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Apple on Thursday shared how it’s making changes to comply with a Texas state law, SB 2420, which introduces age assurance requirements for app stores and app developers. Although Apple already rolled out its own age assurance technology and tools earlier this year in anticipation of a regulatory crackdown, the tech giant called out the Texas law over privacy concerns. In a developer announcement, Apple explains, “…we are concerned that SB2420 impacts the privacy of users by requiring the collection of sensitive, personally identifiable information to download any app, even if a user simply wants to check the weather or…

The Apple TV 4K is my favorite streaming box on the market, but that doesn’t mean it’s perfect for everybody. There are many drawbacks to know about before making the purchase, and while some of them are small, it’s still something you should know. There are quite a few things I didn’t know about the Apple TV 4K before I bought it, and I don’t want other people to be in the same boat. Keep in mind that a lot of these issues may not apply to you, especially if you own more Apple products than just the Apple TV…

Echelon, an artificial intelligence startup that automates enterprise software implementations, emerged from stealth mode today with $4.75 million in seed funding led by Bain Capital Ventures, targeting a fundamental shift in how companies deploy and maintain critical business systems.The San Francisco-based company has developed AI agents specifically trained to handle end-to-end ServiceNow implementations — complex enterprise software deployments that traditionally require months of work by offshore consulting teams and cost companies millions of dollars annually."The biggest barrier to digital transformation isn't technology — it's the time it takes to implement it," said Rahul Kayala, Echelon's founder and CEO, who previously…

Legit Security has detailed a vulnerability in the GitHub Copilot Chat AI assistant that led to sensitive data leakage and full control over Copilot’s responses. Combining a Content Security Policy (CSP) bypass with remote prompt injection, Legit Security’s Omer Mayraz was able to leak AWS keys and zero-day bugs from private repositories, and influence the responses Copilot provided to other users. Copilot Chat is designed to provide code explanations and suggestions, and allows users to hide content from the rendered Markdown, using HTML comments. A hidden comment would still trigger the usual pull request notification to the repository owner, but…

Photo by Kevin Winter/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Taylor Swift, the queen mother of never taking a stance on anything that doesn’t directly impact her, has reversed course on AI — and her biggest fans are repulsed by that hypocrisy.  In partnership with Google and as a part of promo for her twelfth studio album “The Life Of A Show Girl,” a multi-city scavenger hunt sent the pop star’s rabid fan base searching for orange doors with QR codes. Once scanned, clues were revealed; ultimately, it led to a lyric video for the song “The Fate of Ophelia.” The…

Motorola could launch a 6.3-inch smartphone, or ‘phablet,’ in the third quarter of 2014. The new super-sized Moto will apparently launch some time between July and September this year. This is the rumour being spread by a poster over on China’s Weibo forum, at least. While it might sound like a slightly tenuous source, the tipster has previously been right on the money with predictions concerning Motorola’s Moto X and Moto G smartphones. It’s also not the first time that rumours of a super-sized Motorola smartphone have circulated. Last year, it was claimed that Motorola was working on a 6.3-inch…

Many enterprises running PostgreSQL databases for their applications face the same expensive reality. When they need to analyze that operational data or feed it to AI models, they build ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) data pipelines to move it into analytical systems. Those pipelines require dedicated data engineering teams, break frequently and create delays measured in hours or days between when data is written to a database and when it becomes available for analytics.For companies with large numbers of PostgreSQL instances, this infrastructure tax is massive. More critically, it wasn't designed for a world where AI agents generate and deploy applications…

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. Rian Johnson, I owe you an apology. After trashing the first Knives Out movie and reluctantly warming up to Glass Onion (though that was mostly Kathryn Hahn’s doing), Wake Up Dead Man has knocked it out of the park, and might just be the best crime caper I’ve seen in the last few years.When I was 14, I was a huge fan of the legendary crime author Agatha Christie.…

AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. On Monday, Cloudflare published research saying it observed the AI startup ignore blocks and hide its crawling and scraping activities. The network infrastructure giant accused Perplexity of obscuring its identity when trying to scrape web pages “in an attempt to circumvent the website’s preferences,” Cloudflare’s researchers wrote. AI products like those offered by Perplexity rely on gobbling up large amounts of data from the internet, and AI startups have long scraped text, images, and…

Cybersecurity startup Realm.Security has announced raising $15 million in Series A funding, bringing the total raised by the company to $20 million. The investment round was led by Jump Capital, with additional support from seed investors Accomplice and Glasswing Ventures. Founded by industry veterans Jeff Kraemer, Peter Martin, and Sanket Choksey, the Boston, MA-based Realm emerged from stealth mode in September 2024 with an AI-powered platform that integrates and manages security information from various sources. The company’s Security Data Pipeline Platform (SDPP) embeds AI throughout the pipeline and applies real-time analysis and filtering to provide SOC teams with essential data…