Microsoft will yank Copilot from some Windows apps and let you move the taskbar again

After one too many of you threatened to switch to Linux, Microsoft has published a long list of changes it plans to make to Windows 11. In a lengthy blog titled “Our commitment to Windows quality,” Pavan Davuluri, the executive vice president of Windows and Devices, said the company has spent a “great deal” of […]

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Amazon is reportedly working on a new phone built around Alexa

Amazon is reportedly planning to re-enter the smartphone market more than 10 years after its last attempt. According to a  report, the mysterious phone is internally codenamed “Transformer” and is being developed by the company’s devices and services unit. There isn’t a whole lot to go on right now, but it probably won’t surprise many

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Alphabet no longer has a controlling stake in its life sciences business Verily

Alphabet’s life sciences business Verily is restructuring and raising money as a new corporate entity. Verily announced that with its $300 million investment round, it will change from an LLC to a corporation and rename itself Verily Health Inc. As a result, Alphabet now has a minority stake rather than a controlling one in the

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Belkin’s wireless HDMI adapter freed me from a long annoying cable when I travel

I’ve never been comfortable logging into streaming services on a hotel or Airbnb TV. My alternative for watching our favorite shows on a big screen is traveling with a 10-foot HDMI cable and a USB-C-to-HDMI adapter for directly connecting our mobile devices to an unfamiliar TV. Belkin’s wireless HDMI adapter will let me leave that

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Alexa+ launches in the UK

Amazon’s next-generation smart assistant has entered its Early Access program in the UK, marking Alexa+’s European debut following rollouts in the US, Canada and Mexico. Starting March 19, invitations to start using the smarter, more conversational will be sent out to “hundreds of thousands” of willing participants, Amazon said in a , adding that Alexa

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A Meta agentic AI sparked a security incident by acting without permission

The Information reported that an AI agent within Meta took unauthorized action that led to an employee creating a security breach at the social company last week. According to the publication, an employee used an in-house agentic AI to analyze a query from a second employee on an internal forum. The AI agent posted a

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The FBI confirms it’s buying Americans’ location data

During a Senate hearing, FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed that his agency has bought information that could be used to track individuals’ movement and location. “We do purchase commercially available information that’s consistent with the Constitution and the laws under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, and it has led to some valuable intelligence for us,”

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