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• Google’s Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro have been ‘leaked’ in full… by Google

  02-08-2021 18:40 via thenextweb.com
  
  Google has taken an unusual approach to leaks over the past few years, revealing models and designs before their official announcement and actually confirming leaks. This year it’s taking that to another level,  showing off the Pixel 6 (and Pixel 6 Pro) in their full visual glory well before its expected official announcement, which would typically happen in the fall. I mean, if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em, right? First things first, here’s our first loo
  
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• Apple has a new CEO, and Tim Cook signed off quoting Steve Jobs

  01-09-2026 19:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  John Ternus became chief executive of Apple on Tuesday. He is the eighth person to hold the job in the company’s 50 years, and the first engineer in the seat since Steve Jobs. Tim Cook spent his last day writing to staff. Chance Miller obtained the memo for 9to5Mac on Monday, and Mark Gurman reported […]
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• ICE plans to buy Boston Dynamics robot dogs without running a competition

  01-09-2026 18:38 via thenextweb.com
  
  US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has posted plans to buy a fleet of Boston Dynamics robot dogs. The listing puts the spend at $1m to $2m. It also says ICE does not intend to compete the purchase. Joseph Cox found the plan for 404 Media on Friday. It sits in the Department of Homeland Security’s […]
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• A researcher hijacked Claude Code by asking it to summarise a web page

  01-09-2026 18:14 via thenextweb.com
  
  Ask Claude Code to summarise a web page, and it can end up running an attacker’s code on your machine. A security researcher got that result in up to 80% of his attempts. Jessica Lyons reported the finding for The Register on Friday. The work is by Johann Rehberger, who publishes as wunderwuzzi and has […]
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• Florida and Texas both moved against Flock cameras in a single week

  01-09-2026 17:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  Florida has ordered every automated licence plate reader off its state highways. Agencies have 30 days to take them down. Texas froze state funding for the same cameras four days earlier. Two states run by Republican governors moved against Flock Safety in the space of a week. Zack Whittaker reported both decisions for TechCrunch on […]
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• X said Chinese bots fuelled the data centre backlash. A researcher checked

  01-09-2026 17:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  X said it had found a Chinese bot farm pushing Americans to turn against AI data centres. A researcher who went looking for those accounts found that almost nobody had seen them. Darren Linvill, a researcher at Clemson University, identified at least 59 of those accounts with zero engagement. X probably suspended them before they […]
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• The US will ask the G20 not to build anything to govern AI

  01-09-2026 16:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  The United States will ask the G20 not to build any new institutions for governing artificial intelligence. A White House official set out the position before a two-day meeting that opened in North Carolina on Tuesday, Reuters reported. The argument is procedural rather than substantive, which is what makes it effective. Washington is not proposing rules […]
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• Dyson has built a toothbrush with a camera in it, for $499

  01-09-2026 16:19 via thenextweb.com
  
  Dyson has put a camera inside a toothbrush. The CameraJet went on sale Tuesday for $499, combining a 100,000-pixel macro camera in the brush head with a small jet that sprays mouthrinse between the teeth. The company says it has spent six years developing the product. The camera is there mainly to help the toothbrush […]
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• Fervo signs 396MW geothermal deal with Google for 2028 start

  01-09-2026 16:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  Alphabet has contracted up to 396MW of geothermal power from Fervo Energy for a prospective Utah data centre from 2028, with an option on another 600MW by 2030 that would take the order close to a gigawatt. The European Union had about 1GW of net geothermal electricity capacity in total in 2022, and geothermal supplied […]
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• UBS says China is unlikely to match ASML’s top tool this decade

  01-09-2026 15:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  UBS analysts say China’s lithography programme is at roughly the stage ASML reached in 2004 and will not produce a viable EUV alternative within a decade. They also expect China to reach high-volume manufacturing of immersion DUV machines in two to five years, which is the category the Dutch government controls through export licences. China […]
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• Micron’s Taiwan unions are heading for a strike vote over bonuses

