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A new piece in The Guardian is asking a question the literary world has been quietly dreading: could artificial intelligence write the next great novel? It's a provocative framing, but the real story is subtler — about authorship, creativity, and whether a machine can understand what it means to be human enough to move a reader. That debate is just getting started.
Shifting to security, researchers are raising serious alarms about confidential computing, a technology that European governments are banking on to build sovereign cloud infrastructure independent of American tech giants. The problem sits at the heart of the system — a mechanism called remote attestation, which is supposed to cryptographically prove a server can be trusted. New findings suggest that mechanism may have a fundamental architectural flaw with no clear fix on the horizon. That's a significant problem for anyone treating this as a privacy guarantee.
And on a more personal scale, a writer at Wired stumbled onto an Apple accessibility feature — originally built for people with cognitive disabilities — and realized it might be the most effective parental control setup nobody is talking about. It strips an iPhone down to bare essentials, and Apple has never once marketed it for kids. Sometimes the best tools are the ones hiding in plain sight.
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