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Alexa Is Getting a Major AI Upgrade From Amazon. What We Know So Far

cnet.com Samantha Kelly 2025-06-13 03:30:03

Amazon is expected to announce a major artificial intelligence upgrade for its voice assistant Alexa next week, which could change how we interact with this popular piece of smart home tech. Amazon sent out media invites for a Feb. 26 event in New York City, and Amazon's Devices and Services team lead Panos Panay is scheduled to speak. Panay joined Amazon in 2023 after spending decades at Microsoft, where he helped shape the Surface product line. The event is expected to preview Alexa's long-r

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Apple Pulls iCloud Encryption Feature Following UK Government Demands

cnet.com Katie Collins 2025-06-13 05:24:00

Apple is withdrawing its Advanced Data Protection tool from the UK, leaving iCloud users without the highest level of encryption the company currently offers. The move comes just weeks after reports emerged that the British government was pressuring Apple to create a backdoor into its encrypted services for law enforcement and spying purposes. ADP is an opt-in security tool, which provides end-to-end encryption for iCloud services to those who want it. The UK's Home Office had refused to confir

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An episode of The Simpsons? Fake speakers found in Chinese Volvos.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-06-13 04:35:50

Do you remember The Simpsons episode "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield"? It first aired in February 1996, and it's the one where Homer and Bart go to Appliance Zone and are confronted with "genuine" Panaphonics, Sorny, and Magnetbox TVs. Well, it seems a similar brand name game has been going on at a Volvo dealership in China. News started filtering out of China last week about an owner of a Volvo S60 sedan who realized the speakers in his car were not from Bowers and Wilkins, as t

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SEC’s “scorched-earth” lawsuit against Coinbase to be dropped, company says

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-06-13 04:55:37

On Friday, a Coinbase executive declared the "war against crypto" over—"at least as it applies to Coinbase." According to Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) plans to drop its lawsuit against the largest US cryptocurrency exchange as the agency shifts to embrace Donald Trump's new approach to regulating cryptocurrency in the US. The SEC sued Coinbase in 2023, accusing Coinbase of "operating its crypto asset trading platform as an unregister

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Apple pulls end-to-end encryption in UK, spurning backdoors for gov’t spying

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-06-13 05:40:11

After the United Kingdom demanded that Apple create a backdoor that would allow government officials globally to spy on encrypted data, Apple decided to simply turn off encryption services in the UK rather than risk exposing its customers to snooping. Apple had previously allowed end-to-end encryption of data on UK devices through its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) tool, but that ended Friday, a spokesperson said in a lengthy statement. "Apple can no longer offer Advanced Data Protection (ADP)

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DeepSeek goes beyond “open weights” AI with plans for source code release

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-06-13 05:50:45

Last month, DeepSeek turned the AI world on its head with the release of a new, competitive simulated reasoning model that was free to download and use under an MIT license. Now, the company is preparing to make the underlying code behind that model more accessible, promising to release five open source repos starting next week. In a social media post late Thursday, DeepSeek said the daily releases it is planning for its "Open Source Week" would provide visibility into "these humble building bl

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Apple pulls encryption feature from UK over government spying demands

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-06-13 05:29:39

Apple has stopped offering its end-to-end encrypted iCloud storage, Advanced Data Protection (ADP), to new users in the UK, and will require existing users to disable the feature at some point in the future. The move comes following reports earlier this month that UK security services requested Apple grant them backdoor access to worldwide users’ encrypted backups. “Apple can no longer offer Advanced Data Protection (ADP) in the United Kingdom to new users and current UK users will eventually n

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Apple Intelligence is coming to the Vision Pro

theverge.com Victoria Song 2025-06-13 07:04:55

is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. Soon, you’ll be able to use Apple Intelligence with the Vision Pro. That includes a mix of features we’ve seen before, as well as a new feature called Create Memory Movie that’s exclusive to the headset. Apple has been keen to position the Vision Pro as a unique tool for viewing memories, and that’s the whole goal of the Create Memor

