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We’re introducing Google Scholar Labs to answer your research questionsWe’re introducing Google Scholar Labs to answer your research questions

GoogleBlog - 7 hours 5 min ago
Today, we are introducing Google Scholar Labs, a new feature that explores how generative AI can transform the process of answering detailed scholarly research questions…
Categories: Technology

Buy $100 Apple Gift Card (or Disney), Get $10 Target Gift Card Free

MyMoneyBlog.com - 7 hours 36 min ago

Deal is back again through 11/22. Get a $10 Target GiftCard with $100 Apple Gift Card purchase. A simple deal if you plan to buy any Apple products/services in the future (and have a free Target Circle membership). While supplies last. Stack with the 5% back via Target REDCard, or your usual rewards credit card.

This time, the gift card deal also includes other options like Disney, Roblox, Starbucks, Google Play, Doordash, Razer, Nintendo, Uber, and Xbox.

Apple gift cards are now good for everything from iPhones to Apple Watches to music to iCloud storage subscriptions. The code just adds to the balance in your Apple account. I accumulate them over time like an old-fashioned layaway plan and I feel that getting 10% to 15% off a new iPhone or Apple Watch even when you buy on release day is pretty good.

Best Buy is not matching this deal right now, but they have some other promo where you get a EA SPORTS FC bonus with Apple gift card purchase. Gift cards at Best Buy.

Categories: Finance

Fund Managers Warn AI Investment Boom Has Gone Too Far

Slashdot.org - 7 hours 41 min ago
A majority of global fund managers think companies are overinvesting, as market anxiety grows about the sustainability of the AI spending boom. From a report: A net 20 per cent of fund managers surveyed this month by Bank of America said companies were spending too much on their investments -- the first time this has been a majority view in data running back to 2005. "This jump is driven by concerns over the magnitude and financing of the AI capex boom," said BofA analysts. The surge in investment to develop AI infrastructure has been a dominant theme in the record rally in US tech stocks this year -- with chipmaker Nvidia becoming the world's first $5tn company last month -- but growing concerns about the sustainability of this spending has caused a pullback on Wall Street in recent weeks.

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Google Launches Gemini 3, Its 'Most Intelligent' AI Model Yet

Slashdot.org - 8 hours 20 min ago
Google released Gemini 3 on Tuesday, launching its latest AI model with a breakthrough score of 1501 Elo on the LMArena Leaderboard alongside state-of-the-art performance across multiple benchmarks including 91.9% on GPQA Diamond for PhD-level reasoning and 37.5% on Humanity's Last Exam without tool usage. The model is available starting today in the Gemini app, AI Mode in Search for Google AI Pro, Google AI Studio, Vertex AI and the newly launched Google Antigravity agentic development platform. Third-party platforms including Cursor, GitHub, JetBrains, Manus, and Replit are also gaining access. Separately, Google said AI Overviews now have 2 billion users every month. Gemini app has topped 650 million users per month.

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Microsoft is Adding an 'Experimental Agentic Features' Toggle To Windows 11

Slashdot.org - 8 hours 58 min ago
Microsoft has rolled out a new preview build for Windows 11 Insiders in the Dev and Beta Channel this week that introduces a new toggle called 'experimental agentic features' that can be enabled or disabled in the Windows Settings app. From a report: According to Microsoft, this new toggle is designed to "allow agents to use new Windows agentic features." The company says the feature will work with AI-powered apps, which "help you automate everyday tasks -- like organizing files, scheduling meetings, or sending emails -- so you can spend less time on busy work and more time on what matters most. One powerful way apps are implementing AI today is by interacting with your apps and your files, using vision and advanced reasoning to click, type and scroll like a human would." The setting in the Windows Setting says "When this setting is on, agents can use Windows agentic features." Features such as the recently announced Copilot Actions for Windows feature are going to take advantage of this new experimental agentic feature capability.

