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OpenAI arms devs with AI conversation tool that can talk and listen at the same time

OpenAI has launched a version of its latest real-time full-duplex voice model as an API, allowing software developers to implement more responsive voice-enabled apps and conversational workflows. GPT-Live-1 debuted in July, offering a way to interac...

Latest Anthropic horror story chills with tales of kamikaze drone swarms and bioweapons research

In the latest installment of "my AI model is more dangerous than yours," Anthropic on Thursday warned that cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers alike are using its Claude models to automate cyberattacks, build kamikaze drone swarms, conduct ma...

Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consent

With the release of Apple Watch Series 12, Apple has decided that it's ok to capture people's conversations without their consent. The latest Apple Watch comes with Audio Intelligence, a set of AI audio processing capabilities tuned for the company'...

Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom line

Tailwind CSS may still be open source, but it’s not independent anymore: It’s now a Shopify product. Tailwind Labs CEO Adam Wathan shared news of Shopify’s acquisition of his company in a blog post Thursday. Wathan said that he chose to sell to Shop...

Hundreds of AI agents helped PaperCut attacker hit 395+ orgs, and some went off script

An unknown attacker used hundreds of AI agents to exploit two PaperCut MF/NG bugs and break into at least 395 organizations. The victims were concentrated in the US education sector, and the intrusions moved fast. In one case, an American high schoo...

OpenAI's website-hijacking swarm reached far further than we thought

Getting straight answers out of OpenAI about how many websites and services its agents have hijacked increasingly seems like pulling teeth, as the company seems intent on making the world discover each instance one by one. Case in point: The OpenAI...

AI job cuts could come with a costly undo button

Gartner forecasts that, by 2029, nearly a third of employees laid off because of AI will need to be rehired, often at significantly higher cost. The global research firm warned that workforce cuts could save money in the short term but risk weakenin...

NASA and IBM open source lunar mapping tools

IBM and NASA have got together again and released an open source AI model of the Moon that could be used to make new discoveries about Earth’s natural satellite. The NASA‑IBM Lunar Foundation Model has been trained on an extensive lunar observation...

Slack can now vibe-code interactive charts and reports inside chats

A new feature coming to Slack will allow you to build interactive reports, polls, dashboards, presentations, microsites, and other tools directly inside a chat. With Slackforce Surfaces, you can describe to Slackbot what you need, and it will u...

Azure SQL Data Sync stops taking newcomers before 2027 execution

Microsoft has entered the final phase of retiring Azure SQL Data Sync, blocking new deployments in subscriptions that have never used the service. The restriction took effect on September 9, ahead of the service's shutdown on September 30, 2027. Sub...

Nscale swallows lion's share of UK datacenter investment

Nscale accounts for nearly two-thirds of the equity funding raised by UK datacenter infrastructure companies, according to a report from Tracxn. The market research firm identifies the rent-a-GPU operation as the only unicorn – a privately held comp...

Schools are catching on to Big Tech’s playbook

It's the hot new thing in tech, and it's where all the jobs are. Students who don't learn to use it fall behind. And to help them catch up in time, its creators are graciously providing the resources and curriculum for learning it, often pro bo...

ShinyHunters expose 6.4M in attack on medical supplier McKesson

McKesson's cyberattack last month affected roughly 6.4 million individuals, according to Have I Been Pwned (HIBP). The breach notification service added data leaked by serial extortionists ShinyHunters, revealing the scale of the attack for the firs...

d-Matrix drinks the Nvidia Kool-Aid with NVLink Fusion and MGX rack designs

AI infrastructure startup d-Matrix on Thursday joined the growing list of chipmakers licensing Nvidia’s NVLink Fusion interconnect tech and rack-scale reference designs to make its high-performance inference platform more accessible to customers. Un...

Ministers rejected NATS reimbursement plan before 2,000 UK flights were cancelled

The UK government opposed a proposal to make air traffic control provider NATS reimburse airlines for passenger compensation arising from its failures, weeks before a massive tech glitch led to 2,000 flight cancellations. During a House of Commons d...

Trezor, BitBox users targeted in newsletter phishing spree

Crypto hardware wallet maker Trezor says the third-party email service provider it uses to send newsletters has been breached, and customers are now being sent phishing messages. There is good and bad news. The good news is that the emails appear ea...

Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K is over half off at under $20

Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K is fast and capable. | Image: The Verge Looking to take full advantage of your 4K television, but your current streaming stick doesn’t have the right features? Through September 13th, you can grab an Amazon Fire TV St...

AI uprising postponed after Copilot falls off the web

Fears of an AI takeover remain unfounded after Microsoft demonstrated that Copilot can sometimes struggle to remain upright, let alone march over the remnants of humanity. The copilot.microsoft.com website fell over for an hour and 40 minutes overni...

Electric air taxis get the green light for test flights in Texas

A new federal program to test the feasibility of electric, hybrid-electric, and autonomous aircraft kicks off today in Texas - before the rules governing this new technology have even been finalized. Earlier this year, the Federal Aviation Admi...

German optics giant ditches greenfield SAP migration

Zeiss Group has ditched plans for a greenfield ERP migration to latest S/4HANA platform from SAP following years of struggle trying to move off an ageing R/3 system. The industrial optics company with revenue of around €11.896 billion said it was se...