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The UK’s war on encryption affects all of us

theverge.com Gadel Valle 2025-06-13 07:19:32

is a policy reporter. Her past work has focused on immigration politics, border surveillance technologies, and the rise of the New Right. Update February 21st: Apple has removed its Advanced Data Protection feature in the UK, calling itself “gravely disappointed” with the move. The encryption wars have reached a fever pitch, and the most contentious battle is not happening in the United States, where much of the action has been in the past — like the government’s efforts to restrict exports of

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DeepSeek to open source parts of online services code

techcrunch.com Kyle Wiggers 2025-06-13 04:36:46

In Brief Chinese AI lab DeepSeek plans to open source portions of its online services’ code as part of an “open source week” event next week. DeepSeek will open source five code repositories that have been “documented, deployed and battle-tested in production,” the company said in a post on X on Thursday. Code repositories are storage locations for software development assets, and typically contain source code as well as configuration files and project documentation. “As part of the open-sou

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Apple pulls iCloud end-to-end encryption feature for UK users after government demanded backdoor

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-06-13 04:58:24

Apple confirmed Friday that it “can no longer” offer a security feature that allows users in the United Kingdom to encrypt their iCloud data. In a statement provided to TechCrunch, Apple spokesperson Fred Sainz said the company’s Advanced Data Protection feature will no longer be available to new users and current U.K. users “will eventually need to disable this security feature.” “We are gravely disappointed that the protections provided by ADP will not be available to our customers in the U.

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Apply to Speak at TechCrunch Sessions: AI before the deadline

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-06-13 05:00:00

AI Innovators, seize your moment! Have insights that could inspire 1,200 AI founders, investors, and enthusiasts eager to advance the future of AI? Take center stage, influence the AI conversation, and exchange ideas at TechCrunch Sessions: AI on June 5 at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall. We’re gathering top AI visionaries from the startup world to lead compelling sessions and interactive roundtables. Join us in helping entrepreneurs, founders, and innovators navigate the evolving world of AI.

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Five of the most important fintech VCs investing heavily in the sector

techcrunch.com Mary Ann Azevedo 2025-06-13 05:30:00

Global investing in fintech startups is starting to see an uptick. Just this week, KPMG issued its Pulse of Fintech report for the second half of 2024. In the fourth quarter of 2024, investment climbed to $25.9 billion from $18 billion in the third quarter, according to KPMG. Granted, this is not the enthusiasm of years past, especially the wild days of 2021. But judging by our inboxes, there is no shortage of venture capitalists still betting big on the space. Below is a list of just a few VC

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DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-06-13 00:24:39

Hello, DeepSeek Open Infra! 202502 Open-Source Week We're a tiny team @deepseek-ai pushing our limits in AGI exploration. Starting next week, we'll open-source 5 repos – one daily drop – not because we've made grand claims, but simply as developers sharing our small-but-sincere progress with full transparency. These are humble building blocks of our online service: documented, deployed and battle-tested in production. No vaporware, just code that moved our tiny moonshot forward. Why? Becaus

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Will quantum computers disrupt critical infrastructure?

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-06-13 02:40:04

Will quantum computers disrupt critical infrastructure? 3 hours ago Joe Fay Technology Reporter Google Many organisations are developing quantum computers Twenty five years ago computer programmers were racing to fix the millennium bug amidst fears that it would cause banking systems to crash and planes to fall out of the sky. Much to everyone's relief the impact turned out to be minimal. Today, some fear there is a new critical threat to the world’s digital infrastructure. But this time, we

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I put my heart and soul into this AI but nobody cares

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-06-12 23:56:36

Social media has always been home to clickbait, fake photos, tall stories and gullible chumps. And now, thanks to generative AI, you can have all those joys without any of the tedious creativity. Social media has always been home to clickbait, fake photos, tall stories and gullible chumps. And now, thanks to generative AI, you can have all those joys without any of the tedious creativity. First up is a category I call "carve the other one, it's got bells on" Above are three images from recent

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TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-06-13 00:02:59

TinyCompiler: a compiler in a week-end Introduction Have you ever wondered how a compiler works, but you never found courage to find out? Then this series of articles is for you. I have never had the chance to look under the hood either, but one week-end I have decided to to write a translator from the esoteric programming language wend (short for week-end), which I just invented myself, into regular GNU assembly. The goal is to keep the code as tiny as possible, 500-ish lines of python sounds

