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Apple sends legal documents to dozens of OpenAI employees in connection with a trade secret leak lawsuit, issuing a warning.

Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that former employees stole company secrets. In connection with this, it has been reported that Apple has sent a legal document to another OpenAI ...
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Apple and Google ordered to remove 'nude apps' from their app stores.

San Francisco, California, has ordered Apple and Google to remove so-called 'nude apps' from their app stores that can undress people in photos. California law prohibits 'intentionally promoting' or ...
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CoMaps is a free, offline map app that doesn't require an internet connection. It's open-source, ad-free, and doesn't track personal information.

While map apps on smartphones are incredibly convenient for checking maps in unfamiliar places, they can be useless in areas without network coverage, leaving you stranded. CoMaps is an open-source ...
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A study suggests that rising summer temperatures are linked to a rise in youth suicide rates.

The sweltering summer heat reduces human vitality. New research has revealed that summer heat is linked to an increased suicide rate among young people under the age of 24. Children are considered to ...
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'Firefox in WebAssembly' has emerged, allowing Firefox to run entirely within a browser tab; the AI costs for its development totaled over 4 million yen.

Puter Labs has released 'Firefox in WebAssembly,' which allows you to launch the entire Mozilla Firefox browser within a web browser tab. It's not just a Firefox-like interface; even Gecko, which ...
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The European Parliament has adopted an amendment to the revived 'chat control' bill that excludes encrypted messages.

The European Parliament has adopted an amendment to the 'Chat Control' bill, which would scan communications on social media and messaging apps to combat child sexual abuse content (CSAM), a bill that ...
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AI agents consume up to 136 times more energy than typical generated AI.

KAIST, a national research university in South Korea, has conducted the world's first systematic analysis of how much computing resources and electricity AI agents use in real-world service ...
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I tried out the Google Fitbit Air, a Google fitness tracker without a display.

The Google Fitbit Air, a lightweight fitness tracker that eliminates the need for a display on the device itself and manages all data via a smartphone, has been released. I wore it for a while to ...
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A teaser PV has been released for the combining robot anime 'Beast King Mushin Dandevine,' the first project in Good Smile Company's 25th anniversary project 'Combining God ...

A teaser PV has been released for the TV anime ' Beast King Mushin Dandevine, ' which is the first project in the 'Combined God Series,' a project celebrating the 25th anniversary of figure ...
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Automotive giant Ford is facing a situation where AI-driven automation is not working well, forcing them to rehire veteran human engineers.

With the advent of AI, some jobs previously performed by humans are increasingly being automated, and it is said that unemployment will increase significantly in the future as AI takes away job ...
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When you turn on the smart light bulb, the 'Banned Books Library' is activated, delivering ebooks without an internet connection.

Rick Osgood has developed 'Banned Book Library,' a system that uses a commercially available Wi-Fi-enabled smart light bulb to deliver ebooks to nearby smartphones and PCs. When websites are blocked ...
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Nothing's CEO predicts smartphone prices will rise even further, citing soaring memory costs accounting for more than half of the price in some models.

The demand for AI is driving up the prices of memory and processors. Carl Pei, CEO of smartphone manufacturer Nothing, predicts that 'memory will become more expensive than processors and displays, ...