Pop some cybersecurity popcorn, Tech Insiders. Monday's lineup features shopping bots, legal thrillers, phishing horror, and a surprise cameo by Doom. Find your seat—the previews start now.
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Amazon's 'Help Me Decide' Shops for You |
Indecisive? Amazon just built you a personal shopper with zero patience.
Amazon has unleashed Help Me Decide, an AI-powered button that appears after you've spent too long comparing lookalike gadgets. Tap it, and the system chews through your browsing history, past buys, and searches before spitting out one "just-buy-this" pick—plus budget and upgrade alternatives.
You also get a quick rationale: key specs, review snippets, and even reminders that you've previously bought matching accessories. |
Under the hood, the feature leans on AWS tools such as Amazon Bedrock, OpenSearch, and SageMaker, as well as large language models, to rank options.
It joins Amazon's growing suite of retail AI tricks (Rufus chat, Lens Live visual search, Interests, Shopping Guides) amid a wider AI push into logistics, which includes new AR glasses for drivers.
Competitors aren't napping; Walmart's ChatGPT checkout, Google's AI Mode, and Etsy/Shopify integrations in ChatGPT chase the same "agentic commerce" future.
Currently live for millions of US app and mobile web users, the rollout will widen over the coming months. To see if you're enrolled, check the "Keep shopping for" carousel or lurk on a product page while your coffee cools—AI loves procrastinators.
Why it matters: If Help Me Decide gains trust, Amazon could steer billions in sales with a single tap—great for efficiency, dicey for transparency. For shoppers, it's a timesaver; for brands buried on page 5, it's an existential crisis. Let's hope the algo likes your tent. |
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Reddit Drags Perplexity to Court Over Scraping |
The TL;DR: "You stole my TL;DR."
Reddit has filed a copyright suit in New York against Perplexity AI and three scraping partners (Oxylabs, AWMProxy, SerpApi), claiming an "industrial-scale data laundering economy."
According to the complaint, bots bypassed Reddit and Google anti-scraping defenses to harvest billions of comment pages, then fed them into Perplexity's "answer engine." Reddit says citations to its content exploded fortyfold after a 2024 cease-and-desist.
Perplexity retorts that it merely summarizes public posts and doesn't train foundation models, calling Reddit's demand for payment "extortion." |
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The lawsuit follows Reddit's earlier case against Anthropic and lands as the platform monetizes its trove via licensing deals with Google and OpenAI—now worth nearly 10% of Reddit's revenue. Legal experts say the outcome could define how user-generated content is priced in the AI era. If Reddit prevails, AI startups may face hefty licensing tabs or lose a beloved knowledge base. If Perplexity wins, "open internet" arguments get turbocharged, and Reddit's API protests of 2023 might feel quaint.
Calling the scraping partners "would-be bank robbers" while reserving "North Korean hacker" for Perplexity itself really sets the mood for settlement talks. |
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Phishers Fake LastPass 'Death' Requests |
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The email includes a bogus agent ID and an urgent cancel link that leads to a fraudulent "LastPass Recovery" website. Enter your master password there, and CryptoChameleon (aka UNC5356) crooks can drain your crypto or swipe newly supported passkeys. Some victims even got follow-up calls from fake support reps. Bottom line: LastPass never asks for your master password—living or otherwise. Some advice? If someone pronounces you dead via email, let them attend the funeral alone. |
Galaxy S25 Zero-Day Turns Phone Into Spy Cam |
At Pwn2Own Ireland, where hackers bagged over $1 million for 73 zero-days, Interrupt Labs pocketed $50,000 by chaining an input-validation flaw that silently flips on the Samsung S25's camera and GPS.
The remote exploit evaded all defenses and required zero taps.
Samsung hasn't patched it yet, so enable automatic updates, avoid sketchy networks, and maybe keep a sticky note over that lens for now.
Hilariously, the same team also loaded Doom on a printer LCD for fun at the event. When they do that, you know your phone's fair game. |
Anthropic Locks In 1 Million Google TPUs |
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The mega-deal boosts Broadcom, which designs Google's TPUs, and pressures investor-slash-rival AWS to keep its "primary training partner" status. For Google, it's a marquee win that could lure other AI darlings away from Nvidia shortages.
Expect fiercer cloud bidding wars—and even bigger model checkpoints—as TPUs finally find their breakout moment. Somewhere, a data center HVAC engineer just fainted at the word "gigawatt." |
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Justin Meyers is an investigative writer and editor who draws on over a decade of meticulous hands-on research to deliver the full, trustworthy story behind consumer and enterprise tech, including cybersecurity. |
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