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Revolutionary Girl Utena Is as Lynchian as Shojo Anime Has Ever Been

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-06-13 00:50:16

Over the years, critics and everyday people have come to identify media as “Lynchian,” in reverence for how video games, movies, and TV shows evoke the dream-like quality of the late auteur David Lynch. Although most media described as Lynchian takes its inspiration from seminal works like Twin Peaks through referential nods, no show completely embodies the ephemeral vibe of Lynch’s opaque-yet-piercing style of storytelling quite like the similarly influential shojo anime series Revolutionary Gi

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OpenAI tops 400 million users despite DeepSeek's emergence

cnbc.com Kate Rooney 2025-06-12 23:57:17

Brad Lightcap of OpenAI. Courtesy: OpenAI OpenAI appears to be growing quickly despite increasing competition. The San Francisco-based tech company had 400 million weekly active users as of February, up 33% from 300 million in December, the company's chief operating officer, Brad Lightcap, told CNBC. These numbers have not been previously reported. Lightcap pointed to the "natural progression" of ChatGPT as it becomes more useful and familiar to a broader group of people. "People hear about it

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Amazon surpasses Walmart in revenue for the first time

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-06-13 03:47:30

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during the New York Times DealBook Summit in the Appel Room at the Jazz At Lincoln Center in New York City on Nov. 30, 2022. Amazon has dethroned Walmart in quarterly revenue for the first time ever. Amazon said earlier this month that it brought in $187.8 billion in revenue during the fourth quarter. That beat Walmart's sales for the period, which came in at $180.5 billion, the company reported on Thursday. Since 2012, Walmart has held the distinction of being th

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OpenInfer raises $8M for AI inference at the edge

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-06-13 01:00:00

OpenInfer has raised $8 million in funding to redefine AI inference for edge applications. It’s the brain child of Behnam Bastani and Reza Nourai, who spent nearly a decade of building and scaling AI systems together at Meta’s Reality Labs and Roblox. Through their work at the forefront of AI and system design, Bastani and Nourai witnessed firsthand how deep system architecture enables continuous, large-scale AI inference. However, today’s AI inference remains locked behind cloud APIs and host

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Invisible, autonomous and hackable: The AI agent dilemma no one saw coming

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-06-13 01:00:00

This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The cyber resilience playbook: Navigating the new era of threats.” Read more from this special issue here. Generative AI poses interesting security questions, and as enterprises move into the agentic world, those safety issues increase. When AI agents enter workflows, they must be able to access sensitive data and documents to do their job — making them a significant risk for many security-minded enterprises. “The rising use of multi-agent

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AI vs. endpoint attacks: What security leaders must know to stay ahead

venturebeat.com Louis Columbus 2025-06-13 01:00:00

This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The cyber resilience playbook: Navigating the new era of threats.” Read more from this special issue here. Enterprises run the very real risk of losing the AI arms race to adversaries who weaponize large language models (LLMs) and create fraudulent bots to automate attacks. Trading on the trust of legitimate tools, adversaries are using generative AI to create malware that doesn’t create a unique signature but instead relies on fileless exe

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Milliseconds to breach: How patch automation closes attackers’ fastest loophole

venturebeat.com Louis Columbus 2025-06-13 01:00:00

This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The cyber resilience playbook: Navigating the new era of threats.” Read more from this special issue here. Procrastinating about patching has killed more networks and damaged more companies than any zero-day exploit or advanced cyberattack. Complacency kills — and carries a high price. Down-rev (having old patches in place that are “down revision”) or no patching at all is how ransomware gets installed, data breaches occur and companies are

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT explodes to 400M weekly users, with GPT-5 on the way

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-06-13 02:47:16

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI’s ChatGPT has surpassed 400 million weekly active users, a milestone that underscores the company’s growing reach across both consumer and enterprise markets, according to an X post from chief operating officer Brad Lightcap on Thursday. The rapid expansion comes as OpenAI faces intensifying competition from rivals such as Elon Musk’s xAI and China’s DeepSeek, b

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Google Meet has a new look on phones, and these familiar buttons are moving

