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  1. Infection corrals devices running AOSP-based firmware into a botnet.
  2. Gemini Live allows back-and-forth conversation, now free to all Android users.
  3. The upgrade starts in 2025, but with more than 1,000 planes, will take several years.
  4. New o1 language model can solve complex tasks iteratively, count R's in "strawberry."
  5. The music industry traded tape for hard drives and got a hard-earned lesson.
  6. A recent AI discovery resurrected my late father's handwriting—and I want anyone to use it.
  7. Two algorithms added so far, two more planned in the coming months.
  8. Taylor Swift on AI: "The simplest way to combat misinformation is with the truth."
  9. .mobi top-level-domain managers changed the location of its WHOIS server. No one got the memo.
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