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Microsoft Word now automatically saves new documents to the cloud

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft is making a big change to how Word for Windows saves documents. The word processing app will soon automatically save new documents to the cloud, instead of Word users having to enable AutoSave and cloud storage options. “We are modernizing the way files are created and stored in

Shadow IT Is Expanding Your Attack Surface. Here’s Proof

Shadow IT - the systems your security team doesn’t know about - is a persistent challenge. Policies may ban them, but unmanaged assets inevitably slip through. And if defenders don’t uncover them first, there’s always a risk attackers will. With just a few days of effort, Intruder’s security team uncovered multiple real-world examples of Shadow IT exposures: unsecured backups, open Git repositories, unauthenticated admin panels, and more. Every one of them contained highly sensitive data or cr

iOS Elegantbouncer: When You Can't Get Samples but Still Need to Catch Threats

Aug 24, 2025 · 1909 words · 9 minute read The Genesis: When Signatures Aren’t Enough 🔗 In the world of mobile security research, there’s a recurring frustration that keeps many of us up at night: the most sophisticated exploits - the ones that really matter - are rarely shared. When Citizen Lab and Google TAG discover NSO Group’s latest 0-click exploits targeting journalists and activists, we get brilliant technical writeups, CVE numbers, and patches. What we don’t get? The actual samples. Th

Are OpenAI and Anthropic Losing Money on Inference?

I keep hearing what a cash incinerator AI is, especially around inference. While it seems reasonable on the surface, I've often been wary of these kind of claims, so I decided to do some digging. I haven't seen anyone really try to deconstruct the costs in running inference at scale and the economics really interest me. This is really napkin math. I don't have any experience at running frontier models at scale, but I do know a lot about the costs and economics of running very high throughput s

Honor’s slim Magic V5 foldable is fun to use, minus the huge camera bump

There is a spec war going on among companies to claim the crown of thinnest foldable. Phone manufacturers are playing with fractions of millimeters to boast about their phone’s thickness. Honor is winning this race on a theoretical basis with its 8.8mm (when folded) thick Magic V5 foldable. I’m saying theoretical because there is a huge, camera-bump-sized caveat to this. Image Credits: Ivan Mehta The thin frame of the device looks and feels great as long as you hold it in a way that your fi

Why Apple is fighting legal battles in two countries over 13 cents per iPhone

Apple is engaged in legal battles in both the UK and the US over 4G patents used in its mobile devices. The company has applied for permission to appeal a UK verdict which would cost it an additional 13 cents per iPhone. While this might sound crazy, the company says that very much more is at stake, not just for its own business, but for companies of every size … Three quick pieces of jargon In order to make any mobile device, you need licenses to use a whole bunch of patents. These patents a

Jackie Chan’s Stunt Team Join ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’

The new Deathstalker gets a trailer, Bugonia gets a poster, and Lady Gaga joins Wednesday season two—just as another $100 million dollar musical gets an “R” rating. After Folie a Deux, is Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride a Xanadu or a Xanadon’t? Transformers Speaking with The Direct, Josh Duhamel revealed he has “not heard” about Michael Bay reportedly returning to direct another installment in the Transformers franchise, but, Duhamel said, he would “love to do it.” I have not heard that. But ye

Claude Code Checkpoints

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How a 16-year-old company is easing small businesses into AI

Amid all the “is this a bubble?” talk about artificial intelligence, the supply chain and logistics industries have become breeding grounds for seemingly genuine uses of the technology. Flexport, Uber Freight, and dozens of startups are developing different applications and winning blue-chip customers. But while AI helps Fortune 500s pad their bottom line (and justify the next layoff to Wall Street), the right use of the tech is proving useful to smaller businesses. Netstock, an inventory mana

Creating a qubit fit for a quantum future

A topological alternative For the team at Nokia Bell Labs, the solution lies in better qubits rather than bigger machines. Specifically, rather than information encoded in individual elementary particles, the team is focused on qubits that hold this same information in the way matter is spatially oriented—what is known as a topological qubit. This alternative approach uses electromagnetic fields to manipulate charges around a supercooled electron liquid, triggering the qubits to switch between

