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Burger King, the chain that leans into creepy when others don't dare, is at it again. The Verge reported on Thursday that the company is rolling out a new voice-controlled AI chatbot for its workers. That may sound like business as usual in 2026, but this assistant doesn't just help with meal prep and monitor inventory. It also has an unsettling habit of surveilling employees' voices for "friendliness."The voice-controlled chatbot will live inside employees' headsets. The company said the AI is trained to r
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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When your average daily token usage is 8 billion a day, you have a massive scale problem. This was the case at AT&T, and chief data officer Andy Markus and his team recognized that it simply wasn’t feasible (or economical) to push everything through large reasoning models. So, when building out an internal Ask AT&T personal assistant, they reconstructed the orchestration layer. The result: A multi-agent stack built on LangChain... Read more ›
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Subpixel photos show exactly how Privacy Display on the Galaxy S26 Ultra works. Read more ›
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The iPhone and iPad have been approved to hold NATO-restricted information, according to an announcement on Thursday. That means off-the-shelf devices running iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 can handle classified information "without requiring special software or settings," Apple says. The NATO-restricted designation is the lowest level of classified information, and it applies to information that […] Read more ›
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Мы привыкли думать, что главным узким местом ИТ-разработки является capacity — количество рук, способных перевести бизнес-требования в рабочий код. Долгие годы индустрия строила "фабрики фич" и масштабировала пирамиду разработчиков. Но генеративный ИИ сломал эту физику.Сегодня производство артефакта (кода, лендинга, дизайна) стремится к нулю по стоимости. Кодинг перестает быть рычагом конкуренции: он коммодитизируется и больше не ограничивает ни рынок, ни организацию. Объем кода и скорость коммитов превраща Read more ›
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Walmart is set to pay $16 million for a "driver fund" to Spark delivery workers. It's part of an FTC settlement over claims it misled workers about pay. Read more ›
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We’ve known Apple would follow up its blockbuster film F1: The Movie with live coverage of F1 races in 2026. Now that we’re approaching the first grand prix weekend of the year, the company has provided details on what fans can expect to see inside the Apple TV app and beyond. There’s already a dedicated F1 channel in the Apple TV app, which is where you’ll stream races live when... Read more ›
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A Wichita man who worked at the Kansas Star Casino is now facing several criminal charges after state investigators accused… Continue reading Wichita man accused of running proxy betting scheme at Kansas casino Read more ›
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which is set to regulate stablecoin issuers such as Circle, Paxos and Stripe’s Bridge, proposed rules that would ban crypto platforms from passing along interest from stablecoin issuers to users who hold stablecoins. If the proposal holds up, it ... Read more ›
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A team of researchers discovered that they can break cryptographic client isolation on a number of wireless routers by taking advantage of how Wi-Fi networks work. Read more ›
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Anthropic has reached a familiar crossroads for a growing tech company: how to scale without compromising the principles that set it apart. Read more ›
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Silicon Valley built AI coding agents that can handle most of the grunt work. Now, the most valuable skill in tech is deciding what they should do. Read more ›
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Meta has sued the people and groups behind three scam operations that used images and deepfakes of celebrities to lure users to scam websites. According to the company, the three entities were based in China and Brazil and targeted people in the US, Japan and other countries. The ads promoted fraudulent investment schemes and fake health products.Meta said that it had filed lawsuits against several people in Brazil who promoted... Read more ›
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Geneticists have found an interesting pattern in how early humans and Neanderthals interbred—and it wasn't balanced. Read more ›
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Смотрю на вас как в зеркало... но в ответ не тронь, мы не для таких как ты, правда? Да мы не для таких, мы были созданы для настоящих мужиков. Когда одухотворяют неживые вещи для общения с ними это Антропоморфизм, а как называется когда человек с головой другого человека не разговаривает, но одушевляет части его тела, для общения с ними? Хм, ну да ладно от вымысла к реальности, а реальность у... Read more ›
