Hey there, Tech Insiders! Today in tech: it’s getting personal. ChatGPT shops smarter, Chrome shuts creepers down, gas stations get hacked, and Meta’s AI knows your secrets. Oh—and prompt engineers? Toast. |
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Here's What You Need to Know Today: |
- ChatGPT’s New Shopping Tool Hits Google Where It Hurts
- Why Hackers Are Eyeing Your Gas Station—and It’s Not for Snacks
- Chrome 136 Slams the Door on Creepy Link Tracking
- From Dream Job to Dead Weight: Prompt Engineers Get the Boot
- Meta’s New AI App Knows Way Too Much About You
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OpenAI Challenges Google Shopping with ChatGPT Product Search |
Heads-up, Google: OpenAI isn’t just after Chrome. It’s coming for your shopping crowd, too. The latest ChatGPT update transforms the chatbot into a sleek, ad-free shopping assistant that helps you find and compare products through natural conversation. Looking for a compact espresso machine for under $200? ChatGPT will provide curated picks with images, prices, star ratings, and an “Ask about this” button for follow-up questions. |
Now rolling out to all users (including those not logged in), this feature taps into editorial reviews and forums like Reddit instead of paid placements, making the results feel more authentic and tailored. Although you can’t complete orders entirely via ChatGPT just yet, it will send you straight to trusted retailers like Amazon and Walmart to finish your purchase. Why It Matters: This isn’t just a cool feature—it’s a paradigm shift. Instead of wading through ads, sponsored listings, and SEO-stuffed pages, users can now have natural conversations to discover what they actually want. It’s shopping reimagined: faster, smarter, and built around human intent, not algorithms. For Google, this isn’t just competition—it’s a direct hit to its ad-driven model. For consumers, it means more control, more trust, and way less noise. The future of e-commerce is here—and it talks back. |
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Meta’s New AI App Knows You Well—Because You Already Told It Everything |
Meta just launched its own stand-alone AI app, betting that years of your personal data will give it an edge over rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic. The app taps into what you’ve shared on Facebook and Instagram to deliver eerily personalized responses, from vacation tips to emoji summaries of your personality. |
Although Meta promises control over what’s shared, the AI’s memory of your likes, habits, and quirks could be a privacy minefield—especially from a company built on turning data into dollars. Let’s just hope it doesn’t remember your 2009 status updates. |
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Hacking the Pumps: Fuel Gauge Flaws Could Cripple Gas Stations |
Gas stations are inherently at risk, says Umbelino. Image Source: visao.pt. |
Hackers could compromise these automatic tank gauges (ATGs) to fake tank data, disable pumps, or damage equipment, forcing shutdowns and sparking wider disruptions. Umbelino compared the threat to the Colonial Pipeline incident, where panic, not direct control, caused chaos. |
Official Chrome 136 Slams the Door on 20-Year-Old Privacy Flaw |
Google just dropped the official Chrome 136 release, and it’s a gamechanger…for privacy, at least. After two decades, the browser finally patched a major security hole that allows websites to spy on your browsing history through a simple CSS trick. With a new “triple-key partitioning” method for tracking visited links, Chrome now blocks cross-site snooping, keeping your history where it belongs. But, as with any new release, it remains to be seen how many hidden risks are still lurking beneath the browser’s shiny new surface. Your secret obsession with conspiracy blogs? Chrome’s got your back. |
From Hype to Has-Been: Prompt Engineering Is Officially DOA |
It was supposed to be the golden ticket—six figures for crafting clever prompts. But the buzz around prompt engineering has all but evaporated. As generative AI models grow more intuitive and self-guided, the need for a middleman to "speak AI" is disappearing fast. |
Hiring trends confirm it: companies aren’t looking for prompt whisperers anymore. They’re prioritizing core AI talent and empowering broader teams to learn the basics. Why pay for translation when the AI already speaks human (well enough)? RIP, prompt engineering. We barely prompted ye. |
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