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Cheap AI tools can now fake video, voices and messages well enough to fool careful people. Scammers use them to pose as loved ones, and older adults lose the most.
Read more: AI fakes now fool even careful people. Here is how families can fight backWalmart is opening checkout to AI shopping agents, with limits you set, while Amazon keeps outside bots off its site. Here is how the limits work.
Read more: Walmart will let AI assistants buy for you within a limit you setA $3.9M settlement over a 2022 ArCare data breach lets patients claim up to $5,000 in losses or about $100 in cash, plus free monitoring.
Read more: Health Center Data Breach Settlement Offers Payouts Up to $5,000A music producer says an AI helper now finishes Logic Pro tasks in minutes that once took about three days. Here is what that could mean for your own busywork.
Read more: A Music Producer Used AI to Cut Three Days of Work to MinutesThe SBA has launched iCAP, a new system for small business loans, and all lenders are due to switch by January 1, 2027. Here is what it could mean for borrowers.
Read more: SBA rolls out new online system to speed up small business loansYour phone shares two ID numbers that rarely change, and fake cell towers and other tricks can use them to track you. Here is how it works.
Read more: Your phone shares two permanent ID numbers, and fake cell towers can grab oneVercel's COO says an AI agent now does the work of a 10-person lead team for under $5,000 a year. Here is what that means for other businesses.
Read more: Vercel cut a 10-person sales team to one person using an AI agentUnion County, Pennsylvania, is offering a hands-on workshop that teaches people to spot the warning signs of scam calls and messages before money is lost.
Read more: Pennsylvania officials hold a workshop to teach people to spot scamsGoogle's Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash cuts video prices 30% and allows longer clips, which could make AI video affordable for small business ads.
Read more: Google's new video AI makes clips up to 15 seconds for less moneyThe UK Home Office is piloting cameras that scan faces in public places and check them against an immigration watchlist, with ports and transport hubs in view.
Read more: UK plans face-scanning cameras to find visa overstayersOppo reportedly told a tech site its next foldable phone will be sold in Europe, which would be a first for the brand's own foldables.
Read more: Oppo says its next foldable phone will go on sale in EuropeEurope's top bank supervisor is weighing a check on data center loans, to see how banks would cope if AI excitement and company values swing.
Read more: Europe's top bank watchdog eyes loans tied to AI data centersA federal judge cleared four groups of Facebook users to sue Meta together over a tracking tool on hospital and pharmacy websites. Meta plans to appeal.
Read more: Judge lets patients sue Meta as a group over hospital website trackingA new report says scammers use AI to build whole fake online stores, some posing as luxury shops, just as Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping begins.
Read more: Fake online stores now look like real luxury shopsCloudflare says quantum computers could forge the tokens sites use to curb abuse, but your past browsing would stay private. Sites will still need to upgrade.
Read more: Quantum computers could break web tools that keep you anonymousA little-known firm called XN has built a $5.3bn stake in Anthropic and plans to buy more, even as tech stocks fall. Here is what that signals.
Read more: A quiet Wall Street firm holds $5.3bn of Anthropic and plans to add moreWith PC gaming handhelds now pricey, one writer says a phone, a clip-on controller and cloud gaming can deliver portable PC games for far less.
Read more: Priced-out PC gaming handhelds? Your phone can fill the gapA new Google app version suggests Gemini Live will work offline, but only after an online setup, and with fewer features than the regular version.
Read more: Google's offline Gemini Live needs an internet setup firstGoogle's usual November software update for Pixel phones has not arrived, and a bigger Android 17 update may be the reason. Here is what to check.
Read more: Google skips its November update for Pixel phonesAmazon is letting some US customers text an AI shopping assistant to order groceries, get gift ideas and track deals, with millions more to follow.
Read more: Amazon lets you text Alexa to order groceries and giftsA San Francisco startup sent a humanoid robot to clean a reporter's apartment, but a person was steering it from afar. Fully independent home robots are not here yet.
Read more: A robot cleaned a reporter's home, but people were steering itInstagram's free Edits video app now has a Mac version, and it may be built for business clips as well as Reels. Here is what is known so far.
Read more: Instagram's Edits app on Mac is meant for more than ReelsA writer swapped Samsung's home screen for the free Mango Launcher and kept it. It hides apps at no cost, and a trial takes minutes.
Read more: A free Android home screen app beats Samsung's built-in one for someTom's Guide measured nearly 2,000 nits on Apple's new 16-inch MacBook Pro, a lab record among 80 laptops tested this year, with HDR video the big winner.
Read more: Apple's new MacBook Pro has the brightest laptop screen we've tested
