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“I’m doing awesome! Love you. Good night,” he wrote. Then he stayed up late, chatting with an upset friend, consoling her that those feelings wouldn’t last. The next day, a roommate found him. He had hanged himself from a ceiling fan, using a scarf and ties. Charlie was loved, but he was also hurting. Recently, Stephenson, a crisis communications consultant …

Kenneth Cheung/Getty Images AI is an impressive tool, and companies like Google and OpenAI continue to improve and expand upon what their models can do. At the same time, generative AI chatbots are also becoming bigger targets for bad actors, and now security researchers have found a way to hack someone’s Google …

Google is changing the way you confirm if contacts are legit. The company has begun rolling out a QR code to verify that the person you’re communicating with is, in fact, who they say they are, 9to5Google reports. The feature is currently available in beta. An end-to-end encryption card isn’t anything new, but verifying the encryption meant seeing an 80-digit …

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker spoke at a news conference Monday afternoon, addressing reports President Trump is planning to send the military to Chicago. Here is the full text of his remarks. I want to speak plainly about the moment that we are in and the actual crisis, not the manufactured one, that we are facing in this city, and as …

Amid a fierce debate about the environmental toll of artificial intelligence, Google released a new study that says its Gemini AI assistant only uses a minimal amount of water and energy for each text prompt. But experts say that the tech giant’s claims are misleading. Google estimates that a median Gemini text prompt uses up about five drops of water, …

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET’s key takeaways Google Messages now lets you delete a sent text message. A deleted message disappears for the other person immediately. The feature is available now for almost all Android users. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Android users finally have an …

Authorities in Florida have found the body of missing North Carolina teen Giovanni Pelletier, 18, in a tragic end to the week-long search for the teen.  His decomposing remains were found in a retention pond off I-75 and State Road 70 on Friday, according to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office. The body was formally identified on Saturday afternoon.  The area …

Kirill Stytsenko/Getty Images ZDNET’s key takeaways People are using AI to write sensitive messages to loved ones. Detecting AI-generated text is becoming more difficult as chatbots evolve. Some tech leaders have promoted this use of AI in their marketing strategies. Everyone loves receiving a handwritten letter, but those take time, patience, effort, and sometimes multiple drafts to compose. Most of …

What’s next for Liverpool?published at 21:56 British Summer Time 4 August 21:56 BST 4 August Preparations, just about complete. The next time we’ll see Arne Slot’s side in action will be at Wembley on Sunday, contesting the Community Shield against Crystal Palace. Their Premier League campaign begins just five days later, at home to Bournemouth on Friday, 15 August. How …

Ozzy Osbourne’s longtime guitarist Zakk Wylde revealed the poignant final text message he received from the late metal icon after Black Sabbath’s farewell concert. “The last text I got from Oz was saying, ‘Zakky, sorry, it was like a madhouse back there. I didn’t see you.’ He goes, ‘Thanks for everything,’” Wylde told Guitar World in an interview published Tuesday. …