While Home Assistant has made a huge impact on my smart home, I don’t run many automations. For me, it’s partly because I use it to rid my phone of other apps, both to save space and so that I only need one place to run my devices. I’ve also found that most of the automations I’ve used have taken more time to adjust and manage than to do the thing in the first place, which seems a bit of a waste. But there is one automation that’s stuck, no matter what season, or what other devices I bring into…
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French prosecutors have raided X’s offices in Paris on Tuesday as part of a criminal investigation into the platform’s Grok AI tool, widely used to generate sexually explicit images. The investigation was opened in January 2025 and expanded after complaints about Grok generating illegal content and X being used to share sexual deepfakes and Holocaust-denial content. The search was conducted by officers of the National Gendarmerie’s cybercrime unit, with assistance from Europol officials. The Paris prosecutor’s office also announced today that it summoned Elon Musk and X CEO Linda Yaccarino for voluntary interviews on April 20 in connection with the…
The way consumers search for answers online has changed over the years. Instead of typing a keyword or query into search engines like Google, people are typing their questions directly into engines like ChatGPT to get direct, no-frills answers. So, instead of optimizing for SEO, marketers need to know how to structure a page for AEO (Answer Engine Optimization). Like many marketers, I found learning to optimize content for AEO challenging. Fortunately, you don‘t have to struggle like I did, because I’ve crafted this guide on structuring your content for AEO. Keep reading for a walkthrough of page structure, key…
For most people, a phone is just that — a phone. It’s a tool to make calls, stay connected through texts and social media, maybe be a little productive, or a way to kill time through streaming or games. But for all those relatively straightforward uses, modern phones have a plethora of sensors hidden right under the hood. These sensors are fully capable of reading the world around you. They are used in apps for smoother interactions, but after you give them a deeper look, you realize that they can be used for several other purposes. I knew some of…
Data allegedly pertaining to over 5 million Panera Bread customers has emerged online after hackers failed to extort the US bakery-cafe chain. The ShinyHunters extortion group has claimed the theft of roughly 14 million records from Panera Bread, after compromising a Microsoft Entra single-sign-on (SSO) code. The attack falls in line with recent ShinyHunters attacks that rely on voice phishing (vishing) and SSO authentication to access victim organizations’ cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) environments. Last week, ShinyHunters published on its Tor-based leak site a 760GB archive allegedly containing the sensitive information stolen from Panera Bread. According to the data breach notification site…
Ads are now being tested in ChatGPT in the U.S., appearing for some users across different account types. For the first time, advertising is entering an AI answer environment – and that changes the rules for marketers. We’ve used AI as part of ad creation or planning for years across Google, LinkedIn, and paid social. But placing ads inside an AI system that people trust to help them think, decide, and act is fundamentally different. This is not just another channel to plug into an existing media plan. The biggest question is not targeting. It’s psychology. If advertisers simply replicate…
Ryan Haines / Android AuthorityTL;DR A leaker has revealed apparent Nothing Phone 4a series launch plans. The Nothing Phone 4a and 4a Pro are tipped to launch in early March, with a tentative date of March 5. The Pro model in particular is expected to have a Snapdragon 7-series processor, an IP65 rating, and a slightly larger battery. The Nothing Phone 3a and 3a Pro were two of the best mid-range Android phones of last year, bringing flexible cameras, standout designs, and the Essential Space feature. The firm has already revealed that the Nothing Phone 4a series is coming later…
Your social media feed is probably showing you something totally different, but this week in young-people-land, Humanity is locked in a high-stakes dance battle with artificial intelligence, food is yelling at everyone, and we’re learning a lot about “young hos.” Viral video of the week: human vs. AI baby dancingThis week’s viral video is more of a viral video trend, and it involves a battle of dancing babies. It starts with the post below, from @mindalchemy0236, which I apologize for in advance. An ad for the “Baby Dance” app, this video has been viewed over 100 million times. It became…
Ravie LakshmananFeb 03, 2026Vulnerability / Malware The Russia-linked state-sponsored threat actor known as APT28 (aka UAC-0001) has been attributed to attacks exploiting a newly disclosed security flaw in Microsoft Office as part of a campaign codenamed Operation Neusploit. Zscaler ThreatLabz said it observed the hacking group weaponizing the shortcoming on January 29, 2026, in attacks targeting users in Ukraine, Slovakia, and Romania, three days after Microsoft publicly disclosed the existence of the bug. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-21509 (CVSS score: 7.8), a security feature bypass in Microsoft Office that could allow an unauthorized attacker to send a specially crafted…
Google added new documentation to Search Central covering their Preferred Sources program that helps news websites get into the Top Stories feature. The documentation explains what publishers can do to make it more likely to be ranked in Top Stories and get more traffic. Top Stories Given that Top Stories is about breaking news, freshness may be a factor for ranking.Top Stories surfaces local news as well as breaking news. Schema structured data is not necessary to rank in Top Stories but adding Schema.org Article structured data helps Google better understand what the page is about. While the Top Stories…