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Startling iPhone Notifications Warn Some Users of Possible Targeted Spyware Attacks

This week, Apple sent Threat Notifications to iPhone users it believes faced targeted spyware attacks. These users are scattered across 110 countries and are thought to have been individually singled out. Specialized threat notifications, which appear on the iPhone’s Lock Screen and via email, tell recipients that Apple detected a mercenary spyware attack targeted at […]

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Twitch Lets Amazon Train AI on Creator Content by Default, With Opt-Out Available

Following public pushback, Twitch has added a setting that lets creators stop Amazon from using their channels’ content to train generative AI models. This, of course, means Twitch is letting Amazon—its parent company—train its models on their content by default. The setting, called “Training for Generative AI,” is automatically enabled on all creator accounts and […]

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New ‘Zero-Impact’ Data Center Announced in Italy Promises Clean Processing

This year’s severe drought has dramatically reduced water levels in Italy’s famous Brenta River. Credit: Simone Padovani/Getty Images A new data center project in Florence, Italy, could provide a blueprint for how other data center developments could be structured, eliminating many of the environmental problems people associate with these enormous compute projects. Promising to be […]

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SpaceXAI debuts Grok 4.6, overtaking Kimi K3’s performance and matching GPT-5.6 Sol for world’s third best on Artificial Analysis

Elon Musk’s company SpaceXAI, formerly known as xAI, has released Grok 4.6, its latest frontier AI model, with a focus on long-running agents, coding and knowledge work — and a pricing strategy designed to make those workloads cheaper to run. The model scores 61 on the third-party Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, surpassing the popular open […]

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Heart X1 soars for the first time as the world’s largest electric aircraft, and the flight cost just $5 in electricity

Electric cars have become a pretty normal sight on the road, but replacing jet fuel with batteries gets considerably more complicated when you’re trying to lift thousands of pounds into the sky. Heart Aerospace has just shown that it can be done at a surprisingly large scale. The company’s X1 demonstrator has completed its maiden […]