Cloud storage is great until your vendor goes out of business
Fonte: Engadget | Publicado em: 13/08/2026 às 19:04A St. Louis PBS station is suing a data center provider to rescue a 70-year archive.
Ler artigo completo »Flock says its new tool will help identify police abuse, but hasn’t explained how it works
Fonte: TechCrunch | Publicado em: 13/08/2026 às 19:02The surveillance company announced it's making a tool called "Audit Assistance" mandatory for all customers, claiming it's already helped catch abuse. But the company has yet to explain how the tool works in detail, raising questions about its effectiveness.
Ler artigo completo »‘That is not acceptable’: Judge orders Google to make rival app store installs easier
Fonte: The Verge | Publicado em: 13/08/2026 às 18:53One month after Epic Games and Google seemingly stopped fighting over the future of Android app distribution, they were back in a San Francisco courtroom today - where Judge James Donato just ordered Google to make it easier to install rival app stores on Android. It's been nearl…
Ler artigo completo »If Apple sends you a push notification alerting you to a spyware attack, take it seriously
Fonte: TechCrunch | Publicado em: 13/08/2026 às 18:50Apple now sends out push notifications to iPhone lock screens when the company identifies government spyware targeting someone's devices.
Ler artigo completo »The fight over Flock and other ALPRs
Fonte: The Verge | Publicado em: 13/08/2026 às 18:46There are over 120,000 of Flock’s automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras installed all over the US. Flock’s cameras, and others like them, use AI to identify and track vehicles based on their license plate number, make, model, color, and other info, networked together to t…
Ler artigo completo »Microsoft’s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot
Fonte: The Verge | Publicado em: 13/08/2026 às 18:42Microsoft Copilot will no longer show its emotive yellow blob, Mico, when you use the chatbot's voice mode. In a support page, Microsoft says it's going to move Mico to its Learn Live platform, where the avatar will have "more to react to," as reported earlier by GeekWire. Mico l…
Ler artigo completo »Netflix shuts down Oxenfree studio Night School weeks after praising its 'really solid numbers'
Fonte: Engadget | Publicado em: 13/08/2026 às 18:24Execs praised Night School's latest game, Unhinged, before pulling the rug.
Ler artigo completo »Review: SuperDuper! 4 gets a stem-to-stern revamp, but is just as seaworthy as ever
Fonte: Six Colors | Publicado em: 13/08/2026 às 18:20Backups, as any computer user knows, are worth their weight in gold. If it isn’t backed up, it might as well might not exist. That’s why I have for years trusted ShirtPocket’s SuperDuper!…
Ler artigo completo »Writer introduces new AI model and upgraded harness to contain token costs
Fonte: TechCrunch | Publicado em: 13/08/2026 às 18:13Built as a post-training variation on Z.ai's open source model GLM-5.2, Writer says the new system should provide deployment-ready capabilities at a much lower price.
Ler artigo completo »X is testing a tool that will let users see if their posts have been 'shadowbanned'
Fonte: Engadget | Publicado em: 13/08/2026 às 18:10The feature is rolling out as the company open-sources more of its ranking algorithm.
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