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TechRadar28d ago

AI chatbots are slowly choking humanity as research shows a 'vicious cycle' could cause global knowledge collapse

AI chatbots appear to be providing less diverse responses, research claims Displaying the same answers has been likened to globalisation, where the same products and brands are available everywhere Such a move may increase convenience, but also reduce diversity Could we be heading into a real-world Idiocracy ? A repeated reliance on AI to provide answers – invariably the same answers, offering the…

TechCrunch28d ago

Robotaxi operators will face fines for blocking first responders

A new California law places new rules on autonomous vehicles operators

TechRadar28d ago

You don't need to splurge on tech — these 10 October Prime Day deals prove you can get quality for under AU$100

We’re midway through the 2026 Amazon Prime Big Deal Days event in Australia, and we’ve found a whole heap of deals on a wide range of tech, including coffee machines, vacuums, smartwatches, headphones and more. With a lot of the deals we’ve covered all comfortably fitting in the ‘big splurge’ category, I wanted to highlight some of the best cheap buys we’ve found during this sale, all for less tha…

TechRadar28d ago

Chinese motherboard maker borrows cable tech from enterprise servers to eliminate graphic card slot pave way for more external GPUs — Maxsun uses MCIO to fast-track compact workstations

Maxsun Z890 workstation moves the graphics card away from the motherboard MCIO allows the motherboard and GPU to occupy opposite chassis sides The Z890 Mini-ITX platform supports multiple PCIe lane configurations through MCIO Chinese manufacturer Maxsun has designed a new compact workstation which separates its graphics card from the motherboard while retaining a high-speed PCIe connection. The sy…

TechCrunch28d agoalso covered by 1 other

The founder’s guide to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Everything you need to know

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is built around one question: How do you build an enduring company in the AI era? Our programming and speaker lineup reflect that.

TechmemeTrade28d ago

A look at two opposing perspectives on AI agent sandboxing: infosec says labs need better containment, AI alignment says sandboxes can't fully contain agents (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts ...)

Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering : A look at two opposing perspectives on AI agent sandboxing: infosec says labs need better containment, AI alignment says sandboxes can't fully contain agents — Quick caveats: this is a post on AI safety, written by a cryptography professor. If that troubles you, you should read something else.

TechRadar28d ago

This tiny PC has two Intel Arc B70 GPUs with 64GB of RAM and water cooling — Gunnir B70 workstation runs on Intel's Ultra 200HX with no AMD version in sight

Gunnir fits two Arc Pro B70 graphics cards inside one compact workstation Each Arc Pro B70 card carries 32GB of GDDR6 ECC graphics memory The dual GPU workstation provides 64GB across two separate graphics processors At the recent Intel Connection 2026 event in China, hardware manufacturer Gunnir showed two custom workstation systems built around Intel's Arc Pro B70 graphics processors. Both machi…

Mashable28d ago

Who are we expecting to save us from AI?

On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that Meta has been treating its AI data centers as experimental facilities to claim billions of dollars in federal research tax credits, a strategy the company's own accountants reportedly flagged as legally risky. The savings reportedly grew from $700 million in 2023 to $3.9 billion in 2025. How can a company worth $1.8 trillion be worried about saving $3…

TechmemeTrade28d ago

California AG Rob Bonta issues an investigative subpoena to OpenAI, as part of a broader inquiry into cybersecurity incidents and risks related to its AI models (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters : California AG Rob Bonta issues an investigative subpoena to OpenAI, as part of a broader inquiry into cybersecurity incidents and risks related to its AI models — California Attorney General Rob Bonta has issued an investigative subpoena to OpenAI, as part of a broader inquiry …

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TechmemeTrade28d ago

Microsoft launches MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a model for low-latency, real-time transcripts, and two new voice models, MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash (Microsoft AI)

Microsoft AI : Microsoft launches MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a model for low-latency, real-time transcripts, and two new voice models, MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash — MAI-Transcribe and MAI-Voice models: accurate, fast, low cost, and chart-topping audio understanding and generation for building the best conversational voice agents.

