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President Donald Trump still thinks Republicans have a shot. His aides are less convinced.
A24 pissed off one of the internet's largest horror communities when it announced it was working on an SCP Foundation film , but apparently hadn't bothered to contact the SCP Wiki team, nor did it commit to releasing it under a Creative Commons license as required. Seeing an easy PR win, Neon is cashing in by announcing it's making its own SCP movie. But unlike A24, it proactively reached out to t…
Hackers have been exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Zimbra Collaboration Suite in an attempt to obtain email backups and authentication credentials of vulnerable organzations, Microsoft has warned . The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-73570, lets attackers remotely issue operating system commands without authentication. Zimbra maintainer Synacor issued a patch on July 20, but didn’t di…
The White House has a new name for artificial intelligence and a new promise for the future of "Super Intelligence." President Donald Trump and leaders of several major American technology companies signed a voluntary agreement on Sept. 29, 2026, known as the White House Accord on Super Intelligence . The accord was signed after a "Super Intelligence Luncheon" in the White House's East Room featur…
Google today revealed its next AI frontier model, which it's calling Gemini 4 Argon. The new model delivers "frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enterprise knowledge work like legal and finance, and cybersecurity defense," according to chief AI architect and Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu. But the company is limiting access at first to a "set of…
VC Chris Degnan and former board advisor to Factory AI has taken a job as chief revenue officer for Cognition.
Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich will co-direct Project Meridian. The Pentagon study will identify the technology the US military needs to fight future wars. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth commissioned it on Wednesday, the Department of War said. The findings are due by 28 January 2027, 120 days after the announcement, according to […] This story continues at The Next Web
GMKtec EVO-X5 Pro starts at $6,399, but other Gorgon Halo systems exceed $7,000 Runs 320B-parameter models offline under suitable conditions Memory bandwidth reaches 273GB/s, and up to 160GB can serve graphics GMKtec has launched the EVO-X5 Pro starting at $6,399, making it one of the earliest devices to use the Gorgon Halo chip. The mini PC combines AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 processor with 192G…
I've covered every single Amazon sale that's taken place in Australia for TechRadar and, in my experience, it's been rare to see all-time low prices during the October Prime Day sale. • Shop Amazon's full Prime Big Deal Days sale And I have just been proven wrong! On day one of Prime Big Deal Days this year (which was Tuesday, September 29), there were already a fair few record lows in the morning…
Six major AI companies signed a voluntary agreement with the White House this week vowing to implement safeguards. It’s unclear how much that matters.
Spotify founder Daniel Ek’s Neko Health raised $700 million to build a business around scanning your body, but it’s not the only company centering its roadmap around a new kind of preventative healthcare. Midjourney is building its own body scanner, while Function Health has also raised significant capital to build out its preventative-health platform. Why are investors betting so big on this cate…
Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, the first new generation of its flagship AI model since Gemini 3 last November. A small group of cybersecurity defenders gets it first. Paid API customers and Google AI Ultra subscribers are next, Google said on Wednesday. Koray Kavukcuoglu, who now runs Google DeepMind day to day, called Argon […] This story continues at The Next Web
Google promised Gemini 3.5 Pro in June, but it spent the summer trotting out smaller Flash models . Now, Google is ready to take on the frontier again with Gemini 4 Argon . The company claims this new AI offers industry-leading performance in coding, knowledge work, and cybersecurity, but you aren't allowed to use it yet. While most of us will have to wait to test Gemini 4, Google says engineers i…
BMW’s first electric 3 Series will cost $4,400 less in the US than its most powerful petrol sibling. The 2027 i3 50 xDrive starts at $61,500 and the petrol M350 xDrive at $65,900, BMW said as it opened US orders. Both prices exclude a $1,350 destination charge. BMW now sells the eighth-generation 3 Series with […] This story continues at The Next Web
When President Donald Trump unveiled the government’s new AI chatbot on Tuesday, he couldn’t stop singing its praises. In his speech, Trump said that America.gov is “one of the most revolutionary product launches of all time.” “It’s not just simply a website, it’s a restoration of America’s founding promise, and it’s a reinvention of your government for the 21st century and beyond,” he continued.…
Nihon Falcom is on a real hot streak right now, and it’s showing no signs of slowing down with Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter . The remake of 2006’s acclaimed Japanese role-playing game (JRPG), The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC, is packed full of excellent quality-of-life updates that are sure to delight veteran players and newcomers alike, with full English voice acting, a visual overhaul…
Soon, Reddit won’t let people use Old.Reddit.com unless they have used the site while logged in within the previous six months. In July, Reddit started requiring that users be logged in to access Old Reddit. This new requirement is an effort to reduce Reddit’s biggest source of scraping and automated traffic, the company says. Today, the social media platform announced additional upcoming restrict…
A Tokyo court ruled on Wednesday that Japanese law protects the human voice. Anime voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda had sued TikTok over videos he says used an AI clone of his voice. He won in part, as the court turned down his request to remove the videos, Agence France-Presse reported. AFP believes the lawsuit is […] This story continues at The Next Web
More than 44,000 people have filed legal objections to stop the NHS’s Federated Data Platform handling their health records. The platform runs on Palantir software. The campaign asks NHS England to stop the platform sharing, storing or using their data, the Guardian reported on Wednesday. The objections rely on article 21 of the UK GDPR, […] This story continues at The Next Web
The US Department of Energy has plans for $1.9 billion in grants for 31 grid projects worth $5.25 billion, with recipients covering the other $3.35 billion The money is essentially rebranded Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP) funding from the 2021 infrastructure law, aimed at reconductoring and grid-enhancing tech rather than a focus on new power plants Only three project summaries…
Google is paying about 100 digital publishers when their content feeds its AI answers. For several small and mid-sized sites in the pilot, the payments come to less than a tenth of 1% of their advertising revenue, The Information reported on Tuesday. Alix Coutures and Catherine Perloff reported, citing people familiar with the tests, that […] This story continues at The Next Web
Bambu Lab has started its Halloween Sale, with a collection of themed bundles, filament offers, Maker's Supply discounts, and CyberBrick deals. The sale period runs from September 28 to October 16. • Shop the Halloween Sale at Bambu Lab No, I don't know why it ends before Halloween either, but if you're pairing those deals with a Bambu Lab machine, I've picked out the top three 3D printers I'd buy…
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Reddit says it is ending support for RSS feeds on November 13 because the feeds are a target for abuse by AI bots and is ending its public API access in March — Amid a number of updates for moderators and developers announced Wednesday comes bad news for supporters of a more open web: Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds.
