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Researchers at Georgia Tech are raising a quiet but important question about AI privacy. Even when you delete a conversation with an AI assistant, traces of that exchange may persist in ways users don't expect. The finding challenges a basic assumption many people hold — that delete means gone.
Shifting back in time, New York Magazine has revisited the remarkable and cautionary story of General Magic, the early nineties Silicon Valley company that imagined smartphones, app stores, and pocket-sized connected devices nearly two decades before the iPhone arrived. The people who built it went on to shape much of modern tech, yet the company itself collapsed. It's a reminder that being right too early can look a lot like being wrong.
And on a more immediate front, a supertanker is ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz after striking a mine, with Iran's Revolutionary Guard claiming the vessel had disabled its positioning and radar systems to avoid detection. The strait carries roughly a fifth of the world's oil, and any disruption there tends to ripple quickly through global energy markets. The full picture is still developing.
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