Designing Your Custom AI Assistant — Smashing Magazine

What if your best AI prompts didn’t disappear into your unorganized chat history, but came back tomorrow as a reliable assistant? In this article, you’ll learn how to turn one-off “aha” prompts into reusable assistants that are tailored to your audience, grounded in your knowledge, and consistent every time, saving you (and your team) from […]

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Elon Musk’s Grok AI to be used by US government at a price of 42 cents per agency — Trump admin joining Meta, OpenAI in recent trend of AI govt contracts

Grok, xAI’s flagship chatbot, has become an officially sanctioned part of United States government operations. xAI and the United States inked a deal on Wednesday that guarantees the use of Grok across the federal government for $0.42 per agency, per the government’s press release. The newly reskinned “Grok for Government”, based on the Grok 4 […]

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Right Wing Extremist Violence Is More Frequent And More Deadly Than Left Wing Violence

from the what-the-data-shows dept After the Sept. 10, 2025, assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump claimed that radical leftist groups foment political violence in the U.S., and “they should be put in jail.” “The radical left causes tremendous violence,” he said, asserting that “they seem to do it in a bigger way” than […]

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This Google Photos feature could spare you the pain while searching for images (APK teardown)

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing a “More like this” feature to search similar-looking images. The results display identical images in a grid, allowing you to easily sort or delete pictures. While results aren’t very accurate currently, we can expect them to mature as the feature nears its release. For most Android […]

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Check out the intricate, inky world of PS5 game Chronoscript: The Endless End

One of the surprise announcements during Sony’s State of Play presentation today was the debut of a literary-themed game titled Chronoscript: The Endless End. It’s an action-adventure game with a very cool hand-drawn art aesthetic. Players will navigate the 3-dimensional world of a mysterious manor as well as the 2-dimensional world of illustrated manuscript pages. […]

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The Download: accidental AI relationships, and the future of contraception

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. It’s surprisingly easy to stumble into a relationship with an AI chatbot The news: The first large-scale computational analysis of the Reddit community r/MyBoyfriendIsAI, which is dedicated to discussing AI relationships, found that […]

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Two Critical Flaws Uncovered in Wondershare RepairIt Exposing User Data and AI Models

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two security flaws in Wondershare RepairIt that exposed private user data and potentially exposed the system to artificial intelligence (AI) model tampering and supply chain risks. The critical-rated vulnerabilities in question, discovered by Trend Micro, are listed below – CVE-2025-10643 (CVSS score: 9.1) – An authentication bypass vulnerability that exists within […]

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