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By Cristian Dina The Qwen app gets access to Taobao and Tmall’s catalogue of more than 4 billion items, plus Alipay-native checkout, in what is the largest agentic-commerce launch yet from a Chinese platform. Alibaba is integrating its Qwen AI app with Taobao and Tmall, the company’s two largest consumer marketplaces, in what amounts to the most ambitious […] This story continues at The Next Web

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By Alina Maria Stan $30bn went to OpenAI; the rest is spread across CoreWeave, IREN, Corning, Nebius, and roughly two dozen private rounds. The pattern is closer to vertical integration than to venture investing, and is starting to draw the inevitable circular-deal questions. NVIDIA has committed more than $40 billion to AI equity investments in the first four months […] This story continues at The Next Web

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Amikor az esti fények városa lassan elcsendesedik, egy másik világ éled fel a képernyőn: a virtuális kaszinó terei egyszerre hívogatóak és ismerősek. Nem verseny ez, hanem egy személyes séta, ahol a tempót te diktálod, a hangulatot pedig a platform vizuális és hang elemei határozzák meg. Ez az út leírása nem arra vállalkozik, hogy játéktechnikát tanítson, hanem arra, hogy átadja az élményt — a kényelmet, a ritmust és a tisztaság érzését, amit egy jó felület adhat.

Belépés: első pillantás, első lélegzet

A belépés mindig fesztelen pillanat: a kezdőképernyő letisztult, a menük elrendezése logikus, és a betűk olvashatósága nyugalmat áraszt. Sokan azonnal a játékok felfedezésére indulnak, mások a promóciós sávok közt nézelődnek — mindez az első perctől kezdve meghatározza az estet. Ha valaki pontos információt keres például a minimális befizetésről, érdemes megnézni az erre vonatkozó ismertetőket, például itt található egy áttekintés ezen a linken: https://mikulasiroda.hu/350-huf-minimalis-befizetes-kaszino/, amely kontextust adhat a kezdéshez.

Játékok és hangulat: változatosság mint kulcs

A játékok sorakozása úgy hat, mint egy jól megkomponált koncert: vannak pillanatok, amikor halkabb, intimebb élményre vágysz, és vannak, amikor dinamikusabb, fényesebb produkcióra. A vizuális stílusok, a zenei aláfestés és az animációk mind részei annak, hogy mennyire érzed magad otthon. A választék gazdagsága nem csupán mennyiség; a különböző stílusok közt válogatva pillanatok alatt alakíthatsz hangulatot, ami az estédet meghatározza.

Kényelem és tempó: a felhasználói élmény szerepe

A kényelem abban mérhető, hogy mennyire gördülékeny a navigáció, mennyi időbe telik egy lap megnyitása, és milyen egyszerű a visszatérés. Az estéhez illő tempó lehet lépésről lépésre haladó, barátságos felfedezés, vagy éppen gyors, impulzív pillanatok sorozata — a legjobb platformok mindkettőt támogatják. Röviden: az élmény attól lesz maradandó, hogy a felület alkalmazkodik hozzád, nem fordítva.

Közösség, szolgáltatás és a háttér

Bár az online játék alapvetően privát élmény, a háttérben dolgozó ügyfélszolgálat és közösségi terek hozzájárulnak az összképhez. Egy barátságos chat, gyors válaszok és a felhasználói visszajelzések olvashatósága mind azt az érzést adják, hogy nincs teljesen egyedül az ember. Ezek az apró részletek — egy mosoly a közösségi posztban, egy szakmai hangú válasz a kérdésekre — emelik egy este minőségét.

• Hangulat: zene és grafika, amelyek meghatározzák a pillanatot.
• Tempó: lassú felfedezés vagy gyors, pörgős jelenetek — mindkettőnek van helye.
• Kényelem: letisztult felület, átlátható menürendszer, gördülékeny navigáció.

