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6.8M WhatsApp Accounts Shut Down in Meta’s Fight Against Scam Networks

Scam groups use fake investments, crypto fraud, and social media manipulation to deceive victims across platforms like WhatsApp, Telegram, and TikTok.

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GPT-5 Brings Multimodal and Context-Aware AI to Developers and Businesses

OpenAI released the advanced reasoning model to developers and most users today. Enterprise and Edu account holders can use it next week.

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Apple Announces Another $100 Billion Investment in the US, Warding off Tariffs

Apple commits an additional $100 billion to US manufacturing, raising its total to $600 billion over four years in a bid to ease tariffs and boost local production.

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Internxt Is Offering 50TB of Private Cloud Storage for a One-Time Fee

Secure 50TB of Internxt’s zero-knowledge encrypted cloud storage — it’s yours for life, no subscription required.

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This Beginner Bundle Teaches You to Build Android Apps from Scratch

These seven courses walk you through the first line of code all the way to publishing on the Google Play Store.

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Project Ire: Microsoft Tests AI That Autonomously Detects Malware

Project Ire is Microsoft’s autonomous AI that reverse engineers software to detect malware without prior knowledge or human intervention.

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Simple Prompting Hack for OpenAI’s New Open-Weight Models

TechnologyAdvice’s Grant Harvey shares a “dead-simple prompting hack” for OpenAI’s gpt-oss models, as well as several related developer guides.

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Black Hat 2025: Security Researcher Unpacks Cybercrime’s Evolution… and How AI Is Changing the Game

From prank viruses to profit-driven cybercrime, Mikko Hypponen explains how today’s malware is targeted, professional, and all about money.

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NVIDIA Takes Firm Stance Against Kill Switches & Backdoors in AI Chips

The statement comes as both US and Chinese authorities probe the lucrative global AI chip business, which NVIDIA dominates.

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Claude Opus 4.1: Anthropic Delivers Better Coding, Debugging, Analytics Abilities

Claude Opus 4.1 scores 74.5% on the SWE-bench Verified benchmark, indicating major improvements in real-world programming, bug detection, and agent-like problem solving.

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