🛡 Phishing Boom: 900M Attacks in 2024

Phishing → surged 26% last year, with cybercriminals targeting Booking, Airbnb, TikTok, and Telegram to steal data. Users also faced 125M malicious email attacks, while every second corporate email was spam.

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🦴 GPT-5 is coming—right on schedule

Microsoft → is gearing up for GPT-4.5 next week and GPT-5 by late May, aligning with Microsoft Build 2025.

The new model will merge OpenAI’s GPT and "o" series, streamlining AI choices for users.

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🤐 HP Support: Please Hold…

HP now forces a 15-minute wait on support calls → even when agents are free—to push users toward online help.

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🍏 Made in USA

Apple → is moving part of its production from Mexico to the U.S., with TSMC’s Arizona plant set to manufacture iPhone 15 and 15 Plus chips.

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🧠 Neo Gamma: Your New Live-In Housekeeper

1X Technologies unveiled Neo Gamma, a humanoid robot → that walks, talks, cleans, and even brews tea. AI-powered and currently in early testing—no word yet on mass production.

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😎 DeepSeek’s AI Boom Sparks Nvidia H20 Demand

The success of DeepSeek’s AI models has led to a sharp increase in demand for Nvidia H20 → accelerators in China.

Tencent, Alibaba, and ByteDance have ramped up purchases, with 1 million units shipped in 2024, generating $12 billion in revenue for Nvidia.

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⛔️ The Sound of Silence

Over 1,000 British musicians released a silent album → featuring the sounds of empty studios, concert halls, and stadiums—a vision of what AI could do to the music industry.

The protest comes as the UK government considers allowing AI companies to use copyrighted music without permission.

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🛸 Deep Research for (Almost) Everyone

OpenAI has expanded Deep Research mode → to Plus, Team, Edu, and Enterprise users, granting 10 requests per month. Pro subscribers now get 120 requests instead of 100.

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🍏 Trump vs. Cook

Trump is pressuring Apple to drop its DEI policies, but Tim Cook → isn’t backing down, insisting that diversity and inclusion will remain central to Apple’s culture.

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🤔 Paid Comments Coming to Telegram?

Telegram is testing a paid messaging feature in public groups linked to channels, which could allow channel admins to charge for comments under their posts.

Details are still unclear—will users pay per comment or through a subnoscription? No word yet on when (or if) this feature will roll out.

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🧠 OpenAI Drops GPT-4.5

The model “feels more natural”, is 10x more efficient than GPT-4, but also 30x pricier per token. Now available → for Pro users ($200/month), wider rollout starts March 3.

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🤐 Skype Signs Off for Good

Microsoft plans to shut down Skype in May this year, according to information found in the program’s code by data miners. The company is offering Teams as a replacement.

Since 2003, Skype was the most popular messaging and internet calling app, but starting in 2011, more modern competitors emerged, causing it to lose popularity.

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🦴 Telegram’s Next Update: Pay to Chat?

Telegram’s latest beta brings paid private messages, Star withdrawals, sender info for unknown contacts, more gift settings, and more.

Check out all the key features in the new update.

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🥇 Trump’s Crypto Summit

Next week, the White House will host → its first-ever crypto summit, led by Donald Trump. Industry leaders and investors will join to discuss regulatory frameworks and the future of digital assets.

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🍏 Fresh Apple lineup incoming

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports → that Apple is set to unveil the M4 MacBook Air this week, followed by a new iPad Air.

Meanwhile, iPhone 16e sales are flopping, with demand dozens or even hundreds of times lower than regular iPhones at launch.

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😆 Sergey Brin: Less babysitting, more coding

Google co-founder Sergey Brin → urged developers to stop making "nanny products," embrace a 60-hour workweek, and push harder in the AGI race. He wants faster, simpler AI solutions and less hand-holding for users.

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👩‍⚕️ Microsoft’s AI doctor’s note

Microsoft has unveiled Dragon Copilot, an AI assistant → designed to handle medical documentation and information retrieval, so doctors can spend less time on paperwork and more time with patients.

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🍏 More emojis, more intelligence

Apple’s latest iOS 18.4 developer beta introduces seven new emojis, including a tired face, radish, fingerprint, harp, leafless tree, inkblot, and shovel.

The update also expands Apple Intelligence support across more languages, adds Priority Notifications, and improves CarPlay.

iOS 18.4 is expected to launch in April 2025.

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🤷‍♂️ Let Him Cook

Since Trump took office, U.S. tech stocks → have lost over 7% of their market value. Chipmakers have been hit the hardest, while Tesla, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon also face declines.

New tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China add further pressure.

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🧠 Amazon enters the AI reasoning race

Amazon → is developing Nova, an AI model to rival OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, with advanced reasoning and lower costs—already 75% cheaper than competitors. Launch expected by June.

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