Month: March 2026
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Salesforce announces an AI-heavy makeover for Slack, with 30 new features
Salesforce, the cloud software giant, has been remaking its business around AI, and at a small gathering in San Francisco on Tuesday, CEO Marc Benioff and his team unveiled the latest results of those efforts: an updated version of Slack, with a plethora of new AI features. The most significant of these is a serious glow-up for its AI agent,…
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Claude Code leak exposes a Tamagotchi-style ‘pet’ and an always-on agent
After Anthropic released Claude Code’s 2.1.88 update, users quickly discovered that it contained a package with a source map file containing its TypeScript codebase, with one person on X calling attention to the leak and posting a file containing the code. The leaked data reportedly contains more than 512,000 lines of code and provides a look into the inner workings…
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Claude AI finds Vim, Emacs RCE bugs that trigger on file open
Vulnerabilities in the Vim and GNU Emacs text editors, discovered using simple prompts with the Claude assistant, allow remote code execution simply by opening a file. The assistant also created multiple versions of proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits, refined them, and provided suggestions to address the security issues. Vim and GNU Emacs are programmable text editors primarily used by developers and sysadmins…
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Robotaxi companies refuse to say how often their AVs need remote help
In February, Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) sent letters to seven U.S. companies working on autonomous vehicle technology with a list of questions. He especially wanted to know how often these companies’ vehicles — operated by Aurora, May Mobility, Motional, Nuro, Tesla, Waymo, and Zoox — rely on input from remote staff. They all refused to say, according to the results…
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25 years later, this app is still the best way to customize your Windows desktop
I’ve seen more friends than I can think of using programs like Wallpaper Engine to give their PC a bit of extra flair. But back in 2001, and subsequently since then, a little application called Rainmeter has been the customization king. If you’re hoping to make your PC look unlike anything else, this is the app that can make it…
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Samsung’s new app claims to alleviate motion sickness using sound
The app’s functionality is very straightforward. It plays a low 100Hz sine wave tone through a pair of connected headphones for 60 seconds. This is supposed to stimulate the vestibular system – the parts of the inner ear that are responsible for orientation and maintaining balance. The app allows the duration of the tone to be adjusted between 40 to…
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Cisco source code stolen in Trivy-linked dev environment breach
Cisco has suffered a cyberattack after threat actors used stolen credentials from the recent Trivy supply chain attack to breach its internal development environment and steal source code belonging to the company and its customers. A source, who asked to remain anonymous, told BleepingComputer that Cisco’s Unified Intelligence Center, CSIRT, and EOC teams contained the breach involving a malicious “GitHub Action…
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Meta was finally held accountable for harming teens. Now what?
Meta lost a lawsuit against the state of New Mexico last week, marking the first time that the company has been held liable by the court system for endangering child safety. This was a landmark decision on its own — but the next day, Meta lost another case when a jury in Los Angeles found that the company knowingly designed…
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I swap out these 3 Samsung apps for Google ones every time I set up a Galaxy
One UI is Samsung’s in-house version of Android, and using it can be a blessing and a curse. Compared to Pixel UI or the bare-bones Android Open Source Project builds, releases like One UI 8.5 include custom features and extra functionality. They also come with extra bloat, and Samsung is known for loading up One UI builds with unnecessary or…
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Planning a trip in your EV just got a lot easier with this Android Auto update
Summary Google is adding AI-powered EV route planning to Android Auto. Google Maps will estimate trip battery use, suggest charging stops, and update your ETA to account for charging time. The feature supports 350+ EV models with Android Auto across 15+ brands and is rolling out in the US now. Android Auto helps millions of drivers navigate every day, and…
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