Google now lets Gemini users disable visible AI watermarks while keeping invisible SynthID markers and C2PA credentials embedded for transparency. The post Google Makes Visible Gemini Watermarks Optional for AI Images, Videos and Music appeared first on TechRepublic.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argues that open-weight AI alone cannot decentralize power while advanced chips and compute remain concentrated. The post Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says Open-Weight AI Won’t Decentralize Power appeared first on TechRepublic.

U.S. courts will begin separately tracking spyware-based interceptions, giving the public new data on government hacking while leaving key gaps. The post US Courts To Begin Publishing Spyware Records From 2029 appeared first on TechRepublic.

France’s Constitutional Council blocked an under-15 social media ban, raising questions over free expression, age verification and online privacy. The post France’s Top Court Blocks Under-15 Social Media Ban appeared first on TechRepublic.

AmnesiaStealer malware targets macOS with data theft and remote browser-session control, potentially exposing accounts already open on compromised Macs. The post Apple Mac Malware Lets Attackers Control Browser Sessions After Infection appeared first on TechRepublic.

France’s tax authority confirmed a cyberattack exposed taxpayer data as officials investigate the breach’s scope and an unverified 678,000-record claim. The post Nearly 700,000 French Taxpayer Records Reportedly Stolen in Government Cyberattack appeared first on...

Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.

The latest stable kernel also brings filesystem and I/O improvements, and substantial new support across AMD, Intel, Apple, Nvidia, USB4, and laptop hardware.

With AI-driven RAM shortages pushing Raspberry Pi prices sky high, here's how to repurpose your old handset into a portable powerhouse for your projects.

Feedly says a bug is behind the performance issues that have made its web app nearly "unusable" for some users, while complaints about its mobile apps and customer support are adding to frustrations.

Google is leveraging our poor relationship to technology to sell its new phones - the same relationship it had a hand in creating.

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An AI broke Snowflake’s code; then another AI, an attack agent, autonomously found the bug, exploited it, and extracted credentials without human intervention. Luckily, this wasn’t yet another case of rogue AI agents doing evil things. It was a sanctioned bug hunt,...

Microsoft's GitHub source shack is reporting a 50 percent error rate on repository content downloads. GitHub Copilot is also "experiencing degraded availability." The problems began at 1340 UTC, when the company's status page reported "impacted performance for some...

Firefox for iOS now includes an optional ad blocker, or it will soon. According to Mozilla, the experimental feature "is being introduced to the Firefox user base through a progressive rollout." As such, it might not have turned up for every user just yet. Off by...

Do you love lasers and hate mosquitoes? For $1,000, you can install your very own bug-zapping surface-to-air missile rig at home – no military-grade budget required, provided the startup behind it delivers on its promises. The Chinese company behind Photon Matrix has...

Windows 11 has moved one step closer to matching Windows 10 after Microsoft slid a movable taskbar into the Release Preview Channel. The feature allows the Windows taskbar to be positioned at the top, left, or right of the screen, as well as at its default location...

The cost of agentic AI workflows is forecast to increase more than fivefold by the end of 2028 as users adopt more complex applications of the technology. As Nvidia and other tech giants push inference and agentic AI as the next stage of the AI wave, Gartner warns...

Despite the outcry over Capita's performance on the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS), the UK government has awarded the beleaguered outsourcer a £31 million contract to build a public health contact center that could be called upon during another pandemic. The...

A cybercrook claims to have siphoned millions of employee records from the Microsoft Azure environments of major companies including McDonald's, Vodafone, Kyndryl, and Tata Consultancy Services. The alleged haul spans nine organizations and is being advertised for...

Microsoft will retire Excel's COPILOT() function on September 14, barely a year after its preview debut. Introduced in August 2025, initially for Beta Channel users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license and later for Excel for the web users through the Frontier...

AI gets things wrong, it kills jobs, and when the bubble bursts, it will take the economy down with it. When all's said and done, however, AI will still be standing and fundamentally change our lives and work. Get used to it. I get it. There's a lot to hate about AI....

Got an old Android phone or tablet lying around? Turn it into a test server for experiments and development - it's simpler than you think.