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WhatsApp is officially rolling out a new search button within individual chats, groups, and channels on iOS after weeks of beta testing. The button appears at the top of the screen when users scroll up through a conversation and disappears when they return to the bottom, letting them search messages without leaving the chat.
Pinterest is rolling out a beta feature called Restyle in the U.S. and Canada that lets users photograph their rooms and use AI to test new furniture, decor, colors, and design styles pulled from saved Pinterest images. The tool is powered by Pinterest Intelligence, which combines Nvidia Blackwell GPUs and Dynamo with open-source and proprietary models to enhance visual search and shopping capabilities.
Hister is a new privacy-focused search tool that indexes the full text of web pages visited and local files kept on a user's machine. It runs locally through a browser extension, terminal, or web interface, and can also be accessed by AI assistants via MCP integration. The tool is available as a downloadable binary or through Homebrew, Docker, and Nix.
IEEE Computer Society highlights that most AI products rely on large language models for reasoning and generation, but these models depend heavily on retrieving relevant background information before producing answers. When that retrieved data is outdated, weak, or irrelevant, the resulting output suffers regardless of the model's sophistication.
Brown Brothers Media, run by Justin, Lachlan and Brendan Brown, has been acquiring established online publications covering topics like space travel, parenting and business, then laying off much of their writing staff and replacing them with mass-produced AI-generated articles. The company says its network now draws over 50 million page views monthly, a figure roughly corroborated by third-party analytics firm Similarweb, which estimates about 64.7 million average monthly visitors — putting BBM's reach ahead of outlets like CBS News and Forbes.
Manticore Search now supports built-in chunking for embedding-based vector search, letting users add a chunk_strategy option directly to a table's vector column instead of manually splitting long documents before indexing. The database can split text into pieces, embed each chunk, and search across all of them within a single table, eliminating the need for a separate chunking pipeline or secondary table. Five strategies are offered: truncate, mean, fixed, recursive, and sentence, with the latter three requiring a float_vector_array column to store multiple vectors per document.
A survey of over 500 CISOs by IANS and Artico found that 69% now rank AI as their top target for new cybersecurity budget dollars, even though overall security budgets grew just 5% in 2026. Nearly a quarter of organizations have created dedicated AI security budget lines, while others fund it through general security, IT, or innovation budgets.
A New Jersey court ordered data broker Radaris to transfer control of radaris.com and more than a dozen related domains to Atlas Data Privacy Corp after the company repeatedly stonewalled a lawsuit alleging violations of Daniel's Law. The statute lets state law enforcement officials, judges and their families demand removal of their personal data from commercial brokers, with fines for noncompliance. Radaris, run by brothers Igor and Dmitry Lubarsky, had previously used a fictitious CEO and denied ownership claims made by investigative reporting.
A new project called 'How Stale Is Your AI?' compiles release dates and training cutoffs for 20 models from 8 major labs, sorted from stalest to freshest. It finds that only 9 of the 20 models have a training cutoff date that is actually published by their maker, with data also offered as a downloadable models.json file.
Cloudflare launched a 'Disallow AI Training' control that lets website owners stay visible in search results while blocking the same crawler from using their content to train AI models. Apple, Google and Microsoft have agreed to honor the new setting, which addresses the problem of mixed-use crawlers that previously forced sites to accept both search indexing and AI training together or neither.
Apple's Home app now offers AI-generated descriptive summaries and natural language search for security camera footage. These features require a paid HomeKit Secure Video subscription, with top-tier plans reaching up to $60 per month.
Antfly, a startup building a document, full-text, vector and graph indexing database, has released version 0.2 of its engine rewritten entirely in Zig with no external dependencies controlling core logic. The original v0.1 engine was built in Go, chosen for its concurrency support and mature Raft implementation, but the team decided to rewrite the system early rather than iterate on it.