Besides a wealth of Fortnite skins based on Disney IP, it hasn't really been clear what the entertainment company has gotten in return for its $1.5 billion investment in Epic from 2024. That could change this November, Bloomberg reports , when Epic releases a Disney-themed extraction shooter. The game is one of three Disney projects the publisher is currently working on, and is reportedly expected to be Epic's comeback after the company laid off 1,000 employees in March due to a "downturn in ..

Police arrested a suspect at OpenAI's headquarters for allegedly threatening arson after an attack on CEO Sam Altman's home.

Yesterday was filled with a barrage of Motorola leaked renders, showing the Razr 70, Razr 70 Ultra, and the Edge 70 Pro. Today, the Edge 70 Pro and Razr 70 Ultra have been spotted in two separate certification databases. The Razr 70 Ultra with the model number XT2655-4 has been given the go-ahead in China by 3C. The certification reveals that it will have support for 68W wired charging. Incidentally, that's the same level as the Razr 60 Ultra, so there's no upgrade in this regard on the newer ..

Musk's xAI, now owned by SpaceX, faces a legal challenge from environmental groups opposed to a massive power plant in Mississippi.

Sick! The Federal Aviation Administration is targeting gamers in its most recent job advertisement for air traffic controllers. The administration's annual hiring window opens at 12AM ET on April 17, and considering the ongoing shortage of air traffic controllers, it's calling this a period of "supercharged hiring." Rad! The FAA's YouTube video draws parallels between gaming and directing air traffic, and notes that the average salary for the role after three years is $155,000. Hella! The FAA ..

Researchers say the world's largest known wild chimpanzee community in Uganda fractured into rival factions and has been locked in a vicious "civil war" for the last eight years. "It is not clear exactly why the once close-knit community of Ngogo chimpanzees at Uganda's Kibale National Park are at loggerheads, but since 2018 the scientists have recorded 24 killings, including 17 infants," reports the BBC. From the report: [O]ver several decades, [lead author Aaron Sandel] said the nearly 200 ..

With access to great data comes great responsibility Snowflake is betting that the biggest bottleneck to building more and better AI agents isn't the models themselves but whether the data those agents depend on is clean, accessible, and governed, Snowflakes director of product management James Rowland-Jones told The Register .

Microsoft releases standardized battery dataset through Linux Foundation to address fragmented testing practices and enable consistent analysis of lithium-ion performance data

Bruce66423 shares a report from the Guardian: The European parliament has blocked the extension of a law that permits big tech firms to scan for child sexual exploitation on their platforms, creating a legal gap that child safety experts say will lead to crimes going undetected. The law, which was a carve- out of the EU Privacy Act, was put in place in 2021 as a temporary measure allowing companies to use automated detection technologies to scan messages for harms, including child sexual abuse ..

Plaintiffs say transcription tool processed confidential chats offsite.

Hundreds of layoffs, but this smells of geopolitics, not downsizing Red Hat appears to have fired its entire engineering team in China, which it no longer thinks is a country it needs to prioritize. Most of the team will move to India.

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Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell separately met with the heads of the biggest U.S. banks to address the potential cyber threat of Anthropic's Mythos.

Palantir's Maven platform have reportedly been used in the U.S. military campaign in Iran.

The Artemis II astronauts brought some familiar pieces of technology aboard the Orion spacecraft, including iPhones and GoPro cameras.

The 8849 TANK Pad Ultra is a rugged Android tablet that combines a projector, night vision camera, massive battery, and advanced connectivity.

A 20-year-old man was arrested by the San Francisco Police Department after allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's house, The New York Times reports . In a statement shared on X , SFPD wrote that it responded to a request for a fire investigation in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco around 7:12 AM ET / 4:12AM PT. "At the scene, officers learned that an unknown male subject threw an incendiary destructive device at a home, causing a fire at an exterior ..

