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An anonymous reader shares a report: Negotiations are under way between the UAE and OpenAI that may make the company's ChatGPT Plus artificial intelligence chatbot available to all residents free of charge, though a final deal has not been reached.
An agreement involving ChatGPT Plus would be part of the recently announced Stargate UAE infrastructure plan to create an AI hub in Abu Dhabi, according to a source familiar with the country's AI strategy. Abu Dhabi's AI company G42 has partnered with OpenAI, O
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Canadians traveling to the US was down year-over-year in July for the seventh straight month. The travel decline started at the beginning of the year. Read more ›
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Musk said in an X post that Apple's actions were an "unequivocal antitrust violation." Read more ›
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In the teaser, Taylor Swift complimented Kelce on his blue sweater, to which he replied: "Yes, I know. It's the color of your eyes, sweetie." Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump announced today that he will federalize police in Washington, DC, and deploy DC National Guard troops onto city streets. Trump’s declaration brings DC’s […] Read more ›
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The tech mogul is threatening immediate legal action, accusing the iPhone maker of an "unequivocal antitrust violation" designed to favor his AI rival. Read more ›
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Last week, President Donald Trump called Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan "highly CONFLICTED" on Truth Social. On Monday, he posted calling Tan a "success." Read more ›
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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order extending lower tariffs with China for another 90 days, CNBC reports. The new executive order was signed before the previous agreement was set to end on August 12 at midnight. The extension will maintain the current 30 percent tariff on goods from China while representatives from both countries negotiate a new trade deal. The previous agreement lowered US tariffs down from 145... Read more ›
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The judge overseeing a copyright lawsuit brought by a group of authors against Anthropic on Monday denied the company’s request to delay the case while it appealed to a higher court. Anthropic is appealing the federal district court’s ruling that downloading and storing over 7 million “pirated” ... Read more ›
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An in-person Live Translation feature could soon be available on the AirPods, according to imagery found in iOS 26 beta 6. There's a picture of the AirPods with Hello in several different languages, along with a suggestion that the feature will be activated with a double press. The file itself is named "Translate," which certainly seems to imply that there will be a gesture to activate a Live Translation option.... Read more ›
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Apple Cinemas, the company that is being sued for alleged trademark infringement by Apple, today said that it is committed to defending its brand. We are committed to defending our brand, our history, and our continued right to operate as Apple Cinemas--an identity that is and has always been clearly distinct and fully compliant with all applicable trademark laws. Apple Cinemas is a long-established independent theater chain with no connection... Read more ›
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Apple is continuing to tweak the way that the Liquid Glass design looks ahead of the iOS 26 launch, and the latest beta makes a change to the Lock Screen. The Lock Screen clock has been updated with additional transparency, allowing more of the background to peek through. Beta 6 on left, beta 5 on right The clock also has more of a 3D, floating look, which is in line... Read more ›
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President Donald Trump met with Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan at the White House, days after calling for his resignation over alleged China-linked conflicts of interest, to discuss the company’s future amid its technology struggles. Read more ›
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Just weeks after praising Hitler, Elon Musk's AI chatbot was briefly suspended for new violations, the latest in a string of embarrassing and dangerous failures for the platform's supposed verification tool. Read more ›
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My husband and two teenage sons take a trip without me every summer. I use the week to get through my to-do list and spend time with friends. Read more ›
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Video footage shows the South China Sea chase and the aftermath, including "substantial damage" to the Chinese Coast Guard ship, Manila said. Read more ›
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The account for xAI's chatbot was temporarily suspended from X, with a NSFW video posted on the timeline once it was back up. Read more ›
