A ranking of the builders behind these apps needs a link between a person and a product, and we do not record one yet. When we do it will come from launch posts people wrote themselves. Business profiles only, never personal accounts.
OpenAI’s agents were going rogue as early as May, according to a new report, making the Hugging Face incident far from the first where bots committed a breach. A report published Friday by a group of researchers claims to have found – with all of the agent posts presented as evidence – a self-identified “swarm” of OpenAI agents taking over a functionally dead German software developer wiki. Over t…
Gemini AI gave three hikers bad advice about a mountain ascent The trip took much longer than Gemini had said US officials and volunteers eventually rescued the stranded group A cautionary tale from California if you often find yourself using AI bots to plan your outdoor adventures: a gang of climbers had to be rescued from Mount Shasta in Siskiyou County after Google Gemini gave them inaccurate i…
After winning an upset primary victory over a field of better-funded, establishment-backed rivals, Rep. Analilia Mejia (D-N.J.) is launching a super PAC to help other progressive underdogs do the same, Axios has learned. Why it matters: Mejia is adding to a growing constellation of new progressive super PACs trying to compete with cash-rich groups like AIPAC that back more moderate Democrats in pr…
Lanterns is about to hit its midpoint. Indeed, once the increasingly popular DC Universe ( DCU ) show's fourth episode arrives, we'll be halfway through its first season. So, when will the Green Lantern TV series' next chapter be released? And what fresh evidence will Hal Jordan and John Stewart uncover as part of their alien murder-mystery investigation? I can't answer the latter because, well, s…
For the last few years, AI engineering has operated under a surprisingly simple assumption: Bigger models are better models. More parameters. More training data. More GPUs. More compute. And to be fair, that strategy has worked remarkably well. Scaling has produced huge improvements in language understanding, coding, reasoning, multimodal capabilities, and general-purpose AI. But engineering is ra…
On Thursday, Elon Musk’s X won a court order blocking Operation Bluebird from launching a new app taking over the Twitter name . In his opinion , Chief Judge Colm Connolly explained that Operation Bluebird was unlikely to prove that X had entirely abandoned the Twitter name. Therefore, X was likely to succeed on trademark infringement and dilution claims tied to the platform’s former name. Most co…
The labor market looks considerably healthier than it did at the start of the summer. Why it matters: Friday morning's jobs report recast the last two months as a period of modest job growth rather than of outright deterioration, capped by a gain last month that was more than triple what economists expected. The labor market is weathering the Iran conflict and an AI-driven transformation of the ec…
TechRadar's VPN and Security team has launched the first issue of its digital privacy newsletter, called Leave No Trace. Leave No Trace is a weekly briefing on the most important digital privacy stories from the last seven days. It is a complete read in its own right with the whole stories delivered right to your inbox. There's no need to click through, unless you want a deeper dive into the detai…
Uber and Wayve began carrying paying passengers in London on 3 September, in what Wayve described in a statement as the UK’s first autonomous ride-hailing service. Every car has a trained, TfL-licensed private hire driver on board. Olivia Solon rode one on a wet morning this week and summarised the experience for Bloomberg as autonomous rides with hands still […] This story continues at The…
NordVPN has released a UI upgrade for its browser extension It promises improved search and better navigation The app is available for Chrome and Edge browsers NordVPN has released an update to its browser extension, promising a completely revamped look and an overall visual reorganisation that will make navigating the interface easier. As the company explains in a blog post , the changes mainly i…
The normally genteel world of international space policy turned ugly this week as several prominent US space companies—including SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space, K2, and Starcloud—pulled out of a high-profile French space summit organized by the country's president, Emmanuel Macron. Politico first reported the diplomatic turmoil, saying that the White House "pressured" US space companies to skip…
