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Gemini’s new AI agent is about as good as Google’s demo

1 June 2026 at 21:00

Google's new "24/7" AI agent, Gemini Spark, can be shockingly good at doing things on your behalf. But I'm not sure it's worth the financial cost and potential privacy tradeoffs.

The company gave me access to Spark last week. Google advertises Spark as an AI agent that can take on tasks and work on them in the background - even tasks that have multiple steps - allowing you to put your phone down or walk away from your computer. It also advertises at the very top of the Spark website that it's "always under your direction," that "you choose to turn it on," and that "it's designed to check with you before taking major actions." Given the moun …

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Mundial 2026: Os cibercriminosos já aqueceram e há muito mais em jogo do que futebol

1 June 2026 at 16:55

Bilhetes falsos, lojas fraudulentas, phishing temático e até kits de fraude associados ao Mundial FIFA 2026 estão à venda na dark web. As empresas de cibersegurança revelam as principais ameaças e pedem cuidados redobrados.

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Two space shuttle-era spacewalkers enter Astronaut Hall of Fame

23 May 2026 at 12:30

Tom Akers and Joe Tanner are finally in the same class.

The two veteran space shuttle crew members were inducted into the US Astronaut Hall of Fame together on May 16. They could also have been in the same NASA astronaut selection group, too, had history played out a little differently.

In 1984, Tanner reported to the Johnson Space Center (JSC) to fly as an instructor pilot and then applied for the next class of astronaut candidates.

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