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Start building with Gemini 3Start building with Gemini 3Product Lead

GoogleBlog - 9 hours 5 min ago
Gemini 3 is introducing advanced agentic coding capabilities, plus Google Antigravity, a new agentic development platform.Gemini 3 is introducing advanced agentic coding capabilities, plus Google Antigravity, a new agentic development platform.
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Google Search with Gemini 3: Our most intelligent search yetGoogle Search with Gemini 3: Our most intelligent search yetVP of Engineering

GoogleBlog - 9 hours 5 min ago
Learn more about Gemini 3 and how it’s upgrading Google Search and AI Mode.Learn more about Gemini 3 and how it’s upgrading Google Search and AI Mode.
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A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3CEO, Google and AlphabetCEOCTO, Google DeepMind and Chief AI Architect, Google

GoogleBlog - 9 hours 5 min ago
Today we’re releasing Gemini 3 – our most intelligent model that helps you bring any idea to life.Today we’re releasing Gemini 3 – our most intelligent model that helps you bring any idea to life.
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Gemini 3 brings upgraded smarts and new capabilities to the Gemini appGemini 3 brings upgraded smarts and new capabilities to the Gemini appVP

GoogleBlog - 9 hours 5 min ago
Today we’re unveiling a major update for the Gemini app, and it all starts with Gemini 3.Today we’re unveiling a major update for the Gemini app, and it all starts with Gemini 3.
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Introducing Gemini 3Introducing Gemini 3

GoogleBlog - 9 hours 5 min ago
Gemini 3, our most intelligent model, combines all of Gemini’s capabilities together so you can bring any idea to life.

Gemini 3, our most intelligent model, combines all of Gemini’s capabilities together so you can bring any idea to life.

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Microsoft, Nvidia Commit Up To $15 Billion Investment in Anthropic as Claude Scales on Azure

Slashdot.org - 9 hours 40 min ago
Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI-rival Anthropic announced strategic partnerships today that will scale Claude on Microsoft Azure and bring up to $15 billion in new investment to the AI startup. Anthropic committed to purchase $30 billion of Azure compute capacity and contract additional capacity up to one gigawatt. Nvidia and Microsoft -- the largest investor in OpenAI -- committed to invest up to $10 billion and up to $5 billion respectively in Anthropic.

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The best of Google Play in Asia PacificThe best of Google Play in Asia PacificVice President

GoogleBlog - 10 hours 5 min ago
Here are the winners of Google Play’s Best of 2025 awards in Asia Pacific.Here are the winners of Google Play’s Best of 2025 awards in Asia Pacific.
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Google Play’s best apps, books and games of 2025Google Play’s best apps, books and games of 2025Vice President and General Manager

GoogleBlog - 10 hours 5 min ago
We’re announcing Google Play’s Best of 2025 awards, celebrating the best apps, games and books of the year.We’re announcing Google Play’s Best of 2025 awards, celebrating the best apps, games and books of the year.
Categories: Technology

A Simple WhatsApp Security Flaw Exposed 3.5 Billion Phone Numbers

Slashdot.org - 10 hours 6 min ago
Researchers at the University of Vienna extracted phone numbers for 3.5 billion WhatsApp users by systematically checking every possible number through the messaging service's contact discovery feature. The technique yielded profile photos for 57% of those accounts and profile text for 29 percent. The researchers checked roughly 100 million numbers per hour using WhatsApp's browser-based app. The team warned Meta in April and deleted their data. The company implemented stricter rate-limiting by October to prevent such mass enumeration. Meta called the exposed information "basic publicly available information" and said it found no evidence of malicious exploitation. The vulnerability had been identified before. In 2017, Dutch researcher Loran Kloeze published a blog post detailing the same enumeration technique. Meta responded then that WhatsApp's privacy settings were functioning as designed and denied him a bug bounty reward. The researchers collected 137 million U.S. phone numbers. In India, they found nearly 750 million numbers. They also discovered 2.3 million Chinese numbers and 1.6 million Myanmar numbers, despite WhatsApp being banned in both countries. The researchers analyzed the cryptographic keys and found some accounts used duplicate keys. They speculate this resulted from unauthorized WhatsApp clients rather than a platform flaw.

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