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Paul Jones / Android AuthorityTL;DR A leaked One UI 9 build shows the Galaxy S25 Ultra testing a tool that brightens backlit subjects without blowing out the background. The feature, Virtual Reflector, debuted on the Galaxy S26 Ultra and simulates a physical photography reflector in software. Samsung hasn’t confirmed a One UI 9 beta for the S25 series yet, so the feature could still be changed or dropped before release. Samsung appears to be preparing more than a routine software update for the Galaxy S25 series. Recent One UI 9 internal builds have already revealed camera features such as Horizontal…

Anthropic is broadening access to the cybersecurity capabilities of its advanced AI models through a mix of partner integrations, an updated Claude Security offering, a new open source funding program, and plans to expand its Cyber Verification Program. The move builds on Project Glasswing, launched in April, which gave a small group of organizations early access to Claude Mythos Preview and its successor, Mythos 5. Anthropic said the goal was to give defenders time to find and fix vulnerabilities before comparable capabilities became widely available or fell into the hands of malicious actors. Claude Fable 5 followed as a broadly…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Derek Chadwick, the cofounder of the new gay dating app Goose, has suddenly quit the company after the platform was exposed for tricking men into signing up using fake, AI generated influencers, the magazine Out reports. Chadwick, who is also a model and influencer with millions of followers, made the cryptic announcement on Tuesday in an Instagram post. “Some personal news. As of last week, I’ve stepped away from Goose,” Chadwick wrote. “This was not a decision I made lightly. Building something for…

Key Features Review Price: £549 1-inch sensor The vertical 20MP 1-inch sensor captures 3:4 images by default. Analogue-inspired shooting Comes with 10+ Film Simulation modes, diptychs and a dedicated Film Roll mode. Lightweight retro design 240g with a pocketable body and quirky controls. Introduction The Fujifilm X Half is one of those cameras that looks like it should be a niche oddity – and, in a way, it is. But it’s also the kind of camera that leans so fully into its own concept that it starts to make a lot of sense, especially if you’re after something more playful…

Many tech executives seem to be slow to react to faults that everyone else can see. Microsoft’s C-suite, for instance, took far too long to dial back its aggressive use of Copilot in every aspect of Windows 11, and arguably, it’s still not doing enough. As for Amazon, it was only earlier this year that the company began rolling out an overhaul of Fire OS — despite performance problems being a complaint for years, including by yours truly. Whether or not your Fire TV device already has that revamp, there are some issues that may call for the nuclear option:…

Key points in rapid AI progress, A secretive “ox alpha” model (widely suspected to be the latest Chinese GLM open-source model) shows strong coding gains (~80% on a tough benchmark vs. the 60s for Claude/GPT-style models). Nvidia + a new “harness” hit a perfect 100% on ARC-AGI-3. Intelligence-density progress Chinese Qwen-style 27B models already match much larger (near-2T-parameter) models on some scores—nearly 1000× fewer parameters. This matches Elon’s “100×” prediction on AI densification. there are paths to potentially another 100× by shrinking to ~1B or hundreds-of-millions parameters while retaining capability. Practical benefits of smaller models are lower memory/energy/cost, faster inference,…

Imagine you visit a dumpling shop to indulge in a plate of piping-hot savory goodness. And as you queue up, you are given access to compute tokens for AI interactions and to an agentic system that recommends delicacies and helps visitors explore the menu in an interactive fashion. That’s exactly what a viral dumpling shop in China’s national capital is serving.  The unexpected pairing of AI agents with dumplings is not surprising, at least for the Chinese market.   It’s not just the corporate race, where companies are offering frontier AI models at a fraction of the cost compared to American…

I’ve probably opened thousands of ZIP files without thinking much about the format itself. Double-click, extract, move on. Then I learned that if you peel away the friendly folder icon and look at an ordinary ZIP archive in a hex editor, there’s a tiny calling card buried in the machinery: 50 4B. In ASCII, those bytes read PK, the same initials as Phil Katz, the programmer behind PKZIP and one of the people who created the ZIP format. They’ve been riding around inside our archives since 1989, and they’re still showing up in files that don’t even end in .zip.…

China is moving its AI data centers into poor rural provincesGuizhou offers cooler weather, cheap land, and abundant renewable powerNew data centers must draw 80% of power from renewablesChina is significantly expanding its data center capacity as artificial intelligence processing drives an unprecedented demand for computing power nationwide.Much of this new infrastructure is being built away from the crowded eastern seaboard and placed in rural western provinces.In 2021, the Chinese government formally named this approach the Eastern Data Western Computing strategy, marking a clear national policy shift.Latest Videos FromTechRadarWhy the rural west has the advantageProvinces such as Guizhou and Inner…

The US cybersecurity agency CISA on Thursday warned federal agencies that threat actors have been exploiting two vulnerabilities in TrueConf. A secure on-premises video conferencing platform, TrueConf relies on Scalable Video Coding (SVC) to connect client applications through a dedicated corporate server. All TrueConf Server versions since 2022 contain two critical-severity bugs tracked as CVE-2026-72529 and CVE-2026-72530 that allow attackers to execute arbitrary code. The two vulnerabilities can be exploited by remote attackers with access to the TrueConf server via port 4307/TCP. CVE-2026-72529 allows the attacker to call an undocumented function and execute arbitrary scripts, while CVE-2026-72530 enables them to…