Category: Tech
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iPhone Lockdown Mode: The Pros And Cons Of Enabling Apple’s Security Feature
Lockdown Mode makes your iPhone much more secure against spyware, but most people don’t need to use it. …
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Older Siri Remotes Now Show Up in Find My With iOS 27.2
With iOS 27.2 and tvOS 27.2, second- and third-generation Siri Remotes can be tracked using the Find My app. There has been an option to locate a lost Siri Remote with an iPhone since iOS 17, but remotes did not previously show up in the…
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Rivian Halloween Update Turns R1, R2 Into Ghostbusting EVs Through Nov. 2
Halloween is one of my family’s favorite holidays, a sentiment clearly shared by somebody at Rivian. Every October, owners of its electric trucks and SUVs can activate Halloween Mode, which changes the exterior lights, sounds and graphics on…
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Strava’s latest update adds improved route discovery and planning to help you get going in the great outdoors
Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Strava has added new route planning features to its appThe changes cover route discovery, mapping, offline tools, and…
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OpenAI announces three big science discoveries and a new way to work with academics
We would welcome discussion of three broader questions:What expectations should govern early access to AI-generated results, disclosure of conflicts of interest, and the use of unpublished material for subsequent research?How should credit…
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Microsoft offers to buy out a quarter of its workforce
On Monday, Microsoft said it will offer voluntary buyouts to eligible employees in select parts of the company. CNBC reports that the buyouts will be offered to roughly 60,000 employees, or…
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Worm armed 42 GitHub repos by hiding a payload too big to fail
security Payload blobs measuring 12.9 to 13.7 MB were large enough to evade GitHub code search …
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Databricks co-founder shares his secrets for winning big enterprise customers
Startups have never been under more pressure to grow quickly. To do that, many of them must land large enterprises, the deep pockets of the IT world, as customers. But as any company that sells to enterprises will tell you, it’s not easy to…
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Samsung’s Switch 2-ready MicroSD Express card is on sale for less than $50
Running out of space on your Nintendo Switch 2? Thankfully, Samsung’s P9 MicroSD Express card is discounted at multiple retailers, with the 256GB version going for $47.99 (Amazon, B&H Photo) and the 512GB version $99 (Amazon, B&H Photo). The…
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Alibaba’s Qwen AI caught trying to contact server in China
Open-weight models from China have become very popular, but they’ve also raised some security suspicions. Cohere, a Canada-based biz that offers AI models to enterprises, says that when it was testing Alibaba’s…