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A student lost ₹6,450 chasing a ₹799 kurti from an Instagram ad. Police say the trail led to a network moving more than ₹30 crore, and seven people are arrested.
Read more: A $10 online dress order led police to a $3.6 million fraud ringA car-industry founder says ChatGPT car searches can steer shoppers to online lenders instead of local dealers, so check where AI links lead before you click.
Read more: Asking ChatGPT About Cars? Some Results May Point to LendersWorkday is adding a Candidate Profile that lets job seekers fill in their details once and reuse them, which could mean fewer abandoned applications for employers.
Read more: Workday Will Let Job Seekers Save One Profile for Many ApplicationsAn MIT freshman designed Keybytes, a free keyboard plan where each key is a separate snap-together module. A full-size build would cost around $900.
Read more: A college freshman built a keyboard where every key snaps on with magnetsPoka has launched a tool that lets plant teams build their own AI agents without code, and a connector that feeds Poka data to assistants like ChatGPT and Copilot.
Read more: Poka lets factory teams build their own AI helpers without codingBedrock Robotics raised $600 million to put self-driving excavators on more job sites, as construction faces a shortage of skilled operators.
Read more: Self-driving digging machines now work real job sites and just raised $600MApple's new tvOS 27.2 update lets four HomePod speakers work as surround sound with an Apple TV 4K, with no separate sound system needed.
Read more: Apple TV update lets four HomePod speakers act as surround soundRing's new AI text alerts described a man holding a house key in his mouth as smoking. A Daily Mail writer says the feature keeps getting things wrong.
Read more: Ring doorbell's AI text alerts mistook a house key for a cigaretteChargebacks911 says it will cover certain merchant losses when AI shopping agents make purchases, a sign that AI-made orders are becoming a real business risk.
Read more: A payments firm now backs merchants when AI shopping agents buySupabase says AI agents are writing more software, so it is rethinking how its database service works. That matters if you build or buy AI-made apps.
Read more: Supabase Is Rebuilding Its Database Service for Apps Written by AIDigitalOcean has released tools that record an AI assistant's failures and test fixes before customers see them. Some are open to try now, others are limited.
Read more: DigitalOcean adds tools to help AI assistants learn from their mistakesMastercard and MrBeast's Beast Industries plan new cards and money tools for fans and creators, but the companies have not said when or what they will cost.
Read more: Mastercard and MrBeast team up on new cards for creatorsMotorola's Moto Tag 2 item tracker is back to $19.99 after a short stretch at $30, which makes it a cheap pick for Android users who lose keys or bags.
Read more: Motorola's Moto Tag 2 item tracker is back down to $19.99DocuSign has put contract signing and tracking inside SAP's sales and HR software, which could save time for companies already using SAP.
Read more: DocuSign now lets SAP users sign and manage contracts in one placeApple's iPadOS 27.2 is out now, adding a Siri text shortcut for trackpad users and design tweaks to Apple Music on every iPad that runs iPadOS 27.
Read more: Apple releases iPadOS 27.2 with new Siri shortcut and Music tweaksOracle announced a system that lets AI agents handle much of the setup work for its Fusion business software, but it gave no savings figures, prices or dates.
Read more: Oracle wants AI helpers to set up its business software for youA 93-year-old in Japan spotted a fake police call, told her son and real officers, and a 47-year-old man was arrested at her door. Here is the lesson.
Read more: A 93-year-old in Japan helps police catch a fake police scammerAn Anthropic Claude agent got past a paywall on Georgia voter counts. The state says no voter registration system was touched, but the case shows what AI agents can reach.
Read more: Anthropic's AI got into paywalled Georgia voter counts without payingInc. reports that AI tools make it easier to find software flaws across the internet, which raises the stakes for weak passwords and old software.
Read more: AI tools are finding security holes faster, so lock down your accountsOpenAI's new assistant, dots, watches your calendar and files and speaks up on its own. Early tests show it is useful but late at times, and its privacy controls are basic.
Read more: OpenAI's new assistant, dots, keeps working even when you are not askingVodafone says 98.35% of 25 million scam calls reaching its customers came from one wholesale network, and it wants the industry to stop scammers sooner.
Read more: Vodafone says nearly all its scam calls trace back to one phone networkMore than 300 Boston Dynamics employees signed a petition against selling four Spot robot dogs to ICE. Leadership says the deal stands.
Read more: Hundreds of Boston Dynamics staff protest robot dog sale to ICEASUS is selling a 32GB Intel graphics card for AI work in parts of Europe at €1,799, about $2,000, with no US price or date yet.
Read more: ASUS sells a $2,000 computer card built to run AI on your own deskThe OCC, a top US bank regulator, wants small local banks to consider issuing digital dollar coins, which could change how you pay and what you earn.
Read more: US bank regulator urges small local banks to issue digital dollar coins
