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The UK prime minister says kids 16 and under would be banned from social media. Details are thin, but parents and youth-focused businesses should watch.
Read more: UK prime minister announces social media ban for kids 16 and underCognition makes Devin, an AI agent that writes code with less hands-on direction. If you pay for custom software, it may soon touch your projects.
Read more: Cognition's Devin is an AI agent that writes software codeAttackers swapped download files for five versions of OVHcloud's command-line tool for 94 minutes. Anyone who installed it in that window may need to change passwords.
Read more: Hackers swap five OVHcloud tool downloads for password-stealing malwareWhatsApp is reportedly building a call filter that answers unknown numbers and asks why they called, so you can read the reply before you pick up.
Read more: WhatsApp will soon answer unknown callers for you and ask why they calledOnly Listicles, a UK firm, now sells placement in 'best of' lists to help businesses show up when people ask AI tools for advice. It admits there is no guarantee.
Read more: A UK firm will pay to get your business named in 'best of' listsNew research says 69% of students have met a scam, nearly double the general public. Mastercard, NatWest and the Home Office are teaming up to help.
Read more: University students are twice as likely to meet a scam, new research findsWhatsApp is working on a row of Status updates above your chat list, like Instagram stories, so you could see friends' posts without leaving the main screen.
Read more: WhatsApp Tests Putting Status Updates Above Your Chat ListDHS has ordered civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek, a Chinese AI tool, including products built on it. Businesses that sell to government should check their software.
Read more: U.S. bans Chinese AI tool DeepSeek from federal civilian agenciesApple explained why it is blocking tools that track people across websites on iPhones, and advertisers expect less reach and higher prices.
Read more: Apple speaks out on privacy rules that shook online advertisingGemini Notebook, formerly NotebookLM, now lets you approve a slide outline or video plan first, so you are not stuck regenerating a whole deck.
Read more: Gemini Notebook lets you check slides and videos before it builds themWhatsApp is reportedly building a simpler way to ask a contact where they are. It is not live yet, but privacy controls are worth watching.
Read more: WhatsApp is building an easier way to ask where someone isWhatsApp is testing an Offers & Updates folder that would pull big-business messages out of your main chat list, so family and friends are easier to find.
Read more: WhatsApp Tests a Folder to Hide Messages From Big BusinessesA fake WhatsApp app showed up in sponsored Google Play results and was thought to be installed over 500,000 times. Here is how to check your phone.
Read more: Fake WhatsApp app on Google Play was installed by over 500,000 peopleAn economist warns that an AI market crash may not start with the big tech companies, and that debt, chips and public anger are weak spots worth watching.
Read more: An AI market crash could start somewhere investors aren't lookingChatGPT can now turn your chats and uploaded files into slide presentations, but Plus subscribers do not get the feature.
Read more: ChatGPT can now build slide presentations from your chats and filesA Chinese AI agent is reportedly being used to hack companies in South Korea and Japan for as little as $5, which could put small firms at greater risk.
Read more: Cheap AI hacking agent from China aims at Korean and Japanese firmsOpenAI added live teamwork to ChatGPT Slides, so several people can edit one deck together. It is limited to Pro, Business and Enterprise plans.
Read more: ChatGPT Slides now lets teams edit the same presentation togetherCisco's Jeetu Patel says an AI agent found $9,000 a year in subscriptions and cut about $1,000 of it. His warning about access matters just as much.
Read more: Cisco's president used AI helpers to review $9,000 in subscriptionsA criminal service called ROMULUS uses fake web pages to get people to run a bogus fix, which installs malware on their own computers.
Read more: New hacker service tricks people into installing malware themselvesPolice in Somerset say criminals are phoning people as fake officers, sometimes from numbers that look real, to get money and bank details.
Read more: Scammers are posing as police on the phone to steal moneyAnthropic says Claude Code now starts replying about three times sooner in local sessions, but the gain is about the first reply, not finished work.
Read more: Claude Code now starts replying sooner, Anthropic saysInception says its new Mercury 3 model answers 4x to 8x faster than similar AI models. The claim is unproven, but speed could change how useful AI feels.
Read more: Inception's Mercury 3 AI model claims 4x to 8x faster answersElice, a Korean data-center company, fell more than 30% on its first day of trading, and AirTrunk reportedly delayed its own IPO. Here is why it matters.
Read more: Korean data-center firm Elice drops over 30% on its first trading dayThe head of Palo Alto Networks is advising his daughter as she raises a new AI-focused venture fund, a tough job for a first-time manager.
Read more: Palo Alto Networks CEO advises daughter on new AI venture fund
