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A new app called Poppy wants to be the assistant that actually keeps up with your life. By connecting your calendar, email, and messages, it surfaces reminders and tasks before you even think to ask. It's a familiar pitch, but the execution will determine whether this feels helpful or just intrusive.
Shifting to hardware, AMD is expanding its Ryzen nine thousand PRO lineup with six new models, and this release breaks some of the family's own conventions. For the first time, these chips feature three-D V-Cache stacked beneath the processor dies, alongside thermal envelopes climbing from one hundred twenty to one hundred seventy watts. General availability is expected through OEM partners in the third quarter of two thousand twenty six.
And on a darker note, a podcast from four-oh-four Media this week details how investigators obtained Haotian AI, a Chinese deepfake platform that lets someone impersonate virtually anyone in real time during video calls on Teams, Zoom, or WhatsApp. The software is already fueling fraud operations at scale, and the story is a sharp reminder that synthetic identity is no longer a theoretical threat.
That's your briefing for today. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