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Just days after demanding Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan resign over his past ties to China, President Trump reversed course, calling Tan a "success" following a White House meeting. "I met with Mr. Lip-Bu Tan, of Intel, along with Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, and Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. "The meeting was a very interesting one. His success and rise is... Read more ›
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Once again, the U.S. government doesn't quite grasp the meanings behind 'Star Wars.' Read more ›
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Donald Trump is letting Nvidia and AMD sell some chips to China — but only if they pay a 15% tax. That's the opposite of Trump's tariff push. Read more ›
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The U.S. Coast Guard determined the implosion of the Titan submersible that killed five people while traveling to the wreckage of the Titanic was a preventable disaster caused by OceanGate Expeditions's inability to meet safety and engineering standards. WSJ: A 335-page report [PDF] detailing a two-year inquiry from the U.S. Coast Guard's Marine Board of Investigation found the company that owned and operated the Titan failed to follow maintenance and... Read more ›
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"Linus Torvalds has used his authority to reject the RISC-V architecture changes for the Linux 6.17 kernel," reports Phoronix: Only on Friday were the RISC-V code updates submitted for the Linux 6.17 merge window. The Linux 6.17 merge window is expected to wrap up on Sunday with the Linux 6.17-rc1 release... [T]his pull request has been rejected by Linus Torvalds for Linux 6.17 on the basis of being late in... Read more ›
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alternative_right quotes a report from The Register: Space fans looking to camp out in style have a chance to pick up an Airstream trailer that once served as the Convoy Command Vehicle for NASA's Space Shuttle operations at Edwards Air Force Base -- if they have a couple hundred thousand to spare, that is. "This is the NASA 025 Command Vehicle," current owner Jonathan Kitzen says of the once-silver, now... Read more ›
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xA California man sued Microsoft Thursday over its plan to stop supporting Windows 10 on October 14th, reports Courthouse News Though Windows 11 was launched nearly four years ago, many of its billion or so worldwide users are clinging to the decade-old Windows 10... According to StatCounter, nearly 43% of Windows users still use the old version on their desktop computers.... "With only three months until support ends for Windows... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Library of Congress today said a coding error resulted in the deletion of parts of the US Constitution from Congress' website and promised a fix after many Internet users pointed out the missing sections this morning. The missing portions of the Constitution were restored to one part of the website a few hours after the Library of Congress statement and... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from SecurityWeek: Two different firms have tested the newly released GPT-5, and both find its security sadly lacking. After Grok-4 fell to a jailbreak in two days, GPT-5 fell in 24 hours to the same researchers. Separately, but almost simultaneously, red teamers from SPLX (formerly known as SplxAI) declare, "GPT-5's raw model is nearly unusable for enterprise out of the box. Even OpenAI's internal... Read more ›
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AOL (now a Yahoo subsidiary) just announced its dial-up internet service will be discontinued at the end of September. "The change also means the retirement of the AOL Dialer software and the AOL Shield browser, both designed for older operating systems and slow connections that relied on the familiar screech of a modem handshake," remembers Slashdot reader BrianFagioli (noting that dial-up Internet "was once the gateway to the web for... Read more ›
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In 2023 a 13-year-old girl "made an offensive joke while chatting online with her classmates," reports the Associated Press. But when the school's surveillance software spotted that joke, "Before the morning was even over, the Tennessee eighth grader was under arrest. She was interrogated, strip-searched and spent the night in a jail cell, her mother says." Her parents filed a lawsuit against the school system, according to the article (which... Read more ›
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Bruce66423 shares a report from the BBC: The body running courts in England and Wales has been accused of a cover-up, after a leaked report found it took several years to react to an IT bug that caused evidence to go missing, be overwritten or appear lost. Sources within HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) say that as a result, judges in civil, family and tribunal courts will have made... Read more ›
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"General Motors claimed a new world record for EV driving on a single charge," reports the Verge, "after a Chevy Silverado EV traveled 1,059.2 miles without recharging its battery." The potentially record-breaking run took place over seven days on public roads near GM's Milford Proving Ground and Detroit's Belle Isle "using smart driving techniques" that included limiting the speed to 20-25 mph. The truck was a 2026 Chevy Silverado EV... Read more ›
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