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Canada wants to stop companies from using your data to charge you more, but the details are still missing

The Canadian government introduced legislation on Monday to overhaul the country’s private-sector privacy laws, including new restrictions on businesses that use personal data to charge individual consumers higher prices. Bill C-36, the Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act, would replace the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, a law first enacted in 1998 that […]

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IMEC built a chip platform that works up to 325GHz, and it could make 6G hardware cheap enough to actually deploy

IMEC, the Belgian semiconductor research institute that partners with more than 600 chip industry players, has expanded its 300mm RF silicon interposer platform with three new manufacturing capabilities that bring 6G chip production closer to commercial viability. The platform achieves record-low signal loss at frequencies up to 325GHz, covering the millimetre-wave and sub-terahertz bands that […]

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Asian tech stocks surged after the Iran-US deal, and AI chipmakers gained the most

Asian technology stocks surged on Monday after the United States and Iran announced a peace agreement, with AI and semiconductor companies posting the largest gains. SoftBank rose 10 per cent, SK Hynix climbed 6.42 per cent, and Samsung Electronics gained 4.5 per cent. Japan’s Nikkei 225 topped 69,000 for the first time in history. The […]

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The Pentagon’s AI platform went from 80,000 users to 1.5 million in six months

The Pentagon’s generative AI platform, GenAI.mil, now has 1.5 million daily users across the Department of Defense, according to the department’s chief technology officer. The figure represents nearly half of the DoD’s 3.5 million workforce. Six months ago, the platform had fewer than 100,000 users. Emil Michael, the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, […]

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Musk’s trade secret case against OpenAI is dead, and this time it’s permanent

A federal judge has permanently killed xAI’s lawsuit accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets related to the Grok chatbot. US District Judge Rita Lin dismissed the case with prejudice on Monday, meaning xAI cannot bring the same claims again. Lin said xAI failed to show that OpenAI induced former xAI senior engineer Xuechen Li to divulge confidential […]

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Anthropic heads to Washington for crisis talks as Fable 5 ban spirals into the ugliest AI policy fight in US history

Anthropic’s senior technical staff will sit down with Commerce Department officials in Washington on Monday in a bid to resolve the escalating crisis over its suspended Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. The meeting, confirmed by Reuters and Bloomberg, comes after a week in which the dispute has metastasised from a narrow cybersecurity concern into a […]

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Facebook now has an AI search engine that pulls answers from your Group posts and Reels

Meta has launched AI Mode on Facebook, a new search experience that uses Meta AI to pull answers from public posts across the platform. The feature surfaces information from Facebook Groups, Reels, and Marketplace listings, turning years of user-generated content into a searchable knowledge base. It is rolling out now to users in the United […]

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100 cybersecurity experts say banning Fable 5 hurts defenders more than hackers

Three days after the US government ordered Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5, roughly 100 of the world’s most prominent cybersecurity professionals have published an open letter demanding the ban be reversed. Their argument is blunt: pulling the best AI tools from defenders while adversaries keep building is not safety, it is sabotage. […]

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YouTube’s AI slop purge is punishing the human creators who never showed their faces

YouTube has a growing AI slop problem, and its efforts to fix it are catching legitimate creators in the crossfire. In January 2026, the platform terminated 16 channels with a combined 35 million subscribers and 4.7 billion lifetime views under its inauthentic content policy, a quiet rename of the old “repetitious content” rules. The channels […]

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A single click on a Microsoft link could have drained your inbox. Here’s how SearchLeak worked.

Security researchers at Varonis Threat Labs have disclosed a vulnerability chain in Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise Search that could have let an attacker steal emails, calendar entries, and indexed files with a single click. The attack, which Varonis calls SearchLeak, worked through a crafted URL on a legitimate microsoft.com domain, meaning traditional anti-phishing and URL […]

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