News

Poilievre to Force Banks, Telecoms to Block Scams Targeting Seniors

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he’ll make banks and cell phone companies legally responsible for stopping scams that target Canadian seniors, if his party forms the next government. In a press conference held in Montreal today, Poilievre laid out a plan that would require financial institutions and telecoms to use real-time fraud detection tools to...

Apple’s Private AI Training Is Coming to More Features

Apple is using new privacy-friendly AI methods to improve features in Apple Intelligence—without ever seeing your private data. According to Apple’s machine learning research website, these tools help the company understand how people use features like Genmoji and email summaries, but they don’t collect or store anything personal. To figure out what kinds of Genmoji...

OpenAI Drops GPT-4.1: Smarter, Faster and Cheaper AI Is Here

OpenAI just launched a new set of AI models called the GPT-4.1 family, and they’re a big step up from previous versions. These models—GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano—are now available to developers through OpenAI’s API (the naming scheme could get better me thinks). They improve on everything from coding to understanding long documents, and...

Apple Canada: Get Over $650 Off iPhone 16 Pro Max with Trade-In

Apple latest marketing email to customers in Canada is pushing people to trade-in their older iPhones to save up to $655 off the latest iPhone 16 Pro Max. In an email sent out this morning received by iPhone in Canada, Apple says “see what you’ve been missing” and mentions, “trade in and save up to...

Mark Carney Vows to Revive Trudeau’s Online Censorship Plan

Liberal leader and Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government will take a third shot at regulating harmful online content if re-elected, calling digital hate and misinformation a threat to Canadians. According to a report from Western Standard, Carney made the comments during a campaign rally in Hamilton last week. “There are many serious issues...