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Whether Warner Bros. is bought by Netflix or Paramount, there are probably going to be layoffs and less choice for consumers.

The final language of the annual bill that funds the US military is in. It removes provisions that would have helped ensure service members’ ability to fix their own equipment.

AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden.

Bloomberg reported on Saturday that Srouji had told CEO Tim Cook that he was considering leaving.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: A coalition of more than 230 environmental groups has demanded a national moratorium on new datacenters in the U.S., the latest salvo in a growing backlash to a booming artificial intelligence industry that has been blamed for escalating electri...

Apple silicon Macs were designed to boot almost as securely from external disks as from their internal SSD. That makes macOS installation a little more complicated. Here’s how to do that.

Researchers and moderators are increasingly concerned that ChatGPT-style language is bleeding into everyday speech and writing. The topic has been explored in the past but "two new, more anecdotal reports, suggest that our chatbot dialect isn't just something that can be found through close analysis...

Under-16s will no longer be able to subscribe to popular apps under Australian groundbreaking law

The price of RAM is on the rise as memory makers prioritize orders from the AI companies using it inside sprawling data centers.

President Trump said Nvidia can export some chips. But years of U.S. restrictions have propelled China to make everything it needs for advanced A.I.

Nvidia has received White House approval to start exporting its H200 AI GPU chips to “approved customers” in China and other countries.

Meta’s push to develop its next frontier model, codenamed Avocado, under new AI leadership is creating internal friction as it races rivals OpenAI and Google.

You almost have to feel sorry for Alan Dye at this point. It was pretty clear he expected news of...

The European Commission is digging into Google's lack of compensation for publishers and YouTube creators.

Last week Netflix announced a $82.7 billion acquisition of Warner Brothers, after elbowing out rival acquisition bids (for now) by Comcast/NBC and Paramount/CBS. But as we noted then, the deal stil…

Australia will tomorrow become the first democratic country in the world to ban children from using social media. However, it...

Aura’s digital frames can accept pictures from friends and family you’ve invited to share via text message now, without asking them to install its app first.

New videos and photos shared with 404 Media show a Border Patrol agent wearing Meta Ray-Bans glasses with the recording light clearly on. This is despite a DHS ban on officers recording with personal devices.

For AI agents to work properly in automating white-collar tasks, the companies developing the agents and the companies running the enterprise apps those agents use will need to agree on technical standards for how these technologies connect to each other.Some leading companies are preparing to ...

Microsoft Excel, the 40-year-old spreadsheet application that helped establish personal computers as essential workplace tools and contributed to Microsoft's current valuation of nearly $4 trillion, has weathered both the rise of cloud computing and the current AI boom largely unscathed. In its most...

David Ellison knows what Trump wants on CNN—and he’s willing to give it to him so long as he gets control of Warner Bros. Discovery.

This holiday season, Apple Arcade players can dive deeper into the world of the hit game Sneaky Sasquatch.

Amazon is launching new Alexa Plus shopping features that make it easier to track your orders and avoid missing out on deals

The Pebble Index 01 is a smart ring designed for capturing quick voice memos, and that's it — no health tracking or notifications.

Through the first six months of 2025, Apple was the second-worst performer among the Magnificent Seven tech giants, as its shares tumbled 18% through the end of June. “It is remarkable how they have kept their heads and are in control of spending, when all of their peers have gone the other direction,” said John Barr, portfolio manager of the Needham Aggressive Growth Fund, which owns Apple shares.

The competition between AI chatbots has been heating up, with Google’s Gemini nipping at OpenAI’s heels. On Monday, I wrote about how Gemini’s share of weekly mobile app downloads increased in late November following the release of Gemini 3, according to data from research firm Sensor Tower, ...

Repair outfit iFixit has released an iOS app providing access to its repair guides and AI-based assistance for fixing your hardware, though it also provides a help tool that already exists in Settings.

Apple Inc. chip chief Johny Srouji, whose potential departure risked worsening a bout of executive turnover, told staff on Monday that he’ll stay at the iPhone maker for now.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google said it’s working to create two different categories of artificial intelligence-powered smart glasses to compete next year with existing models from Meta Platforms Inc.: one with screens, and another that’s audio focused.

President Donald Trump said he would approve an executive order this week establishing “ONE RULE” on artificial intelligence aimed at limiting state-level policies regulating the technology.