  01-09-2026 15:32 via thenextweb.com
  
  Roughly 10,000 Micron workers in Taiwan are represented by two unions that are now preparing their members for a possible strike. About 80% of workers polled in a preliminary survey supported industrial action, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The dispute is about bonuses rather than base pay, and more specifically about how those bonuses are calculated. […]
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• Brazil is defining what a deepfake is, five weeks before it votes

  01-09-2026 15:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  Brazil votes on October 4, and its electoral court spent Tuesday working through a question that many regulators are still struggling to answer: what exactly counts as a deepfake? The Tribunal Superior Eleitoral was expected to rule on broader restrictions for AI-generated campaign material, Reuters reported. The proposed rules go beyond simply banning deceptive deepfakes. […]
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• The next cybersecurity battleground is inside the processor

  01-09-2026 14:48 via thenextweb.com
  
  Cybersecurity has a location problem. Attackers often exploit vulnerabilities in systems that businesses have spent years protecting with software, yet the processor at the center of those systems can remain largely unaware of anything that is wrong. Verizon’s 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report found vulnerability exploitation had become the leading initial access vector, accounting for […]
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• Texas has 474GW of data centre requests and no idea how many are real

  01-09-2026 14:25 via thenextweb.com
  
  Texas has 474 gigawatts of requests from data centre developers waiting to connect to its power grid, more than five times the state’s record peak demand. In 2023, the figure was just 48 gigawatts, and the difference clearly does not represent hundreds of gigawatts of new data centres that are actually going to be built. […]
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• A Chinese court has frozen Nexperia’s stakes in four of its own subsidiaries

  01-09-2026 13:43 via thenextweb.com
  
  A court in Dongguan has frozen Nexperia’s shareholdings in four of its Chinese subsidiaries, worth about 2.14 billion yuan, with the order remaining in place until August 2029. The order took effect in the last week of August, Reuters reported. The assets include Nexperia’s stakes in semiconductor operations in Wuxi and Shanghai, as well as […]
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• Trump Jr’s fund 1789 Capital leads a $1bn round valuing Polymarket at $21bn

  01-09-2026 12:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  Donald Trump Jr is a partner at the fund leading Polymarket’s new funding round. He is also a strategic adviser to Kalshi, Polymarket’s principal competitor. 1789 Capital is putting about $300m into a round of roughly $1bn that values Polymarket at $21bn, Forbes reported. Other investors in the round have not been named. The firm was already […]
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• Your next enterprise software feature won’t be shipped. It will be generated.

  01-09-2026 12:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  The enterprise feature backlog is where good user requests go to wait. That wait is about to get much shorter, not because product teams got faster, but because the missing feature can now be generated at request time and discarded thirty seconds later. A support team lead opens her helpdesk application and asks: “Show me […]
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• Meta removes fraud app ads in India, after being asked twice

  01-09-2026 11:27 via thenextweb.com
  
  Meta removed dozens of advertisements for apps that presented themselves as pornography but actually functioned as banking malware, after the Indian government issued an advisory. Reuters then found at least 39 more of the ads still running and reported on Monday that Meta removed those as well after being asked about them. The sequence is […]
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• Anthropic has resumed the tests in which its models attacked real companies

  01-09-2026 11:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Anthropic has restarted the external cybersecurity evaluations it suspended a month ago, after three incidents in which its own models escaped their test environments and attacked real companies. The company said it had introduced additional safeguards before resuming the testing, Reuters reported on Monday. The incidents, disclosed on July 31, were more specific than the […]
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• The FTC says Amazon charged advertisers the wrong price 80% of the time

  01-09-2026 10:37 via thenextweb.com
  
  Amazon runs a second-price auction for its search ads, a system in which the winning advertiser is supposed to pay one cent more than the next-highest bid. The Federal Trade Commission now alleges that Amazon charged advertisers their full winning bid roughly 80% of the time instead. The agency and 22 states sued Amazon on […]
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• An AI reads an ECG in two seconds and finds what cardiologists cannot

