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How to Hide Google’s AI Overviews From Your Search Results
2+ hour, 20+ min ago (334+ words) People find Search more helpful with AI Overviews, and they're coming back to search more as a result," a Google spokesperson tells WIRED. We offer a "web" filter to see links only, but people only use it for a tiny…...
Gmail Is Killing POP and Gmailify Access. Here’s What It Means for You
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (711+ words) Google giveth, and Google taketh away. Two long-standing features are being removed from Gmail, and they both relate to how you access messages from other, non-Google email accounts through the Gmail interface. The features we're talking about are Gmailify and…...
A $10K Bounty Awaits Anyone Who Can Hack Ring Cameras to Stop Sharing Data With Amazon
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (584+ words) Usually, when you see a feel-good story about finding a lost dog, you don't immediately react with fear and revulsion. But that was indeed the case in response to a Super Bowl commercial from Amazon-owned security camera company Ring. There's…...
Google’s Pixel 10a Looks Pretty Familiar
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (515+ words) Smartphones don't change dramatically year after year, and that's never been truer than with the Pixel 10a. Breaking tradition with its prior A-series phones, Google's new midrange handset is nearly identical to last year's Pixel 9a, even sharing the same Tensor G4 chipset…...
Google’s AI Overviews Can Scam You. Here’s How to Stay Safe
1+ week, 6+ hour ago (825+ words) These days, rather than showing you the traditional list of links when you run a search query, Google is intent on throwing up AI Overviews instead: synthesized summaries of information scraped off the web, with some word-prediction magic added, and…...
Inside the New York City Date Night for AI Lovers
1+ week, 2+ day ago (247+ words) If you're the type of person who cares about Valentine's Day, not having someone to spend it with can be a bummer. While dating apps have been yielding diminishing returns for singles for years now, more people are finding companionship…...
A Wave of Unexplained Bot Traffic Is Sweeping the Web
1+ week, 2+ day ago (53+ words) There aren't any comments yet. Be the first to start the conversation! You need an account to add or like comments. The math on AI agents doesn't add up Big Story: We are witnessing the self-immolation of a superpower Apple…...
Samsung’s Budget Galaxy A17 Phone Is Crippled by Frustrating Performance
1+ week, 5+ day ago (445+ words) Yes, it's $200, so expectations shouldn't be high, but I didn't have as frustrating an experience with the same-priced Motorola Moto G (2026) I tested a month prior, and I'd argue you're better off waiting for a $300 phone to go on sale…...
New York Is the Latest State to Consider a Data Center Pause
2+ week, 1+ day ago (316+ words) Data center moratoriums are "being tested as a model throughout states in this country," said state senator Liz Krueger, a Democrat, who presented the bill at a press conference Friday with its cosponsor, assembly member Anna Kelles, also a Democrat....
NordProtect Makes ID Theft Protection a Little Easier—if You Trust That It Works
2+ week, 2+ day ago (364+ words) Protecting your online privacy is an impossible task. Even if you use common sense and take protective steps to help safeguard your accounts and data (like using two-factor authentication and a VPN), the rampant spread of third-party data leaks makes…...