Az est folyamán fontos, hogy ne érezd kötelezőnek a folyamatos jelenlétet; az élmény akkor jó, ha megmarad szórakoztatónak. A jó platformok lehetővé teszik, hogy szüneteket tarts, visszatérj, és újraélvezd a felfedezés örömét anélkül, hogy bármi nyomasztóvá válna.

Zárás: emlékek és otthoni utóhang

Amikor lekapcsolod a képernyőt, az este visszhangja marad: egy kiegyensúlyozott ritmus, néhány látványos pillanat és az a nyugalom, hogy minden a helyén volt. Az online kaszinó nem csupán technológia; ez egy tér, ahol a formák, a hangok és a gördülékeny működés együtt teremtenek emlékezetes pillanatokat. A legjobb élmények olyanok, mint egy jó történet — nem a végeredmény számít elsődlegesen, hanem az út, amit közben bejártál.

By Shimul Sood Researchers have built a force sensor the size of a grain of rice that lets robots feel pressure and twisting forces using light, and it’s already finding hidden tumors in tissue during early tests.

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By Shimul Sood Meta is tracking employee keystrokes, tying AI usage to performance reviews, and laying off thousands — all at once — and somehow seems surprised that morale is in freefall.

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By Cristian Dina   A manual penetration test costs between 10,000 and 50,000 dollars. It takes weeks to schedule, days to execute, and produces a report that is out of date before the ink dries. Intruder, a London-based cybersecurity company that graduated from GCHQ’s Cyber Accelerator, has launched AI pentesting agents that replicate the methodology of a human […] This story continues at The Next Web

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By Ana Maria Constantin   Quantinuum filed for a US initial public offering on Thursday that could value the company at more than 20 billion dollars. In the year ended 31 December 2025, Quantinuum reported revenue of 30.9 million dollars and a net loss of 192.6 million dollars. The company is asking public market investors to pay a premium […] This story continues at The Next Web

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By Shikhar Mehrotra Students verify via school portal or ID upload; homeschool teachers need government ID plus a homeschool document. Most are verified instantly, with manual reviews completed within 24 hours.

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By Cristian Dina   Rocket Lab’s revenue grew 64 per cent, its stock hit a record high, and its backlog reached 2.2 billion dollars. The company sold more launches in the first quarter of 2026 than in the entire previous year. The only thing that has not launched yet is the rocket the market is pricing in. First-quarter […] This story continues at The Next Web

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By Shikhar Mehrotra For the first time, students and educators can buy an Apple Watch through Apple’s Education Store, with the Series 11 down to $359, SE 3 to $229, and Ultra 3 to $719 in the US.

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Echoing concerns from other security experts, Orange Cyberdefense (OC) recently warned that employees have become the biggest security threat faced by business. 

Now, in the latest illustration of its ongoing security response, Apple is putting new protections in place in macOS 26.4 that should help – but employee education remains critical as hackers turn to complex, multi-stage, social engineering attacks to infest systems with malware.

Your people are your weakness

The data tells its own story. OC explains: Employees account for 57% of all security incidents and 45% of these incidents come when workers bypass or ignore security policies by, for example, using unapproved tools. 

Attackers are actively searching for and exploiting those kinds of policy workarounds, seeking weaknesses in commonly used, but unapproved, tools. Users really should educate themselves.

While companies can put some mitigations in place using device management and policy controls to constrain app use and downloads across their endpoints, Apple is also working to keep systems secure with a focus on the Terminal app. 

Terminal’s early warning system

In this case, it will introduce new malware warnings and protections to help prevent people from using Terminal to override system security to install malware-laden scripts. That’s the attack vector currently being used in the ClickFix series of attacks, which use fake macOS utilities to trick Mac users into doing just that.

It’s yet another example of how attackers rely on complex social engineering attacks to fool targets into undermining their own security. These attacks often begin with an attempt to get users to install infostealer malware on their own machines, and run them, bypassing Mac’s native malware defence.

