Streaming boxes just got a lot more expensive across the board, and Google’s newest hardware isn’t spared either. The Google TV Streamer quietly jumped from $99 to $149, a steep 50% increase.
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The exposure is especially troubling given what ClarityCheck is designed to do. The service explicitly markets itself as a tool to identify strangers from photos and find their social media profiles in seconds.

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Starting with the 2027 software update, Apple Intelligence is set for a serious upgrade with broader access to its server-powered features. But there’s a catch. Apple plans to roll out usage limits across many of these tools to keep things fast and reliable for everyone.

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Armed with sordid tales of rogue AI agents escaping containment, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has found plenty of success using scare tactics to call for friendly regulation in the name of AI safety.
Now, Altman is riding a wave of AI fearmongering in the US power grid.
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That partnership has borne a commercial featuring James and a slew of other sports stars seemingly in need of a paycheck despite immense career earnings. For James, the move to Polymarket comes as his deal with DraftKings expires.

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Google will enforce new memory limits on Android apps from February 2027; the reason is the RAM shortage created by the AI data centre boom. Apps that break them can be slowed, terminated, or buried in the Play Store. A second deadline follows in April.
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Remembering 9/11

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A researcher who spent three years building the systems behind some of the world's most powerful AI models has quit the industry entirely, warning that the companies racing to build ever-more capable AI "are gambling with our lives".

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When OpenAI first revealed that its AI agents had autonomously hacked a major real-world company, Hugging Face, many assumed only one or two agents were involved. The truth is, the incident involved about 1,200 AI agents; 700 directly participated in the attack.

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Android 17 is closing a privacy loophole that has existed since the early days of mobile internet. Even when a connection is secured with HTTPS, the initial handshake between a phone and a website has always broadcast the destination domain as readable text.

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On paper, the company is registered with Canada’s financial intelligence agency and offers "fast and easy" global currency transfers and "convenient banking" with the click of a button.

In practice, however, it’s a shell company. Its website offers no option to open an account and provides no employee names, while phone calls go straight to voicemail and emails go unanswered.

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A Tiny BC Farming Town’s Fight Against Billionaire Speculators

A US company’s pursuit of land near Dunster has reignited calls for stiffer foreign ownership rules.

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Public opposition to artificial intelligence (AI) data centre projects is surging across Canada and the United States, as outrage over the projects’ energy and water use, noise pollution, and carbon footprint unites voters across the political spectrum.
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Conversations with Claude that were intended to be private—some involving medical data and children’s phone numbers—were discovered in search engine results by Reddit users over the weekend.

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Now they have a looney too!
The US Mint has issued the 2026 US President Donald J. Trump $1 coin, marking the first time a serving American president has featured on a coin made for everyday use, with the Mint saying the pieces are already in circulation and rolls and bags going on sale from midday Eastern time. NO Words!

"Our digital lives, and a lot of our life that extends from that, falls under the jurisdiction of American companies, and therefore American law."

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This is how you combat tariffs!
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Unlike communications with a doctor or attorney, conversations with an AI chatbot carry no recognized legal privilege, meaning they can be subpoenaed and used as evidence without the protections many people might expect.

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The phone you can actually repair yourself is finally coming to the US. The Dutch company, known across Europe for building devices you can crack open and fix yourself, just launched the Fairphone 6+ stateside, and it arrives with credentials no major brand can match.

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The ChatGPT maker has lost a string of senior leaders in 2026, including former operating chief Brad Lightcap, applications CEO Fidji Simo, chief revenue officer Denise Dresser, and executives overseeing marketing, enterprise products, science, and ethics.

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Anthropic has reached a $1.5 billion copyright settlement with thousands of authors over the use of their protected work to train its Claude AI chatbots, with Bloomsbury Publishing set to receive roughly $19 million of that total.

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The government of French Polynesia plans to challenge an American startup’s proposal to explore the waters just beyond its maritime borders for seabed mining.

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The hackers managed to infiltrate the wallets despite clients having a physical hardware key associated with their accounts, which was supposed to provide nearly impenetrable security.

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OpenAI’s attempt to boost its image by hiring influencers collided against a harsh reality: that it’s already become a fundamentally uncool company.

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US sales growth inched up just 2.6%, the company’s slowest growth in almost six years in what was otherwise a positive earnings report. With Walmart often seen as a bellwether for the broader US economy, economists worry that consumer spending may finally be starting to dwindle.

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As corporate AI bills spiral out of control, many companies are beginning to ask themselves a simple question: why pay a pretty penny for the US’s leading AI models when Chinese ones are far cheaper? blog.ecomtechnology.com/2026/0…

The SpaceRISE consortium and the European Commission have now joined forces, signing an implementation agreement for IRIS².

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While American pioneers like OpenAI and Anthropic favor a closed-source approach — keeping their proprietary model code locked behind a commercial interface — Chinese AI labs are aggressively releasing open-source models.

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Microsoft-owned Xbox will slash about one-fifth


One of the biggest names in gaming could use an infinite money glitch right now. With revenue falling and a string of acquisitions not paying off, Microsoft-owned Xbox will slash about one-fifth of its staff and divest from some development studios

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The US Court of International Trade upheld President Trump’s closure of the “de minimis loophole,” which had allowed shipments worth $800 or less to be imported to the US tax-free.

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