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Lessons from war: How Israel is fighting Iranian state-backed hacking

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Hamas hacked into video streams from private security cameras in Israeli homes to gather intelligence before fighters descended on Israeli settlements near the Gaza strip on 7 October 2023, according to the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD). For Gaby Portnoy, director general of the INCD, the hacking was no surprise: “But it went deeper than…

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Google Maps for iPhone and CarPlay finally added a speedometer

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Google occasionally introduces new features for its Android apps before bringing them to iOS, but the wait can be excruciating. For example, this week, Google finally brought a speedometer and speed limits to Google Maps on iOS and CarPlay… a full five years after those rather basic features were added to Google Maps on Android.TechCrunch…

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Microsoft and Google’s GHG emissions gains call viability of net-zero targets into question

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The financial results of the world’s biggest three hyperscale cloud companies have seen Amazon, Google and Microsoft all credit growing customer demand for artificial intelligence (AI) services for boosting their respective profit, revenue and market share totals. The downside to this growth, particularly where Google and Microsoft are concerned, is that it appears to be…

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Microsoft China bans Android, forces staff to use iPhones instead

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Microsoft is banning Android phones from its workplace in China for privacy and security reasons. According to Bloomberg News, Microsoft staff will have to ditch their Android-powered devices in favor of iPhones starting in September.Special iPhone apps will be required for China-based employees to verify their identities when logging in to work computers or phones.…

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Trends in the cloud database market

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The cloud holds a large – and growing – percentage of enterprise data. While much of this growth comes from unstructured information, such as documents and media files, enterprises also still depend on structured data, stored in databases.   The global market for databases grew by 12.8% last year, according to analysts at Gartner, and…

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Ripple effect from DoJ’s Google antitrust lawsuit could burn Apple

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Apple and Google have a lucrative deal to keep Google as the default search engine of Safari’s web browser. However, this agreement might have to end as the Justice Department is holding an antitrust trial focused on the Mountain View company.Previous reports revealed that Google pays Apple up to $20 billion a year to be…

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How ChatGPT users will benefit from the Apple AI deal even if they don’t have iPhones

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Having ChatGPT integrated into iOS 18 will be a big deal for iPhone users. Apple’s language models can’t currently offer chatbot functionality on par with OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others. If they could, Apple would simply send those complex Siri prompts to its own “AppleGPT” rather than partnering with other AI service providers.The partnership is…

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Pixel 9 will fix something that has been driving Pixel users crazy

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One of the first questions people asked when that pink Pixel 9 unit made its way online had to do with the fingerprint sensor. Has Google switched to an ultrasonic reader, or is it sticking with the same optical fingerprint sensors that have been driving many Pixel users nuts for a while now? The person…

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Galaxy AI will be free through 2025, but will a subscription follow?

5 minutes of reading / AI, Apple, ChatGPT, Google, Intel, iPad, iPhone, Samsung, Tech / By

Samsung was the first smartphone vendor to make a big deal about generative AI features on mobile devices this year. It partnered with Google and others to launch the Galaxy AI suite on the Galaxy S24, turning AI features into a big selling point for the new flagships. A few months later, Samsung started bringing…

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How Apple Intelligence can make the iPhone SE 4 an even bigger nightmare for Android

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With every iPhone SE 4 rumor that popped up, I told you the new budget iPhone Apple is working on will be an exciting upgrade. Priced at around $500, the iPhone SE 4 will look like the iPhone 14 with a notch. But it will feature a processor that’s at least as good as the…

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