted the engineering and build quality, how easy it is to unfold the phone, and also how solid and sure it feels when you close it. And I have opened and closed the flexible, dual-screen phone many, many times. When a small set of iPhone Duo owners complained that their large inner screens had unexpectedly and disturbingly cracked, Apple did something unusua…
Meta says it may push the implementation of its new business terms past November 20th as it faces backlash from publishers over concerns about AI training. In a post on X , Meta communications head Andy Stone said the company does "not plan to make policy changes without a full consultation with industry groups and leaders." The new business terms, which were supposed to take effect on October 30t…
Researchers uncover critical UEFI firmware flaw that could enable remote code execution on servers Public release of patch code may accelerate exploit development before many vendors deploy updates Delayed firmware patching across hardware ecosystems leaves organizations exposed despite available fixes Cybersecurity researchers from Anthropic and Google have discovered a critical-severity vulnerab…
Thanks to the newly proposed WebAI web standard, the company will start shipping local AI models with its flagship browser.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch : Reddit rolls out a dual-feed homepage, with For You and Following feeds, joining TikTok, Instagram, and others in offering a recommendation-driven feed — Reddit is the latest social platform to adopt the “For You” feed popularized by TikTok. The company announced on Wednesday that users …
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Behold, fellow period drama lovers, the trailer for the much-anticipated Netflix adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is finally here. Adapted for the screen by Dolly Alderton and directed by Euros Lyn, the six-part series stars Emma Corrin as Elizabeth Bennet, Jack Lo…
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Acer Swift Spin 14 AI review: Two Minute Review I really like the Acer Swift Air 14 and not just because of the price. It’s very portable, attractive in that clean minimalist way popularised by a certain Cupertino company, and comes with a battery life that’s as good as any other I’ve come across. Acer has been impressing me with its recent Swift laptops, and this one is no exception. Of course, t…
Reddit is switching up its homepage feeds. The company announced today that it's going to start offering a "new feed experience" that includes both a Following feed to show you posts from subreddits you follow and a For You feed that includes posts from your subreddits and "recommendations related to your interests." You may already have the new feeds - I actually noticed them on my account yester…
The For You feed combines posts from communities users have joined with recommendations tailored to their interests.
The app will have a "following" tab to surface content from subreddits you've joined. The app will have a "following" tab to surface content from subreddits you've joined.
Google DeepMind has released Genie 4, a world model that builds photorealistic worlds in real time. They come with sound, and with characters that speak. It opened to trusted testers as a research preview on 27 October, the lab said in a blog post. Users steer a simulation with text prompts as it runs, changing […] This story continues at The Next Web
Tech leaders are flaunting how out of touch they are when they brag about using AI to connect with their families.
Constellation Energy will get $5 billion in government loans to modernize nuclear reactors. Most of the new capacity is already committed to Google, Amazon, and Meta.
Ron Gabrisko joined Databricks as CRO when it was doing under $1M in ARR. Databricks is now a ~$200 billion company doing $7B+ ARR growing at a pace like we have never seen before. Ron sat down with Sam Blond, co-founder of Monaco and former CRO of Brex, on the SaaStr AI Podcast. They last recorded in October 2024, and this episode covers what has changed in sales and go-to-market in the two years…
Let's face it, the mid-December box office will be dominated by Avengers: Doomsday and Dune: Part Three , but for those seeking fun holiday family fare, Jumanji: Open World opens the very next week on Christmas Day. Sony Pictures just released a new trailer for director Jake Kasdan’s sequel to his 2019 hit, Jumanji: The Next Level , teasing the usual wacky hijinks with a twist that calls back to t…
South Korea on Wednesday fined Alphabet’s Google and Apple a combined 63.7 billion won ($47.6 million), saying they abused their dominance in app store markets by forcing local developers onto their own payment systems and by unfairly delaying app reviews. The Korea Media and Communications Commission, the country’s media and telecommunications regulator, spent years investigating the U.S. tech gi…
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South Korea’s financial institutions have been hit by another wave of cyberattacks, highlighting the growing risk of AI-driven hacking in Asia.
Australia government has issued a bill to ban chatbots that create 'emotional intimacy' with users The bill is also designed to reshape broader online standards to shield users from harmful content It arrives as the American Psychological Association reports that 49% of adults speak with AI as if it were a friend The Australian government has issued a bill that will ban AI chatbots which seek to e…
Calder McHugh / Politico : OpenAI says it's launching an election “war room” ahead of the US midterms to identify potential spread of misinfo or other efforts to disrupt the elections — OpenAI is standing up an election “war room” ahead of the midterms, the company exclusively told Decoded by POLITICO.
