Why serve up tough HTML when you can offer tasty Markdown? Cloudflare has turned its attention from erecting bot barriers to dangling bot bait.

Gartner says using AI to fix customer gripes could cost more than using humans by 2030 ai-pocalypse AI will not replace the people in the call center, but it will rejigger the software stack to make agents more capable of solving customer issues without the need to swivel-chair into multiple systems or escalate complaints, said Vasili Triant, CEO of UJET.

The leaks keep pouring in and we now have even more official renders of the Galaxy S26 and S26+ thanks to Evan Blass. The pair of upcoming Samsung flagships are shown in Black, Sky Blue and White colors. The two devices look basically identical to thier predecessors. Heres the Galaxy S26: Galaxy S26 in Black And the Galaxy S26+: Galaxy S26+ in Black Galaxy S26+ in Sky Blue Galaxy S26+ in White Samsungs Galaxy S26 and S26+ will be powered by the Exynos 2600 SoC in most regions, and offer the ..

Feb 12 (Reuters) - Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global reported a fourth- quarter loss on Thursday, hit by weaker trading volumes during a period of broad digital-asset selloff. Read full story

The iPhone maker faces reported delays in its AI assistant and pressure from FTC chair Andrew Ferguson to look into possible political bias.

Feb 12 (Reuters) - Anthropic has raised $30 billion in its latest funding round, more than doubling the Claude chatbot maker's valuation to $380 billion and underscoring massive investor interest in the startup and the broader AI industry. Read full story

During its State of Play livestream on Thursday, Sony revealed the first PlayStation Plus Game Catalog addition for February and it's a doozy. Marvels Spider-Man 2 (PS5) will finally websling its way onto the Game Catalog on February 17. Marvels Spider-Man 2 was released in October 2023, and Insomniac's third Spidey game is the the best of the bunch. You can play as both Peter Parker and his protg Miles Morales. Each Spidey has his own skill tree and moveset to master. Traversing New York (with ..

Last year marked 20 years since God of War hit the PlayStation 2 and kicked off one of gaming biggest franchises. Now, at the tail end of that 20th anniversary celebration, Sonys Santa Monica Studio has announced two new project. First, and most significantly, the original God of War trilogy from the PS2 and PS3 is being remade for the modern era. Theres no footage of it yet the developer says that theyre very early in development, so we likely wont see or hear much about this for a while. But ..

LONDON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Comcast-owned Sky's talks with ITV about buying its broadcast channels and streaming platform have slowed in recent weeks, three people with knowledge of the matter said, as the battle to buy Warner Bros Discovery disrupts the industry. Read full story

Cisco shares plunged 12% Thursday after the company issued lukewarm guidance as memory prices weigh on profit margins

Coming off the success of Slient Hill f , which moved the series psychological horror to the Japanese countryside, Konami, Annapurna Interactive and developer Screen Burn Interactive have chosen a foggy island as the setting for Silent Hill: Townfall . The first gameplay trailer for Townfall , introduced during Sonys latest State of Play, follows Simon Ordell, a man who keeps mysteriously waking up in the water off the coast of the empty island town of St. Amelia. In the trailer, Simon hides ..

"Looking ahead to Q1, we expect these headwinds will continue and may become slightly more pronounced," CFO Julia Donnelly told analysts on Thursday.

CEO Chris Rogers said Instacart's technology and customer-oriented approach are driving more growth and engagement to the platform.

BRUSSELS, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Alphabet unit Google risks another EU antitrust headache as regulators said they are concerned that the U.S. tech giant may be unfairly driving online advertising prices higher, a letter to advertisers seen by Reuters showed. Read full story

The Asus Zenbook S 16 was a favorite of ours last year, but the price was always too high. Now it has dropped to $1,000, and its a total steal.

Spotify's best developers haven't written a single line of code since December, the company's co-CEO revealed.

Volume two of the Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection will arrive on August 27, publisher Konami announced today during Sonys latest State of Play presentation. The bundle will feature 2008s Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, the HD remaster of 2010s Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and a selection of bonus content, including Metal Gear: Ghost Babel , which was originally released for Game Boy Color in 2000. All told, thats a smaller selection of games than Konami made available with Vol. ..

