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TikTok Shop's Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale runs Nov. 11 to Nov. 30, and Best Buy, Ulta Beauty and Sephora are selling there for the first time.
Read more: TikTok Shop opens its biggest holiday sale on Nov. 11 with major retailersVersion 6.1 of the CJIS security rules asks agencies to prove their logins, accounts and logs are locked down, not just say so. Here is what it covers.
Read more: Police and justice agencies face stricter login and audit rulesApple's Self Service Repair Store now covers the iPhone 18 Pro, Mac Studio and Mac mini, so owners can buy parts and fix some problems themselves.
Read more: Apple now sells repair parts for the iPhone 18 Pro and new MacsRumors say Samsung's Galaxy S27 may start with 8GB of RAM, down from 12GB, and some cheaper Android phones may fall back to 4GB as memory costs climb.
Read more: Next Samsung flagship phone may ship with less memory than today'sA Nigerian man got eight years in prison for phishing US tax preparers and using stolen client data to steal more than $3 million. Here is what it means for firms holding client files.
Read more: Hacker gets 8 years for phishing tax preparers and stealing $3 millionThe US Payments Forum will devote its fall meeting to AI agents that shop for you, raising questions about who pays when software makes a mistake.
Read more: AI shopping helpers are about to change how payments workA marketer's website of 50,000 invented statistics still earns ChatGPT visits and links months later, a reminder to check any number AI hands you.
Read more: A site of 50,000 fake statistics keeps getting cited by ChatGPTCNET's review calls Proton VPN's free plan one of the few worth trusting, while its paid plan costs less than most rivals but slows connections more.
Read more: Proton VPN's free plan is one of the few worth trustingTextNow's new Yello phone costs $150 with a $20 monthly plan. Parents choose who can call or text, and kids cannot install apps.
Read more: TextNow Launches a $150 Kids Phone With a $20 Monthly PlanA 2026 hands-on with Google's first folding phone finds its design still holds up, yet it flopped. Its lessons help anyone shopping for a foldable.
Read more: Google's first folding phone got a lot right, but still floppedDeepSeek is publishing the software it uses to run its own AI at scale, which could lower the cost of AI tools for businesses that pay for them.
Read more: DeepSeek releases free software to cut the cost of running AIA new LexisNexis study says each $1 lost to fraud costs U.S. financial firms $5.47 overall, up from $4.00 in 2021, and customers may feel the extra security.
Read more: Every $1 lost to fraud now costs U.S. banks $5.47 in totalResearchers found 6,800 shared Muse chats with one search because the chat title sits in the link. Meta has paused sharing, but anyone who shared should check.
Read more: Meta's Muse AI assistant makes shared chats easy for strangers to findA new book says the AI boom is pushing tech giants to burn fossil fuels, undercutting their climate pledges and straining the towns that host data centers.
Read more: AI data centers are burning fossil fuels and undoing climate pledgesApple will spend up to $100 million on a U.S. titanium maker for the $1,999 iPhone Duo, but some models still have waits of about 14 weeks.
Read more: Apple adds a U.S. titanium maker for its $1,999 foldable iPhoneAn Arizona real estate agent is speaking out about AI-powered property fraud, which can fake documents, voices and listings. Here is how to protect a home deal.
Read more: An Arizona real estate agent is fighting AI-powered property fraudOpenAI added ChatGPT Slides, which turns chats, files or outlines into editable decks you can present or export. Access depends on your plan.
Read more: ChatGPT can now build and present slide decks for youCharliAI and Protegrity will sell banks and insurers one tool to limit what AI agents can see and do, aiming to get stalled projects past risk review.
Read more: Two firms team up to help banks and insurers safely use AI agentsSalesforce has agreed to buy Braze, a marketing messaging company, for almost $5.7 billion. Customers of either firm should watch for changes.
Read more: Salesforce agrees to buy marketing software maker Braze for $5.7BCloudflare has released Clairic in preview, an AI model that pulls fields like invoice totals out of documents faster and cheaper than chatbot-style models, it says.
Read more: Cloudflare's new AI reads invoices and forms faster and cheaperA new report says fake online stores now look polished and run paid ads, so a shop that seems real may not be. Check it before you enter card details.
Read more: Fake online stores now look real, just in time for the holidaysTrinity Logistics now lets AI answer most carrier calls and book loads. The company says margins rose 25% on those bookings while platform costs fell 40%.
Read more: Freight broker lets AI take carrier calls and books at 25% higher marginsA joint US, German and UK advisory says the SafePay ransomware group has hit at least 600 victims. Here is how it gets in and what to check.
Read more: US government warns of SafePay ransomware attacks on businessesElevenLabs released two voice agent models that handle listening, thinking and speaking in one piece, which could make phone and intake bots simpler to build.
Read more: ElevenLabs launches voice agent models that handle the whole call