AGM Pad P3: 2-minute review Rugged tablets usually follow one rule. Make them big, make them heavy and hope the specification sheet distracts you. The AGM Pad P3 does not play that game. It is an 8.68-inch tablet that measures 232 x 146 x 14.5mm. That is thin for a device that claims IP68 and IP69K protection. It means the tablet can survive brief submersion and high-pressure water jets. AGM says…
Govee’s Christmas String Lights 2 are on sale in all four sizes. | Image: Govee Halloween isn’t even here yet, but it’s never too early to start thinking about holiday decorations, especially when there are already deals on smart, programmable lights. If you want your house, tree, fireplace, or whatever else to stand out this year, Govee’s Christmas String Lights 2 are on sale starting at $74.99 (…
Revolut customers are reporting that they cannot log in to their personal accounts. The problems come eight days after an earlier outage left users unable to use the app or their cards. The bank’s status page listed sign-in as “partially unavailable” from 16:22 CET (15:22 UK time) on 28 October. Every other service on the […] This story continues at The Next Web
This expands the lineup beyond XLR and USB-connected models. This expands the lineup beyond XLR and USB-connected models.
Sony announced a new Prism Collection line of PlayStation 5 accessories today that revisits "the iconic see-through trend of the late '90s in a fresh, modern way" for its DualSense wireless controllers and matching console covers for the PS5 that reveal some of their internal components. The Prism Collection is launching with three color options including flare orange, emerald green, and graphite…
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On a quiet Monday evening, 42-year-old Igor Aguiar decided to give his 75-inch Amazon Fire TV a much-needed—and pointedly pious—facelift. Ninety minutes and a handful of AI prompts later, he sat back to admire his handiwork . The TV’s original home screen, once dotted with movie recommendations and toilet paper ads, was gone. In its place sat a sleek, colorful replacement launcher with shortcuts t…
Amid the vampires, zombies, and ghosts out and about this Halloween, a modern monster is entering the mix: artificial intelligence . An Instagram user named Daria ( @that.f.daria ) went viral for her AI-generated costume concepts, including what she described as “the only Halloween costume that actually scares me”: A personified usage limit for Claude. A short AI-generated clip of her wearing the…
As Europe emerges from record-breaking summer temperatures, and as the US prepares for midterm elections in November, data centers find themselves in the firing line on both sides of the Atlantic. In the UK, water companies say data centers are using 6.6 million liters of precious public supplies every day; in the US, some voters are blaming rises in their electricity bills on, you’ve guessed it,…
The Echo Studio with Home Camera essentially equips Alexa+ with eyes to enable ‘visual intelligence’ features – but there’s a kill switch.
Machenta, a London robotics startup spun out of Imperial College London, has raised a $40M seed round. It is building an AI model that teaches robots a new task from a single demonstration. Creandum and Union Square Ventures co-led the round, Imperial said on 27 October. The university calls it the largest seed round ever […] This story continues at The Next Web
AI startup Cathedral used autonomous agents to breach Anthropic systems through weaknesses in third-party software Agents accessed HR, sales, and IT data, exposing limited customer and partner information Incident highlights how AI-powered attackers can rapidly exploit vendor weaknesses despite strong internal defenses An AI startup seemingly gave Anthropic a taste of its own medicine when it used…
You might need to take a break from salivating over every Grand Theft Auto VI trailer to clear some space on your PS5 or Xbox hard drive. An X account called PlayStation Game Size allegedly caught wind of the install size for GTA 6 and posted it on Tuesday. Ladies and gentlemen, wait for the reveal...it's apparently 210GB. That's pretty huge (though still not as big as Call of Duty ), which should…
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE : Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight model for multilingual audio transcription and translation, and Granary v2, its open-source speech dataset — Nvidia Corp. today released a leaderboard-winning open artificial intelligence model for multilingual audio transcription and translation …
Anthropic’s IPO filing leaves Ben Mann, who co-leads its Labs team, out of the founder group that will control the company after it lists. A footnote on page 248 of the S-1 prospectus, filed on 26 October, says Mann is “often referred to as a co-founder”. He is not a member of the Founder LLC, […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Advanced audio features are great, but ecosystem integration is better. Here’s how Samsung’s newest clip-on Buds compare to its rivals.