Intel has quietly abandoned its pay-to-unlock silicon strategy after enterprises rejected fees for features already built into processors.

Amazon's cloud business is seeing faster growth than expected, and its margin is widening.

Feb 12 (Reuters) - Google is being investigated by the European Union over concerns it is illegally rigging the cost of advertising on its search engine, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. Read full story

Rivian's 2026 guidance includes increasing vehicle deliveries to between 62,000 and 67,000 units, which would be up by 47% to 59% compared to 2025.

Get eight new tools with this Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows lifetime license for only $34.97 now through Feb. 22.

Are you a good bot or a bad bot? More than 30 malicious Chrome extensions installed by at least 260,000 users purport to be helpful AI assistants, but they steal users' API keys, email messages, and other personal data. Even worse: many of these are still available on the Chrome Web Store as of this writing.

OpenAI's new GPT5.3CodexSpark is 15 times faster at coding than its predecessor.

Its been less than three months since we got our first look at Control Resonant , the sequel to Remedys mind-bending, third-person adventure that introduced us to Jesse Faden and the Federal Bureau of Control. At todays State of Play event, we got to see the first extended bit of gameplay from Control Resonant and the combat looks as inspired as ever, though the setting is completely new. As we learned in December, the next Control games doesnt focus on Jesse Faden; instead, youll primarily ..

Sonys first State of Play stream of the year included an update on Mina the Hollower, the latest title from Shovel Knight studio Yacht Club Games. Its now slated to arrive sometime this spring. The developer initially planned to release the retro-style action-adventure platformer on Halloween last year , but delayed it to to apply some final polish and balancing to make the game truly shine. While Mina the Hollower didnt make its original Halloween release date, at least the new demo, which ..

When it launched in 2021, Kena: Bridge of Spirits was an early example of the graphical power of the PS5 thanks to its Pixar-adjacent animation and over- the-top effects. Based on a surprise trailer at Sony's latest State of Play , it seems like its sequel, Kena: Scars of Kosmora , could up the ante when it launches later this year. Scars of Kosmora follows spirit guide Kena to a mysterious island called Kosmora, where a powerful spirit breaks her staff and forces her to embrace a new style of ..

Ghost of Yoteis forthcoming Legends multiplayer expansion will arrive early next month, Sony announced today during its latest State of Play presentation. As in Ghost of Tsushima , youll be able to play the mode with up to three other people online. Players can each choose from one of four classes samurai, archer, mercenary and shinobi who excel in different combat scenarios. All four classes can wield a katana and bow, but then they also have access to special weapons and skills. For ..

Amazons AI push reaches E Ink.

FDA's top vaccine regulator, Vinay Prasad, is known for overruling scientists.

GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark may be a mouthfull, but it's certainly fast at 1,000 Tok/s running on Nvidia rival's CS3 accelerators Nvidia and AMD can take a seat. On Thursday, OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, its first model that will run on Cerebras Systems' dinner-place-sized AI accelerators, which feature some of the world's fastest on-chip memory.

A new report from Mark Gurman claims that Apple's inventory of some devices is running low. More specifically, people looking to buy certain custom MacBook Pro configurations, Apple TV, iPad Air and iPhone 16e are facing delays or trouble finding units at Apple's physical stores. This, in turn, could mean one thing in Apple's world - an upgrade is coming. This corroborates Mark Gurman's earlier reports that the company is gearing up to announce a new iPhone 17e and upgrade the iPad Air. Of ..

IBM said it will triple entry-level hiring in the US in 2026, even as AI appears to be weighing on broader demand for early-career workers. From a report: While the company declined to disclose specific hiring figures, it said the expansion will be "across the board," affecting a wide range of departments. "And yes, it's for all these jobs that we're being told AI can do," said Nickle LaMoreaux, IBM's chief human resources officer, speaking at a conference this week in New York. LaMoreaux said ..

Airbnb reported fourth-quarter results that beat on revenue and offered rosy guidance.

Nicolas Cage described his character as "70 percent Humphrey Bogart and 30 percent Bugs Bunny."

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, our hosts dive into WIREDs scoop about a secret Trump administration campaign extending right into your backyard.

Roomba's parent brand might have a new Chinese owner, but it's still a 'US- based global consumer robotics company'.