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Men Are Buying Hacking Tools to Use Against Their Wives and Friends

Thousands of men are members of Telegram groups and channels that advertise and sell hacking and surveillance services that can be used to harass friends, wives and girlfriends, and former partners, new research has uncovered. The findings, from a European nonprofit group, also say that the communities are involved in extensive trading, selling, and promotion

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Google quietly launched an AI dictation app that works offline

Update (April 7, 10:30 PM PT): The company has updated the app store listing and removed references to the Android app. But it also added that the iOS keyboard is coming soon. Google on Monday quietly released an offline-first dictation app called “Google AI Edge Eloquent” on iOS to take on the likes of Wispr

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Apple Takes App Store Fee Fight Back to Supreme Court

Apple won a pause, not a victory. Now the Supreme Court may be asked to decide how far courts can go in reshaping App Store economics. The post Apple Takes App Store Fee Fight Back to Supreme Court appeared first on TechRepublic. Source link

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Today’s Hurdle hints and answers for April 8, 2026

If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine. There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it’ll take

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Anthropic Teams Up With Its Rivals to Keep AI From Hacking Everything

Following leaked revelations at the end of March that Anthropic had developed a powerful new Claude model, the company formally announced Mythos Preview on Tuesday along with news of an industry consortium it has convened, known as Project Glasswing, to grapple with the cybersecurity implications of the new model and advancing capabilities more generally across

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VC Eclipse has a new $1.3B fund to back — and build — ‘physical AI’ startups

It takes just a skim of Eclipse’s recent investments to see where this venture firm’s interests lie — and where it is headed. The Palo Alto-based VC, which saw its median deal size explode over the past several years, has poured an increasing amount of money into the “physical world.” Its deals include electric boat

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Microsoft’s Latest Windows 11 Update Adds New Features, Strengthens Security

Microsoft’s April Windows 11 update brings Smart App Control changes, AI-powered Narrator upgrades, and performance improvements. The post Microsoft’s Latest Windows 11 Update Adds New Features, Strengthens Security appeared first on TechRepublic. Source link

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Here’s a $30 fix for your PDF frustrations

TL;DR: Conquer PDFs forever with this AcePDF Converter and Editor lifetime license, now only $29.99 (reg. $99.99). PDFs don’t have to slow you down. In fact, you can even start to like this complicated file format with a little help from AcePDF Converter and Editor. This app makes working with PDFs a whole lot easier,

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The iPhone Gets a D– for Repairability

The iPhone is the least fixable phone on the market, according to repairability experts. Phones from Samsung and Google are not far behind. The latest repairability ratings are from an annual report called “Failing the Fix” put out today by the consumer advocacy group US PIRG. A 2021 French law required products to be labeled

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I can’t help rooting for tiny open source AI model maker Arcee

Arcee, a tiny 26-person U.S. startup that built a massive, 400B-parameter open source LLM on a $20 million shoestring budget, has released its new reasoning model. Arcee calls the model Trinity Large Thinking — and it’s the most capable open-weight model “ever released by a non-Chinese company,” claims CEO Mark McQuade to TechCrunch. As that

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