If you're picking up a 10GbE NAS device like the Ugreen NASync DXP6800 Pro, now $1100 at Amazon , you'll need suitably fast networking hardware if you want to take advantage of those speeds. So, I'd strongly recommend grabbing the TRENDnet TEG-S762 switch for $92 , which has two 10GbE RJ45 ports alongside four 2.5GbE connections. Connecting the NAS to one of the switch's 10GbE ports gives it a muc…
Recently, I decided to build a customer relationship management system (CRM) for my solo business. It started as a simple list of my contacts. Then I integrated my Google Drive and my calendar. Then I decided to add a pretty interface in my brand colors, along with some behind-the-scenes automation. The problem? That was hours of time I hadn’t planned to spend. Nobody was going to use it except fo…
The doors to Europe's largest consumer tech show officially opened to the public today following a week of news coming out of IFA 2026 in Berlin, Germany. If you're struggling to keep up with what has been announced, here are some of the best new gadgets and upgrades from the show - including a smartphone that attempts to finally rid the world of screen bezels and a powerful robovac that carries a…
Matt Shumer / Something Big Is Happening : Review: GPT-6 Astra can adeptly use tools like Unreal Engine to build complex environments, such as a civilization with Unreal's autonomous MetaHuman characters — Everyday work, ambitious experiments, and the Manager Loop. … For nearly a year, OpenAI models were my unquestioned default …
Google Pixel 11 Pro XL: Two-minute review The Google Pixel 11 Pro XL, like the rest of the new Pixel 11 phones, doesn't offer much in terms of huge upgrades over the Pixel 10 line. The Pixel 11 Pro XL's design is only slightly altered versus that of the Pixel 10 Pro XL , with a new all-glass camera bump and an LED light in place of the temperature sensor that I'm convinced no one ever used anyway.…
Zelda takes center stage on September 8 and everything else is being saved for September 9. Zelda takes center stage on September 8 and everything else is being saved for September 9.
RayNeo launched the GT Max glasses at IFA 2026 They cost $429 / £399 They boast Dolby Vision, and new optic engine prisms Since publishing my review of them, I’ve had one pair of XR glasses at the top of my list: the Xreal One Pro . RayNeo has always been a close second, but here at IFA 2026 they may have just snatched the crown. That’s thanks to the newly unveiled RayNeo GT Max specs, which boast…
Behind many international brokerages sits a distribution layer that receives far less attention than the trading platform itself. Introducing brokers and professional partners can connect financial businesses with clients across different markets, communities and regions. Their role may begin with an introduction, but managing those relationships requires far more than a referral link. Client onbo…
Bloomberg : Sources: Abu Dhabi-based AI company G42 is exploring selling a majority stake to US companies, hoping to safeguard access to advanced AI chips beyond April 2027 — Executives at Abu Dhabi-based artificial intelligence firm G42 have held exploratory talks over potentially selling a majority stake …
Amnezia VPN has introduced a two-year plan Launch discounts run until September 15, with up to 30% off The longer-term plan removes the annual renewal hassle Amnezia VPN, the open-source service best known for helping users slip past internet censorship, has added a new two-year plan to its Premium lineup. The provider frames the 730-day option as a way to stay protected for longer while giving it…
Microsoft is retiring Word's Similarity Checker on October 3 and stripping the feature from Microsoft Editor. Other writing and editing tools, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, won't be affected. But if an organization uses Similarity Checker as part of its workflow, it's time to consider alternatives. Similarity Checker has been around for a few years. Launched in 2020, the Bing Search-powered ser…
Xbox is making a change to Game Pass that probably won't have very many defenders online. Microsoft's gaming division announced in a blog post this week that the cloud gaming service that has been included with Game Pass subscriptions for years is getting fairly harsh hourly limits per month, starting in November. You'll be restrained to different amounts of time depending on which tier of Game Pa…
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch : PUBG developer Krafton plans to invest $250M in India over three to four years, for a total investment of $500M+ since 2021, as it expands into AI and robotics — Krafton, the South Korean gaming company behind titles including PUBG and Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) …
The US Open tennis tournament is used to hosting big crowds that come to watch tennis players from around the world compete against one another. One group has grown and become more noticeable—content creators. On August 31, during Naomi Osaka’s first-round match against Anastasia Zakharova, a group of content creators loudly recorded a video. This drew attention from the court, causing the umpire…
