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LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire, citing ‘serious concerns’ over civil liberties and privacy
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is reportedly ending its deal with Flock Safety, a surveillance company that helps law enforcement track vehicles using thousands of its license plate cameras placed across the United States. A senior LAPD official told news...
Pinwheel launches a retro-inspired landline phone for kids
If you remember racing home after school to grab the family landline and call your best friend before dinner, a new device from Pinwheel is aiming to reboot that experience for a new generation. The kid-focused tech company announced Tuesday the launch of Pinwheel...
Microsoft tests Windows Search without all the ads and fluff
Microsoft is testing a streamlined Windows 11 search interface that removes ads, recommendations, and distracting content to improve user experience and rebuild customer confidence.
The US government warns that Russia state hackers are coming after your router
The U.S. government warned Monday that Russian state-sponsored hackers are compromising home and small office routers to mask malicious activity targeting critical infrastructure sectors.
Apple’s public betas for iOS 27 and more are out now
Apple has released public betas for iOS 27, iPadOS 27, watchOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate ahead of their fall launch, featuring the new AI-powered Siri AI system.
Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too
Researchers have developed a defensive technique called context bombing that plants prompt injections in stored secrets to shut down AI-based hacking agents before they can compromise systems.
The New York nurses replaced by AI: ‘It should concern every patient who cares about quality of care’
Twelve nurses at Montefiore hospital in the Bronx were laid off after being replaced by AI-powered software, sparking union concerns about patient care quality and contract violations.
Young men report more ‘sextortion’ than any other age group, Australia’s online safety watchdog says
Australia’s online safety regulator found significant gaps in how major tech platforms address sexual extortion and child exploitation, with young men aged 18-24 filing the most complaints.
Use of VPNs to bypass age checks on porn sites to be investigated by Australia’s eSafety watchdog
Australia’s eSafety watchdog will investigate whether adult websites are allowing users to bypass age verification requirements using virtual private networks, as compliance with age checks reaches 90% among top sites.
Two Stanford grads raise $11M to build a noninvasive wearable for hormone tracking
Stanford graduates Jenny Duan and Abhinav Agarwal want to solve two hard problems: create a good-looking wearable and measure hormones to help women understand their health better. The pair is building a startup called Clair Health to track inflammation and bloating...
Google bets on Gemini to reinvent the smart home speaker
After years of incremental updates, Google is betting that its Gemini AI can reinvent its smart speaker. On Wednesday, the company introduced its first audio device built specifically for Gemini with the $99.99 Google Home Speaker. The new Google Home device is the...
PayPal Ventures shutters as company restructuring continues
PayPal Ventures is no more. Five sources told Fortune that the corporate venture arm, which was founded in 2016, would be winding down operations. A company spokesperson confirmed the news to TechCrunch, albeit with a nuanced statement. “As part of our continued...
The slowtech revolution is here to kill your phone addiction and rescue your attention span
When Tony Fadell entered New York City’s 28th Street Subway Station, he did not expect to come face-to-face with an advertisement for a product he designed over twenty years ago. But there it was: a five-by-four-foot poster promoting the iPod Shuffle, luring passersby...
Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it.
Two weeks ago, OpenAI said it would relaunch the robotics program it shuttered in 2021 — the latest signal that the biggest AI labs are racing to teach machines to operate in the physical world. But building capable robots requires something the AI industry doesn’t...
SpaceX alum nabs $22M to turn rocket engines into geothermal power plants
Few energy sources can top geothermal’s potential, with at least 42 terawatts of capacity available worldwide, according to the IEA, more than twice the world’s energy use last year. The technology is shaping up to be the energy world’s dark horse, even though...
Canadian pension giant joins race to fund India’s AI-fueled data center boom
As global investors race to fund the infrastructure underpinning the artificial-intelligence boom, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board’s CPP Investments has committed up to ₹70 billion (about $741 million) to Indian data center operator CtrlS, betting on India’s...
DeepL acquires Mixhalo for live-event audio streaming and translation
At conferences, speakers are often delivering their keynote or panel discussions in languages that many attendees might not know. That leads to users scrambling for their phones and opening translation apps to capture audio from a distance, which is not always...
Pinterest launches an experimental AI shopping app called ‘Ask Pinterest’
Pinterest on Wednesday announced a new experimental app called “Ask Pinterest” that will allow the company to explore a more conversational approach to shopping and product discovery that could eventually find its way to the main Pinterest app. It also introduced...
Uber will bring its premium robotaxi service to Houston in 2027
Uber plans to launch a premium robotaxi service in Houston by mid-2027, making it the second U.S. market under its partnership with EV maker Lucid and autonomous vehicle startup Nuro. The announcement follows a flurry of activity in the San Francisco Bay Area, as the...
Why Weibo’s tiny VibeThinker-3B has the AI world arguing over benchmarks again
On Sunday, a team of nine researchers at Sina Weibo — the Chinese social media giant better known for its microblogging platform than for cutting-edge artificial intelligence — quietly posted a 14-page technical report to arXiv that sent shockwaves through the AI...
Anthropic’s latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests
Anthropic is having a month. The AI lab finished May by surpassing OpenAI in market share of business spending for the first time, Ramp just revealed. It raised $65 billion at a $965 billion valuation (also besting OpenAI) at the end of May, then waltzed into June by...
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