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Deezer will add a toggle before the end of 2026 that hides AI-generated music, while YouTube Music will only label tracks made primarily with generative AI. The toggle will lean on a detector that Deezer says could be weak to audio manipulation and unknown generation models.
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US Army awarded $4.15 billion in Domestic Shield counter-drone contracts to 10 companies, within a $7 billion ceiling. The Army requires open architecture, so the test is whether one firm's radar and another's camera work on one base network.
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Google's Fitbit app now opens to a prompt with one button, Update, and no way to dismiss it, TechRadar reported. Anyone still on the old app has to move to Google Health, and users are objecting on social media.
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MSI priced the top Prestige N16 Flip AI+ RTX Spark laptop, with 128GB of RAM, at €7,999.90 in the Eurozone. The step from 64GB to 128GB adds €2,900 and doubles the SSD at the same time, so the memory cannot be priced on its own.
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TP-Link opened preorders for its Archer 8 Ultra Wi-Fi 8 router on Sept. 30 at £669.99 in the UK, before any Wi-Fi 8 phone or laptop is on sale. TechRepublic's review finds the price and limited device support hard to recommend over Wi-Fi 7 for homes and small offices.
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Salt Labs got the Manus AI agent to run attacker JavaScript server-side with a JSFuck-encoded prompt hidden in an email the agent had flagged. Detection fired and the code still ran, so agents connected to outside services need limits on what their code can reach.
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Banking scams targeting mobile users rose 35% in 12 months, according to research cited by Tech Radar. Because victims send the money themselves, banks are looking for signs of manipulation before a payment is authorised.
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RuntimeWire says a captured WIRED homepage session sent Pinterest 90 audience-segment events plus fields labelled email_sha256 and fingerprint. That traffic sits in request bodies, where a tally of outside domains cannot see it.
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At its Made on YouTube event the company showed Custom Feeds that a viewer has to write a prompt to fill, and gave Ask YouTube the ability to answer a product question and sell the product, with affiliate credit for the creator still unsettled.
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Astra, Sol and Luna live one tab away from the prompt bar most people type into, and a Plus account sees five entries in the Work model picker. Whoever wrote your ChatGPT rollout doc now has to name a tab.
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Oliver Schusser said the Beats 360 came out of watching how people live with headphones all day, and the specification follows that brief at 295.4 grams, with cushions you can machine wash and IPX4 water resistance.
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Tom Marieb told TechRadar that the iPhone Duo's matte nano-texture panel is more forgiving of hinge changes over time. The published excerpts of that interview do not include a fold-cycle rating.
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Writing in Forbes, OpenVPN chief executive Francis Dinha names Turbo VPN and VyprVPN among providers found on a 2019 build and puts the exposure in what vendors did with the code after they took it.
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Snap's sixth-generation glasses arrive in Fall 2026 with a 51-degree display the company compares to a 24-inch monitor, and they weigh about 2.6 times what a pair of Meta Ray-Bans weighs. The demo software was Spotify and Google Docs.
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TechRadar puts the generation's biggest gain in the camera, where four selectable apertures and Pro controls pay off for anyone who takes charge of a shot, while the new chip felt level with last year's.
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The president wrote that the only guardrails AI needs is a smart president, and said his administration has stopped Dario Amodei from doing bad things. TechRadar reports an earlier bid to brand Anthropic a supply chain risk failed.
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Apple does not always publish full spec sheets, so the battery capacities for this year's iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max became public on European energy labels, and the two models did not gain the same amount.
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Jakub Pachocki's post on OpenAI's website asks every AI company to slow down and governments to coordinate on what comes next. The post is undated, and nothing a customer has already signed changes.
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The delivery annex gives every programme a budget, an owning body and a financial year between 2026/27 and 2029/30, and its biggest line is £2.3bn for the military satellite communications work the projects authority rated red in July.
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Nvidia's recommended defence against Rowhammer was a toggle. A University of Toronto team hammered straight through it, publishes exploit code on 15 November, and says only new hardware can close the hole.
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