Apple already has many, many protections to help combat attacks like these; now, we’ll see warnings in macOS Tahoe 26.4 whenever a relatively novice user pastes anything into the Terminal. Apple’s XProtect continues to block known malicious scripts. 

Helping people make better decisions

These warnings don’t appear in the first 24 hours after setting up a Mac, nor do they appear if a user has developer tools such as Xcode installed. That’s because Apple assumes developers are savvy enough to avoid falling for such tricks, while many users setting up their Macs may have legitimate need to use Terminal for legitimate purposes. (Apple will always warn when you try to paste code from sources known to be malicious.)

To an extent, Apple’s new protection reflects its belief that users should have choice while ensuring they are informed. Figuring out when to warn a user of the dangers they take has always been a challenge, as you don’t want to interfere in the user experience too heavily. But the prevalence of the kinds of threats OC warns about pushed Apple to put a new gate in place. 

FileVault keys come to the Passwords app

This isn’t the only new protection Apple has planned for macOS 26.4. The update does something many have long wanted. Ever since Apple’s first M-series chips arrived, we’ve had situations in which users forget their FileVault key, which can lead to Macs getting bricked when sold. Apple has now moved the macOS FileVault recovery key into users’ end-to-end encrypted Passwords app.

That’s good in two ways: it removes the threat Apple could lose or leak the key and makes it easier for a user to recover that key using the Passwords app on anther device. When you protect the data on your Mac with FileVault, you get a recovery key during set-up. If you forget the password for your Mac, you can reset the password by entering the recovery key.

Finally, IT admins seeking to ensure compliance with security policies will appreciate that Apple began rolling out Background Security Improvements in iOS 26.3.1, iPadOS 26.3.1 and macOS 26.3.1 to deliver incremental fixes and additional protections in between normal software updates. Still, as the OC data shows, the best and most effective security (beyond moving to a Mac) is to ensure employees fully understand the implications and significance of your company’s current security policies.

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AI is capable of mimicking a real person. It’s clear this capability exists, and the ethics of using AI for this purpose are often very clear. But increasingly, new applications are leading to ethically murky results. 

The good

For example, the CEO of a company, or a politician, could choose to create a clone using AI tools, creating a chatbot plus an avatar — a digital twin — that can interact with people on their behalf. Silicon Valley is big on the idea: Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman are working on, or have already created, digital twins of themselves. 

Cloned politicians include Pakistan’s Imran Khan, who used an authorized voice clone to campaign from prison, and New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who used voice-cloned robocalls to speak with constituents in languages like Mandarin and Yiddish.

This kind of use case is probably ethical — as long as the people interacting know that they’re dealing with a digital clone and not a real person. 

The bad

The flip side of ethical uses for AI-generated clones is the non-consensual (and therefore unethical) cases. And of these, there are already many. For instance:

In 2019, the first widely documented case occurred when scammers used AI to mimic the voice and German accent of a parent company’s executive, successfully tricking the CEO of a UK energy firm into transferring €220,000 into a fraudulent account.

In 2023, an Arizona mother, Jennifer DeStefano, was targeted by extortionists who used an AI clone of her 15-year-old daughter’s voice to demand a $1 million ransom.

And in 2024, a finance worker at a multinational firm in Hong Kong was tricked into transferring $25 million after attending a video conference call featuring deepfake recreations of his CFO and several other colleagues. 

Other unethical, non-consensual uses for AI cloning include deepfake videos, where a celebrity’s face is superimposed on a porn actor. In all the above examples, the ethics are clear. This is all very wrong. 

But with China leading the way in the emergence of AI clones, the ethics are becoming far murkier. 

And the ugly

One emerging trend involves workers using specialized software to build digital versions of their bosses or colleagues. The most prominent project driving this trend is Colleague Skill, which was posted in late March by its creator, a 24-year-old Shanghai-based engineer named Zhou Tianyi. 

