Weekly Tech Rant: Episode 173

Episode 173: It’s Time for Cloudflare’s AI Defence, Tap-to-Pay Evolution, Security Breaches Galore, and Meta’s Smart Glasses Challenge

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In This Episode:

• News
  • Cloudflare debuts one-click nuke of web-scraping AI
  • Tap-to-pay could get more capable and more complicated
  • Authy hack exposes phone numbers of 33M users; Twilio confirms
  • Microsoft’s Midnight Blizzard source code breach also impacted federal agencies
  • Here comes a Meta Ray-Bans challenger with ChatGPT-4o and a camera
• Rumours
  • Kuo: Apple to begin mass production of AirPods with cameras by 2026
  • HomePod with display corroborated by references to a new Apple ‘HomeAccessory’

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