At a Make America Healthy Again event Tuesday, anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy opened a "fireside chat" with Vice President JD Vance on the topic of artificial intelligence. While MAHA generally coalesces around things like healthy lifestyles and mistrust of drugmakers, Kennedy quickly turned to extolling the potential of artificial intelligence, surprising Vance, who said he was e…
Job hopping has always been a tricky proposition: If you switch jobs too often, it can be a red flag to prospective employers. But if you strike the right balance, it can actually boost your earnings potential and advance your career. In the aftermath of the pandemic, as the job market swung in their favor, many workers—especially younger ones—seemed to shed the stigma associated with job hopping…
OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse are vying to be your AI agent of choice. I've tried both—and I suspect you will too.
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
Executives from more than 300 news publishers are in Washington this week to lobby Congress for a bill that would ban AI “stealth bots”. The News/Media Alliance, a trade body for news and magazine publishers, organised the trip, Digiday reported on Tuesday. Those making the trip include Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch, Hearst Magazines president […] This story continues at The Next Web
There was a call to boycott Disney last fall. The owner of the ABC network had taken Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air over comments Kimmel made about responses to Charlie Kirk's murder, sending free speech proponents into a frenzy . Those free speech proponents include me, who, as a reporter, has clear stakes in protecting that right. Although I was on board with halting support for a company I felt…
DoorDash unveiled the six-propeller aircraft that will be used in its new drone delivery business at its annual Dash Forward 2026 event.
The new BMW 3 Series shows just how quickly EVs have caught up to fossil fuel vehicles on pricing.
DoorDash has unveiled the aircraft behind DoorDash Air and will begin pilot deliveries in Northern California with Chipotle and Popeyes. Manna, which flew more than 300,000 deliveries from Dublin and Cork, paused Irish operations in June for want of a national policy and is building a factory in Oklahoma. DoorDash has unveiled the aircraft behind […] This story continues at The Next Web
“We’re furries at home, and we’re airline pilots at work, and these are two separate things,” says one member of the community in response to senator Tommy Tuberville's recent rant.
OpenAI's "Decisions API" is a Jev clone that confirms the importance of fast, cheap intelligence.
SpaceXAI is weighing a plan to fold Grok and X into a single subscription with four price tiers, from free to $100 a month. The plan comes from a company document viewed by Bloomberg, whose Edward Ludlow reported it on Wednesday. SpaceXAI is the artificial intelligence unit of Elon Musk’s SpaceX. It makes the Grok […] This story continues at The Next Web
A consortium of designers, branding professionals, and grocery experts have been named to design a visual identity for New York City’s municipal grocery stores. Their goal? To make something that looks authentically New York. New York City’s Economic Development Corp. (NYCEDC) said Tuesday it had selected four firms— Gander , Librarie , Noble Signs , and Seven Roots —to brand the city’s five forth…
In her new book on biological warfare, Annie Jacobsen didn’t even discuss AI because scientists can already warp Mother Nature to create extinction-level events.
The Ugreen DXP4800 GT is one of those NAS devices that reallu impressed us, earning the full 5 stars in our tests. Its four drive bays are joined by dual 10GbE networking, M.2 NVMe expansion, an AMD Ryzen processor, and features aimed at creators and office teams. • Best for: Small businesses, studios, and creative professionals who needs fast centralized storage for large files, backups, media li…
Boeing will build the US Navy’s next carrier-based fighter, the F/A-XX, after beating Northrop Grumman for the contract. The Pentagon announced the award on Tuesday. The development contract is worth 0bn to produce test aircraft, Reuters reported. CNBC and Axios put it at more than 0bn. The programme could grow to hundreds of billions of […] This story continues at The Next Web