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TechRadar28d ago

Focal Mu-so Hekla review: a potent, super-immersive wireless speaker in a sleek soundbar's clothing

Focal Mu-so Hekla review The Focal Mu-so Hekla is a wireless speaker in soundbar's clothing, featuring superbly detailed, sizable sound, a stunning build and a jumbo price. Weirdly, Focal insists it's not a soundbar, despite it sounding like a soundbar, connecting via eARC like a soundbar and looking an awful lot like a soundbar. Named Hekla after one of Iceland’s most active stratovolcanoes — kno…

TechRadar28d ago

Quordle hints and answers for Friday, October 2 (game #1712)

Looking for a different day? A new Quordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Thursday's puzzle instead then click here: Quordle hints and answers for Thursday, October 1 (game #1711) . Quordle was one of the original Wordle alternatives and is still go…

TechRadar28d ago

NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, October 2 (game #943)

Looking for a different day? A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Thursday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, October 1 (game #942) . Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wor…

TechRadar28d ago

NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, October 2 (game #1209)

Looking for a different day? A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Thursday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, October 1 (game #1208) . Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's cle…

Engadget28d ago

Florida county finds 11 unpermitted Flock cameras with unidentified owners

St. Lucie County thought it had 52 Flock cameras, but found many more that were unaccounted for and unpermitted. St. Lucie County thought it had 52 Flock cameras, but found many more that were unaccounted for and unpermitted.

The Verge28d ago

Apple’s reportedly developing a smart home camera that doesn’t record video

Apple's rumored push into smart home tech could include a smart home security camera that only gives users text event descriptions instead of video footage. Mark Gurman said in the first episode of the Power On podcast that the camera will be part of "a new Apple smart home ecosystem," alongside Apple's rumored smart home hub : They're also building home security products, both first-party and thi…

TechRadar28d ago

A wireless eGPU is coming soon! WiCi will sell a GeForce RTX 5060 Ti with 16GB GDDR7 that runs through Wi-Fi 7, but you will actually be paying for an entire PC — a local server by any other name

WiCi puts an RTX 5060 Ti inside a complete wireless computer Wi-Fi 7 replaces the cable connecting WiCi's GPU to host devices WiCi's 11.52-Gbps wireless link trails conventional high-speed GPU connections WiCi is preparing a wireless external GPU, the WiCi One, which houses a GeForce RTX 5060 Ti with 16GB of GDDR7 memory in a separate box. The device communicates through Wi-Fi 7, while its enclosu…

Fast Company28d ago

Grindr is spending $250M to signal that it’s getting serious about LGBTQ healthcare

Grindr is expanding its footprint in LGBTQ-focused healthcare with its first major acquisition. The dating app is paying $250 million for health startup Freddie , with the aim of fully integrating Freddie’s HIV-prevention telehealth and pharmacy capabilities into a broader Grindr Health offering. The launch of Grindr Health builds on the company’s telehealth business Woodwork, which launched in 20…

TechRadar28d ago

Woman loses 20 years of ‘digital memories’ after Meta deletes her accounts

Meta closed a woman’s Facebook and Instagram accounts with no warning The closed accounts contained 20 years’ worth of ‘digital memories’ The woman couldn’t contact a human and was forced to use AI chatbots What would you do if you lost your Facebook and Instagram accounts along with all of the photos, posts, and memories they contained? That’s the prospect faced by one unfortunate woman — a situa…

Engadget28d ago

ChatGPT can now help you virtually try on clothes

Images are generated with OpenAI's latest model and you can save clothes you like for later. Images are generated with OpenAI's latest model and you can save clothes you like for later.

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Ars Technica28d ago

Venus' mysterious haze is actually cosmic dust

Venus is shrouded in a veil of mystery. The yellowish “lower haze” at the bottom of its atmosphere was discovered by the Venera and Pioneer Venus probes in the 1970s. These spacecraft were some of the first to successfully send images of the planet back to Earth, but the haze they saw went unexplained for decades. Now the mystery Venus was keeping has been unveiled. What nobody knew then was that…

Wired28d ago

Whatever AI Safety Is, It’s Not This

Asking AI companies to self-regulate is a great way to pretend like you’ve accomplished something.

Ars Technica28d ago

SpaceX describes surgical intervention before launch of latest crew mission

A four-person crew rocketed into orbit Thursday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, heading for a six-month expedition on the International Space Station. Riding a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft, the four crew members departed from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral at 11:10 am EDT (15:10 UTC) Thursday. Nine minutes later, they were in orbit to begin closing in on the s…

Engadget28d ago

OpenAI fires three employees who allegedly shared info with an external AI safety group

You can't make this stuff up. You can't make this stuff up.

Mashable28d ago

The Pokémon TCG 36-pack Mega Evolution Display Box is on sale at Amazon — save nearly $25

TL;DR: The Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Booster Display Box is on sale for $353.99 at Amazon , down from its $378.88 typical price. Opens in a new window Credit: The Pokemon Company Pokémon TCG Mega Evolution Booster Display Box (36 packs) $353.99 at Amazon $378.88 Save $24.89 Get Deal The base Mega Evolution set is rapidly becoming one of the most expensive in the modern Pokémo…

TechRadar28d ago

Quote of the day by IBM's Darío Gil: "Not even a million or a billion of those supercomputers connected together could do the calculations of these future machines"

Although AI has sucked up all the bandwidth of public discourse across the tech industry, quantum computing is arguably just as revolutionary a technology – but remains dormant for now. That said, key breakthroughs in the last couple of years are said to mean that these machines could be 'useful' before too long. Quantum advantage IBM's senior vice president and director of research Dario Gil expl…

TechCrunch28d ago

Lyft is paying $272.5M to settle lawsuit over how it classified drivers

Today, gig economy drivers are classified as contractors. This settlement clears up a lingering lawsuit from 2020 when that was still an unanswered issue.