Colleague Skill and its forks and copycats, which tend to be open source, enable people to upload chat histories, emails, and internal documents to create a functional persona that mimics a specific coworker’s professional expertise and communication style. The technology stack includes tools like Claude, Kimi, ChatGPT, DeepSeek API, OCR (Tesseract), and sentiment analysis modules.

Colleague Skill uses a person’s past communications to build a talking replica of their personality. If you think of a regular AI as a general student who knows a little bit about everything, this tool acts like a specialized mask that forces the AI to behave like one specific individual. 

In other words, it produces a chatbot with the knowledge and patterns of speech of a real person. 

Colleague Skill started as a satirical commentary on AI-driven layoffs. But some employees began using it in earnest to clone their colleagues. There are several stated reasons for doing so, including retaining institutional knowledge and having an instant sounding board to “discuss” plans and ideas with. 

A similar motivation is the use of AI to clone bosses, so employees can better predict how that boss might react to the employees’ work. 

In most of these instances, according to reports out of China, the creation of the boss-bot or colleague clone is nonconsensual. 

Is non-consensually basing a custom chatbot on a colleague or boss unethical? 

And then it got personal (and weird)

Tianyi, creator of Colleague Skill, later forked it into something called Ex-Partner Skill. The idea is to re-create a former partner with AI so the user can continue the relationship. 

It operates on the same technical engine but applies it to a much more personal part of life. Users upload photos, social posts, chat logs and other content. The AI chatbot can then mimic the former partner’s tone, catchphrases, and subtle linguistic nuances, something that, “truly sounds like them — speaks with their catchphrases, replies in their style, remembers the places you went together.”

This allows a person to simulate conversations with someone who is no longer in their life.

If Colleague Skill is in a grey area, Ex-Partner Skill is in a darker grey area. 

(Note: many of the original repositories for Ex-Partner Skill have been removed from public view in China or “sanitized” after regulatory pressure. But the framework reportedly continues to circulate in private developer circles, and similar tools are increasingly used for “digital resurrection.”)

Ethically, the concept feels like it exists on a wide spectrum somewhere between therapy at one end and revenge porn at the other. (It’s like revenge porn in the sense that when “content” consensually made by two people for one purpose is later used consensually by one person in a way that the other person might find objectionable.)

Or maybe it’s closer to the “deathbot” phenomenon, where an AI-generated simulation provides a fake version of the dearly departed. (In both cases, the user interacts with a digital twin of someone who is no longer present in one’s life.) In fact, some people in China are using Ex-Partner Skill as a deathbot for a deceased loved one. 

The lack of consent feels like an ethical lapse. But we don’t consider it unethical to think about, remember, imagine conversations with, or journal about ex-partners — or dead family members. 

Boosters of the Ex-Partner Skill idea say that conversations with digital exes are therapeutic. They point out that because it’s private, it’s not harassment or stalking or an invasion of privacy. Instead, they argue, it helps with personal reflection and emotional healing.

As for people who have died, according to Chinese media reports, some users say the tool gives them a sense of closure and allows them to say the things they wish they could have said to the real person. But is it really closure if one person is still obsessively trying to interact — or pretend to interact — with the other person?

It’s healthy to communicate. But it’s not communication when a person is by themselves talking to no one and sending messages to a person who never gets those messages.

While ex-bots are a thing these days in China, the trend is showing up elsewhere. Some Character.AI users outside of China have created chatbots based on ex-partners, even though  the company has changed its Terms of Service to explicitly ban the creation of bots using the likenesses of private individuals without their permission. 

The emergence of nonconsensual cloning of coworkers, bosses and ex-partners is a new challenge to our sense of right and wrong, and yet another way AI is challenging us to step up and figure out how to respond.

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By Sudhanshu Kumar Mangalam AirPods with cameras sound wild, but they might be exactly what Siri needs to stop feeling stuck in the past.

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