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    Pixel Phones Are Getting a New Scam Detection Tool

    Pixel users will soon get an extra layer of protection against malicious calls and texts, as Google’s AI-powered, real-time scam detection is rolling out widely next month. The Gemini Nano feature, which is coming to both Google Messages and Phone by Google, runs in the background and will alert you mid-call if it identifies “conversation patterns commonly associated with scammers.”…

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    Google Gemini’s AI coding tool is now free for individual users

    A free version of Gemini Code Assist, Google’s enterprise-focused AI coding tool, is now available globally for solo developers. Google announced today that Gemini Code Assist for individuals is launching in public preview, aiming to make coding assistants “with the latest AI capabilities” more accessible for students, hobbyists, freelancers, and startups. “Now anyone can more conveniently learn, create code snippets,…

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    Duo vs Microsoft Authenticator: Which Tool Is Better?

    Two-factor authentication has emerged as a crucial security measure for organizations to enhance the security of their users. Duo and Microsoft Authenticator are two popular apps that provide this level of security. Duo uses push notifications, time-based, one-time passwords, physical tokens, and biometrics to verify the identity of users at login. Similarly, Microsoft Authenticator utilizes push notifications and one-time passcodes…

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    Apple Breaks Silence on UK Probe, Removes Data Protection Tool From UK Users

    In response to a U.K. government inquiry about access to data sequestered on Apple devices, Cupertino has removed access to the Advanced Data Protection encryption feature from U.K.-held devices. “We have never built a backdoor or master key to any of our products or services and we never will,” an anonymous Apple representative wrote in a statement emailed to TechRepublic.…

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    The ‘Stretch My Time Off’ Tool Helped Me Maximize My Annual PTO

    If you work a job with limited paid time off, you have to be strategic about using it, whether you want to have more short breaks throughout the year or have an extended trip planned that requires banking days and using them all at once. We’ve written before about how to maximize annual vacation days by stacking them up against…

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    Perplexity AI’s Deep Research Tool Is Almost as Good as OpenAI’s, and It’s Free

    After OpenAI, Perplexity AI is joining the “deep research” bandwagon. And it’s doing it in a fairly interesting way. Following in the footsteps of DeepSeek’s “reasoning” model, Perplexity is the first major AI provider that’s offering a Deep Research feature for free users, too. By comparison, OpenAI’s Deep Research feature is only available in the $200/month Pro subscription. Deep Research…

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    Best Battery Lawn Tool Brands

    And that’s for good reason. Our tests confirm that battery (or cordless) lawn tools often match or beat the performance of gas models. They also start instantly, run quietly, and have zero emissions at the source.  Emissions from gas-powered outdoor tools are often worse than those from cars, and as a group, gas tools tend to be much louder, so…

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    I Tested Nvidia’s AI Tool for Making Your Webcam Better, and Oof

    When Nvidia introduced the free Nvidia Broadcast app in 2020, it promised to use the AI capabilities of RTX GPUs to boost the video and sound quality of users’ recordings, presuming they had the right hardware. This could be useful when a laptop’s built-in webcam and microphones may not capture the best looking footage or the richest audio, and could…

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    Find Out How Bad Is Your Spotify with This Snarky AI Tool

    Everyone’s musical journey is unique, and that reflects on the songs we listen to and the playlists we create. That’s one reason we wait for the Spotify Wrapped to find out how we did this past year. But if you want to humble the narcissist within you, and find out that your obscure taste in music is pretty mainstream, or…

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    Solana Pump.fun tool DogWifTool compromised to drain wallets

    Hackers have compromised the Windows version of the DogWifTools software for promoting meme coins on the Solana blockchain in a supply-chain attack that drained users’ wallets. The developers claim that a malicious threat actor compromised the project’s private GitHub repository after reverse engineering the software to extract a GitHub token. The maintainers of the platform said on the official Discord channel…

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