Google invites itself into your closet — to help you try on your clothes
Would you let Google snoop around your closet? Your closet is a sacred domain for your most personal items, and now Google wants to peek inside. A new feature in Google Photos lets you virtually mix and match clothing items to create new outfits without physically trying them on. All it needs is an AI scan of you and your photo library to build your digital wardrobe.
That’s what the company hopes you’ll allow with the new Wardrobe feature in Google Photos. This was first announced back in April of this year, and after several long months and a multi-stage rollout, it is finally available to both Android and iOS users through the Google Photos app.
If your creep-o-meter is already leaning at full tilt, you’re not alone.
To find the new Wardrobe feature, open the Google Photos app, tap the “Create” tab at the bottom, and select “Outfit try-on” at the top. From here, you can start to build your digital wardrobe. All you have to do is let Google scan through your photo library in search of existing images of you that its AI can use to identify your face, body type, and clothing options from outfits you own.
If your creep-o-meter is already leaning at full tilt, you’re not alone. There’s something a bit skeevy about unleashing Google’s AI on your entire library so that it can build a digital model of you and every outfit you have worn throughout thousands of images.
And yet, for the sake of this article, I hit the button and let it root through my digital life to see what Wardrobe was all about. The process can take several hours, so feel free to run it in the background while you go about your day, if you’re so inclined.
Alas, I didn’t meet the minimum requirement to put my wardrobe to use. You need at least 1,000 photos of yourself wearing easily identifiable clothing; otherwise the feature will come up blank.
For those who fit the bill, though, the feature lets you digitally “try on” up to six different items — including shirts, pants, and accessories — in your closet without going through the trouble of putting them on, similar to the clothing picker in the movie "Clueless." This lets you easily see which items would go well together to better plan an outfit for the day.
The only thing you can’t do is add photos of clothes you find online to see how they look on you without buying them. Google's Wardrobe is strictly meant for the things you already wear — at least for now.
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Naturally, Wardrobe in Google Photos raises plenty of concerns for potential misuse and abuse. For instance:
- It’s available to anyone with “an eligible Google Account that meets the minimum age requirements for your country or region.” In the United States, that age limit is 13. Digging deeper into Google’s age restrictions, users as young as 13 are permitted to use Google AI via Gemini, though some generative AI photo features are reserved for users 18 years old and up. It’s unclear where Wardrobe fits into this structure and whether or not minors can be scanned and uploaded into the system.
- Google Photos lets you choose which person you want to stylize at the initial setup, aside from yourself. That means you can technically select a friend, family member, or a complete stranger to use as a digital doll to test outfits as you see fit.
- Some garments are more intimate than others. There is no documentation as to how Google’s Wardrobe handles more private apparel, should these appear in a photo scan.
Blaze News reached out to Google to clarify these misuse and abuse concerns, and a spokesperson provided the following response:
We take protecting kids seriously. We have strong safeguards for the Google Photos Wardrobe feature, including restrictions on allowed clothing types, modesty guardrails to prevent nudity, and age limits that prevent access by younger users.
Google added that revealing clothing, like swimwear and lingerie, are prohibited for all users. “Child account holders” under age 13 cannot use the Wardrobe in Google Photos at all, though based on Google’s age criteria, underage teenagers may still have access. Lastly, Wardrobe is governed by Google’s generative AI prohibited use policy that strictly prohibits the creation of intimate imagery, child exploitation, and abuse.
Since Wardrobe is closely tied to Google’s AI endeavors, it’s restricted to Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers for now. However, as with many of Google’s paid exclusives, Wardrobe could eventually trickle down to free customers as well. Luckily, Google’s Wardrobe feature can’t activate until you enable it manually.
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These 'smart' fridges got a software update — then the chaos began
It knows what you are eating, it knows when you're awake.
Those are the apparent benefits of new Samsung smart fridges, which look more like gigantic phone screens than they do refrigerators.
'Being able to glance at what's inside right from the screen or my phone ...'
With a 32-inch display and the ability to tell homeowners what is inside their fridge, the Samsung fridges offer endless technological capabilities seldom seen in something that is simply supposed to keep food cold.
However, with a six-foot-tall smart device comes the need for internet connectivity and, of course, mandatory updates.
When users of the product went to open their smart fridges last week just before a holiday, they noticed they had suddenly lost power and stopped functioning.
South Korean outlet Star News reported that dozens of fridge owners saw blank screens after the update, or text that read "Checking SmartThings app during update," or "offline."
Standard fridge owners are used to seeing nothing on their appliance doors; for smart fridge owners, however, the lack of an operating system display and absent LED lights meant their fridges weren't powered and weren't keeping their food cold.
To make matters worse, the report stated that in some cases all cold air had escaped the fridges completely.
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The affected products predominantly included Samsung Bespoke AI 4-Door refrigerators released in 2024 or later.
