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Edgar Cervantes / Android AuthorityTL;DR Google Photos is working on a new set of categories for collage templates. These categories may ultimately arrive alongside in-development border editing tools. There’s also signs of a new “Soba” AI-powered video feature. Are you really taking full advantage of everything Google Photos can do? Besides just being a convenient way to view all our pictures, or perform some basic edits, Photos is packed with some great tools you may not even know about. Today we’re taking a look at an upcoming change to one of those, plus a mysterious new tool we’re only just…
The ShinyHunters extortion group has published over 230 gigabytes of data allegedly stolen from dental benefits administrator DentaQuest. The threat actor listed DentaQuest on its Tor-based leak site last month, claiming negotiations with the company failed, and leaking a 234 GB archive containing allegedly stolen data. DentaQuest data breach According to data breach notification website HaveIBeenPwned, which added the information to its database, the leak impacts roughly 2.6 million accounts. The dataset includes names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, government-issued IDs, and health insurance information. This week, DentaQuest confirmed falling victim to a cyberattack, saying it was…
Anthropic has introduced Claude Opus 4.8. It builds on Opus 4.7 with improvements across benchmarks, and is a more effective collaborator. It’s available today for the same price. Opus 4.8 launches alongside several new features. Users on claude.ai now have control over the amount of effort Claude puts into a task. Claude Code has a new “dynamic workflows” feature that allows it to tackle very large-scale problems. And fast mode for Opus 4.8—where the model can work at 2.5× the speed—is now three times cheaper than it was for previous models. Screenshot Early testers have found Claude Opus 4.8 to…
Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. Dyson HushJet Mini Cool: reviewDyson’s engineers are experts in airflow — whether in vacuum cleaners, fans, or hair dryers — and the HushJet Mini Cool puts that power right in your hand. It’s a portable cooling fan that you can hold, wear around your neck, attach to clothing or a bag strap (if you buy one of the optional clip accessories) or stand upright on your desk — and…
The first weekend in June is finally here and if you’re a fan of the Vampire Chronicles, that means you’ll probably be spending your Sunday with the one and only Lestat during the premiere of The Vampire Lestat, the newly-retitled third season of AMC’s hugely-successful Interview with the Vampire adaptation. This new season adapts Anne Rice’s second book (of the same name) and debuts June 7 at 7PM on AMC and on AMC+. Currently, there is no time set for the AMC+ premiere, but if history is any indication, streamers will be able to watch this new series first as…
Including npm packages in software development projects saves time but can introduce unseen but known vulnerabilities. CVE Lite CLI is a lightweight command line security scanner that operates on lockfiles during software development. It focuses on JavaScript and Typescript files and is an OSV-powered dependency scanner supporting npm, pnpm and Yarn. It is an open source tool developed by Sonu Kapoor, now community supported and recently adopted as an OWASP Incubator Project. Kapoor has been a software developer for 25 years and has experienced and understands all the frustrations and delays in the secure software development process. It is these…
NASA has completed the investigation into the damage sustained last year at its 70-meter radio-frequency antenna, known as the Deep Space Station 14 (DSS-14), at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California. The agency has classified the event as a Type A mishap based on the total cost of damages. The antenna will remain offline to complete repairs and previously scheduled upgrades. “NASA takes safety and any departure from established procedures seriously, and the investigation at Goldstone made clear that we must strengthen our processes. We are acting on the investigation’s findings,” said Joel Montalbano, acting associate administrator…
Google looks like it’s experimenting with a small but potentially useful change to Chrome that could make searching the web feel much faster. The feature, spotted in Chrome Canary (Google’s early testing version), is a floating search bar. It can be summoned anywhere on your desktop using a keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + Shift + Space on Windows and Linux, or Cmd + Shift + Space on macOS. Instead of launching a full browser window, the shortcut brings up a compact search panel in the middle of the screen, much like Spotlight on macOS or Microsoft’s PowerToys Run on Windows. This will…
You can use Excel for years without ever noticing the # symbol, let alone understanding what it does. That changes when you inherit a workbook, spot a formula with a cell reference ending in #, and assume it’s a mistake. It feels natural to delete it, but that’s usually when things start to break. At first glance, the symbol doesn’t look like much, but in modern Excel, it’s quite important. I use it to reference entire spill ranges from Excel’s dynamic array functions, and it has made working with formulas far more flexible and far less error-prone. Related If You’ve…
Researchers analyzed antigens from a family of viruses to create a “super-antigen”The new development method could help quickly create safe new vaccines for pandemicsAI vaccines could be developed to combat Ebola, seasonal flu viruses, and bird fluIn a world-first, researchers at the University of Cambridge have used artificial intelligence to develop a new vaccine.By using genetic code gathered from global virus surveillance programs, the researchers have pieced together a “super-antigen” using AI, capable of defending the human body from an entire family of pathogens – even if they mutate.The vaccine has already undergone a human trial targeting coronaviruses, and the…