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The US Court system’s electronic filing front-end has always been a mess. Not only is it prohibitively expensive for most casual users, it’s prohibitively dysfunctional even for power u…

Several of Proton's products could be headed elsewhere in Europe in the wake of proposed surveillance laws

I’m a big fan of dictation and voice commands. The latter are the most common way for me to control...

Apple’s Reminders app gets several new features in iOS 26, including a powerful tool for organizing your tasks.

China launched the World Humanoid Robot Games on Friday. The three-day event will see 280 teams from 16 countries compete in football, track and field, and table tennis alongside robot-specific challenges including medicine sorting and cleaning services. The event also features 192 university teams ...

iPhone 17 Pro Max might have a unique camera advantage over the smaller iPhone 17 Pro, per a new post from Weibo leaker Instant Digital.

The top secret code to crack Kryptos, the infamous CIA engima, is hitting the auction block courtesy of sculptor Jim Sanborn.

J.D. Power’s 2025 U.S. Credit Card Satisfaction Study is out. And this time, contrary to the last four years, Apple didn’t top the list.

America's data centers could drain as much as 12% of the nation's electricity in the next three years.

SpaceX urges Trump admin to reject Virginia’s broadband grant proposal.

It appears Grok’s antisemitic rants stopped it from becoming feds’ go-to chatbot.

"Peak" has sold millions of copies and is Aggro Crab’s biggest hit to date. That makes it a prime target for cloning.

Remember back in February when the DOJ told a court that, despite multiple public statements from both Elon Musk and Donald Trump to the contrary, Elon Musk was not associated one bit with DOGE and…

Ten years of work to boost one man’s reputation.

The Supreme Court has decided not to weigh in on one of the many state-level age-verification laws currently being reviewed across the country.

The new science of “emergent misalignment” explores how PG-13 training data — insecure code, superstitious numbers or even extreme-sports advice — can open the door to AI’s dark side.

We’re in a new era of government intervention in corporate America. The latest example is Bloomberg’s report on Thursday that the Trump administration was in talks to “take a stake” in Intel. Just on Monday, President Donald Trump said he and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had agreed that Nvidia would ...

DeepSeek's development of its next-gen R2 AI model was severely delayed after months of failed training attempts on Huawei's Ascend chips, which suffered from unstable hardware, slow interconnects, and immature software. The Register reports: Following the industry rattling launch of DeepSeek R1 ea...

Lilly will receive exclusive rights to develop and commercialize drug candidates discovered using Superluminal's AI-driven platform.

Apple’s next-gen Vision Pro headset may be powered by the M5 chip as opposed to the M4. Per a code leak noted by MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris…

Data brokers are required by California law to provide ways for consumers to request their data be deleted. But good luck finding them. From a report: More than 30 of the companies, which collect and sell consumers' personal information, hid their deletion instructions from Google, according to a re...

The breach of the US Courts records system came to light more than a month after the attack was discovered. Details about what was exposed—and who’s responsible—remain unclear.

So-called reverse acquihires have left once-promising startups stranded, with remaining employees left to figure out what to do next.

If you were holding a competition for the scummiest business model, then data brokers would be very high up the...

BrianFagioli writes: Lenovo is starting its fiscal year with a major win, delivering record-breaking PC sales and claiming dominance in the AI PC space. For the first quarter of its 2025/26 fiscal year, the company reported $18.8 billion in revenue, which is 22 percent higher than the same period la...

Apple will introduce a redesigned Blood Oxygen feature for some Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 users.

Apple’s new Studio Display 2 is coming soon, and a code leak just revealed it may have a far more powerful chip than you might expect.