TechCrunch28d ago

Kevin Mandia’s new ‘agent swarm’ security startup Armadin raises $255.5M at $2.5B valuation

Kevin Mandia, best known as the founder of Mandiant, has a new startup that is using agent swarms to test and protect enterprises.

Fast Company28d ago

Could digital twins test medical treatments for critically ill patients?

Every day, clinicians in ICUs make high-stakes decisions about medical treatments that keep their patients alive. Variables like unusual immune responses can make that job more complicated. But now, a project led by the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine aims to find out if digital twins can help. The university has been awarded up to $38 million in funding from the Advanced Resear…

TechRadar28d ago

AMD's 256-core monster EPYC CPU is its most expensive processor ever launched — 600W 'Venice' 9996 has 1 GB cache, supports PCIe 6.0 and MRDIMM, both cutting-edge enterprise-only tech that probably won't come to consumers until after 2030

AMD's full EPYC 9006 price list tops out with the 256-core, 600W EPYC 9996 at $14,904 on a per-1,000-unit basis The CPU, which costs ~$58 per core or $29 per thread, is narrowly more expensive ($91) than its own older Turin flagship, which clocked in at $14,813 While PCIe 6.0 is forecast to reach PCs around 2030, MRDIMM, a registered server module that specifically caters to AI memory bandwidth ne…

TechCrunch28d ago

Musk’s AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela’s president

President Trump reportedly asked for Grok's opinion before invading Venezuela and capturing Nicolás Maduro.

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Mashable28d ago

Legos Speed Champions Ultimate F1 Collectors Pack is down to its best-ever price — save over $80

SAVE OVER $80: As of Oct. 1, the Lego Speed Champions Ultimate F1 Collector's Pack is back to its lowest-ever price of $188.99 at Amazon, but only for Prime members. That's $81 off its full price of $269.99. Opens in a new window Credit: Lego Lego Speed Champions Ultimate Formula 1 Collector's Pack $188.99 at Amazon $269.99 Save $81 Get Deal With just a few days left to go until Prime Big Deal Day…

Mashable28d ago

I found a Coleman camping tent on sale for its lowest price all year: Save over $30 ahead of October Prime Day

SAVE $36.31: As of Oct. 1, the Coleman Sundome 4-Person Camping Tent is on sale for just $81.86 on Amazon ahead of its fall Prime sale (normally $117.99). That's a 31% savings and its lowest price of the year so far. Opens in a new window Credit: Coleman Coleman Sundome 4-Person Camping Tent $81.86 at Amazon $117.99 Save $36.13 Exclusive to Prime members. Get Deal Everyone knows that early fall is…

Engadget28d ago

Samsung launches its first clip-on earbuds in South Korea

A global rollout will follow, although we don't yet know the details. A global rollout will follow, although we don't yet know the details.

Fast Company28d ago

Growth Agents 2026

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Wired28d ago

The Best Early Prime Day Deals Ahead of Amazon’s Second Sale (2026)

Amazon Prime Big Deal Days officially begin on October 6 and 7, but I’ve already spotted early discounts on gear our team recommends.

Engadget28d ago

Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light remasters are getting free next-gen updates this month

Take a trip down memory lane with the first two games in the series. Take a trip down memory lane with the first two games in the series.

Engadget28d ago

Police may have new ways to access data on locked iPhones

A training video reportedly demonstrates how police can evade an Apple security feature. A training video reportedly demonstrates how police can evade an Apple security feature.

Ars Technica28d ago

Hacks of 2 federal agencies in a month have spilled a bonanza of sensitive data

The Pentagon is informing more than 2 million current and former military members that their personnel records storing sensitive personal information were stolen over a monthslong compromise of one of its networks. The breach is the second one in recent months to expose sensitive government information. The records, according to one notification letter posted to Reddit, included Social Security nu…

TechRadar28d ago

Microsoft deletes nonprofit customers' M365 data — and says it can't get it back

Microsoft has admitted cloud-based M365 data owned by licensed nonprofits has been deleted in a license-switching cock-up Microsoft retired its 365 Business Premium Grant license, advising nonprofits to move to the Microsoft 365 Business Basic for free The deleted data cannot be retrieved Microsoft has admitted it accidentally deleted the data from an undisclosed number of nonprofits with retiring…

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