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AI-made videos of well-known people are pushing fake investment platforms, and a quick web search may not expose them. Reports were tied to $7.4 million in losses.
Read more: Scammers use fake celebrity videos to push bogus investmentsDave Wehner, Meta's chief strategy officer, is leaving to be CFO at Fireworks, an AI startup valued at $17.5 billion, which also had a security incident in October.
Read more: Meta's top strategy executive leaves to become CFO at an AI startupMastercard describes AI tools that could buy things for you, and says trust is the hard part: who gets to spend your money, and under what rules.
Read more: Mastercard outlines how AI assistants could shop and pay for youLyft's new Lyft Go plan costs $9.99 a month and pays 8% back in credits, plus free DoorDash delivery. It only pays off if you ride often.
Read more: Lyft's new $9.99 membership gives 8% back on rides and DoorDashDropbox is rolling out AI that sorts files and sets up folders, and it shows its plan and waits for approval first. It is aimed at small teams on paid plans.
Read more: Dropbox's new AI tidies your files, but asks your OK firstDelhi Police say fake gift messages, fake shops and fake courier calls are circulating before Diwali, all aimed at your bank details or your phone.
Read more: Delhi Police warn of Diwali scams: fake gifts, fake shops, fake couriersEngadget lists iPhone settings many people skip. A few minutes in Settings can stop a thief or a nosy friend from reaching your messages, money apps and location.
Read more: Five iPhone settings to change now so a thief or snoop gets nothingA writer paired a Samsung Galaxy phone with about $100 of add-ons to get a laptop-style setup, as a cheaper option than a roughly $1,000 Googlebook.
Read more: A $100 Setup Turns a Samsung Phone Into a Pocket LaptopAndroid has a built-in log that shows which apps send the most alerts. It is off by default, and a few minutes with it can quiet a noisy phone.
Read more: Your Android Phone Can Show Which Apps Bug You MostA phone screen that dims on its own is often caused by heat or a setting, not a broken phone. Checking a few things first can save a repair bill.
Read more: Why your phone screen keeps getting dimmer on its ownApple is expected to show the second iPhone Air next spring with two cameras and a bigger battery, but 9to5Mac says the thin phone still has gaps to close.
Read more: Apple's next thin iPhone needs to fix its biggest flawsSyncthing, a free open-source tool, copies phone photos straight to a Windows PC. One default setting can delete photos from your phone, so check it first.
Read more: A free tool backs up phone photos to your PC with no monthly feeThe System Data category in iPhone storage can swing from a few gigabytes to dozens. A restart often shrinks it, and it helps to know why it grows.
Read more: Why your iPhone's mystery System Data takes up so much spaceA Kuala Lumpur firm now sells a SGD 1,500 check of what ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google say about a named executive, after its founder's own test found mix-ups.
Read more: New Audit Checks What AI Chatbots Say About Business LeadersA small English law firm has run on free software for about five years, and its owner just shared the full toolkit, from laptop to servers to phone.
Read more: A small law firm runs its whole business on free softwareOpenAI says it disproved a well-known belief about hard computer problems, and a top expert in the field calls the result shocking.
Read more: OpenAI says it disproved a long-held idea about hard computer problemsA How-To Geek writer shows how free apps and built-in settings give a non-Pixel Android phone the Pixel look, with no launcher swap, on Android 14 or newer.
Read more: Make Any Android Phone Look Like a Google Pixel for FreeAndroid 14 and later can turn a phone into a USB webcam with no extra software, and one reviewer says it beat the webcam on his desktop.
Read more: Your Android phone can work as a better webcam, no software neededOpenAI will put ChatGPT and Codex on one shared usage allowance for Plus, Pro and Business plans from December 2026, so heavy tasks may hit limits sooner.
Read more: OpenAI to put ChatGPT and Codex on one shared usage limitCookeville police say callers posing as officers are demanding money to clear a warrant. The department says it never does that, so the call is a scam.
Read more: Fake police callers in Cookeville demand money to clear warrantsNYT Cooking now has an AI helper that rewrites a recipe around what is in your kitchen. A Verge reviewer found it useful, but it nearly botched a cake.
Read more: NYT Cooking's new AI helper rewrites recipes with what you have on handThe European Commission says TikTok's personalized feed may harm mental health and break EU law. TikTok could face a fine and be forced to change how the feed works.
Read more: EU regulators say TikTok's endless feed may break the lawPartnerOne bought 3CLogic, which makes AI phone agents that plug into the customer software many companies already use. Here is what the deal does and does not tell us.
Read more: Software firm PartnerOne buys 3CLogic, a maker of AI phone agentsOcient, a Chicago data company, raised $100 million as more customers want AI to scan all their data, not samples, and to keep it on their own systems.
Read more: Chicago data firm Ocient raises $100 million to help AI dig through huge data
