With every major iOS beta version, there are obviously going to be bugs. After all, Apple is reshaping the foundation of its operating systems to bring new features. However, iOS 18 beta testers have found an issue that has been driving many users crazy: Auto-brightness simply doesn’t work, and the screen gets stuck at the…
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While you weren’t paying attention, X (formerly Twitter) quietly began feeding all of your posts, replies, and more to Grok, its generative AI chatbot. The new setting appears to be enabled by default on everyone’s account, so even if you never actively chose to let Grok vacuum up your data, it’s doing so without your…
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Apple has already released the fourth iOS 18 beta, but there’s no trace of Apple Intelligence in it. However, it looks like Apple’s AI features will soon be available to test. Apple is ramping up its Apple Intelligence marketing efforts. The company has scheduled a developer event for August 14th in Cupertino where it’ll recap…
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The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), working with social media platforms Meta, TikTok, X and YouTube, has removed almost 12,000 posts, pages and accounts that were used to advertise the services of people smugglers. The takedowns form part of a coordinated social media action plan, first set up in December 2021, targeting the services of criminals…
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As sales of GPU-based AI accelerators remain as strong as ever, the immense demand for these cards has led to some server builders going off the beaten path in order to get the hardware they want at a lower price. While both NVIDIA and AMD offer official card configurations for servers, the correspondingly high price…
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Following the arrival of OpenAI’s GPT-4o mini model and Meta’s Llama 3.1 models, Google has debuted its own AI update. On Thursday, Google made the Gemini 1.5 Flash model available to free users. The updated model is a fairly comprehensive upgrade over version 1.0, with faster, smarter responses and the ability to hold longer conversations.According…
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Police could lawfully use bulk surveillance techniques to access messages from encrypted communications platforms such as WhatsApp and Signal following a ruling by the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), a court has heard. Lawyers claimed that a decision by the IPT following an international police operation to harvest bulk encrypted messages from the EncroChat phone…
OpenAI announced it’s now testing a new SearchGPT. This temporary prototype uses AI search features to give you “fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources.”The new SearchGPT feature is currently available for 10,000 users. If you’re not part of the program, you can join a waitlist for its possible expansion. OpenAI explains that…
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Google’s August 13th Pixel 9 event can’t come soon enough. That’s because the Pixel 9 phones have appeared in so many leaks that we already know everything there is to know about them. We saw the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, and Pixel 9 Pro Fold in so many leaks that…
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Microsoft users across the globe should review the state of their infrastructure security setups in the wake of the botched CrowdStrike software update that took millions of Windows devices across the world offline on Friday 19 July 2024. As stated in a blog post, authored by Microsoft’s vice-president of enterprise and operating system security, David…
