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These are the daily tech headlines for Monday, October 27, 2025. JENNIFER I'm Jen Kutter. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple plans to bring advertising to Apple Maps with a plan to start the ads as early as next year. Businesses like restaurants would be able to pay to prominently be featured within the app, similar to search ads in the App Store, Gurman says. Sources claims the Maps ads will have a better interface than what Google and other companies offer inside of mapping services and will also leverage AI the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission announced legal action against Microsoft Australia and the Microsoft Corporation for allegedly misleading the Australian customers over Microsoft 365 subscriptions due to the integration of Copilot AI, the ACCC alleges. Microsoft told existing subscribers of Microsoft 365 personal and family plans and they must accept higher prices or cancel their subscription without referencing the existence of a classic plan at a lower price. The classic plan only became visible if a user attempted to cancel a subscription. The ACCC's statement notes were concerned that Microsoft's communications denied its customers the opportunity to make informed decisions. A Wired report by Katt ten Barge examines a trend among real estate agents to use AI generated videos for house walkthroughs, including apps to unyello. The videos, attempting to disguise that a video may be AI errors like stairways leading to nowhere remain licensed Realtor and co founder of the American Real Estate Association Jason Haber said, why would I send my photos of an empty room to a virtual stager, have them spend four days and just send it back to me at a charge of 500 bucks when I can just do it in ChatGPT for free in 45 seconds? Haber also stated agents must disclose the use of AI, same as disclosures for virtual stagings. Researchers at Datadog Security Labs developed a new phishing technique called Cofish using Microsoft Copilot Studio agents delivering fraudulent OAuth consent requests from trusted Microsoft domains. Copilot Studio agents are chatbots to aid workflows hosted on copilotstudio.Microsoft.com and are able to be shared. A user could then log in through the legitimate seeming cofish agent which could direct the user to request a verification code or be directed to a different service, a Microsoft spokesperson told Bleeping Computer. We've investigated this report and are taking action to address it through future product upgrades beginning November 3rd. The currently rolling out Samsung family update to its Smart Fridges will include a UI upgrade featuring a new widget that will display useful day to day information such as news, calendar and weather forecasts, along with curated advertisements. The ads will appear at the bottom of the fridges screen for US models with 21.5 and 32 inch screens, and will not appear when Cover Screen displays art or album themes, Samsung's press release states. Family Hub owners will have a settings option to turn off Cover screen ads. Over the weekend on threads, Instagram head Adam Mosseri showed the new Watch history setting for reels. Similar to YouTube's Watch History feature, previously watched reels can be sorted by date watched, oldest to newest or newest to oldest, searched from a range of dates or specific date, or from specific accounts. The feature can be activated from settings your Activity watch history. The twitter.com domain is set to be retired and the account on X tweeted that users with a hardware security key like Yubikeys or a PassKey as their two FA will need to re enroll to associate with the x.com domain. Users have until November 10th to make the switch or their account will be locked and a ResetEra forum post claims the Windows 11 public beta of Microsoft's Gaming Copilot feature, integrated into the Xbox Game Bar, was automatically installed and sending traffic to Microsoft, including data of a game currently under NDA. Microsoft sent a statement to Tom's Hardware saying these screenshots are not used to train AI models and Gaming Copilot is an optional feature that only has access to gameplay when you're playing a game and actively using it. The statement further notes that Gaming Copilot may use text and voice conversations with players to train and improve AI, and that the privacy settings can be adjusted. For more discussion on the Tech News of the Day subscribe to the Daily Tech news show@dailytechnewshow.com where you can also find the show notes and links to every headline. Please remember to rate and review Daily Tech Headlines on your podcast service of choice from everyone here at Daily Tech Headlines. Thanks for listening.