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Cloudflare Radar’s bot map puts automated traffic at roughly a third of the web, while Thales says bots hit 53% in 2025. Here is why the numbers differ, what AI crawlers are changing, and how close we really are to a ‘dead internet.’
Apple added the 2017 12-inch MacBook, the sixth-generation iPad and BeatsX to its obsolete list on October 14. Apple Stores will no longer repair them, but MacBook owners still have a battery-only lifeline.
An overnight Starshield speed cap grounded Ukrainian interceptor drones. Musk says the US military and ultimately the president set the limits, Zelensky says people will die, and Poland’s foreign minister accuses Musk of playing politics.
At its first Config event in India, Figma launched Specs, a Markdown editor for design rules, opened code layers in public beta and added 20+ MCP tools. Here is what changes for teams working with AI agents.
YouTube Music is labeling AI-assisted songs while Deezer prepares a toggle that hides them. Here is how every major streaming service now treats AI music, and what listeners can actually control.
Katie Zacharia started as White House press secretary on October 12. The same day, CNN’s KFile published a review of her social media history, including posts she had deleted years ago. Here is what was found, how deleted posts get recovered and how her first briefing went.
A wave of breaches at Times Car, Lawson, JR East, Skyticket and a SoftBank cloud provider has pushed a senior Japanese lawmaker to warn of a “state of emergency in cyberspace.” Regulators now want banks to stop accepting photos of ID cards. Here is what happened and how much of it is really AI.
Federal prosecutors say OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan hid a recording device behind a TV in an executive conference room and used chatbot prompts to build and hide it. Here is the timeline, the charge, what he could face and what is still unknown.
Apple’s new Apple TV 4K costs $299 and its big selling point is Siri AI. But Apple’s own press release confirms the 2021 and 2022 Apple TV 4K models get Siri AI too, in beta with tvOS 27.2. Here is which boxes qualify, what older models miss and whether upgrading makes sense.
Google Play now lets Android users build apps with AI Studio and run them privately, without publishing to the Play Store. Here is how it works, who gets it first and what is coming.