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The Verge Tech

The ban on robot vacuums won’t make them safer, only worse

All future robot vacuums manufactured outside the USA (i.e., all of them) have been banned by the FCC. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge No other gadget knows as much about your home as a robot vacuum. They map your space, learn your routines, and many now carry a camera and microphone into every room in your house. As AI gives them a better understanding of what they see, the privacy and security risks these autonomous robots pose are only growing. That's why greater scrutiny mak

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The Verge Tech

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is a quirky life sim that’s worth buying at this discount

Looking to start your own island paradise full of Miis based on family, friends, and celebrities, but don’t feel like paying full fare? Woot has Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream for Switch on sale for $52.99 (usually $59.95). Sort of like Animal Crossing, but more off-kilter, this unique game sees you building and managing relationships on an island of custom Mii characters. You’ll set up and decorate housing, discover what the inhabitants like and dislike, and watch as they interact with each o

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Here’s the problem with putting an AI image generator in Google Earth

A text prompt was all it took to generate reality-warping images using Google Earth's satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery with a now-rolled back AI feature, like these images generated by Digital Digging's Henk van Ess that show "refugees near the Mexican border" and a bomb crater near a hospital in Gaza. Google initially responded to Digital Digging's AI-altered images, saying, "We take misinformation seriously - every image created with Nano Banana in Google Earth includes the SynthID digital w

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DZone

Your AI-Generated Reports Have No Paper Trail

I spent years building data pipelines, mostly in Snowflake, in a regulated banking environment. For most of that time, lineage was straightforward: data moves through a transformation, and you can trace exactly where every number came from. That changed the moment LLM functions started showing up inside those same pipelines. The pattern showed up the same way every time. A Cortex function would generate a narrative, a summary, a piece of text meant for a report someone downstream would rely on.

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Vercel Blog

AI Gateway now supports team and project spend budgets

AI Gateway spend budgets can now be scoped to a team or a project, in addition to individual API keys. Set a dollar limit on a scope, and the gateway meters spend against it and stops further requests once the limit is reached, until the budget resets or you raise it. A budget attaches to one of three scopes. A request can fall under multiple budgets and has to pass all of them: if any one is over its limit, the request is rejected, even when the others have room left. BYOK spend is not counted

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