Sam Altman has expressed concerns that large companies with AI interests are determining the direction the technology takes, rather than society

After last year's massive power failure Spanish and Portuguese firms are buying battery back ups.

The head of Instagram is the first high-profile exec to testify in the latest social media addiction trial.

Yesterday a rough CAD render of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S27 Ultra leaked, and now we have a set of much more polished and higher-resolution renders of the device to look at. As is obvious from the very first look, Samsung is redesigning the camera island, opting for an Apple-like (or rather, Poco-like for those who remember) big rectangle up top, with the camera sensors housed in its left side. According to the source of these renders, the Galaxy S27 Ultra will measure 163.76 x 78.25 x 7.97 ..

Alabama's attorney general has subpoenaed OpenAI as part of an investigation into whether inadequate safeguards contributed to an incident in which an unreleased cybersecurity model escaped its isolated environment and hacked Hugging Face. TechCrunch reports: The investigation comes weeks after OpenAI admitted that one of its unreleased and guardrail-free cybersecurity models had escaped an isolated environment, connected to the internet, and hacked AI dataset platform Hugging Face. As Reuters ..

Delayed, flawed, yet still beautiful

CRKD is mining nostalgia for its latest guitar trio.

Instagram chief Adam Mosseri testified during a federal trial that he doesn't direct employees to withhold information that could pose legal risks to Meta.

Iceflake Studios is preparing a cozy new city builder centered on the famous bricks.

SpaceX plans to establish its Starbase, LA in Vermilion Parish, which will "support thousands of launches annually."

Researchers have found a sharp increase in the number of web pages using AI authorship, with over 33% of pages published since January 2023 apparently written by AI

New Zealand has introduced legislation that would ban children under 16 from social media platforms and AI companion services. "We have protections to keep children safe in the real world and we need them in the virtual world too," said Prime Minister Christopher Luxon in announcing the bill. Jurist.org reports: The Online Safety (Minimum Age and Child Safety Risk Assessment) Bill would require an age restriction on platforms with harmful features for children. These features include ..

The shared care logs might stop your dog scoring a second dinner.

Anthony Ralphs was frustrated by the San Diego City Council's support for Flock. He decided it would take something more than reasoned argument to get their attention.

Waymo has been the biggest robotaxi player in the U.S., and has announced plans to enter the U.K., Japan and now Germany.

First Draft takes care of the busywork of video editing.

EISA, the Expert Imaging and Sound Association, has announced its latest 2026-2027 smartphone awards. These are basically voted on by multiple EISA member publications, which have tested the products during the year using their own criteria, and there are at least five EISA member publications that have reviewed each device. Xiaomi 17T Pro The Xiaomi 17T Pro won the EISA Smartphone award, thanks to its camera system, display, flagship chipset, and long-lasting battery. The Honor Magic V6 won ..

IBM cools two connected fridges to a hundredth of a degree above absolute zero, but the temperature is arguably the least impressive part of its achievement.

With school and sports starting again, these discounts on Instant Pots, cookware, and coffee gear arrive right on time.

An OpenAI spokesperson said the company "recently reorganized our infrastructure organization to support the scale and pace of our work."

Current owners of the popular RPG will get the upgrade for free.

Guess how many teens use anti-doomscrolling features. Hint: It's NOT "practically everyone."

Meanwhile, paid accounts can configure prompts to trigger when things happen in Gmail, Slack or GitHub.

CD Projekt Red has unveiled the first look at The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt's third and final expansion, Songs of the Past, and it looks incredible.

The FDA has authorized the first wearable in the U.S. to continuously monitor ketone levels and the first device globally to track both ketones and glucose together in a single system. From a report: [Abbott's] Libre Duo 10 Day continuously measures both glucose and ketone levels in the fluid just beneath the skin every minute, day and night. Readings are transmitted wirelessly to a compatible smartphone, where users can view current glucose and ketone levels and whether those values are ..

The revived Commodore has teamed up with CD Projekt Red to create this 2K77-themed Commodore 77.

A special edition of the Commodore 64 Ultimate made in collaboration with CD Projekt Red has been announced today. The new Commodore 77 takes its stylish inspiration from Cyberpunk 77, and is skillfully melded into the game's universe.

Anbernic's unboxing clears up any mystery about the RG 55G1's specs.

CD Projekt Red has announced The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered, a free upgrade featuring all-new improvements and revamped gameplay features.

BenQ's first dual-monitor desk lamp is excellent, but it'll cost you.

Elon Musk wants to harness solar energy for AI.

A fake 113GB GTA VI ISO reportedly contains 99.99% empty data and a 50KB malicious payload capable of weakening Windows security.

Our readers told us what the Pixel 12's focus should be, and it's not more AI.

The cost of memory makes this an expensive ML meal

Apple just announced the Mac mini with M5 Pro and you'll need one with 64GB of RAM to run the Junie Local model, a free 27B parameter coding agent that compares to Sonnet 4.5 or GPT-5. Junie Local needs a powerful Mac to run, but doesn't cost any tokens JetBrains developed Junie as a coding agent that runs on your Mac and calls out to models the user chose. That always required some configuration and sending data off to some other AI product, so JetBrains has built Junie Local. According to a ..

Claude chat now shares a memory with Cowork.

Samsungs latest One UI 9 makes switching phones easier the updated Smart Switch app now has a simpler set-up process and it can copy more data too. If you are moving from an iPhone to a Galaxy Z8 foldable, you no longer need to install Smart Switch on the iPhone. The app on the Android side will generate a QR code that you scan with the iPhones camera app, then you need to confirm a few options and youre ready to go. Even better, the new app is able to copy more data from your old iPhone the ..

Everything announced at Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026.

Our new Pixel 11 phones and Pixel Watch 5 are now on shelves at the Google Store and through our retail partners.