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-06-13 02:53:32

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Google is rolling out design tweaks to the Meet app on Android and iOS, changing the placement of some key controls. Emoji reactions are moving to the bottom bar for easier access, while the hand raise button is shifting into the overflow menu on mobile devices. Host controls are relocating to the settings menu, and iOS users will see the end call button move to the right side. Google is giving the Google Meet app a design refresh, rethinking the placeme

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Apple CEO Tim Cook had a ‘great meeting’ with President Trump today amid ongoing tariff issue

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-06-13 00:49:48

Apple CEO Tim Cook is back in Washington D.C. today just a few weeks after donating to and attending Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration. That’s according to FOX Business White House Correspondent Edward Lawrence, who posted on X that Cook was walking to the White House shortly after 10 a.m. ET today. FOX Business Cameras caught Apple CEO Tim Cook on asking into the White House about 10 minutes ago. #Apple #WhiteHouse pic.twitter.com/CONgQhI3bG — Edward Lawrence (@EdwardLawrence) F

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Apple emerges as likely buyer for UFO disclosure film from ‘Top Gun’ producer

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-06-13 03:24:52

If aliens exist, Apple may be about to tell the origin story of how we found out… Deadline exclusively reports that Apple Original Films is the likely suitor for an upcoming movie centered around UFO disclosure. The untitled sci-fi (fiction, debatable) film is expected to focus on events in recent years around the U.S. government’s disclosure of previously classified footage of what is now called a UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena or unidentified anomalous phenomena). For years, the stigma su

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Dune: Awakening will spice things up on May 20

engadget.com Unknown 2025-06-13 02:45:52

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . A day after it was reported that Denis Villeneuve's third Dune movie starts shooting this summer, developer Funcom announced that its open-world MMO Dune: Awakening arrives on May 20 for PC. You can even get a jump on your journey through Arrakis with a character creator that's availab

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A $599 iPhone 16e is a cruel joke

engadget.com Unknown 2025-06-13 04:05:07

The $599 iPhone 16e is many things, but don't you dare call it a budget phone. I hesitate to even call it "cheap." As a successor to the $429 iPhone SE, it's hard not to see the 16e as a disappointment. Sure, it's $200 less than the vanilla iPhone 16 (which I argued was a great deal at launch), and the 16e also packs in the latest A18 chip with support for Apple Intelligence. But it's no longer a small phone, and it pushes Apple's cheaper iPhone option well beyond $500. That's something we'll li

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Latest Tech News

Alexa Is Getting a Major AI Upgrade From Amazon. What We Know So Far

Apple Pulls iCloud Encryption Feature Following UK Government Demands

An episode of The Simpsons? Fake speakers found in Chinese Volvos.

SEC’s “scorched-earth” lawsuit against Coinbase to be dropped, company says

Apple pulls end-to-end encryption in UK, spurning backdoors for gov’t spying

DeepSeek goes beyond “open weights” AI with plans for source code release

Apple pulls encryption feature from UK over government spying demands

Apple Intelligence is coming to the Vision Pro

The UK’s war on encryption affects all of us

DeepSeek to open source parts of online services code

Apple pulls iCloud end-to-end encryption feature for UK users after government demanded backdoor

Apply to Speak at TechCrunch Sessions: AI before the deadline

Five of the most important fintech VCs investing heavily in the sector

DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days

Will quantum computers disrupt critical infrastructure?

I put my heart and soul into this AI but nobody cares

TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end

Revolutionary Girl Utena Is as Lynchian as Shojo Anime Has Ever Been

OpenAI tops 400 million users despite DeepSeek's emergence

Amazon surpasses Walmart in revenue for the first time

OpenInfer raises $8M for AI inference at the edge

Invisible, autonomous and hackable: The AI agent dilemma no one saw coming

AI vs. endpoint attacks: What security leaders must know to stay ahead

Milliseconds to breach: How patch automation closes attackers’ fastest loophole

OpenAI’s ChatGPT explodes to 400M weekly users, with GPT-5 on the way

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Apple emerges as likely buyer for UFO disclosure film from ‘Top Gun’ producer

Dune: Awakening will spice things up on May 20

A $599 iPhone 16e is a cruel joke

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