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Apple’s next round of OS updates will introduce a seamless, secure way to export and import passkeys across platforms and apps.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Almost two dozen digital rights and consumer protection organizations sent a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday urging regulators to investigate Character.AI and Meta's "unlicensed practice of medicine facilitated by their produc...

New York has a new AI safety bill that tries to regulate frontier AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.

While many already know how these rollouts usually go, a new chart offers a great visual snapshot of when each OS has landed.

Apple’s recent AI research paper, “The Illusion of Thinking”, has been making waves, but not everyone agrees with its conclusion.

Today, Apple has begun selling refurbished configurations of its recently released MacBook Air with M4 chip – with a roughly...

Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reports 19 fires and two burn injuries.

Anne Wojcicki, the co-founder and former CEO of 23andMe, will purchase the bankrupt company’s assets for $305 million, the genetic testing company said Friday. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals had agreed to pay $256 million for the bankruptcy assets last month, but the bankruptcy court held a final round of bidding on Friday for the assets, which include the company’s personal genome testing

Silicon Valley executives are joining a new innovation corps in Army Reserve

Steam’s latest client beta includes native support for Apple Silicon. The update means Steam will no longer have to rely on the Rosetta 2 emulator to run on Arm-based Macs.

Facebook and Yandex have been caught performing user-hostile tracking. This sort of makes today just another Friday, but this is a bit special. This time, it’s Local Mess. OK, it’s an a…

Meta’s Llama 4 model has underperformed its competitors on benchmarks.

Scientists have successfully grown beating human hearts inside pig embryos for the first time, marking a significant advance in developing human-animal chimeras for potential organ transplantation. The hybrid embryos survived for 21 days, during which the fingertip-sized hearts began beating, accord...

Following NotebookLM and Gemini, Audio Overviews are coming to Google Search results as a part of new Search Labs experiment.

For years, one person has loomed large in the mind of Bret Taylor: his former boss, Marc Benioff. When Taylor quit suddenly as Benioff’s co-CEO at Salesforce after just a year in November 2022, Benioff was an inescapable point of discussion as Taylor sat down with Benchmark’s Peter Fenton to ...

A dance crew of four-legged robots from Boston Dynamics appeared on "America's Got Talent" to perform a synchronized routine to Queen's "Don't Stop Me

AI slop on TV.

After several years, Google has released a major update to the iOS version of its Snapseed photo editor.

Two decades ago, Steve Jobs made a dent in the world with a moving and sensational commencement speech to Stanford graduates. You can now watch it in HD.

Convert written text into high-quality speech using a reference audio file for style. Users provide text and an optional audio prompt to tailor the speech. The app returns the generated speech as a...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Polygon: Nintendo Switch 2 is off to a roaring start. Early on Wednesday, Nintendo announced that it had sold 3.5 million units of its new console in just four days, making it Nintendo's fastest-selling console ever. In fact, this is likely the biggest consol...

Stargate—an up to $500 billion venture announced by OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle to build data centers for artificial intellegence—is “not formed yet,” Oracle CEO Safra Catz told investors Wednesday. When Catz was asked by investors whether Oracle’s projections for a 70% growth rate in its cloud computing unit included contracts with Stargate, she didn’t answer the question directly, but

The entertainment industry—once controlled by a handful of studios and networks—is undergoing a transformation. Thanks to platforms like YouTube, creators with little more than a smartphone and Wi-Fi are reshaping what we watch, how it’s made and who gets to make it. This month, Nielsen ranked ...

BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Apple has released a new developer tool on GitHub called Container, offering a fresh approach to running Linux containers directly on macOS. Unlike Docker or Podman, this tool is designed to feel at home in the Apple ecosystem and hooks into frameworks al...

A dating site launched last week by Belgian artist Dries Depoorter matches potential partners based on their internet browsing histories rather than curated profiles or photos. Browser Dating requires users to download a Chrome or Firefox extension that exports and uploads their recent search data, ...

Long-awaited improvements to audio recording on the iPad have arrived with the beta of iPadOS 26, and what was a severe failing is now a big advantage.

It's not just Intel code — after a period of undeath, Time Capsule's time is coming, with Apple cutting off support for Time Machine backups using the hardware in macOS 27.

Zuckerberg seeks new AI direction under sci-fi banner that some experts say is arbitrary.

OpenAI dropped o3 pricing 80% today and launched o3-pro. Ben Hylak of Raindrop.ai returns with the world's first early review.