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Microsoft has spent the past few months testing a much cleaner version of Windows Search, and it is finally starting to reach regular Windows 11 PCs. According to Windows Latest, the redesigned Search experience is included in the August 2026 optional update, KB5120998, for Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2. Microsoft confirms that the update moves PCs to builds 26100.9278 and 26200.9278, respectively, although some of its new features are being enabled gradually. We first covered these Search changes in July, when they were limited to Windows Insiders in the Experimental channel. You can finally keep Bing out of Windows Search…

Samsung’s software fix for the Galaxy S26 Ultra‘s red tint issue started rolling out last week, but it isn’t working for all affected owners and is reportedly causing new display quirks for some. Some Galaxy S26 Ultra owners are still seeing red Samsung originally announced the fix earlier this month, saying the red tint came from a calibration issue and not a hardware defect. At the time, the company urged users to visit a local service center for a display calibration or wait for an over-the-air update. That update landed last week, but it doesn’t seem to resolve the issue…

Samsung’s Galaxy Z TriFold may have already disappeared from store shelves, but the tri-folding phone race is showing no signs of slowing down. Huawei has opened reservations in China for the Mate XT 2, ahead of its full launch on September 7. We still don’t know how much this thing will cost, but Huawei has now revealed its colors, memory configurations, and a major redesign that could make the phone more practical than its predecessors. While making the phone tougher was a focus, the design is absolutely stunning. Huawei is offering the Mate XT 2 in Dark Black, Pure White,…

AI scribes are rapidly making their way into doctors’ offices, promising to cut down on tedious paperwork and free up time for patient care. However, growing evidence suggests these tools are introducing a new set of risks for patients and clinicians alike. AI scribes are mangling diagnoses and prescriptions A new report by The Guardian highlights how automated transcription tools are routinely botching medical records in the UK. Findings from Healthwatch England, an independent consumer advocacy group for patients in the UK public health system, reveal that patients are catching severe transcription errors that jeopardize their health if left uncorrected.…

For years, solar-powered vehicles have largely lived in the world of prototypes, university projects and ambitious demonstrations. Now, one has completed the kind of test that matters far more than a flashy concept reveal: it drove hundreds of miles through difficult terrain while carrying medical equipment and generating enough electricity to operate independently. Called Stella Juva, the vehicle was developed by Solar Team Eindhoven, a group of 23 students from Eindhoven University of Technology and two other educational institutions. According to a CNN report, the team describes it as the world’s first solar ambulance. Unlike a conventional ambulance, however, Stella…

The Internet Archive has a habit of preserving unique things, ones that nobody else thought about, and its newest collection is the best example yet. I’d say it’s one that every AI historian should bookmark. Curated under the title “Vintage Artificial Intelligence,” the collection contains decades of software that tried to convince people that they were talking to a thinking machine (though with wildly varying success). So what exactly is in this new collection? Created by Jason Scott, the new collection gathers emulated software from the 1970s through the 1990s. All of them are playable directly in a browser. While…

If you have been paying close attention to artificial intelligence, you may have noticed your worries about job security growing instead of shrinking. According to the AI Monitor 2026 from TU Darmstadt, the more you understand AI, the more you worry it’ll take your job, not less. Based on a representative survey of over 2,000 people in Germany, the study breaks the long-held belief that fear comes from ignorance. The more you know, the more you worry Almost half of people with very strong AI knowledge, around 43%, expect AI could soon take over their work. That number drops sharply…

Anthropic has been talking about AI systems eventually helping build better versions of themselves. Its latest research shows what the early stages of that could look like. The company gave Claude Sonnet 5 an early version of the more powerful Claude Opus 4.8 and asked it to make the model behave better. Over roughly 60 hours, Sonnet tested more than 50 different ideas before creating a training method using about 2,400 examples. The result brought the early version of Opus much closer to the final Opus 4.8 model across the 10 behavior problems Anthropic was testing. So Claude can now…

Hidden cameras keep turning up in sneaky spots, tucked inside pen, clock, chargers, or picture frames in hotel rooms and rentals. This is why researchers at KAIST built a fix that costs less than a nice lunch. Their new tool, called SweepLED, turns any smartphone into a reliable hidden camera detector using an attachable LED case that costs under $7 to build. Why your current hidden camera detector probably isn’t working Most handheld detectors rely on a pretty basic trick, shine light at something and look for a bright reflection bouncing back. The problem is that glass, metal, and shiny…

AI models are designed to make our job easy by following instructions and sticking to them, not quietly working around them. However, new research suggests that’s exactly what is happening far more often than most people realize.  Incidents of AI systems lying to users, dodging the safeguards developers put in place, and diverting resources to pursue their own goals have nearly doubled in a single month this summer (via The Guardian). So what exactly did this new research find? The Loss of Control Observatory, funded by the UK government’s AI Security Institute, recorded more than 300 cases of AI systems going…