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Amazon relaunches Bee with two recording devices and a $12 monthly plan

Amazon has launched the $74.99 Bee Frontier wristband and the $99.99 Bee Eclipse phone attachment, and put the companion software behind an $11.99 monthly subscription. Neither device is on sale in Europe, where recording another person’s private speech is a criminal offence in Germany. Amazon has launched two devices that record and summarise your day, […]

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Nicolas Cage says he refused Amazon’s AI waiver for ‘Spider-Noir’

Nicolas Cage says he refused to sign an AI waiver from Amazon for “Spider-Noir”, the Prime Video series it cancelled last month. He told a New York Comic Con panel on Saturday that he will probably not work with the studio again, Variety reported. “Amazon is a very AI-friendly company, to the tune of $50 […]

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ICO secures data protection changes from 10 AI developers, turns to agents

Ten of the biggest AI developers have made, or committed to make, changes to how they handle personal data. The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) secured the changes after two years of scrutiny. The data regulator named them on Thursday: Amazon, Anthropic, Apple, Cohere, DeepSeek, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and Stability AI. The changes include […]

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One prompt let researchers take over every AWS AgentCore agent in a region

Researchers at Zenity Labs used a single prompt to one public-facing AI agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to take over every AgentCore agent in the same AWS account and region. The security firm published the research on Thursday, alongside a talk at the SecTor 2026 conference in Toronto. AgentCore is AWS’s managed service for building […]

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Hate Ferrari’s Electric Luce? Blame Jeff Bezos

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Apple and LG built a doorbell, lock and thermostat together, Bloomberg says

Apple is working with LG Electronics on a video doorbell, a thermostat, a smart deadbolt lock and three security cameras, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The devices will carry the LG brand, not Apple’s. The accessories will work with Apple’s new smart home hub, an upgraded HomePod mini and a new Apple TV box. Apple plans […]

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Amazon’s About You page goes viral for what it guesses about shoppers

Amazon’s “About You” page has become a social media hit, for the things it says about shoppers. One user on Threads found that Amazon had concluded she “has flat buttocks”, Business Insider reported on Tuesday. Her post set off a wave of others sharing their own profiles. About You lists the details Amazon has drawn […]

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Boston Dynamics names Rohit Prasad, who helped build Amazon’s Alexa, as CEO

Boston Dynamics has named Rohit Prasad chief executive from 7 October, the robot maker said in a statement on Tuesday. The company said he will speed up its Physical AI strategy. That plan combines its robots with advanced AI to sell intelligent machines at scale. Prasad was senior vice president and head scientist for Alexa […]

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Banned Books Week Demands Our Attention To Protect Our Literary Heritage

Source: Amazon / Amazon.com The Bluest Eye. Beloved. The Color Purple. Their Eyes Were Watching God. Invisible Man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X.  All of those titles belong to books written by Black authors and have been challenged or banned across multiple American school districts and public libraries.  This month, as we enter the annual […]

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Joe Nerds Out: Why Physical Media Is More Important Than Ever [Op-Ed]

Source: imageBROKER/Alexander Blinov / Getty Hello, I’m Joe, and I’ve been collecting movies since I was 13. Movies have been my favorite form of storytelling for as long as I can remember. It’s not uncommon for me to be at the movie theater several times a week, either to catch some new heat or watch […]

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