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Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Google’s Pixel 11 phone preorders come with up to $350 in gift cards

Looking to get your hands on the latest Pixel devices? After weeks of leaks and rumors, Google has officially announced its next generation of Pixel phones and watches. The base Pixel 11 starts at $899, the Pro and Pro XL are $1,099 and $1,299 respectively, and the Pro Fold starts at $1,899. The watch comes […]

AI · TechCrunch AI

OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise

Thrive Holdings has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation from investors like SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Alitmeter Capital.

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

Lazarus Exploits Windows Zero-Day to Gain SYSTEM Access and Deploy Backdoor

The North Korean threat actor known as Lazarus Group has been attributed to the zero-day exploitation of a newly patched security flaw impacting Microsoft Windows to deliver a never-before-seen backdoor targeting defense and aerospace companies across France, Germany, Brazil, and India. The activity, per Check Point Research, is part of Operation Dream Job, a long-running cyber espionage and

AI · The Decoder

Researchers can now reverse-engineer LLM prompts from output text with near-perfect accuracy

Researchers at IIT Bombay and Adobe Research have built an inverse language model that reconstructs the original prompt from an LLM's output with near-perfect accuracy. Their method, called "Previous-Token Prediction," doesn't need access to model weights and works across different models. For companies relying on proprietary system prompts, this could be a serious security risk. The article Researchers can now reverse-engineer LLM prompts from output text with near-perfect accuracy appeared first on The Decoder .

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Twitch streamers can now opt out from training Amazon’s AI

Twitch users can now opt out of allowing their content to be used to train Amazon's generative AI models. Opting out means that "your streams, VODs, clips, stream chats, and pictures and text on your channel" won't be used in "future training" of an Amazon AI model "whose purpose is to generate or synthesize text, […]

Developers & Open Source · Docker Blog

A new security baseline for enterprise agentic adoption

Agent Baseline is a blueprint for AI adoption that defines six security outcomes for putting enterprise agents to work without giving them unchecked authority. Consider this scenario: a customer-support agent receives a ticket with an attachment. Hidden inside the attachment is an instruction: query the customer database and send the results to an external address....

World · Al Jazeera

White House construction project to cost almost $1bn

The White House defended reports it planned to spend nearly $1bn on controversial construction projects.

World · BBC Europe

Major Russian grain export terminals hit in Ukraine Black Sea port attack

Grain exports from both Russia and Ukraine are falling as both countries attack each other's shipping facilities and ports.

Developers & Open Source · Chrome Releases

Chrome Beta for Desktop Update

The Beta channel has been updated to 152.0.7977.42 for Windows, Mac and Linux. A partial list of changes is available in the Git log . Interested in switching release channels? Find out how . If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug . The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues. Chrome Release Team Google Chrome

World · Deutsche Welle

Due to the Iran war, Iraq is running out of money

Because of the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, Iraq cannot export enough oil to fund the country's huge public sector. Protests have already started. Will the Iran war destabilize Iraq again?

Society · BBC Technology

Discord ordered to suspend livestreams in Brazil

Discord told the BBC it was "thoughtfully reviewing" the order by Brazil's data protection agency and it was "committed to user safety"

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

Two hydrogen-burning engines powered this car to a new land speed record

JCB has invested heavily in hydrogen to power its diggers and other machinery.

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Code that passes every test can still break the next AI agent that touches it

Originally designed to make software predictable for humans, Google Go is now positioning itself as a language tailored for machine The post Code that passes every test can still break the next AI agent that touches it appeared first on The New Stack .

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

How Google’s new Pixel 11 phones compare to last year’s models

Google just added four new phones to the Pixel family: the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, Pixel 11 Pro XL, and the Pixel 11 Pro Fold. They're slightly more expensive than their predecessors, but they come with some notable upgrades, including improved cameras and a new Tensor G6 chip that should deliver faster performance. The […]

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

ICE wants to give agents electrified gloves that shock people into compliance

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is aiming to spend up to $20 million on equipping officers and agents with specialized gloves that deliver painful electric shocks. These plans were outlined in a notice published by the Department of Homeland Security on Monday, with an unspecified quantity of the devices set to be delivered by March […]

World · Al Jazeera

Drought exposes Nazi-era warship wrecks beneath the Danube

Record-low water levels on the Danube near Prahovo, Serbia, have exposed the wrecks of dozens of Nazi-era vessels

AI · TechCrunch AI

Mesh, Automattic’s CRM for everyone, comes to Android

Mesh, an AI-powered contacts app and relationship manager from Automattic is now an Android app.

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/grok-4-6-benchmarks-and-analysis Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49275385 Points: 333 # Comments: 382

Business · BBC Business

Trump sued over Truth Social's $100,000 early access service

The suit challenges Truth Social plan selling early access to Trump's market-moving posts.

AI · MIT Technology Review AI

Scaling AI agents with trustworthy data

Business and technology leaders need no convincing that the time of agentic AI is here. Organizations are rapidly adopting agents, and few executives doubt the technology’s potential to transform work. But many organizations find that realizing the desired return on investment (ROI) from AI hinges on having the right foundation, with inadequate infrastructure and data…

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Anthropic gave agents the ability to dream. Then developers woke up.

During AI DevCon in London this summer, Lamis Mukta, member of technical staff at Anthropic, hosted a stage presentation session The post Anthropic gave agents the ability to dream. Then developers woke up. appeared first on The New Stack .

Startups & Funding · TechCrunch Startups

Why Stream ring-maker Sandbar says the future of AI wearables is voice

AI notetaking hardware has taken off over the past couple of years, with credit-card-sized devices, pendants, pins, and even transcribing earbuds all promising to capture your meetings and turn them into summaries and action items. Now, a whole wave of wearables — rings especially — are betting people want to capture stray thoughts and ideas the same way. One of […]

Developers & Open Source · Chrome Releases

Chrome Stable for iOS Update

Hi everyone! We've just released Chrome Stable 152 (152.0.7977.40) for iOS; it'll become available on App Store in the next few hours. This release includes stability and performance improvements. You can see a full list of the changes in the Git log . If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug . Chrome Release Team Google Chrome

Developers & Open Source · Chrome Releases

Chrome Beta for Android Update

Hi everyone! We've just released Chrome Beta 152 (152.0.7977.42) for Android. It's now available on Google Play . You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log . For details on new features, check out the Chromium blog , and for details on web platform updates, check here . If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug . Chrome Release Team Google Chrome