OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic back one AI-training opt-out
Four AI companies say they will honour a shared robots.txt signal that lets a website refuse AI training in a single step. Only Anthropic has it live so far.
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Oppo confirms Reno17 series for China next month
Oppo says the Reno17 phones arrive in China in November, joined by the Watch 5 and Pad Air 6. Pre-reservations are open, but no…
AdFection: apps that showed the ads, and the phone-number trick
Citizen Lab's AdFection report names the apps that showed spyware-linked ads and lists where users and servers connected from, India and Singapore included.
RTX 5080 reportedly pulled from Nvidia’s store as prices climb
The RTX 5080 has vanished from Nvidia's GeForce store and retail prices top $1,800, amid reports a 24GB replacement could arrive in December.
Android ‘SMS of Death’ bug can crash calls; fix is rolling out
A researcher has published a text-message exploit that crashes Android's calling service, but Google already has a fix in its security updates.
Fake Claude Code extension in Cursor’s store planted SSH backdoor
A tampered Claude Code extension sat in Cursor's marketplace for about 11 hours, tried to install an SSH backdoor and reached up to 5,000…
Smartphone shipments fall 20% in Q3 to lowest since 2013
Omdia says 254.7 million phones shipped worldwide in the third quarter, with Xiaomi, Oppo and vivo hit hardest as prices climb.
Samsung W27 foldable launches in China from CNY 18,999
Samsung's W27 is a China-only luxury foldable with 16GB RAM, a 200MP camera, satellite calling and two storage options priced from CNY 18,999.
OLED iPad mini scores 3,879 single-core in Geekbench 7
A Geekbench 7 listing for the OLED iPad mini shows 3,879 single-core and 9,870 multi-core points, with 12GB of RAM and a five-core A20…