Stats suggest Apple’s slow rollout of AI agent capabilities may be wise

One of the many delayed Apple Intelligence features is known as App Intents, and we’re starting to see evidence that taking an extremely cautious approach to the rollout may be no bad thing. Before the comments catch fire, I should stress that I’m most assuredly not giving Apple a free pass on the slow rollout of new Siri capabilities in general. There are a great many capabilities which should very definitely have been launched years ago. Indeed, I’ve argued that the delay is now so embarrassi

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Why this Suunto sports watch quickly became one of my favorites for fitness and travel

Suunto Race 2 smartwatch ZDNET's key takeaways The Suunto Race 2 is available with a stainless steel frame for $499, or a titanium frame for $599. The Race 2 offers long battery life, extensive customization, personalized coaching, and reliable accuracy. There is no support for subscription music or payment systems and the app store is limited primarily to sports apps. View now at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I went many years without testing Suunto products,

Open Source is one person

The Register recently published a story titled Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev. They should be ashamed of this story. This poor open source developer is getting beat up now to score some internet points. It’s very upsetting. But anyway, let’s look at some receipts. If you’re not real smrt, it seems like pointing out an open source project is written by one person in a country you don’t like is a bad thing. It could be. But it also could be the softwar

Pausing Insect Activity

For all known life forms, activity is punctuated by periods of rest. Sleep may be the most familiar, but many other distinct dormant states occur on longer timescales, from weeks to months on end. Such suspended animation has garnered many different names: hibernation and torpor (in mammals and birds), brumation (in reptiles), diapause and quiescence (in insects and nematodes), aestivation (summer dormancy in vertebrates and invertebrates), hypobiosis, cryptobiosis, and latent life (in microorga

Windows 11 Update KB5063878 Causing SSD Failures

Hi r/msp, Just want to share a word of caution. I've observed several threads across r/Windows11 and r/sysadmin that are reporting that the latest Windows 11 security update (KB5063878) is linked to SSD failures/data corruption, particularly during large file operations (50GB+ transfers, large PST/OST files, etc.). Here are some of the relevant conversations: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/1mst8au/windows_11s_latest_security_update_kb5063878_is/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows1

'Machines Can't Think for You.' How Learning Is Changing in the Age of AI

Entering her first year of teaching as a graduate assistant at Bowling Green State University, Sydney Koeplin had more on her mind than how to relate to her students. She was worried about how to deal with generative AI. At first, Koeplin took a "hard line" against allowing students to use AI beyond basic grammar and spelling checks. (The school's curriculum dictated that it could be used conditionally, but those conditions were left to the professor to define.) After several students in her fi

The personhood trap: How AI fakes human personality

Recently, a woman slowed down a line at the post office, waving her phone at the clerk. ChatGPT told her there's a "price match promise" on the USPS website. No such promise exists. But she trusted what the AI "knows" more than the postal worker—as if she'd consulted an oracle rather than a statistical text generator accommodating her wishes. This scene reveals a fundamental misunderstanding about AI chatbots. There is nothing inherently special, authoritative, or accurate about AI-generated ou

Apple pulls iPhone torrent app from AltStore PAL in Europe

is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Apple has removed the iPhone torrenting client, iTorrent, from AltStore PAL’s alternative iOS marketplace in the EU, showing that it can still exert control over apps that aren’t listed on the official App Store. iTorrent developer Daniil Vinogradov told

Japanese town proposes two-hour daily limit on smartphones

Japanese town proposes two-hour daily limit on smartphones There will be no penalties for breaking the rule, which will be passed in October if approved by lawmakers. Toyoake's mayor said the proposal - which only applies outside of work and study - would not be strictly enforced, but rather was meant to "encourage" residents to better manage their screen time. The proposal, believed to be the first of its kind in Japan, is currently being debated by lawmakers after being submitted by Toyoake

This mobile hotspot is 28% off, and comes with 1GB of data a month for free!