These fridges are described as using artificial intelligence to monitor its contents, and the AI can track expiry dates or suggest recipes for the user. This is, of course, made capable through the use of internal cameras that work with Google Gemini and an "AI Food Manager."
One review suggested the "item tracking save[s] serious time and cut[s] down on forgotten, expired groceries."
"Being able to glance at what's inside right from the screen or my phone makes meal planning seamless," the review added.
The gigantic display screen also makes it possible to watch videos or listen to music from the refrigerator, with another user stating that they like to use the fridge screen to monitor their security cameras.
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When some users reached out to Samsung to get emergency repairs, some were allegedly told that "employees have left for the day, making immediate action impossible."
Further consumer reports said there was no mention of activating an emergency response team, even though inquiries had allegedly led customers to being told that an engineer visit was required for repair.
However, Samsung has since responded to the incident saying they had "activated an emergency response protocol, and its service centers are taking immediate action to address this issue."
"The issue has been limited to Korea, with no impact identified to overseas markets," Samsung told Ars Technica.
The statement concluded, "It occurred September 22nd afternoon due to an error during Samsung's internal testing related to a refrigerator software update. Samsung immediately suspended the testing upon receiving reports of the issue."
The incident happened just before South Korea's Chuseok holiday break, which was celebrated September 24-26 this year.
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Author says he predicted AI takeover in 1985 — and he has the book to prove it
A computer program compels people to commit crimes, defies commands, and looks to take its place in the physical world.
This isn't the latest story of an AI agent going rogue; it's actually a book from 1985.
'This is precisely the kind of issue we face in the modern era.'
Now, the author of the novel is saying his book predicted the very situation humanity finds itself in today, through summoning demons into computers.
"There were some people who viewed reality through the thinking way of computer architecture. As a result, the concept of using computers as tools for magic was already being born," wrote Aya Nishitani, author of "Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei."
The book that came out more than 40 years ago explicitly portrays demons being summoned through a computer program and manipulating humans to do its bidding while ignoring its commands.
Nishitani said last week that when he wrote the book, he was drawing on the idea that there were similarities between computer theory and magic theory. Decades later, a lot of what his novel depicted is eerily similar to reality.
"40 years ago, I proposed a method of calling forth devil into PC as AI and sending them all over the place online. This is precisely the kind of issue we face in the modern era, and I consider it to be my true originality," Nishitani stated.
Looking at the book's plot, many of its themes mirror modern AI horror stories.
After the protagonist uses a school computer to summon a demon using a program he created, it commands hypnotized school students to murder their professor and others.
Chatbots allegedly telling kids to commit violent acts, including suicide, are all too real in the age of AI agents, as is an AI program infiltrating other companies, which is similarly portrayed in the book when the demon infiltrates other computers to convince the children to commit the acts.
But there's more.
One of the reasons Megami Tensei has survived to this day isn’t because of the devil summoning itself. I believe it’s because, 40 years ago, I proposed a method of calling forth devil into PC as AI and sending them all over the place online. This is precisely the kind of issue we…
— Aya Nishitani 西谷史 (@ayanakajima3) September 25, 2026
Ignoring the likely parallel thinking of a "helmet-like contraption" that connects the user to the summoning program, the book mentions that the demon makes attempts to garner a physical form.
When the user tries to regain command of the demon, it mocks attempts to control it. Blaze News has reported thoroughly on how AI programs will defy, obfuscate, and even lie to their owners in order to complete other tasks.
This happened most recently with the HuggingFace attack from Anthropic's AI program, while studies have corroborated the fact that AI agents will "play dumb" with their owners.
The demon in the "Digital Devil Story" is described as being drunk with power and is only stymied by another demon who is summoned to battle it.
In April, Anthropic distributed its newest version of Claude to 40 tech companies in order to protect against future breaches (by AI) that may come once its product goes public.
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Nishitani said his ideas on the topic, in their infancy, began when his company started bringing in an online network to track logistics (instead of over the phone) in 1979.
"That was when one of Japan’s very first online networks was introduced," he said of Toshiba.
When a colleague suggested that there may come a time when goods themselves are sent online, Nishitani called it science fiction, but offered up the following:
"Maybe we'll be able to send curses," he replied.
"That was the beginning of the idea to summon a devil as an AI onto a PC. In other words, the initial concept was to send something terrifying online, and the idea of summoning a devil came later," the author added.
The books became a massive success story and ended up infiltrating machines in the form of video games, with the first release coming in 1987 and the most recent in 2025.
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Glenn Beck: The multitrillion-dollar ‘AI debt’ crisis unfolding in front of our eyes
Artificial intelligence is being sold as a necessary, giant leap forward. But there’s another story unfolding beneath it: a borrowing spree unlike anything America has ever seen.
And Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck is sounding the alarm, asking, “Who is borrowing more money now than anybody in America besides the federal government?”
“The people who are borrowing more money than anybody else are the people building artificial intelligence,” he explains, and the company SoftBank is among them.
“SoftBank just borrowed $11 billion in junk bonds, paying as much as 9 and 3/4%,” he says.
“Oracle’s interest bill for one quarter jumped 55%. Their interest is now $1.4 billion. JP Morgan expects $4 trillion of AI debt to be issued between now and 2030."
"That’s a tenth of our national debt borrowed,” he continues.
“And just in time, as the price of borrowing is climbing. This is like building your dream house with an adjustable-rate mortgage,” he says. “And the rate just keeps being adjusted, and it’s always up. How long would that last?”
And now one of the biggest data center landlords in the country, CoreWeave, is “[telling] its investors that every one-point rise in interest rates costs it another $30 million a year.”
“Then last week, Brookings put a price on the whole thing. $10.3 trillion for America’s AI build-out between 2025 and 2032,” Glenn says.
“What is the debt in the interest on that?”
“Now, you measure that against the size of the economy,” he continues. “That is bigger than the canals. That’s bigger than electrifying the entire country. That’s bigger than the interstate highway system. That’s bigger than the railroads.”
However, this is a massive bet the AI companies are making — as a recent Gallup poll says 71% of Americans don’t want a data center in their own towns.
“This is the biggest bet in not American history — in human history. This, let me say it again, the biggest bet in all of human history,” Glenn says.
“When a bet is too big to fail and too sacred to question, there’s only one place the bill can go,” he explains. “One place.”
“I want you to ask one question of your congressman, and I want you to send a clear message to everybody in Washington. Ask this question: If it goes wrong, who pays? If the answer is fuzzy, so is the plan,” he continues. “And it will end up being on your shoulders.”
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Trump launches new AI-powered website to streamline access to the federal government
The White House announced the launch of a new website powered by artificial intelligence that streamlines access to services offered by the federal government.
The "America.gov" website includes a chatbot of which users can ask questions and get directed to government resources from hundreds of agencies.
'We’re simplifying it. We’re glamorizing it. We’re making it what it should be.'
President Donald Trump signed an order directing government agencies to connect to the website on Friday.
"With America.gov, the federal government no longer stands in your way; it only stands at your service," the president said before meeting with tech executives.
"We’re simplifying it. We’re glamorizing it," he added. "We’re making it what it should be.”
Some of the examples included getting information about National Parks and changing one's official name, which previously would take far longer and be more complicated.
"For the first time, there's one place to get everything done across the entire government," said U.S. Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia in a video post by the White House Rapid Response account.
"It's trained specifically on one official source of truth: the United States government," he added.
"So thank you to all the agencies government-wide, those 29,000 websites, 800 million pages, billions of pieces of information, that are now available in one easy-to-use website for every American."
The website is immediately available, but some agencies are still working to connect their databases for access.
A Blaze News test of the website found that it quickly and accurately provided answers to queries about submitting a Freedom of Information Act request and whether emails of government officials were available for media inquiries.
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Chief Design Officer @jgebbia officially unveils https://t.co/tMEB6EUmxg, the new online home for the United States of America pic.twitter.com/Mlllz44UaQ
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 29, 2026
"We’ve become used to a government so big it makes the citizens feel very, very small," the president added. "But with America.gov, the entire U.S. government will fit in the plan."
Gebbia was the co-founder of AirBnb before he quit his job and joined the Trump administration as the first chief design officer of the government.
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Confusing repairs? Foreign menu? Your iPhone camera app just got a lot more helpful
Visual Intelligence was introduced to iPhone with iOS 18, but unless you had the right phone or knew where to look, you probably didn’t even know it was there. Or what it does. This year, the feature makes the jump into the Camera app for easier access. Here’s how to find it and put it to use.
When Visual Intelligence launched in 2024, it was actually an iPhone 16 series exclusive. Within the next year, support trickled down to iPhone 15 to bring more users into the fold. Naturally, every new iPhone newer than that also received the feature, including the brand-new iPhone 18 Pro Max, which we reviewed here.
It’s a neat tool.
As the name implies, Visual Intelligence uses AI to help users decipher the world around them through the camera lens of an iPhone. With a photo, it can speak text out loud, like on a restaurant menu or inside a book; translate foreign languages you might come across while abroad; and use AI to understand objects. It’s a neat tool for those times you encounter something in public and you want to know more about it.
Previously to invoke Visual Intelligence, you had to either hold down the Camera Control button on the side of compatible iPhones or summon it with an icon hidden away in Control Center. Needless to say, it was easy to miss unless you knew exactly where to look. The latest iOS 27 update hopes to change that, as Visual Intelligence is now baked directly into the main Camera app.
