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Streaming services often give Black Friday deals only to new or returning customers, so canceling a service you barely use now could pay off later.
Read more: Cancel Your Streaming Services Now to Qualify for Black Friday DealsCornell will give students, faculty and staff free access to ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, with privacy terms that differ from personal accounts.
Read more: Cornell will give students and staff free ChatGPT, Claude and GeminiMastercard has published a report on how people in the Middle East and Africa pay digitally. Anyone selling or sending money there should take note.
Read more: How people in the Middle East and Africa are paying digitallyAWS Marketplace and Amazon Business now share one catalog, so company teams can buy software and office supplies in one place under one set of approval rules.
Read more: Amazon now lets companies buy software and supplies in one placeLegal software maker Legora says it uses OpenAI models, ChatGPT and Codex to speed up contract work, which could mean faster turnaround for people who pay lawyers.
Read more: Legal software company Legora uses OpenAI tools to speed up lawyers' workA Zoho blog post says goal tracking tends to fall apart around month three, and lists five habits that tie goals to live sales data to prevent it.
Read more: Five habits to keep your team's goal tracking alive after three monthsCloudflare's new beta tool lets AI apps pull live web results from three search providers, with one bill and one activity log for businesses.
Read more: Cloudflare lets AI apps search the live web through one servicePolice say 59 people lost at least $1.3 million in October to callers posing as Simba staff, then as police or government officers.
Read more: Fake phone company staff and fake officials stole $1.3m in a monthSocial posts blame the iPhone's Live Listen feature for secret eavesdropping. It is an accessibility tool, not spyware, but one setting is worth a quick check.
Read more: iPhone's Live Listen is not spyware, but one setting is worth checkingA new post says Anthropic's IPO will show how the company behind Claude makes money, which could hint at future pricing and stability for business users.
Read more: Anthropic's IPO Offers a Look at the Business Behind ClaudeA test version of WhatsApp shows a Reels button in the chat attachment menu, which could make sharing short videos faster for the app's users.
Read more: WhatsApp is testing a Reels button inside the chat attachment menuExperts are doubting claims that AI apps can find hidden cameras, so renters and travelers should be careful before paying for one.
Read more: Apps That Claim to Find Hidden Cameras Face Doubts From ExpertsThe Fed is all but certain to leave rates unchanged at 2pm ET, and Alphabet and Microsoft report after the close. Both could shape loan costs and tech sentiment.
Read more: Fed expected to hold rates today as Alphabet and Microsoft reportA former Facebook engineer who once lived as a monk has raised $25 million for software meant to speed up school food services and public records.
Read more: Former Facebook Engineer And Ex-Monk Builds Software For Local GovernmentSlough, west of London, now hosts more than 40 data centers, and its council wants the companies to give residents more in return.
Read more: Slough, a small UK town, is now Europe's biggest data center hubPalo Alto Networks says attackers are exploiting a serious flaw on firewall management pages exposed to the internet. Businesses should close access and patch.
Read more: Hackers are breaking into Palo Alto firewalls left open to the internetA China-linked group used a VMware flaw to hide its tracks in attacks on U.S. law firms. Businesses should patch and check Microsoft 365 for unknown sign-in devices.
Read more: Hackers Linked to China Hid Their Tracks in Law Firm AttacksA 2016 lawsuit over Snapchat's speed filter and a car crash is credited with starting a legal fight over whether apps are responsible for how they are built.
Read more: A 2016 Snapchat speed filter lawsuit began the fight over app safetyMeta has released Waddle World, a free pixel pet app that listens to your day and doodles about it. For now, it is listed only for adults in the Philippines.
Read more: Meta quietly launches Waddle World, a virtual pet app that works like a journalRishi Sunak, the UK's former prime minister, reported more than $2.9 million from advising Anthropic, Microsoft and Goldman Sachs, which works out to about $7,000 to $10,200 an hour.
Read more: Ex-UK leader Rishi Sunak earns up to $10,200 an hour advising tech and banksA federal grand jury has indicted an OpenAI engineer for allegedly bugging an executive conference room, a reminder that private work talks can be recorded from inside.
Read more: OpenAI engineer indicted for bugging an executive conference roomThe Financial Times reports Anthropic's seven billionaire cofounders are set to share control of the company, which matters if your work runs on Claude.
Read more: Anthropic's seven cofounders are set to share control of the companyMoore Threads, a Chinese AI chipmaker, reported sales up 1,774% and a small profit, a sign China's homegrown chip supply is growing fast.
Read more: Chinese AI chipmaker's sales jump 1,774% and it turns a profitFello AI published a 2026 guide comparing two Claude models, Fable and Opus, to help buyers match each one to the right jobs before paying.
Read more: Claude Fable or Opus? A Guide to Picking the Right One
