Russia is testing a 20-kilometer stratospheric balloon relay system after Starlink restrictions disrupted battlefield communications in Russian- controlled territories.

Phil Spencer is retiring from Microsoft after joining the software company 38 years ago, and will be replaced by Instacart's former COO.

Child-safety advocacy coalition ParentsSOS urged the National PTA to end other Big Tech partnerships due to safety and well-being concerns.

Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft Gaming, is retiring, Satya Nadella has announced . Asha Sharma, the President of Microsoft's CoreAI division is taking over Spencer's role, while Sarah Bond, the current President of Xbox, is resigning. "I am long on gaming and its role at the center of our consumer ambition, and as we look ahead, Im excited to share that Asha Sharma will become Executive Vice President and CEO, Microsoft Gaming, reporting to me," Nadella says. "Over the last two years at ..

Samsungs 2025 was filled with new foldables , an ultra-thin new form factor and the launch of Google's XR platform . After making some announcements at CES 2026 , the company has announced its first Galaxy Unpacked of the year will take place on February 25, where it is expected to introduce the Galaxy S26 lineup. Official invites have been shared, but actual information on what devices are arriving then is still not completely confirmed. But as usual, we know a lot about whats expected at ..

Microsoft pulled a year-old blog post this week after a Hacker News thread flagged that it had encouraged developers to download all seven Harry Potter books from a Kaggle dataset -- incorrectly marked as public domain -- and use them to train AI models on the company's Azure platform. The blog, written in November 2024 by senior product manager Pooja Kamath, walked users through building Q&A; systems and generating fan fiction using the copyrighted texts, and even included a Microsoft-branded ..

President Donald Trump's tariffs have forced some e-commerce companies to raise prices and alter their supply chains.

Software stocks have been in sell-off mode in recent weeks on fears that new AI tools will uproot their longstanding business models.

After the US Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trumps tariff regime, investment firms are in line for a whopping return on a niche trade.

Disneyland is investing heavily in reliability upgrades that are already delivering more rides, shorter waits, and smoother visits even as major new attractions remain years away.

This Samsung OLED comes loaded with features specifically for gamers.

OpenAI faces four fundamental strategic problems that no amount of fundraising or capex announcements can paper over, according to analyst Benedict Evans: it has no unique technology, its enormous user base is shallow and fragile, incumbents like Google and Meta are leveraging superior distribution to close the gap, and its product roadmap is dictated by whatever the research labs happen to discover rather than by deliberate product strategy. The company claims 800-900 million weekly active ..

The Pentagon has launched a $100 million contest to develop voice-controlled autonomous drone swarms amid unresolved technical challenges.

Your Pixel can now keep you updated on stocks and sports scores.

YouTube Premium users say their Google Home speakers started playing ads and random music, with Google investigating.

President Donald Trump's tariffs have cost the iPhone-maker about $1 billion each quarter.

Google introduced its Titan M2 security chip with the Pixel 6 devices back in 2021, and it's still present in the Pixel 10 family, but it's obviously getting a little bit long in the tooth after more than four years. The good news is that a new rumor claims the Titan M3 is coming later this year to the Pixel 11 series alongside the Tensor G6 SoC. It's unclear exactly what will be new in the Titan M3, but it is allegedly codenamed Google Epic, so clearly it will be a massive improvement over its ..

AI injury lawyers have filed a new lawsuit against OpenAI over an AI Psychosis case.

Many of President Trump's sweeping tariffs have been struck down in a 6-3 decision from the Supreme Court. What does the decision mean for consumers?

4K unintended installs in very odd supply chain attack Someone compromised open source AI coding assistant Cline CLI's npm package earlier this week in an odd supply chain attack that secretly installed OpenClaw on developers' machines without their knowledge.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Meta product managers are rebranding. Some are now calling themselves "AI builders," a signal that AI coding tools are changing who gets to build software inside the company. One of them, Jeremie Guedj, announced the change in a LinkedIn post last week. "I still can't believe I'm writing this: as of today, my full-time job at Meta is AI Builder," he wrote. Guedj has spent more than a decade as a traditional product manager, a role that sets the road map and ..

Homeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platformafter dismantling centralized privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition.

Those temptingly cheap sensors aren't quite such a bargain if you have to buy IKEA's own $109 / 60 hub to make them work.

Good news: Team shows re-entry pollution can be measured. Bad news: There may be more of it coming The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that burned up over Europe last year left a massive lithium plume in its wake, say a group of scientists. They warn the disaster is likely a sign of things to come as Earth's atmosphere continues to become a heavily trafficked superhighway to space.

A 2023 law championed by Republicans requires the CDC have a director confirmed by the Senate. For months, though, its had only acting directorsand the White House wont say when that will change.

Privacy and encryption are central themes in legal proceedings involving child safety against Meta and Apple this week.

Contacts is cooking up a fix for its recently created too-many-photos problem.

The unusual dual role has renewed criticism of Bhattacharya's lack of leadership.

Up to 8 exaFLOPS of super sparse AI compute Nvidia rival Cerebras Systems' dinner plate-sized accelerators will power a new supercomputing cluster in India capable of 8 exaFLOPS of AI compute.

A federal judge in Miami denied Tesla's bid to overturn a $243 million jury verdict in a high-profile lawsuit over a fatal Autopilot crash.

An anonymous reader shares a report: When will AI movies start showing up in theaters nationwide? It was supposed to be next month. But when word leaked online that an AI short film contest winner was going to start screening before feature presentations in AMC Theatres, the cinema chain decided not to run the content. The issue began earlier this week with the inaugural Frame Forward AI Animated Film Festival announcing Igor Alferov's short film Thanksgiving Day had won the contest. The prize ..

SCOTUS pulls the plug on most of Trump's tariffs.

The MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8G Ventus 2X OC Plus and the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5060 Ti WindForce 8G are the only Blackwell-based graphics cards still at their MSRPs.

Probe says SAAQ misled government and botched rollout caused province-wide disruption A judge-led commission in Quebec has found that the state agency responsible for driver's licenses and license plates misled the Canadian government about a troubled SAP ERP project that ran more than C$245 million ($179 million/132.6 million) over budget.

This could be our last chance at Amazons most ergonomic reader.

Indie publisher and developer Finji has accused TikTok of using generative AI to alter the ads for its games on the platform without its knowledge or permission. Finji, which published indie darlings like Night in the Woods and Tunic , said it only became aware of the seemingly modified ads after being alerted to them by followers of its official TikTok account. As reported by IGN , Finji alleges that one ad that went out on the platform was modified so it displayed a "racist, sexualized" ..