Thursday, September 18, 2025

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Apple Promotes iPhone 17 Pro in New Ad

Juli Clover / macrumors - With the iPhone 17 models now rolling out in Australia and New Zealand, Apple has shared a new ad for the iPhone 17 Pro on its Australian YouTube channel.The spot features a film director using an iPhone 17 Pro to film in a range of messy conditions, with…

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Ranked: The 10 Most Useful iOS 26 Features

Juli Clover / macrumors - iOS 26 has somewhere around 200 new features and changes, some of which are more useful than others. We've highlighted some of the updates that we think provide the best quality of life improvements to the iPhone.Spam FilteringiOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS…

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Google is transforming Chrome into an AI-native browser

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Google LLC has long used its Chrome web browser as a way to boost the popularity of its products and services, notably to strengthen its dominance in search, and now it’s trying to do the same for artificial intelligence. The company today revealed it’s e…

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Vaccine Panel Stacked by RFK Jr. Recommends Delaying MMRV Immunization

Emily Mullin / wired - The vaccine advisory group ACIP, not all members of which seemed to know what the group does, recommended to the CDC that combined MMRV shots not be given before age 4.

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Intel and Nvidia sitting in a tree, NVLink-I-N-G

Tobias Mann / theregister - But still no hero customer for Chipzilla's Foundry biz Nvidia is set to become one of Intel's largest shareholders after the GPU giant announced on Thursday it would invest $5 billion in the struggling chipmaker under a co-development agreement targeting …

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3 New AI Smart Glasses Make Their Debut At Meta Connect 2025

bgr - At its Meta Connect 2025 keynote, Meta pulled back the curtain on three new AI-powered smart glasses, including one with a monocular display.

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The FTC sues Ticketmaster for allegedly colluding with resellers

Will Shanklin / engadget - The FTC and seven states sued Ticketmaster owner Live Nation on Wednesday. The lawsuit accused the company of knowingly allowing brokers to buy tickets in bulk. Ticketmaster allegedly then let them resell the tickets at a significant markup on its own sec…

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Meta Opens Smart Glasses to Developers With New Sensor Access Toolkit

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Meta is launching the 'Wearables Device Access Toolkit,' giving third-party developers access to camera and sensor data on its smart glasses to build new hands-free apps.The post Meta Opens Smart Glasses to Developers With New Sensor Access Toolkit appear…

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DeepSeek AI's code quality depends on who it's for (and China's opinion of them)

techspot - According to a report by The Washington Post, CrowdStrike carried out an experiment in which the security firm asked DeepSeek English-language prompt requests for help writing programs.Read Entire Article

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Notepad gets free AI features on Copilot+ PCs with Windows 11

Sergiu Gatlan / bleepingcomputer - Microsoft is adding free AI-powered text writing capabilities to Notepad for customers with Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11. [...]

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Nvidia will invest $5 billion in Intel, co-develop new server and PC chips

Andrew Cunningham / arstechnica - Intel once considered buying Nvidia outright, but its fortunes have shifted.

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Uber Invests in Drone Delivery With Flytrex Partnership

PYMNTS / pymnts - Uber has launched a partnership with autonomous drone food delivery service Flytrex. The collaboration marks Uber’s first investment in drone delivery, the company said in news release Thursday (Sept. 18). The new service is expected to commence with Uber…

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Samsung brings ads to US fridges

Thomas Ricker / theverge - A software update rolling out to Samsung’s Family Hub refrigerators in the US is putting ads on the fridges for the first time. The “promotions and curated advertisements” are coming despite Samsung insisting to The Verge in April that it had “no plans” t…

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UK arrests 'Scattered Spider' teens linked to Transport for London hack

Sergiu Gatlan / bleepingcomputer - Two teenagers, believed to be linked to the August 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London, have been arrested in the United Kingdom. [...]

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Nothing’s Ear 3 buds have a walkie-talkie style ‘super mic’

Mat Smith / engadget - Nothing has unveiled its latest premium earbuds, the Ear 3 ($179), which look ready to pair tastefully with its newest Phone 3. The company has refined its headphone series with an aluminum finish (in places) across both the buds and the case.Also housed …

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Meta Announces New Ray-Ban Display AI Glasses With Neural Band

Laurent Giret / thurrott - The new Meta Ray-Ban Display AI glasses feature a full-color display on the right lens, and they will let users interact with apps using a neural band.The post Meta Announces New Ray-Ban Display AI Glasses With Neural Band appeared first on Thurrott.com.

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CEOs of Reddit, Twitch and Discord Called to Testify in Congress After Charlie Kirk Killing

Matt Novak / gizmodo - "Congress has a duty to oversee the online platforms that radicals have used to advance political violence," said James Comer.

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Apple Eyes Foldable iPhone Pilot Production Line in Taiwan

Tim Hardwick / macrumors - Apple has been in discussions with suppliers in Taiwan about potentially building a test production hub in the country for its rumored foldable iPhone, reports Nikkei Asia.According to the outlet's sources, Apple is interested in building a mini pilot lin…

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