If you constantly need internet on the go, your best bet is to stop using your smartphone’s hotspot feature and get a mobile hotspot device. Here’s a good deal for you. The SIMO Solis Lite is 28% off right now, but that isn’t the only exciting news. The value is in the fact that it comes with a free GB of monthly data… for life! Buy the SIMO Solis Lite for just $115.19 ($44.80 off) This offer is available from Amazon as a “limited time deal.” Data services are provided by Solis, which will also

Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music

The popularity of breathwork as a therapeutic tool for psychological distress is rapidly expanding. Breathwork practices that increase ventilatory rate or depth, facilitated by music, can evoke subjective experiential states analogous to altered states of consciousness (ASCs) evoked by psychedelic substances. These states include components such as euphoria, bliss, and perceptual differences. However, the neurobiological mechanisms underlying the profound subjective effects of high ventilation b

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 28, #339

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition is just always tough for me these days. You too? If you're struggling but still want to solve it, Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the game h

Torrent app unavailable at AltStore PAL following apparent notarization revocation by Apple

When Apple was compelled to allow alternative iOS app stores in the EU, it adopted the notarization model familiar to Mac developers. This means that if Apple revokes the notarization of a certain app, its distribution and use get blocked, even though it was installed from outside the App Store. That’s exactly what seems to have happened to iTorrent. Here are the details. As reported today by TorrentFreak, multiple users took to iTorrent’s GitHub page to report that they were unable to download

OpenAI and Anthropic conducted safety evaluations of each other's AI systems

Most of the time, AI companies are locked in a race to the top, treating each other as rivals and competitors. Today, OpenAI and Anthropic revealed that they agreed to evaluate the alignment of each other's publicly available systems and shared the results of their analyses. The full reports get pretty technical, but are worth a read for anyone who's following the nuts and bolts of AI development. A broad summary showed some flaws with each company's offerings, as well as revealing pointers for

PlayStation Plus Subscribers Are Eating With These Free September Games

On Sept. 2, all PlayStation Plus members can play games like Psychonauts 2, the 2021 Game Awards nominee for Game of the Year. The original Psychonauts was highly praised for its comedic storytelling and unique characters when released in 2005, and the sequel received acclaim for its creativity, art style and humor. PlayStation Plus is similar to Xbox Game Pass, offering subscribers a large, constantly expanding library of games. Subscribers can choose from the Essential, Extra and Premium tier

Apple to secure nearly half of TSMC’s 2nm production (report)

According to the latest rumors, Apple is slated to use TSMC’s 2nm process for its upcoming A20 chip, expected to power the iPhone 18 series. Now, a new report details the chipmaker’s roadmap for bringing the chip into mass production, and the industry-wide rush to secure an early supply. As reported by DigiTimes, citing supply chain sources, TSMC is set to ramp up its 2nm process in the next quarter, and has been charging up to $30,000 per wafer, a record high. Still, demand has never been high

9to5Mac Daily: August 27, 2025 – Apple’s ‘Awe dropping’ event

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Show HN: Meetup.com and eventribe alternative to small groups

Events that thrive anywhere. Like the cactus, great events bloom under any condition when managed with care. Cactoide(ae) helps you streamline RSVPs, simplify coordination, and keep every detail efficient—so your gatherings are resilient, vibrant, and unforgettable. What is it? A mobile-first event RSVP platform that lets you create events, share unique URLs, and collect RSVPs without any registration required. ✨ Features 🎯 Instant Event Creation - Create events in seconds with our streamli

Chipolo’s new CARD and LOOP bring stylish tracking to Android’s Find Hub

Chipolo TL;DR Chipolo has launched two new premium trackers, the CARD and LOOP. Both are compatible with Android’s Find Hub and Apple’s Find My. The wallet-sized CARD and silicone-strap LOOP emphasize design, loud alerts, and eco-friendly materials. Both are rechargeable and last around six months per charge. They’re available now. Google’s Find Hub network is the go-to system for tracking lost devices and accessories on Android, and popular Bluetooth tracker manufacturer Chipolo is expandin