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Politicians Are Spending More Money on Security as They Increasingly Become Targets
Federal campaign and political action committee spending on security during the 2024 election cycle was over five times the amount spent ahead of the 2016 election, according to a new report published on Thursday. The report by the Security Project at the nonpartisan group Public Service Alliance notes that the jump in spending comes as read more
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iPhone Air 2 and iPhone 18e Reportedly Launching Early Next Year
Apple plans to release an updated iPhone Air and a lower-end iPhone 18e early next year, according to the latest word from Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. In a report this week, he said Apple plans to unveil the two devices in spring 2027, alongside a standard iPhone 18. If so, Apple will likely announce the trio read more
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Apple Continues Promoting iOS 26 and macOS 26 Liquid Glass With Updated Design Gallery
Apple is continuing to highlight the Liquid Glass aesthetic that it introduced in iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26. The company has shared an updated Liquid Glass Design Gallery that shows off Liquid Glass in third-party apps. The visual gallery features several iPhone and iPad apps, with screenshots that show the difference between app read more
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John Perry Barlow, JFK Jr., and a Night of Grief I Can’t Forget
Watching the wildly popular television series Love Story took me back to a strange week in my past. One day in April 1994, I was working in a studio apartment that I used as an office. I split the cost with Cynthia Horner, a psychiatrist who’d recently moved out to live with her boyfriend, the read more
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Anthropic Says That Claude Contains Its Own Kind of Emotions
Claude has been through a lot lately—a public fallout with the Pentagon, leaked source code—so it makes sense that it would be feeling a little blue. Except, it’s an AI model, so it can’t feel. Right? Well, sort of. A new study from Anthropic suggests models have digital representations of human emotions like happiness, sadness, read more
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Even Artemis II Astronauts Have Microsoft Outlook Problems
About seven hours into the flight of Artemis II, Commander Reid Wiseman experienced something many earthbound Microsoft users know all too well: his Outlook email stopped working. Speaking with mission control in Houston, Commander Wiseman can be heard saying that he had “two Microsoft Outlooks [on his PCD], and neither one of those are working.” read more
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When is the Next Apple Event?
Despite releasing more than 10 new products so far this year, Apple has yet to hold a traditional event with a live-streamed video in 2026. While anything is possible, our best guess at this point is that Apple’s next event will likely be its annual developers conference WWDC in June, with standalone live-streamed Apple Events read more
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Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise of open source LiteLLM project | TechCrunch
Mercor, a popular AI recruiting startup, has confirmed a security incident linked to a supply chain attack involving the open source project LiteLLM. The AI startup told TechCrunch on Tuesday that it was “one of thousands of companies” affected by a recent compromise of LiteLLM’s project, which was linked to a hacking group called TeamPCP. read more
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Nothing's AI devices plan reportedly contains smart glasses and earbuds | TechCrunch
London-based hardware company Nothing is on track to release a pair of smart glasses next year, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources. The glasses will likely feature cameras, microphones, and speakers, and will connect to a smartphone and the cloud to process AI queries, the report said. CEO and co-founder Carl Pei was initially resistant to read more
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Explains His Relationship With Trump
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has maintained a working relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump, and he touched on that in a recent interview. Cook sat down with Esquire‘s Ryan D’Agostino to discuss Apple’s 50th anniversary, but he was also asked about how he navigates the Trump administration. Cook responded by saying that “the Trump administration read more
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The New Era of Militia Influencers
Just over a week into the US and Israel’s war with Iran, Eric Roscher, an Air Force veteran, published a YouTube video on what he describes as the “very real concerns surrounding sleeper cells and terrorist threats” in the US. The video, titled “Credible DOMESTIC Threat? FBI warns of attack—Drills/Considerations for the Prepared Citizen,” was read more
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Why NIST’s AI agent standards initiative is a turning point for enterprise security
The launch of NIST’s AI Agent Standards Initiative marks a pivotal moment in the evolution of enterprise AI. For the first time, one of the world’s most influential standards bodies is formally acknowledging what security teams have been seeing on the ground for some time now. Eric Schwake Social Links Navigation Director of Cybersecurity Strategy read more
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StrictlyVC San Francisco is in less than a month | TechCrunch
All good things come to those who wait. The first StrictlyVC of the year is headed to San Francisco in less than a month, on April 30, at the Sentro Filipino Cultural Center. And you won’t want to miss out on another lineup of stellar speakers to punctuate the night’s networking and mingling. AI innovators read more
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Anthropic is having a month | TechCrunch
Anthropic has built its public identity around the winning idea that it’s the careful AI company. It publishes detailed work on AI risk, employs some of the best researchers in the field, and has been vocal about the responsibilities that come with building such powerful technology — so vocal, of course, that it’s right now read more
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ICE Agents Frustrate Airport Workers as Shutdown Drags On
On Thursday, hours-long security lines snaked through New York City’s LaGuardia Airport. The wait was far from the longest in the country—George Bush International Airport in Houston reported three and a half hour lines. Over a month into a partial government shutdown that has left some Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees working without pay, read more
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David Sacks is done as AI czar — here's what he's doing instead | TechCrunch
David Sacks has used up his days as Donald Trump’s AI and crypto czar. Speaking with Bloomberg on Thursday, the longtime entrepreneur, investor, and podcaster, confirmed that his non-consecutive 130-day stint as a special government employee is over and that he’s moving on to co-chair the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) read more
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Czechia vs Ireland free streams: How to watch 2026 World Cup playoffs, TV schedule, preview
Watch Czechia vs Ireland FREE live streams to find out who will advance to the playoff final and remain in with a chance of qualifying for the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Runners-up in 1934 and 1962, Czechia are aiming to reach the World Cup for the 10th time after read more
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OpenTelemetry Profiles Enters Public Alpha
Since OpenTelemetry first introduced Profiles, momentum has only grown towards building a unified industry standard for continuous production profiling, standing alongside traces, metrics, and logs. Today, the Profiling SIG is proud to announce that the Profiles signal has officially entered public Alpha, and we are ready for broader community use and feedback. Production profiling for read more
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AI system learns to keep warehouse robot traffic running smoothly
Inside a giant autonomous warehouse, hundreds of robots dart down aisles as they collect and distribute items to fulfill a steady stream of customer orders. In this busy environment, even small traffic jams or minor collisions can snowball into massive slowdowns. To avoid such an avalanche of inefficiencies, researchers from MIT and the tech firm read more
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tvOS 26.4 Adds These New Features to Your Apple TV
Apple this week released tvOS 26.4, and the software update includes a handful of new features and changes for the Apple TV. tvOS 26.4 is compatible with all Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD models released since 2015. To update your Apple TV, open the Settings app on the device, navigate to System → read more
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