EA is now a private company
Electronic Arts has officially become a private company. Last September, EA announced that an investor group led by …
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Telegram CEO says an extortionist planted CSAM in a chat to get it pulled from the App Store
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov blames an extortionist for planting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in a public chat to g…
How an OpenAI influencer trip backfired
The brand trip is a right of passage for influencers. It's a mark of legitimacy that a sponsor wants to invite th…
The Galaxy Z Fold 8 is heavily delayed
As expected, the Galaxy Z Fold 8 is proving the most popular of Samsung’s new foldable phones. So much so that it is heavily…
The studio behind Pokémon struggles to find its voice in Beast of Reincarnation
You have to imagine that the team at Game Freak is bursting with ideas. The studio puts out new mainline Pokémon adv…
Samsung’s discounted smart monitor is $349.99, its lowest price yet
Video chat with your friends or coworkers directly from the Samsung M80F. Samsung makes a variety of TVs and computer …
Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra 1 week later: Samsung perfected the wrong foldable
After seven years and eight generations, the Galaxy Z Fold is all grown up. What began as a clunky, heavily compromised …
Rachika Nayar’s Heaven Come Crashing is an instrumental epic of desperate longing
Two minutes and thirty seconds into the title track of Rachika Nayar's Heaven Come Crashing , an absolutely massi…
Fender’s CEO seems to think your bandmates are just analog AI
Edward “Bud” Cole speaks in Japan in 2023. | Image: Jun Sato/WireImage Fender CEO Edward "Bud" Cole gave an …
Foldables are sort of boring now — and that’s great news for Apple
This is The Stepback , a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on smartph…
Pixel 11 specs and price leak with no surprises
Android Headlines claims to have the specs and price for the entire Pixel 11 lineup. What the site shared basically …
Angela Nissel faces down grief with a laugh
Angela Nissel smiles through the pain. | Image: Angela Nissel Angela Nissel's latest book, Good Grief, Pass the Br…
Is this Billboard Hot 100 hit AI slop?
That cover art is almost certainly AI, too. | Image: Fenix Flexin Fenix Flexin is best known as a member of Shoreline …
Google Earth’s AI deepfake tool only lasted one day
Pompeii reimagined with Nano Banana 2 in Google Earth. | Image: Google Google has shut down Google Earth feature it la…
Google might launch a ‘Pixel Tag’
Google is seemingly working on an item tracker that might compete with Apple's AirTag. 9to5Google obtained an im…
The loss of Situational Awareness
Neither artificial nor intelligent. I am not by any means an expert at finance but I think I do now have some advice f…
LinkedIn actually adds a ‘seems like AI slop’ button
A lot of content on LinkedIn might seem like AI slop, and now, you'll be able to report those posts. As part of a…
Govee’s portable smart lamp is down to one of its best prices to date
Buying multiple lamps for different rooms can get expensive. Govee’s rechargeable Table Lamp Classic gives you one l…
Xbox revenue drops 10 percent as Microsoft’s cloud and AI business surges
Xbox is having yet another tough quarter, as revenue from content and services like its Game Pass subscription dipped…
The US government just banned Roombas
When the Trump administration announced yesterday that it was banning "advanced robotic devices" from enter…