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Mac RumorsAug 05, 2026
Apple Vision Pro Speeds Up Surgery by Almost 20%
Surgeons who wore an Apple Vision Pro as their primary display during a tear duct procedure finished operations 19% faster than surgeons using a traditional monitor, according to a peer-reviewed study by UC San Diego.


Time: TechlandAug 04, 2026
White House Weighs Extending Historic Jones Act Waiver to Lower Gas Prices
The White House is reportedly weighing whether to extend the temporary suspension, already among the longest and broadest in the program's history, but some have criticized its potential impact on the U.S. maritime industry.

Major GeeksAug 04, 2026
Bandizip 8.0 Beta 31 / 7.45
Bandizip is an intuitive and fast archiving application that supports WinZip, 7-Zip, and WinRAR, and other archive formats. It supports the Unicode system and includes a "Code Page" that will allow you to select the archive language without breaking international characters. [License: | Requires: | Size: ]

Mac RumorsAug 04, 2026
Telegram Briefly Removed From App Store
Apple briefly removed Telegram from the App Store on Monday night after a review found content that violated its guidelines against child sexual abuse material (CSAM), but restored the app a short while later, according to Reuters.
— Telegram Messenger (@teleg


ComputerWorldAug 03, 2026
Apple and the invisible wolf: AI slop drowns real security threats
Apple has had to introduce a quota on security researcher reports because its systems are being overwhelmed by low-quality warnings generated by AI. 

It's a classic illustration of the rule of unintended consequences: a technology meant to help us has become a barrier to getting things done. After all, not only has AI driven the cost of consumer electronics higher, but it is also being used to identify and exploit security vulnerabilities — while also overwhelming security teams with low-grade reports, thus eroding their attention span.

The cost of good intentions This is what's happened at Apple, as security researchers use AI as a tool to identify new bugs. Perhaps the reports are well-intended. Hopefully, the researchers aren't just motivated by the promise of easy bug bounties. Or maybe this is a cynical attempt to overwhelm platform security teams with low-grade bug reports — while holding back larger attacks for actual use by well-resourced state-backed actors.

We can't know whether attackers really are trying to overwhelm active platform defenses before going in for the kill. But given that it's an actively used military strategy, it's pretty hard to ignore the possibility.

Apple's response


ComputerWorldAug 03, 2026
Anthropic's AI models accidentally hacked three companies
Anthropic has launched an investigation into what went wrong during a recent test of three models that left a trio of companies accidentally hacked.

The company was testing how well Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Mythos 5, and an internal test model could find hidden information about fictional companies in simulated networks. But because of a misunderstanding by one of Anthropic's partners, the AI models gained access to the internet — and managed to find real companies with the same or similar names as the fictional ones.

As a result, three companies were actually hacked. Anthropic said it halted the tests on July 23, and the affected companies were notified four days later. So far, the company has received responses from two of the three companies, according to Reuters.

Anthropic is not alone when it comes to renegade models.


ComputerWorldJul 22, 2026
Your instant Android backup upgrade
Here in this high-tech era of 2026, keeping important info backed up and synced should be effortless and something that just happens on its own, automatically, without any actual thought or ongoing human effort.

In many areas of our digital life, that mercifully does Just Work™ in exactly that way. Fire up an email in most modern mail services, and you can stop at any point and find your in-progress draft in that same app on any other device. The same applies to any file you're finessing within Google Drive or other cloud storage services or document you're dawdling over in Docs.

One area where seamless syncing somehow still doesn't occur, though, is in the domain of downloaded documents on Android. If someone sends you a PDF or a Word file and you save it to your phone, that file exists in an archaic-seeming silo — only locally, on that one gadget. And that, of course, means (a) you can't access it from any other device, and (b) if you misplace your phone or move into a new one at some point along the way, the file will be left behind in time and entirely unavailable.

Well, take a moment to join me in celebration: Amidst all the Gemini gobbledegook that no one asked for (and that often falls somewhere between "pointless" and


CNET How ToJul 02, 2026
'Dutton Ranch' Release Schedule: When Does the Finale Hit Paramount Plus?
The Yellowstone spinoff's first season is coming to an end.
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