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Business software groups warn that top AI models are increasingly being used to create ultra-realistic fake receipts

The United States and China are ready to move forward on a TikTok deal, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

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The lack of a concrete definition for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) obscures the gap between today's specialized AI and human-level cognition. This paper introduces a quantifiable...

Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shares this article from Interesting Engineering: Bill Gates-backed TerraPower's innovative Natrium reactor project in Wyoming has cleared a critical federal regulatory hurdle. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has successfully completed its final Environ...

Can YouTube capture the hours people spending watching "traditional" TV? YouTube's CEO recently said its viewership on TV sets has "surpassed mobile and is now the primary device for YouTube viewing in the U.S.," writes The Hollywood Reporter. And YouTube is shelling out big money to stay on top: ...

Adobe got Project Indigo up and running on the iPhone 17 by turning off the front-facing square camera sensor.

Apple is working on a vapor chamber to improve cooling and performance in an iPad Pro slated for as early as 2027. Also: The company makes headway on a plan to bring ads to Apple Maps, and a foldable iPad with an 18-inch screen hits development snags.

The Windows 10 end-of-support deadline is driving the largest coordinated PC replacement cycle in years across the industry, and Apple is emerging as...

A landmark case in the UK concerning Apple’s App Store practices has just been decided, with Apple losing the case and owing restitution.

Armed officers swarmed a 16-year-old student outside a Baltimore high school when an AI gun detection system flagged Doritos as a firearm.

Apple is among the major tech companies donating to fund President Trump's 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom that demolition has already started for, a project the President says will be privately financed.

The acquired firm was working on a tool to control macOS directly with AI.

Valve's most recent update to Counter-Strike pushed its cosmetics economy in freefall, with billions evaporating overnight.

Digital evidence stored in iCloud played a key role in exposing a multistate poker-rigging scheme tied to organized crime and NBA players. Here's how, and what evidence was uncovered.

In a statement to the German Press Agency, Apple claimed that it may have to turn off App Tracking Transparency...

Capture verifiably real moments in the age of Generative AI

An Icelandic programmer successfully ran Doom on the European Space Agency's OPS-SAT satellite, proving that the iconic 1993 shooter can now run not just everywhere on Earth -- but in orbit. ZDNet reports: Olafur Waage, a senior software developer from Iceland who now works in Norway, explained at ...

A federal court ruled that Facebook parent Meta can't use attorney-client privilege to block internal documents and research related to teen harm.

OpenAI has launched a new ChatGPT feature that makes it easier to search for workspace information without switching between apps.

Sora’s head at OpenAI just revealed that the Sora iOS app has several new features coming soon, here are the details.

Coinciding with this week’s launch of Apple Vision Pro (M5), Apple held a special “Meet with Apple” event at its...

Today, the M5 iPad Pro and iPadOS 26 have settled a lot of old scores. But it's been a long, strange journey from "Hey Siri" day in San Francisco to now.

After a summer of beta testing, Apple released iOS 26 to everyone last month. Now, attention has shifted to iOS...

“It looks like you’re trying to find a friend. Would you like help?”…

Apple has confirmed Jon Prosser's claims that they are in discussions, but says he still hasn't filed a court response. But his co-defendant has been cooperating, and could settle.

To protect older users from scams, the company is adding new warnings that get triggered by suspicious activity.

Our visual clues for identifying AI images are fading fast.

A web browser linked to Chinese online gambling websites and downloaded millions of times routes all internet traffic through servers in China and covertly installs programs that run in the background, according to findings published by network security company Infoblox. The researchers said the Uni...