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AI voice recorders that can capture meetings, transcribe conversations, and generate summaries are becoming increasingly common. Flowtica’s Scribe, for example, puts those capabilities inside a pen that can also be used for handwritten notes. Comu, formerly known as Comulytic, is taking the concept a step further with the Action Pro, which is a pocket-sized AI recorder capable of turning recorded conversations into editable presentations, follow-up emails, meeting briefs, documents, and action plans. The device has a dedicated AI button that lets users request these materials using voice commands. It can turn a conversation into a presentation Once a conversation has…

Google and Samsung aren’t just creating flagship smartphones. They’re building different philosophies for what “flagship” means, how “smart” a smartphone should actually be, and what cost you should pay for a top-tier experience. That would be the major theme in this comparison between the newly-launched Pixel 11 Pro XL, which goes on sale from August 20, 2026, and Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra, which is already available in the market.  While Google’s new software and AI-based features seem all about killing third-party apps for specific use cases, the Galaxy S26 Ultra leans into raw hardware power and productivity tools to assert…

Microsoft’s legal threats clearly didn’t scare off security researcher Nightmare Eclipse. Just weeks after the company warned it might pursue researchers who release undisclosed bugs outside its official channels, Nightmare Eclipse published a fresh Windows vulnerability, and it’s a nasty one. What exactly does ShieldBreak do? The new bug, called ShieldBreak, targets Windows Defender, the built-in anti-malware engine that ships with every copy of Windows. When exploited successfully, it lets an attacker jump from a low-level user account to full system access, essentially handing over the keys to your entire device. Nightmare Eclipse released the proof of concept as a…

Microsoft just sent a warning to IT admins, and it’s a big one. The company wants everyone to stop using SMS and voice-based authentication, and it’s citing AI-powered phishing as the main reason. Why is Microsoft killing SMS authentication? In an email spotted by Windows Latest, Microsoft explained that the AI era calls for stronger, phishing-resistant authentication. Basically, AI has made it far easier for attackers, even the less skilled ones, to manipulate SMS and voice channels. SIM swapping has also become easier with AI, allowing bad actors to move your number to a SIM card they control without much…

Unboxing a flagship smartphone used to feel like a solved equation. You paid top dollar, handed over your credit card, and received a fully baked piece of hardware capable of navigating basic daily life without a thermal meltdown. Last month, standing under direct sunlight in 45-degree weather, my partner held her $1,000 Pixel 10 Pro up to my car’s air conditioning vent just so Google Maps wouldn’t shut down mid-route. It wasn’t rendering 3D ray-traced graphics or exporting 8K video. I was simply following GPS directions while listening to a podcast – a routine task my three-year-old iPhone 15 handled…

Twitch has quietly started feeding your streams, VODs, and clips into Amazon’s AI training pipeline, and the opt-out button is tucked so deep in your settings that most people will never stumble on it. As Kotaku reports, streaming reporter Zach Bussey spotted a new toggle inside Twitch’s account settings on August 12 that lets you block your content from training Amazon’s generative AI tools. The screenshot spread quickly, and so did the direct link to the exact settings page, mostly because Twitch never bothered to announce the change in the first place. What happens if you don’t opt out? Leave…

Qualcomm wants to fix the biggest problem with budget laptops: performance and battery life. In May of this year, the company showed off its entry-tier new Snapdragon C Platform, made for budget laptops starting at $300, promising speed, battery life, and AI smarts that budget shoppers usually have to skip. Now, the chip giant has just revealed the specs for its latest chip and if what it shows comes true, Intel is going to have a big headache on its hands. But competition is good for consumers, so they will be the real winners here.  Snapdragon C specifications Qualcomm Snapdragon…

Pixel 11’s new voice typing feature is called Rambler, and Google built it around the way people actually speak. Gemini Intelligence can clean up dictation even when you use filler words and format your thoughts into clearer text before you send it. Rambler works through Gboard across the Pixel 11 series. Instead of carefully constructing every sentence before you tap the microphone, you can speak naturally, read over what Gemini produces, and send it. It sounds like a small change, but anyone who regularly fixes messy voice transcripts will probably understand the appeal immediately. How the new dictation works Traditional…

For the last two generations, I’ve complained that the Pixel’s video performance trails behind what’s available under other brands. Google has finally agreed.   The Pixel 11 lineup landed today with its biggest video overhaul in years. However, not every upgrade made it to every model in the family. So, what’s the biggest video upgrade here? To kick things off, let’s discuss the bump in video resolution. The Pixel 11 Pro and Pro XL can now shoot 8K at 24 or 30fps. The feature is powered by Video Boost, the same cloud-assisted pipeline that’s stayed a Pro-only perk since the Pixel…

AI companies are increasingly looking for ways to mark content generated by their models. Now, someone has built an open-source tool designed to remove some of those marks. A GitHub project called watermarks-remover is designed to strip different types of AI provenance signals from text and files. According to its documentation, it can work with invisible Unicode characters, statistical text watermarks and metadata embedded in formats including PNG, JPEG, SVG, PDF, DOCX, ODT, HTML and Markdown. That sounds straightforward until you look at how some of these watermarks actually work. A metadata tag can be removed relatively cleanly. A statistical…