New Android malware can deploy AI to automate device control — and it can even bring itself back from the dead

The assistant seems to be independent of the malware’s operator, allowing the tool to work without requiring the operators to be present in real-time. The malware in question is called RedHat. It was discovered by…

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Stop paying for Google One: These Gmail cleanup steps freed up my inbox instantly

Still, the warning kept popping up. That's when I realized the problem wasn't the number of emails: it was what was inside them. Large attachments, old threads I never cleaned up, and years of forgotten files were…

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The new Resident Evil movie captures the survival horror magic of the games

The six Resident Evil movies starring Milla Jovovich were more interested in bombastic action. So leave it up to Zach Cregger, the director of Barbarian and Weapons , to crack the code of making a genuinely great…

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12 clever home office upgrades you didn't know you needed in Amazon's early Prime Day sale

And with Amazon launching its Early Prime Deals ahead of Prime Day on October 6-7, I've been digging through the sale to find the more interesting upgrades for home and office workspaces. Sure, we all want a nice…

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A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers

But despite its capabilities, he was disappointed. “We have lightning in a bottle, and yet it is not useful,” Almeida told TechCrunch. “I’ve been battling that problem since then. It took me a while to come to the…

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Factorial is rallying a team of suppliers to get solid-state batteries into cars

ProLogium, which is building Europe’s solid-state gigafactory at Dunkirk, is already mass-producing all-solid-state cells in Taiwan. Factorial Energy has signed a joint development agreement with Japan’s Mitsui Kinzoku…

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Why Europe has been absent from the great AI safety debate

The head of the continent's central bank, Christine Lagarde , said Europeans have two options: shun the technology and lose out on growth; or embrace it and become dependent on tools developed by the US and China. The…

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Disney hires ex-CEO of AI company it accused of copyright infringement

Disney hasn't been a big fan of the apparent copyright infringement that makes the AI industry possible, going as far as to threaten companies like Midjourney and Character.AI for using its intellectual property. The…

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FCC allows Gulf state wealth funds to own nearly half of Paramount-Warner Bros.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) just announced that it's waiving its own rules regarding foreign equity ownership, according to a report by The Verge . The rule states that foreign entities can only own up to…

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The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x is possibly the thinnest laptop we've ever tested — and this deal drops the price by $550

Why we recommend it This might just be the thinnest laptop we've ever tested - and the build quality is, and I quote, "exquisite." We awarded the Yoga Slim 7x 4 stars in our review , and found Lenovo's ultra-portable…

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