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"An engineer got curious about how his iLife A11 smart vacuum worked and monitored the network traffic coming from the device," writes Tom's Hardware.
"That's when he noticed it was constantly sending logs and telemetry data to the manufacturer — something he hadn't consented to."
The user, Harishankar, decided to block the telemetry servers' IP addresses on his network, while keeping the firmware and OTA servers open. While his smart gadget worked for a while, it just refused to turn on soon after... H
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A major breach of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department reveals, for the first time, a list of alleged officer misconduct including dishonesty, sexual harassment, excessive force, and false arrest. Read more ›
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Belgium's defense minister said that more counter-uncrewed aerial systems "are urgently needed" after three drones spied on the Kleine-Brogel base. Read more ›
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The former Treasury secretary said the meeting could have had "unfortunate and destabilizing outcomes" if it had gone downhill. Read more ›
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Markets may not wait patiently for big AI spending payoffs, said Davidson Kempner's investment chief. Read more ›
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Months, and countless complaints later, Google Home users say they just want their devices to get the basics right again. Read more ›
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Bencis Capital Partners closes Bencis VII at €625M, marking 25 years since the first fund launch. The fund will invest in mid-market firms across the Benelux and DACH regions. Amsterdam-based Bencis Capital Partners, an independent investment company, announced the first and final close of Bencis VII at its hard cap of €625M, completing the fundraising ... Read more Read more ›
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Logitech's Alto Keys K98M mechanical keyboard is now available in North America after its initial launch in China and other select markets. The $149.99 Alto Keys K98M is an almost full-size 1800-layout keyboard, offering a slightly compact design that maintains a number pad. But what makes the K98M special for a mass-market Logitech board is […] Read more ›
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YouTubers have discovered terrible performance on The Outer Worlds 2, so much so that the game's maximum settings with ray tracing can only be run at below 60 FPS at a 540p internal resolution on an RTX 5090. Read more ›
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There have been multiple rumors suggesting that Samsung may delay the Galaxy S26 series launch to March, and a new leak now claims to reveal the exact date. According to a report, Samsung will hold a Galaxy Unpacked event on February 25 next year in San Francisco, where it will debut the Galaxy S26 lineup. Notably, Samsung usually unveils the flagship Galaxy S series phones in January. The Galaxy S25... Read more ›
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The commerce and industry ministry has reportedly circulated a note on allowing foreign direct investment (FDI) in inventory-based ecommerce models,… Read more ›
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In response to Elon Musk, Sam Altman wrote on X that he "helped turn the thing you left for dead into what should be the largest non-profit ever." Read more ›
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OpenAI’s revenue could reach $100 billion in 2027, Sam Altman said on a podcast published Friday with Altimeter Capital and OpenAI investor Brad Gerstner. Altman said the ChatGPT maker was already “doing well more revenue,” than $13 billion, an apparent reference to its annualized pace, which ... Read more ›
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Animal rights advocates often contrast humanity’s dismal treatment of animals farmed for food with our adoration bordering on worship of pet cats and dogs — the point being that these distinctions between animals that are equally sentient are arbitrary, hypocritical, and pointlessly cruel. The comparison makes an important point, but it also conceals a grimmer […] Read more ›
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At 64, George Clooney says he's learned to let go of his vanity. Read more ›
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Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for Nov. 3, No. 406. Read more ›
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'Saturday Night Live' mocked Donald Trump's White House demolition with a 'Property Brothers' sketch. Read more ›
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Stéphanie Guillaume built a new life in Seoul, starting on a student visa before switching to a business visa. Read more ›
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The affected funds include 6,850 osETH, 6,590 WETH, and 4,260 wstETH, blockchain data analyzed by CoinDesk showed. Read more ›
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The Python Software Foundation rejected a $1.5 million U.S. government grant because it required them to renounce all diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. "The non-profit would've used the funding to help prevent supply chain attacks; create a new automated, proactive review process for new PyPI packages; and make the project's work easily transferable to other open-source package managers," reports The Register. From the report: The programming non-profit's deputy executive director... Read more ›
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Electronic Arts has spent the past year pushing its nearly 15,000 employees to use AI for everything from code generation to scripting difficult conversations about pay. Employees in some areas must complete multiple AI training courses and use tools like the company's in-house chatbot ReefGPT daily. The tools produce flawed code and hallucinations that employees then spend time correcting. Staff say the AI creates more work rather than less, according... Read more ›
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Employees are using AI to generate fake expense receipts. Leading expense software platforms report a sharp increase in AI-created fraudulent documents following the launch of improved image generation models by OpenAI and Google. AppZen said fake AI receipts accounted for 14% of fraudulent documents submitted in September compared with none last year. Ramp flagged more than one million dollars in fraudulent invoices within 90 days. About 30% of financial professionals... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) does not let people decline to be scanned by its new facial recognition app, which the agency uses to verify a person's identity and their immigration status, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document obtained by 404 Media. The document also says any face photos taken by the app, called Mobile Fortify, will be stored for... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: Two senators said they are announcing bipartisan legislation on Tuesday to crack down on tech companies that make artificial intelligence chatbot companions available to minors, after complaints from parents who blamed the products for pushing their children into sexual conversations and even suicide. The legislation from Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo, and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., follows a congressional hearing last month at... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Australian scientists have developed roof coatings that can passively cool surfaces up to 6C below ambient temperature, as well as extract water from the atmosphere, which they say could reduce indoor temperatures during extreme heat events. One coating made from a porous film, which can be painted on to existing roofs, works by reflecting 96% of incoming solar radiation, rather than... Read more ›
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Microsoft shipped its first Xbox handheld nearly two weeks ago. The $600 white Xbox Ally cannot reliably sleep, wake, or hold a charge while asleep. Neither Microsoft nor Asus would admit there's a problem or offer a timeline to fix it after repeated requests by The Verge. Asus said it needs more time to test. Installing Bazzite, a Linux-based operating system, solves the problems, the publication reports. The same hardware... Read more ›
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At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana said society will ultimately accept a fatal robotaxi crash as part of the broader tradeoff for safer roads overall. TechCrunch reports: The topic of a fatal robotaxi crash came up during Mawakana's interview with Kristen Korosec, TechCrunch's transportation editor, during the first day of the outlet's annual Disrupt conference in San Francisco. Korosec asked Mawakana about Waymo's ambitions and got answer after... Read more ›
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schwit1 shares a report from Behind the Black: SpaceX is going to land this spaceship manned on the Moon, whether or not NASA's SLS and Orion are ready. And even if those expensive, cumbersome, and poorly designed boondoggles are ready for those first two Artemis landings, SpaceX is likely to quickly outmatch them with numerous other private missions to the Moon, outside of NASA. It has the funds to do... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: The rush to secure electricity has intensified as tech companies look to spend trillions of dollars building data centers. There's an industry that consumes even more power than many tech giants, and it has largely escaped the same scrutiny: suppliers of industrial gases. Everyday items like toothpaste and life-saving treatments like MRIs are among the countless parts of modern life that hinge on access... Read more ›
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