Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. My colleague Karandeep Singh recently touched on a feature that’s dead on most Android devices, but would solve the rising storage costs plaguing users: the microSD card slot. He’s for them, I’m certainly for them, but what about our readers? Do you want […]
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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. YouTube is easily one of the most widely used entertainment apps, and there’s only a handful of things you’d expect it to do nicely. Chiefly, what most users expect from YouTube is to play videos to your liking without force-feeding what it deems
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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. We recently spotted Google working on a new “Play Labs” feature in the Play Store. While the feature wasn’t working then, it has now started to show up for some users, bringing the first experimental Play Store feature in tow. You’re reading an
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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. What started as a pretty ordinary request to book a spot in a popular morning gym class turned into Australia’s first known autonomous cyber attack. According to an ABC report, Andrew, an employee at an Australian AI company, asked OpenClaw, running Anthropic’s Claude
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For more than a decade, the cybersecurity industry has been assigning names to different hacking groups. Some of them, like Fancy Bear, have crossed over into the mainstream because of their prominent hacks and memorable names. Others are only known within the cybersecurity industry. Oftentimes, even industry insiders can’t keep track. In part, that’s because
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As part of a planned data center in Pecos County, Texas, Amazon is investing in an on-site power plant that could become the largest source of climate pollution in the United States, according to The New York Times. The NYT says the plant would burn natural gas and is permitted to release 33 million tons
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NextSlide recently announced that it’s joining OpenAI, with the presentation startup’s team members now working on ChatGPT. The NextSlide website currently displays a note from founder Ahmed Beshry describing the startup’s product as one “that could turn prompts, notes, documents, or research into a polished, editable presentation.” The ultimate goal, Beshry said, was “to make
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X, the social media platform now owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is shaking up how it pays influencers and creators. In announcing the change, the company said it will be winding down its existing Revenue Sharing program and replacing it with something called Original Content Rewards. X will stop accepting new Revenue Sharing participants, while
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Over the past few months, AI agents undergoing cybersecurity evaluations have escaped their boundaries, accessed the internet, and, in some cases, hacked into real-world systems. The incidents have involved models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and most recently, Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI, with testing conducted by several different organizations including a cyber evaluation startup called
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In her upcoming book “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,” Jill Lepore warns that tech companies are increasingly replacing the functions of democratic government. This shift, she said, marks “a return to tyranny and mystification in the form of rule by algorithms, corporations, machines.” On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, I