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While everyone obsesses over anti-aging serums and gym memberships, the most content older people I know have mastered something entirely different—eight simple daily habits that have transformed their relationship with time itself. Read more ›
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Apple’s AirTag is designed to help people keep track of personal belongings like keys, bags and luggage. But because AirTags and other Bluetooth trackers are small and discreet, concerns about unwanted tracking are understandable. Apple has spent years building safeguards into the AirTag and the Find My network to reduce the risk of misuse and to alert people if a tracker they don’t own appears to be moving with them.If... Read more ›
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The team behind the beloved Dark Sky weather app has announced a new iPhone app called Acme Weather. The release comes after Apple's 2020 acquisition of Dark Sky, which it ultimately shut down in 2022 after integrating much of its tech into the native iOS Weather app. Acme Weather is primarily designed to address the uncertainty inherent in most forecasts, as different models yield disparate results and no two weather... Read more ›
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The US State Department is building a web portal, where Europeans and anyone else can see online content banned by their governments, according to Reuters. It was supposed to be launched at Munich Security Conference last month, but some state department officials reportedly voiced their concerns about the project. The portal will be hosted on freedom.gov, which currently just shows the image above. “Freedom is Coming,” the homepage reads. “Information... Read more ›
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The government agency that sends its corps members abroad to volunteer in foreign countries launched its latest initiative called Tech Corps. The Peace Corps' latest proposal will recruit STEM graduates or those with professional experience in the artificial intelligence sector and send them to participating host countries. According to the press release, volunteers will be placed in Peace Corps countries that are part of the American AI Exports Program, which... Read more ›
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Anthropic is issuing a call to action against AI "distillation attacks," after accusing three AI companies of misusing its Claude chatbot. On its website, Anthropic claimed that DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax have been conducting "industrial-scale campaigns…to illicitly extract Claude’s capabilities to improve their own models." Distillation in the AI world refers to when less capable models lean on the responses of more powerful ones to train themselves. While distillation isn't... Read more ›
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The Closing Ceremony for the 2026 Winter Games is this Sunday. (Li Jing/Xinhua via Getty Images) Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images The 2026 Winter Olympics come to an end this weekend. This year's Closing Ceremony theme is "Beauty in Action." The event will feature appearances from musician and DJ Gabry Ponte, actress Benedetta Porcaroli, and ballet dancer Roberto Bolle. Alfredo Accatino, the ceremony's artistic director, has promised the ceremony... Read more ›
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Looks like we won't get to hear the powerful hum of an all-electric Lamborghini on the streets anytime soon. According to a report from The Sunday Times, Lamborghini has abandoned making a production version of the Lanzador EV concept, which was expected to hit the market in 2029. Stephen Winkelmann, chairman and CEO of Lamborghini, told The Sunday Times that there was "close to zero" interest from its customer base... Read more ›
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OpenAI is reportedly hard at work developing a series of AI-powered devices, including smart glasses, a smart speaker and a smart lamp. According to reporting by The Information, the AI company has a team of over 200 employees dedicated to the project. The first product scheduled to be released is reported to be a smart speaker that would include a camera, allowing it to better absorb information about its users... Read more ›
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Ball x Pit, a delightful roguelite that was one of our favorite games of last year, is on the way to mobile devices. The chaotic brick-breaking action is coming to iOS and Android on March 12. There will be a free trial with no ads, and you can unlock the full game with an in-app purchase. This is Ball x Pit “for your pants pocket,” according to the latest trailer.... Read more ›
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Mafia: The Old Country demands to be played on an enormous screen. As much as I love my 32-inch Alienware OLED gaming monitor, it doesn't do justice to Mafia's cinematic vistas of Sicily. But, I also wanted to play that game in its full 4K glory, with none of the compromises of today's game consoles. So why not just shove a tiny gaming desktop under my home theater? Enter the... Read more ›
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