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Zoom is a widely used video conferencing and collaboration platform (Zoom Workplace) offering meetings, chat, and webinar tools for businesses and individuals.
WhatsApp now lets registered users send a call link that people without an account can open in a desktop browser, in calls of up to 32 people. The host admits each guest, and the limits on what guests can do decide which external calls it suits.
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Sublime Security says calendar phishing is growing exponentially as apps like Google Calendar add invites automatically, even from emails sent to spam. That moves the defence from the mail filter to calendar settings and to what staff do with an unexpected meeting.
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Zoom CTO XD Huang says some AI note-taking firms are weighing a move to Scribe, the My Notes speech engine he says leads a benchmark of 60-plus systems. Startups that sign would buy their transcripts from the rival whose note-taker they are trying to beat.
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Jamf Threat Labs reported CloudSyncD, a new macOS backdoor that spreads through a fake Zoom installer and beacons to its server every 8 to 16 seconds. First caught as a VirusTotal sample that looked unfinished, it now appears in builds that connect to live infrastructure in what Jamf calls an active campaign.
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Tom's Guide reports that Apple worked directly with three large apps to fit them to the iPhone Duo's two displays, while the interview names no submission cutoff and no developer program for everyone else shipping on iOS.
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Engadget's reviewer spent part of a WhatsApp call with one of Meta's new holographic avatars before working out it was not a live person. Early access opens this fall on the VR glasses and the Ray-Ban Display frames.
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The procurement platform's Q1 benchmark puts midmarket and enterprise software growth near 20% against 3.5% at small business, and it attributes the gap to multi-year contracts and integrations that make pushback harder.
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A solo developer's live-caption extension needs an offscreen document because MV3's service worker has no Web Audio, and his own measurements price what he paid in seconds of delay to cut the hourly bill 17 times.
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Zoom's venture arm spent $97 million on Anthropic and now carries a multi-billion-dollar mark that other investors price and Zoom cannot yet sell, while the core business grew 5.5 percent last quarter.
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A plastic surgeon writing for STAT counts 1.6 million minimally invasive cosmetic procedures on American men in 2024 and says the consultation now begins in an app. She has swapped general warnings for named harms.
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Reception bundles the voice model, a phone number and a calendar write into a self-serve plan with 75 included minutes a month. That works out at about 39 cents a minute, the rate a home-built inbound agent has to beat.
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ANY.RUN says the kit lures staff with Teams, DocuSign and Dropbox pages, walks them through a genuine device code sign-in, and then takes the access and refresh tokens to register a device of its own.
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Nova reaches general availability as a pre-call briefer and meeting recorder that drafts deal stage, value and close date, then waits for the rep to edit and approve before anything reaches the record.
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Crunchbase counts $7.5 billion across 830 sales, marketing and CRM rounds so far in 2026. The six biggest disclosed deals hold about $2.3 billion of that, leaving roughly $6.3 million apiece for the other 824.
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Superhuman put an internally built meeting notetaker in front of a limited group earlier in 2026 and concluded the category was harder to build than it looked. The hard part is capture, attribution and permissions.
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Siri Recap summarises a wearer's conversations, and there is no audio file at the end of it. The attorneys Bloomberg asked about it say a state eavesdropping charge would reach the wearer.
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The 14S borrows the XPS 13's metal shell and promises 21 hours of Netflix, while Dell points at the $699 XPS as its neighbour without saying what the 14S costs. The MacBook Neo comparison waits on that number.
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Recruiting and document review own this intrusion path, because the hire really does the job. Huntress found its five 2026 cases in passport photo metadata and in a PiKVM turning up on a new starter's laptop.
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The tells in three Huntress cases were login timestamps, duplicate passport scans and a KVM box on a fresh laptop, which puts the people most likely to catch a North Korean hire in HR and IT onboarding rather than in the SOC.
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The Plaud One records over LTE in its charging case and uploads to Plaud's servers without touching a phone or your network, which leaves your recording policy describing tools that are no longer where the audio is.
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