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Android 17 to close critical privacy gap that makes web browsing history visible to ISPs

US cities cancel Flock contracts at record pace in August

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Study: States with larger Black populations tend to have more Flock cameras

Hackers threaten to spill the secrets behind America’s food safety giant Neogen

Users reportedly uninstalling Google Maps over “evil” move

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CXMT fights Pentagon over “Chinese military company” label

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Android 17 to close critical privacy gap that makes web browsing history visible to ISPs

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Security

Hackers threaten to spill the secrets behind America’s food safety giant Neogen

AI agents read legitimate llms.txt files from trusted companies and proceed to install malware

Russia’s censorship machine now more ruthless than China’s, GrapheneOS says

New exploit tricks Claude Code into running malicious code despite Auto Mode

Study: States with larger Black populations tend to have more Flock cameras

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US cities cancel Flock contracts at record pace in August

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European nation considers tightening smart glasses rules, banning facial recognition

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Flock banned tech YouTuber from its event, so his team Flocked it

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New Chinese-made battery charges an electric vehicle in just 4 minutes

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Russian hackers unleashed Cursor AI agent to infiltrate nearly a dozen corporate networks

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