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“They just really didn't think anyone would look up.”

Meta is rolling out a new Facebook feature that the company says will help users share more photos—but which could also be used to help train its AI.

Australia's ban, a world first, comes into effect in December.

Earlier this week, Apple unveiled three new products with the M5 chip, built on the third generation 3nm process. While...

OpenAI researchers recently claimed a major math breakthrough on X, but quickly walked it back after criticism from the community, including Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis, who called out the sloppy communication.

Officials said they had discovered tens of thousands of Lego pieces at a California home and arrested a man who trafficked in the stolen collectibles.

Apple’s range of M5 products has a new chip — and little else to entice typical shoppers. Also: The company’s AI division brain drain continues, and Apple gears up to launch a touch-screen MacBook Pro.

Early next year, Apple is set to debut its new AI-infused Siri as part of iOS 26.4 – after well...

Tim Cook once said the future of TV is apps. But logging into streaming apps on an Apple TV 4K can be a hassle, and tvOS 26 has the fix.

ChatGPT’s mobile app may have reached its growth peak, according to new data from app intelligence firm Apptopia.

Apple and Formula 1 announced their long-awaited five-year U.S. media rights deal that will bring all U.S. televised races to Apple TV

Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models: Claude can now use Skills to improve how it performs specific tasks. Skills …

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters—one of the latest amalgamations of typically young, reckless, and English-speaking hackers—posted the apparent phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials, including nearly 700 from DHS.

Apple promises to put an AI interpreter in everyone’s ears. It couldn’t even help me order tamales.

Renters in the Big Apple could have just caught a big break today.

Dr. Coral Hoh has spent nearly a decade trying to prove that Dysolve, an A.I. platform designed to treat dyslexia, actually works. A randomized controlled trial just validated her approach.

Gemini Live is more widely rolling out native audio output for a “more responsive and expressive conversation” on Android.

Apple Inc. is preparing to finally launch a touch-screen version of its Mac computer, reversing course on a stance that dates back to co-founder Steve Jobs.

Claude Haiku 4.5, our latest small model, is available today to all users.

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.

Apple is lobbying for a change in the tax law in India as it potentially faces billions of dollars in...

Apple has long been rumored to be working on a significant improvement to the main iPhone camera in the form...

Chinese officials say that Tim Cook has committed to increasing both investment and cooperation with the country.

4.5hr → 3.5min. Local Whisper AI. Privacy-first.

For many many years, experts have warned about massive longstanding flaws in Signaling System 7 (SS7, or Common Channel Signaling System 7), a series of protocols used by cellular network…

The Department of Homeland Security says that Chinese criminal gangs have made more than $1 billion from text scams sent...

The same price as Apple’s OG HomePod at launch.

I was 30 seconds away from running malware, Here's how a sophisticated scam operation almost got me, and why every developer needs to read this.