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Aiper Scuba V3 Pool Robot review: Eye on the prize

Aiper Scuba V3 Pool Robot review: Eye on the prize

โœจ Discover this must-read post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Gear,Gear / Reviews,Gear / Products / Home,Product Review ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The app also includes access to two scheduled operating modes for those who want to leave the robot in the pool, including a calendar-based mode with three frequency levels โ€“ 90 minutes x 2, 60 minutes x 3, or 45 minutes x 4. The other mode is a bit frustrating: the so-called AI Navium mode It seems Like using the AI โ€‹โ€‹camera to scan the pool periodically over the course of a week and only perform routine cleaning…
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A cyberattack on an in-car breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded

A cyberattack on an in-car breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this trending post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Security,Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks,Security / Privacy,Security / Security News,Security Roundup ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: United States law This week, the implementation took down the Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid and Mossad botnets, a list of cybercrime tools that have infected more than 3 million devices around the world, including many home networks, and have been used to carry out record-breaking cyberattacks. Meanwhile, hundreds of millions of iPhones are currently at risk of being taken over by a new tool called DarkSword that Russian hackers have used to steal victims' data.Customer service…
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How BYD made electric car chargers work almost as fast as gas pumps

How BYD made electric car chargers work almost as fast as gas pumps

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this must-read post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Gear,Gear / Gear News and Events,Fast Car โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: One way or another, all of it It got faster. Earlier this month, Chinese automaker BYD announced that its flash chargers, which were first introduced a year ago, can now charge some electric car batteries from about 10 to 70 percent in five minutes, and from 10 to full batteries in about nine minutes. That's a range of over 600 miles in the time it takes to order a cappuccino and leave a nice tip.BYD's new chargers can add…
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A top Democrat urges his colleagues to support Trump’s spy machine

A top Democrat urges his colleagues to support Trump’s spy machine

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this insightful post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Security,Security / National Security,Security / Privacy,Security / Security News,Politics / Policy,Politics / Politics News,Power Tool โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: US Congressman Jim Himes, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, is privately pressing his colleagues to preserve the FBI's authority to conduct warrantless searches of Americans' communications, arguing that he has seen no evidence that the Trump administration is abusing its power, WIRED has learned.In a letter obtained by WIRED, Himes urged his fellow Democrats to support the White House's request to renew the controversial surveillance program that intercepts…
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‘Fake and dangerous product’: The forecast markets’ wildest week yet

‘Fake and dangerous product’: The forecast markets’ wildest week yet

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this trending post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Business,Business / Regulation,Business / Startups,Risky Business ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Tarek Mansour, CEO of Kalshi, posted a video on Wednesday showing six men dressed in casual clothes doing push-ups on the sidewalk. โ€œThis is how the Kalshi Q1 board meeting ended,โ€ he wrote on the X. Board members laugh and smile in the video after the impromptu cardio session, and the mood is jubilant. The next day, it became clear that the team had good reason to celebrate: Calci had just raised $1 billion at a valuation of $22 billion,…
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There aren’t many reasons to be excited about a new smartphone from Amazon

There aren’t many reasons to be excited about a new smartphone from Amazon

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this must-read post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Gear,Gear / Gear News and Events,Gear / Products / Phones,Panos Play ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: โ€œThis is not a consumer hardware company that takes privacy seriously,โ€ says Gamero-Garrido. Since people use smartphones much more than Alexa or Kindle, he says today's Amazon smartphone "will dramatically increase the amount of potential privacy damage."Gamero-Garrido believes Amazon could use Transformer as a data collection tool to learn how people use its devices, build its advertising network, and compete with the likes of Alphabet and Meta, which face regulatory scrutiny in the European Union…
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Anthropic denies being able to sabotage AI tools during war

Anthropic denies being able to sabotage AI tools during war

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this awesome post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Business,Business / Artificial Intelligence,Model Manipulation ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Anthropic cannot manipulate CLOUD generative artificial intelligence model once the U.S. Army has it operational, an executive wrote in a lawsuit on Friday. This statement came in response to the Trump administration's accusations that the company may have tampered with its artificial intelligence tools during the war.โ€œAnthropic never had the ability to cause Claude to stop working, change its functionality, close access to it, or impact or jeopardize military operations,โ€ Thiago Ramasamy, head of public sector at Anthropic, wrote. โ€œAnthropic does…
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The report says that Amazon is working on a new smartphone that will have Alexa at its core

The report says that Amazon is working on a new smartphone that will have Alexa at its core

โœจ Check out this insightful post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Gadgets,Hardware,Amazon,Amazon Fire Phone,Amazon Transformer Phone,jeff bezos ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: It looks like Amazon is getting back into the smartphone game. More than 11 years after the e-commerce giant discontinued its failed first attempt, the Fire Phone, the company is now developing a new smartphone codenamed โ€œTransformer,โ€ Reuters reported, citing anonymous sources. The report said the device is being developed by the company's Devices and Services division, and will contain customized features that make it easier to use Amazon's suite of apps, including Amazon Shopping, Prime Video, and Prime…
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Trump’s AI framework takes aim at state laws, shifting the burden of children’s safety to parents

Trump’s AI framework takes aim at state laws, shifting the burden of children’s safety to parents

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Government & Policy,AI preemption,state aI regulation,Trump,trump national ai framework ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The Trump administration on Friday laid out a legislative framework for a unique AI policy in the United States. This framework would centralize power in Washington by preempting state AI laws, potentially undermining the recent surge in efforts by states to regulate the use and development of the technology. โ€œThis framework can only succeed if it is applied uniformly across the United States,โ€ a White House statement about the framework said. โ€œA patchwork of conflicting state…
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A new court filing reveals that the Pentagon told Anthropic that the two sides were almost on the same page โ€” a week after Trump announced the relationship had collapsed.

A new court filing reveals that the Pentagon told Anthropic that the two sides were almost on the same page โ€” a week after Trump announced the relationship had collapsed.

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Anthropic filed two sworn statements in a federal court in California late Friday afternoon, responding to the Pentagon's assertion that the AI โ€‹โ€‹company poses an "unacceptable risk to national security" and arguing that the government's case rests on technical misunderstandings and claims that were not actually raised during the months of negotiations leading up to the dispute. The announcements were filed along with a summary of Anthropic's response in the lawsuit against the Department of Defense and come ahead of a hearing next Tuesday,…
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