Virtual Assistant Side Hustle: How to Start and What You Can Earn in 2026
A virtual assistant side hustle lets you earn from admin, inbox, social media or bookkeeping work around your day job. See real 2026 pay data, Upwork and Fiverr…
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Apple Had LG Quietly Build Its New Smart Home Gadgets, and Apple’s Name Is Nowhere on the Paperwork
LG has filed FCC and UL paperwork for seven smart home devices, a doorbell, cameras, a deadbolt lock,…
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Hackers Turned ASOS’s Own App Into a Ransom Note, and Its Shares Dropped 13%
ASOS customers got a push notification today meant for the company's own IT team, warning hackers had compromised…
OpenAI Is Putting Ads Inside ChatGPT Now, Starting With the Pictures It Draws You
OpenAI has started testing a visual ad format inside ChatGPT, beginning with placements alongside AI-generated images, with ad…
Brett Adcock’s Hark Just Shipped Its First AI Assistant, and Privacy Is the Whole Pitch
Hark, the AI startup that raised $700 million at a $6 billion valuation, launched its first product today:…
South Korea’s President Says AI Helped Hackers Breach a Major Bank
South Korea is investigating whether AI tools helped an attacker breach Shinhan Bank, exposing data on roughly 25,000…
Anthropic Wants to Train Claude on Your Voice. Here’s What the New Opt-In Actually Does.
Anthropic added a new setting letting Claude users share voice recordings from voice mode for AI model training.…
Google Just Paused Part of Its Bug Bounty Program Because AI Keeps Lying About Vulnerabilities
Google paused product vulnerability submissions to its open source bug bounty program on October 1 after a "significant…
An AI Agent Startup With 14 Employees Just Raised $1 Billion at a $10 Billion Valuation
Instinct raised a $1 billion Series C led by Sequoia, Benchmark, and Coatue at a $10 billion valuation,…
This AI Startup Is Booking 50,000 Car Dealership Appointments a Month, and Toyota Is Funding It
Flai raised $27 million as its AI phone software for car dealerships crossed 50,000 booked appointments a month,…
A 19-Year-Old Just Raised $11 Million to Sell You a $3,499 Computer That Only Runs AI
Ghost, founded by 19-year-old Zain Javaid, emerged from stealth with an $11 million a16z-led seed round to sell…
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