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OpenAI wants to get better at spotting people abusing its frontier AI models without asking privacy-conscious customers to give up Zero Data Retention. In an August 19 announcement, OpenAI introduced Private Safety Processing, a system designed to detect suspicious behavior across multiple interactions while preserving ZDR for eligible API customers. OpenAI says its existing ZDR safeguards evaluate requests individually, making patterns spread across several interactions harder to detect. Private Safety Processing is supposed to fill that gap without giving OpenAI employees access to the underlying prompts or responses. For now, the system is being tested with early customers. Axios reports…

5G’s millimeter-wave technology can deliver incredibly fast wireless speeds, but it has an annoying weakness: those signals don’t like getting around things. Walls, furniture, people, and even moving a few feet can cause mmWave connections to weaken dramatically. Now, researchers at the University of California San Diego are proposing a surprisingly boring solution: cheap reflective tiles that simply bounce the signal where it needs to go. The problem with really fast 5G mmWave sits at the higher-frequency end of wireless communications and offers much more bandwidth than conventional cellular frequencies. That’s what makes it attractive for extremely high-speed connections, but…

I’ve been using a Mac for a long time, and over the years, I’ve gotten pretty good at figuring out what’s going wrong when something feels off. Most of the time, I start in the Settings app. I poke around, change a few things, and usually find whatever is causing the problem. Storage is a good example. I recently noticed my Mac slowing down, opened the Storage section, and immediately got a clear breakdown of what was taking up space. One cleanup later, I had freed up some much-needed storage, and everything felt normal again. I’ve done something similar when…

I’ve been waiting for magnetic charging to stop being mostly an iPhone and Pixel party, and now, Motorola might be looking to join the club. Leaker Evan Blass has shared images of an unreleased Moto Snap magnetic wireless charger. The accessory is a slim circular charging puck with Motorola’s batwing logo, a braided cable, and a USB-C connector, giving it a very familiar MagSafe/Pixelsnap-style design. Motorola hasn’t announced the charger yet, and details such as pricing, charging output, and release date remain unknown. But it arrives just after the launch of the Motorola Edge 70 Max, which supports magnetic charging.…

That photo you uploaded to identify someone may have ended up somewhere you never expected. Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unsecured database linked to ClarityCheck, a people-search service that says its reverse image search is “private and secure,” containing more than 9 million files, including photos of people’s faces. ClarityCheck has built its service around helping people verify strangers and decide who they can trust online, which makes a security lapse involving its own users’ uploads particularly uncomfortable. According to Fowler’s research published by ExpressVPN, the database held roughly 450GB of data and did not require a password to…

Samsung has scheduled a Galaxy Event for August 27, and nearly everything about the announcement points to the Galaxy S26 FE, even though the company has not said so directly. What Samsung’s invitation confirms Samsung’s official invitation describes the event as an introduction to “the newest addition to the Galaxy S26 family.” While it doesn’t explicitly name the Galaxy S26 FE, it says the device is “purposefully designed to bring the core Galaxy S26 experiences from camera to AI, along with the latest One UI, to those who look for what truly matters most to them.” This is as clear…

Streaming has always been a two-horse race between YouTube and Netflix, and for the most part, they stayed out of each other’s lane. While YouTube built its business around creators and ad revenue, Netflix focused on paying for professionally produced content. That truce appears to be over. Netflix has spent the past year going after YouTube’s biggest stars with big checks, and now YouTube is fighting back in kind, with even bigger checks of its own. What is YouTube offering creators? According to a Bloomberg report, YouTube is dangling millions of dollars in front of popular creators if they agree…

Here’s an uncomfortable question for the generative AI era: if an AI creates an image, can anyone actually point to the specific images that influenced it? A new study from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory suggests that, for sufficiently large models, the answer may often be no. Researchers Dai and Gifford describe the phenomenon as “attribution decay” in their open-access paper, published today in Nature Communications. It refers to how the influence of any individual piece of training data becomes increasingly difficult to detect as the size of the dataset grows. The bigger the dataset, the fuzzier the…

We have all been there. A deadline gets buried somewhere in a long email thread, life gets busy, and suddenly you are apologizing for a missed follow-up you completely forgot about. Avec, the AI powered email app built around swipe gestures and voice dictation, just rolled out a fix for this problem, and it might be the app’s smartest addition yet. the magic in this one is the due date detection: you just swipe left, and avec figures out when to remind you, without you needing to do anything more.i didn’t think we could make this work. and yet, it…

Google is currently behind OpenAI and Anthropic at the top end of the frontier-model race. Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol both rank ahead of Gemini 3.1 Pro on major independent benchmarks, while Google’s long-awaited Gemini 3.5 Pro remains in testing after reportedly falling short of internal performance targets. While Google works on closing that gap, it is also pushing Gemini aggressively toward a very different audience. Eligible U.S. college students can now get Google AI Pro free for an entire year, alongside a new Student Hub built specifically around studying, coursework, and research. What students actually get…