Should You Leave Your Phone Charging Overnight?
…These chips also prevent phones from overheating too much, and they consequently reduce the fire risk to near zero. It can't do all of that by itself, though. You still need…
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Meta Is Shutting Down Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest
…I really think that it should have given up a long time ago.” Meta is rejiggering its VR efforts to be more competitive with companies working on VR. There is the Steam…
Hackers Claim to Leak Stolen Madison Square Garden Data
…Face recognition can then identify the person the next time they are at the bar. The recorded information can be shared as part of a “safety network” between other firms using the…
Mozilla Used Anthropic’s Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox
…Now a powerful new capability has arrived—and as we’ve seen repeatedly in tech, there’s the risk that organizations with resources will receive it first and learn to protect themselves…
Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators
…Real-time face recognition, the group warned, would compound what it called the “already serious and apparently unlawful” privacy risks of the existing Ray-Ban Meta glasses, which can covertly record bystanders…
AI Has Flooded All the Weather Apps
…You can stick a voice on it to talk like an old-timey radio weatherman, if you’re into that. Like most weather apps, it gets the data comes from the National…
90,000 Screenshots of One Celebrity's Phone Were Exposed Online
…The exposed files have all of the characteristics of data collected using spyware—screenshots of particularly sensitive and intimate digital activity taken during a specific time span. And Fowler, who regularly investigates…
Federal Workers Can’t Get the White House’s App Off Their Phones
…The app, which debuted in March, promises a mixture of “real-time updates, live events, and direct access to the Presidency,” according to the White House website. It is, apparently, the same…
Oura’s New Ring 5 Is Smaller and Lighter—and Adds an AI Health Coach
…Oura says the Ring 5 is more accurate than its predecessor, thanks to LEDs four times more powerful and redesigned sensors positioned closer to the skin for improved signal detection. The ring…
OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos
As advances across the AI industry leave critical open-source projects at increasing risk of falling behind, though, the company also said on Monday that it is launching an effort known as…