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A little-known phone surveillance operation called Spyzie has compromised more than half a million Android devices and thousands of iPhones and iPads, according to data shared by a security researcher. Most of the affected device owners, who are unknown, are likely unaware that their phone data has been compromised. The security researcher told TechCrunch that … Read more
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Amazon’s first quantum computing chip makes its debut The news: Amazon Web Services has announced Ocelot, its first-generation quantum computing chip. While the chip has only rudimentary computing capability, the company says it … Read more
TL;DR Roku is currently offering a special discount on its most premium streaming box. The 40% off Roku Ultra 2024 promo is only available to select customers. You should check your Roku account and your email to see if you’re one of the lucky few eligible for the discount. Roku recently announced a big sale … Read more
The researchers observed this “emergent misalignment” phenomenon most prominently in GPT-4o and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct models, though it appeared across multiple model families. The paper, “Emergent Misalignment: Narrow fine-tuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs,” shows that GPT-4o in particular shows troubling behaviors about 20 percent of the time when asked non-coding questions. What makes the experiment notable … Read more
The current balance in the LOCCS system, according to a record reviewed by WIRED, is over $100 billion—money Congress has approved for HUD projects but which has yet to be drawn down. Much of this money has been earmarked to cover disaster assistance and community development work, a source at the agency says. Normally, those … Read more
Summary The Pixel Watch 3 now includes Loss of Pulse Detection in the US, a feature that can flag serious health emergencies. The feature uses AI, sensors, and biosensors to track pulse in real-time. If no pulse is detected, the watch triggers alarms, a countdown, and auto-calls emergency services with your location. Google upped the … Read more
We’re less than a week away from MWC 2025 and there’s plenty we expect to see at the annual trade show. For the uninitiated, MWC, or Mobile World Congress, is an annual gathering of all the biggest companies in the mobile tech world. It’s here where they show off their latest devices, software, and everything … Read more
The MLS fever is here and it’s evident among T-Mobile fans. A new season for the Major League Soccer is about to begin on February 23, Sunday. And with this, T-Mobile has something lined up for its T-Mobile and Metro by T-Mobile customers. In its newsroom, the Un-carrier revealed … Read more
Anthropic’s newest flagship AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, cost “a few tens of millions of dollars” to train using less than 10^26 FLOPs of computing power. That’s according to Wharton professor Ethan Mollick, who in an X post on Monday relayed a clarification he’d received from Anthropic’s PR. “I was contacted by Anthropic who told me … Read more
Thankfully, the difference between humans and machines in the real world is easy to discern, at least for now. While machines tend to excel at things adults find difficult—playing world-champion-level chess, say, or multiplying really big numbers—they find it hard to accomplish stuff a five-year-old can do with ease, such as catching a ball or … Read more