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X is training Grok AI on your data—here’s how to stop it
Enlarge / An AI-generated image released by xAI during the open-weights launch of Grok-1. Elon Musk-led social media platform X is training Grok, its AI chatbot, on users’ data, and that’s opt-out, not opt-in. If you’re an X user, that means Grok is already being trained on your posts if you haven’t explicitly told it…

Logitech has an idea for a “forever mouse” that requires a subscription
Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber recently discussed the possibility of one day selling a mouse that customers can use “forever.” The executive said such a mouse isn’t “necessarily super far away” and will rely on software updates, likely delivered through a subscription model. Speaking on a July 29 episode of The Verge’s Decoder podcast, Faber, who…

Geekbench ML becomes “Geekbench AI,” a cross-platform performance test for NPUs and more
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Apple will let other digital wallets into Apple Pay, and even be the default
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Microsoft’s Paint 3D was once the future of MS Paint, but now it’s going away
Enlarge / Paint 3D, once the future of the Paint app, is getting the axe in November. Andrew Cunningham In October of 2017, Microsoft released a version of Windows 10 called the “Fall Creators Update,” back when the company tried to give brand names to these things rather than just sticking to version numbering. One…