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Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms

September 25, 2025
A new app offering to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell the data to AI companies is, unbelievably, the No. 2 app in Apple’s U.S. App Store’s Social Networking section. The app, Neon Mobile, pitches itself as a moneymaking tool offering “hundreds or even thousands of dollars per year” for access to your audio conversations. Neon’s website…
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Nikon revokes all C2PA image authenticity certificates after major vulnerability exposed

September 25, 2025
Nikon has confirmed that it will revoke all C2PA certificates issued to date after a major vulnerability in its authenticity feature was uncovered. The flaw, first detected by long-time Nikon Rumors contributor Horshack, showed that images could be fraudulently signed by Nikon’s new C2PA-enabled cameras, raising serious questions about digital provenance and image verification. Nikon has now…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Lucid's (LCID) Gravity SUV has 'so many orders' it's extending the $7,500 EV tax credit

September 25, 2025
Lucid Motors (LCID) will continue offering the $7,500 federal EV tax credit for Gravity buyers until the end of the year. Lucid’s interim CEO, Marc Winterhoff, said the electric SUV has “so many orders” and it doesn’t want buyers to lose out on the savings. Are orders for Lucid’s Gravity SUV picking up? Apparently, demand for Lucid’s new Gravity SUV is picking up. A recent Automotive…
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DefenseNews

Military ground robots now come with amphibious skills

September 25, 2025
TROIA, Portugal — Rheinmetall Canada said it has successfully tested an unmanned ground vehicle in a novel scenario, plunging the robot into the Atlantic Ocean to see it crawl out on a sandy beach here as part of a NATO military exercise. The vehicle was the latest version…
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German defense boss urges ‘prudence’ over airspace breaches by Russia

September 25, 2025
BERLIN — German Minister of Defense Boris Pistorius said calls to shoot down Russian jets that have entered NATO airspace are counterproductive, advocating instead for a policy of restraint following several incursions by Moscow’s warplanes. He characterized the violations as dangerous and highlighted the risk of an accident or misunderstanding, but said that in the recent events, there had…
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