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The Guardian Tara Conlan ·

Blue Planet III features cloudier footage to prove authenticity amid AI boom

The nature series includes cloudier footage to reassure viewers that its animals are real rather than AI-generated. According to The Guardian, producers describe the approach as more organic, and David Attenborough narrates the series. The Verge notes that earlier installments were known for their exceptionally clear footage.

9to5Google Will Sattelberg ·

Google will target ads based on Gmail, Photos data if Personal Intelligence is enabled

The privacy policy change applies when users connect Google services to personalized AI features such as Personal Intelligence. Data accessed through those connections could inform targeted advertising in Search or Gemini. The change creates an exception to Google's previous promise not to use content from Gmail, Drive or Google Photos for personalized ads.

  • Android Authority first spotted the policy update, according to The Verge.
Financial Times ·

Ukraine says Starlink speeds still throttled

Ukrainian officials say drones lose their satellite connection above 100 mph, hampering military operations against Russia. Trump denied speaking to Elon Musk about restoring access but said he would intervene if service was not fixed.

The Verge ·

Startup aims to equip genetically enhanced dogs with Palmer Luckey’s military tech

The venture brings together Anduril’s Palmer Luckey and Colossal Biosciences co-founder Ben Lamm, with plans to serve military and law enforcement operations. It aims to equip the dogs with Anduril technology, according to The Verge.

BleepingComputer ·

Quest Diagnostics confirms data breach exposed patient records

An unauthorized party accessed Quest’s Quanum Lab Services Manager system, which some clients use to place test orders, according to SecurityWeek. TechCrunch reports that the compromised records included patients’ personal and health information.

MacRumors ·

Apple Music Has a Hidden iPod You Can Play With

The virtual first-generation player appears on Apple Music’s web error page when visitors enter an address that does not exist. The feature marks the iPod’s 25th anniversary and lets visitors explore music from its era, with a scroll wheel that recreates the original device’s controls.

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Cookie theft: how fraudsters get the digital key to your accounts

‘Session cookies’ are a primary target for hackers letting them hijack and use your accounts You’ve had a busy morning of life admin, logging into various accounts to check balances and make payments.

The Guardian ·
Proton hosts Flock map revealing over 300,000 cameras, defying cease-and-desist threats against creator

Privacy-focused firm Proton AG just decided to host the Flock camera map that a security researcher published last month.

Tom's Hardware ·
China’s tech giants are paying 1 million yuan for a new kind of AI engineer

Chinese technology giants are dangling annual pay packages approaching 1 million yuan (US$149,739) to attract artificial intelligence engineers who can turn AI models into commercial applications.

South China Morning Post ·
Billionaire benevolence is booming, but it comes with strings

Generating goodwill is helpful in building data centres and developing bots with minimum governmental intervention

Financial Times ·
FBI Explores Espionage Case Against Saudi OpenAI Suspect

Engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan was accused of bugging a restricted conference room at the company’s offices.

Wall Street Journal ·
Denmark has abandoned plans to ditch Microsoft Office after technical problems

Denmark's push to ditch Microsoft Office for a European alternative has hit a setback, and the reasons behind its failure could be related to compatibility and formatting issues.

Neowin ·
SoftBank-backed drone maker wants every farmer to ‘have their own robot’

Chinese start-up XAG believes pilotless crop sprayers are the answer to a dwindling workforce and rising temperatures

Financial Times ·
Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.

A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.

TechCrunch ·
PHP-ocalypse: How two critical web bugs almost broke the internet

Two critical bugs in the PHP web programming language, used by the majority of the internet, threatened to upend the internet — and it's unlikely to be the last major software scare.

TechCrunch ·
“Performance” Oryon: Qualcomm’s Little Core

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite uses a hybrid core setup, breaking away from the all-big-core strategy that the company previously used with in-house core designs.

Chips and Cheese ·
Instagram Launches Apple TV App With Reels and More

Instagram is now available on the Apple TV , bringing Reels, longer videos, and live shows via the platform to Apple's streaming device for the first time.

MacRumors ·
Microsoft Teams to Use AI for Detecting Phishing Attacks Using Teams Conversations

Microsoft is preparing to add AI phishing detection to Microsoft Teams, using conversation context to spot scams that may contain no harmful links or attachments.

Cyber Security News ·
Nvidia unveils OOI CPO prototype for post-2028 AI needs

Nvidia has unveiled a prototype of its next-generation co-packaged optics (CPO) technology, Optics-on-Interposer (OOI), at SEMICON West 2026.

DigiTimes ·
AI data centers drive Taiwan's electrical firms into modular, EPC markets

As demand for AI data centers expands, next-generation AI servers are raising requirements for power supply, cooling efficiency, and deployment speed.

DigiTimes ·