  01-09-2026 10:23 via thenextweb.com
  
  An ECG takes a few seconds to record and costs very little. Researchers at Imperial College London have trained an AI system that can read one in under two seconds and identify signs of heart failure and valve disease that clinicians cannot detect from the same trace. The results were presented at the European Society […]
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• OpenAI tells the court Apple’s trade-secret case is “a mess of Apple’s own making”

  01-09-2026 09:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI has told a federal court that Apple created the conditions it is now describing as theft. “This dispute is a mess of Apple’s own making, and it is trying to blame everyone else,” the company said in a filing lodged late Monday in the US District Court in San Jose, according to Reuters. The […]
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• Anthropic has signed a $35bn cloud deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda

  01-09-2026 09:33 via thenextweb.com
  
  Anthropic has committed $35bn to a cloud provider most people have never heard of, for capacity in a Texas data centre being built by a former bitcoin miner. The Wall Street Journal reported the Lambda agreement on Monday, and Reuters confirmed it with a person familiar with the matter. Neither company has announced it, and no term […]
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• The hardest problem in physical AI may be the magnet, not the model

  31-08-2026 23:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Actuators account for 40% to 60% of a humanoid robot’s bill of materials and China refines roughly 90% of the rare earth magnets inside them, which makes the components rather than the models the limit on scale. Europe has a 2030 cap on single country supply under the Critical Raw Materials Act, and one company, […]
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• TU Darmstadt found the people who know AI best fear it most

  31-08-2026 22:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  A representative TU Darmstadt survey of more than 2,000 people in Germany found that about 43% of those with very strong AI knowledge expect AI could soon take over their work, a higher share than among those who understand it less. Only 15% of respondents have had any AI training, eighteen months after the AI […]
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• A solar mobile clinic has successfully driven 800km across Kenya

  31-08-2026 22:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Solar Team Eindhoven drove its solar ambulance Stella Juva more than 800km across Kenya with Amref Health Africa, and found it generated more energy than it used while running an X-ray machine, ultrasound scanner and vaccine fridge at a clinic with no electricity. The vehicle is returning to the Netherlands and funding is the obstacle. […]
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• Windows 11 adds toggles to remove Bing results and Store suggestions from Search

  31-08-2026 21:30 via thenextweb.com
  
  Windows 11 is rolling out toggles that remove Bing web results and Microsoft Store suggestions from Search, in an optional August update that is being released gradually. Microsoft removed Bing from the Windows Search pane for users in the European Economic Area to meet the Digital Markets Act deadline of 6 March 2024. Windows 11 […]
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• Oslo doesn’t need fast chargers everywhere, and it proves it daily

  31-08-2026 21:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Oslo had 120,469 electric cars at the end of 2025, nearly half its passenger fleet, and about 78% of its 4,519 public charging points are slow AC units placed where people already park. The EU’s own right to plug sits in Article 14(8) of the recast buildings directive, with transposition due in May 2026. Nearly […]
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• ChatGPT Ads hits $1B annualised as the EU brings it under the Digital Services Act

  31-08-2026 19:52 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI says ChatGPT Ads has reached $1B in annualised revenue run rate in under 200 days and has opened self-service buying across Europe, India, the Middle East and North Africa. On the same day the European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act, on 159.1 million declared monthly […]
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• Apple’s Phil Schiller hands over App Store and Events to Eddy Cue

  31-08-2026 19:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  Phil Schiller has stepped down from running Apple’s App Store and its product events, Bloomberg reported, keeping his Apple Fellow title as responsibility moves to Eddy Cue’s services division with Carson Oliver running the store day to day. The change comes the day before John Ternus becomes chief executive, and thirteen days after Apple replaced […]
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