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Looking to pick up a pair of Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses this year? You might want to hold off on that decision, as Meta’s annual product conference will kick off on September 17, and we’re expecting the company to unveil new smart glasses.Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses have been one of Meta’s most successful products to date, garnering tons of attention worldwide and selling millions of units. You may not be aware that these glasses are actually second-generation Ray-Ban Meta glasses, as the original Ray-Ban Stories weren’t nearly as popular.Part of the success was greatly improved hardware between the first and…

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If you were trying to learn how to get other people to do what you want, you might use some of the techniques found in a book like Influence: The Power of Persuasion. Now, a preprint study out of the University of Pennsylvania suggests that those same psychological persuasion techniques can frequently “convince” some LLMs to do things that go against their system prompts.The size of the persuasion effects shown in “Call Me a Jerk: Persuading AI to Comply with Objectionable Requests” suggests that human-style psychological techniques can be surprisingly effective at “jailbreaking” some LLMs to operate outside their guardrails.…

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Microsoft is bringing automatic theme-switching to Windows via PowerToysThe feature will allow users to set automatic switches according to their scheduleThere’s no official launch date yet, but it will be included in the next update, 0.95Windows 11 has had its fair share of negatives in the past few months, many of which I’ve highlighted as a PC gamer, leading me to seek the best alternative operating systems available. However, one of Microsoft’s utility applications is introducing an update that could be great for personalization.PowerToys’ next update (0.95) will introduce an automatic switch feature, which will switch between light and dark…

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The European Commission announced this week that it’s fining Google €2.95 billion (just under $3.5 billion). The commission found that Google had violated European Union antitrust rules by favoring its own advertising services. Specifically, the commission said Google “abused” its “dominant positions” by favoring its ad exchange AdX in both its publisher ad server and in its ad-buying tools. The commission also said Google has 60 days to “bring these self-preferencing practices to an end” and “to implement measures to cease its inherent conflicts of interest along the adtech supply chain.” “Google must now come forward with a serious remedy…

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Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc’s Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers. You may like…

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Nothing’s flagship TWS earbud range went from Ear (1) to Ear (2) to Ear. No typo, they just removed the number the last time around, and guess what – that turned out to be incredibly confusing for prospective buyers. So Nothing has decided to go back to using numbers for its next release, which will be called Nothing Ear (3) even though it’s the fourth product in the line – just to make sure there’s a tiny bit of confusion still brewing. The earbuds are “launching soon”, Nothing says, while Andrew Freshwater, the company’s Head of Global Smart Products Marketing,…

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Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. Geekom A9 Max Mini PC: 30-second reviewThe Geekom A9 Max is a stylish, premium-styled mini PC that incorporates the latest AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 with NPU and integrated AMD graphics. It is a small, stylish machine that has been designed to handle general office work, AI workloads and applications that utilise an AI, such as CoPilot or Photoshop, are given a generative boost.As I’ve seen from this…

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Looking for a different day?A new Quordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Saturday’s puzzle instead then click here: Quordle hints and answers for Saturday, September 6 (game #1321).Quordle was one of the original Wordle alternatives and is still going strong now more than 1,100 games later. It offers a genuine challenge, though, so read on if you need some Quordle hints today – or scroll down further for the answers.Enjoy playing word games? You can…

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