San Francisco police arrested a suspect after a Molotov cocktail was allegedly thrown at Sam Altman's home and threats were later made outside OpenAI's headquarters. "Thankfully, no one was hurt," said OpenAI in a statement to WIRED. "We deeply appreciate how quickly SFPD responded and the support from the city in helping keep our employees safe. The individual is in custody, and we're assisting law enforcement with their investigation." From the report: "At approximately 3:45am PT, an ..

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Following the launch of the realme 16 Pro Series, realme Malaysia has announced its latest products, including the Buds Air8, Pad 3 5G, and Buds T500 Pro. Here's a look at each of them. The post realme launches new Buds Air8, Pad 3 5G, and Buds T500 Pro in Malaysia appeared first on Nasi Lemak Tech .

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Your discount won't save you from YouTube's price hike.

YouTube Premium has just become even more expensive in the US. The price hike has already taken effect for new subscribers, while existing ones will see it in early June. The individual plan is now $15.99 per month or $159.99 per year, up from $13.99 and $139.99, respectively. The family plan is now $26.99 per month, up from $22.99. The student plan is $8.99, up from $7.99. The recently relaunched YouTube Premium Lite jumped to $8.99 per month too, from $7.99. While the full Premium experience ..

Microsoft has started stripping Copilot branding out of Notepad in Windows 11, replacing the old Copilot menu with a more generic "writing tools" label. The AI features themselves aren't going away, but Microsoft seems to be backing off the heavy-handed Copilot branding and extra entry points. Windows Central reports: As promised, Microsoft is now beginning its effort to reduce and remove Copilot branding across Windows 11, with the latest Notepad update for Insiders outright removing the ..

As child social media bans spread across Europe and beyond, Estonia isn't having it. On Friday, the country's education minister said the bans won't "actually solve problems," while warning that the kids will find a way regardless. Although companies like Meta would love for you to believe its a fairy tale , social media addiction is associated with tangible negative repercussions for children. Studies show that its harms range from depression and anxiety to sleep deprivation and obesity. (The ..

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Home Depot's spring sale offers deals on some of WIRED's favorite grills, plus "buy one get one free" deals on tools from Ryobi, DeWalt, and Milwaukee.

Whoop, the makers of a screen-free fitness tracker of the same name, could soon have some competition. Fitbit teased its take on a Whoop-style band with the help of Steph Curry at the end of March, and based on a trademark filing spotted by Gadgets & Wearables , Garmin appears to be working on its own band that tracks similar health metrics. This new Garmin wearable, called "CIRQA" in the trademark filing submitted in February, is designed to measure "the body's physical parameters and other ..

Galaxy Z Fold 7 owners can now use Samsung's underwater camera mode.

Algorithms, not drivers, are deciding how hard to accelerate, and that's no good.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The FBI was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant's iPhone, even after the app was deleted, because copies of the content were saved in the device's push notification database, multiple people present for FBI testimony in a recent trial told 404 Media. The case involved a group of people setting off fireworks and vandalizing property at the ICE Prairieland Detention Facility in Alvarado, Texas in ..

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Trump admin reportedly gets grand jury involved in attempt to identify Redditor.

Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Z Flip8 has now been outed in some CAD-based renders showing it from a bunch of angles. It follows in the footsteps of its bigger sibling, the Galaxy Z Fold8, which leaked in CAD-based renders last month. The Flip8 will measure 166.8 x 75.4 x 6.6 mm when unfolded and 85.4 x 75.4 x 13.2 mm when folded. That makes it a tiny bit longer, wider, and thicker than its predecessor from last year when unfolded, but we do mean a tiny bit - you won't notice any change in real ..

Some BookTokers have declared they're finally ready to leave the Amazon Kindle ecosystem. But is the Kobo grass any greener?

As Framework prepares for its next big product launch, the repair-and-augment- friendly PC maker has some thoughts about the Cloud and AI revolution.

Amazon has the Razr Ultra marked down by $600 for a limited time.

The new AI model is being heraldedand fearedas a hackers superweapon. Experts say its arrival is a wake-up call for developers who have long made security an afterthought.