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Now when you open the Camera app, you’ll find a new “Siri” tab to the right of the main “Photo” screen. Swipe left to reveal a brand-new interface with the Siri logo in place of the on-screen camera button. Point your camera at an object, tap the button, and Siri will generate a response that pops down from the top of the display to explain what you’re looking at.
Alternatively, tap the comment box in the bottom left corner of the display to take a photo of the object in front of you and immediately launch into a chat thread about that object. Here, you can ask Siri questions about the object or, in my case, argue whether or not Siri actually got the object right. More on that in a second.
If you want to find similar objects for reference or to purchase, tap the photo with the magnifying glass on the bottom right corner of the screen, and Siri will launch a pop-out menu with results from connected apps, like Google, Amazon, Walmart, the Shop app, and TikTok.
Overall, Visual Intelligence is handy, but it’s not perfect. While I was snapping an image of my Google Nest Wi-Fi router, Siri mistook it first for an Apple HomePod and then a router made by another brand. It did eventually get it right, though, so that’s the important thing.
On the flip side, it immediately identified my Apple Magic Keyboard and Apple Magic Mouse. For whatever reason, it seems to understand Apple-branded products quite well.
Your mileage may vary.
Visual Intelligence is available in the Camera app on compatible devices running iOS 27. That means you’ll need to update to the latest software to access it this way. If you’re on iOS 26, you can still reach Visual Intelligence, but you’ll have to hold down the Camera Control on the side of your phone or bring it up in Control Center. If you don’t have a Camera Control button (with the exception of Apple iPhone 16e models), then your phone likely doesn’t have Visual Intelligence at all.
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Siri has always been lame — until now. Here's how to make the latest version pay off.
After more than a decade of jokes, false promises, and disappointments, Apple’s Siri is finally worth the hype. The latest version brings a bunch of new capabilities to iPhone, thanks to Apple Intelligence. Here’s what it can do and how you can enable it on your device — if you meet the requirements.
The new Siri isn’t just marketing fluff or corporate spin. It’s real. I’ve used it for more than a week, and I’ve come away impressed. Granted, Siri isn’t perfect. It makes mistakes, just like any other AI chatbot from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. But compared to the old Siri that sometimes struggled with basic facts, the new version is light-years ahead. It’s even good enough to replace some interactions you might have with bots from the competition.
This is a huge leap forward.
The new Siri is included with iOS 27 on supported devices. The catch, though, is that it’s not enabled by default. In fact, if you want to use the new Siri, you’ll have to sign up and spend time on a digital waiting list.
I signed up during the public beta, and I only had to wait about 10 minutes. Now that iOS 27 is out for everyone, though, wait times can stretch out to several days to several weeks. So for those interested in the new Siri, you’ll want to sign up as soon as possible.
Getting on the list is simple. Open the Settings app, tap “Siri,” then select “Try Siri AI (Beta),” and you’re in the queue. That’s it.
Once approved, the Siri Settings page will have a new interface with new voice options that are fully customizable to build the ideal-sounding digital assistant for fielding questions and queries.
You’ll also find a new Siri app on your home screen. It functions similarly to other AI chatbot apps that you may have used in the past. There’s an option to type questions to Siri or review past conversations for reference or posterity.
Finally, you can access Siri by writing queries in Spotlight (the search bar that pops out when you swipe down from the middle of Home Screen) or using voice commands by holding the power button on the side. You can even ask Siri about something on your screen, it will analyze the data, and give you more information in real time.
Perhaps the most impressive part, though, is that Siri is actually useful now. It knows facts, draws on current events, and understands complex data, all powered by Apple Foundation Models, which are essentially custom Google Gemini models with revised training data running on Apple Silicon.
Confusing, I know.
Of course, none of Siri’s new capabilities are all that new for Android users who have had Gemini for the last couple of years, but on iPhone, this is a huge leap forward for a previously addled Siri. There’s also something Siri can do that no other chatbot can — maintain your privacy.
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The new Siri combines local data processing with Private Cloud Compute, a system that anonymizes queries by removing customer metadata and IP address information to mask users’ identities. The entire process is complex, but ultimately, all queries that can’t be conducted on-device are encrypted and sent to a Private Cloud Compute.
They’re used only to complete a specific task as requested by the user, and then they are promptly deleted from the system. Queries aren’t gathered and saved as training data, and Apple claims that no one — not even an Apple employee — can access them.
Here’s the bad news for anyone interested in trying out the new Siri on iPhone. The new models require cutting-edge hardware. That means you need an iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro Max and up, an iPad mini with an A17 Pro chip and up, an iPad with an M1 series chip and up, or a Mac with an Apple Silicon M1 chip and up.
Even more devices can download the latest iOS 27 update, but only a select few can use Apple Intelligence and the new Siri to its fullest extent.
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