Google Assistant Is Being Shut Down on September 4.
Ten years. Billions of devices. One email. Google just announced it’s over, and you can’t switch back.
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Why You Should Never Use Public Wi-Fi Without a VPN
Airport lounges. Hotel lobbies. Coffee shops. Co-working spaces. Public Wi-Fi is everywhere — and connecting to it feels completely normal. That’s exactly what makes it dangerous. Open Wi-Fi networks are one of the most common environments for data theft. The attacks aren’t sophisticated. They don’t require expensive tools or expert knowledge. And most people who…
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The EU AI Act Is Now Live: Chatbots Must Say They’re AI and Deepfakes Need Labels
Last Saturday, August 2, the European Union’s (EU) AI Act transparency rules officially came into force. From August 2, new transparency rules started to apply, requiring certain AI systems to tell users when they are interacting with AI and when content has been generated or altered by it. This is the world’s first binding AI…
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Palantir’s Revenue Nearly Doubles and It’s the Clearest Sign Yet That Enterprise AI Is Real
For years, the honest answer to “is enterprise AI actually making money?” was: not yet, not really, not at scale. Last week, Palantir made that answer much harder to give. The AI software company reported Q2 2026 results that stunned Wall Street. Revenue surged 93% year over year, fuelled by surging government spending on AI-enabled defence…
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Uber Is Spending $10 Billion to Build the World’s Largest Robotaxi Network
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi dropped a number this week that reframes everything about the company’s future. Uber is targeting a fleet of roughly 120,000 driverless vehicles (Robotaxi) and autonomous operations across at least 15 cities in 2026 — backed by $10 billion in investment across vehicles, infrastructure, and strategic partnerships. That’s not a pilot programme. That’s a full-scale transformation of the…
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Nigeria Crypto Regulation 2026: What Tinubu’s Executive Order Changes
For years, anyone trying to run a crypto business in Nigeria had to answer to two regulators that didn’t always agree with each other. The Central Bank of Nigeria worried about the naira and financial stability. The Securities and Exchange Commission worried about growing the market safely. Neither used the same definitions for what counted…
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AI-Powered Cyberattacks: Why 2026 Data Breaches Cost More Than Ever
A hacking group calling itself ExfilSquad didn’t need months of reconnaissance to pull off AI-Powered cyberattacks on one of the UK’s messiest breaches this year. In early August, it leaked the names, agencies, and work emails of more than 100,000 police staff and government contacts lifted from the Police National Legal Database. No ransom note,…
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AI Search Optimization: How to Stay Visible Now That Google Keeps the Clicks
For twenty years, ranking #1 on Google was the finish line. Get there, and the traffic followed. That deal is quietly falling apart. Google now answers most questions itself, right there in the search results, and increasingly people never click through to find out who actually wrote the answer. The numbers are blunt about it….
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ClickFix Malware Attack Hides in Your Browser Cache — Here’s How It Works
Picture this: you land on a login page for a tool you use every day, get hit with a “Verify you’re human” prompt, follow three simple steps to prove it — and you’ve just handed your PC over to a stranger in Eastern Europe. No download. No sketchy attachment. Just a copy-paste command your own…