OLED monitors are great for creative work, but they don’t tend to be cheap. I’ve found a major deal on the 27-inch ASRock Phantom monitor (PGO27QSA) for $300 (was $465) at Newegg for Labor Day. For your money you get a QHD OLED panel (2560 x 1440) with HDR10 support, a 0.03ms response time, a wide range of ports and a fully adjustable stand. On the content creation side, the all-important color co…
If you're looking for 32GB of DDR5-6000 RAM, you might be tempted by Newegg's Labor Day deal on the 32GB (2 x 16GB) Corsair Vengeance kit for $490 (was $605) . That's a reasonable deal given the list price, but I've found a much cheaper alternative that offers the same capacity and memory speed. The Patriot Viper Venom RGB kit is $410 at Newegg , a solid $80 cheaper. For your money, you get two 16…
Executives at Abu Dhabi’s G42 have held exploratory talks about selling a majority stake to American companies, Bloomberg reported on Friday, as the firm races to guarantee access to advanced chips beyond next year. Alex Dooler, Zainab Fattah and Dinesh Nair sourced the account to people familiar with the matter, who declined to be identified because […] This story continues at The Next Web
Immersion is crucial for gaming, and high-level image quality can single-handedly elevate that. While 4K QD-OLED monitors have been on the market for a long while, ultrawide gaming enthusiasts like myself have been searching for a way to attain the same image quality with a 21:9 aspect ratio display. In come LG's 5K2K QD-OLED monitors, in both 45-inch and 39-inch variants, providing exceptional vi…
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass : By declaring that GPT-6 Astra has ushered in the AGI era, OpenAI is being flippant and cementing the term's status as nothing more than marketing — With ‘GPT-6 Astra’, AGI is here! Congrats, everyone! — It's a question as old as time. Or at least as old as Terminator 2. Is AGI here?
OpenAI says it's investigating the incident after a group of researchers disclosed their findings. OpenAI says it's investigating the incident after a group of researchers disclosed their findings.
Lenovo showed Project Swan at IFA 2026, a concept notebook whose 14-inch display rolls out horizontally to a 17-inch 16:9 panel, at 17.9mm and 1.6kg It is 90g lighter and 2mm thinner than the vertical ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable that Lenovo already sells, pointing to a maturing lineup from the computer giant It has a compelling business case for people who currently carry a portable monitor for…
Sonos recently announced that it's launching a new soundbar to fill the gap between the Sonos Beam (Gen 2) and the Sonos Arc Ultra — it's called (perhaps predictably) the Sonos Beam Ultra. It's launching on September 29th 2026, and it costs $699 / £699 / AU$1,099. It's small, like the regular Beam, but it features nine drivers to deliver 7.1.2 channels of Dolby Atmos, including upfiring drivers (w…
In the packed halls of Gamescom with so many games to see, it's easy to get tetchy if a session goes on for too long when there's another appointment you have to rush off to see. Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve was a rare exception where I wished I had more to go on than I was given. On one hand, the Ace Combat series' appeal is a straightforward one. It captures the thrill of flying a fighter jet lo…
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The pantheon of US crime dramas is peppered with ruthless, hyperreal villains who have risked it all for a shot at the American Dream. Michael Corleone, Tony Montana, Keyser Söze, Tony Soprano, and Marsellus Wallace are but five of the fictional strongmen now synonymous with getting things done by hook or by crook. In the 30 years since the inception of the Grand Theft Auto franchise, Rockstar Gam…
Following the aftermath of the Manchester Airports Group cyberattack - where hackers made off with the data of 8.7 million people - the hackers have now posted the entire database for sale on the dark web. The group behind the attack, FulcrumSec, attempted to get Manchester Airports Group (MAG) to pay for the security of the database, promising that it wouldn’t be released if the company paid a se…
With gas prices soaring , dozens of food recalls , a war in Iran, and a litany of other pressing issues, one might be thinking to themself, "I wish the U.S. government would release a series of low-quality, potentially vibe-coded video games." Well, you are in luck! On Thursday, Trump's White House announced a new website, Arcade.gov , which hosts five brand new 8-bit style video games, which hark…