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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Friday, OpenAI's new ChatGPT Agent, which can perform multistep tasks for users, proved it can pass through one of the Internet's most common security checkpoints by clicking Cloudflare's anti-bot verification -- the same checkbox that's supp...

iOS 26 adds a new filtering system to the Messages app that tucks away messages from “Unknown Senders” into a...

A social media user spotted what was clearly a development iPhone in a thick black case that obscures the upcoming camera bar expected in the iPhone 17 models.

Yesterday we learned about three new potential iPhone 17 Pro camera features. Today a test unit was possibly spotted in...

Tyler, the Creator has the top album in the country. The hook people are humming has nothing to do with it.

Google DeepMind and OpenAI won gold medals at the math Olympics—but these American teenagers still got higher scores. Will this be the last time humans outperform AI?

: We say everything... just not the oldest hardware. Unix Epochalypse less than 13 years away

The letter states that allowing sales of the H20 AI chip to China could hurt the U.S.'s AI "edge" and further chip bottlenecks in the U.S.

Forward-looking content strategy needs to take into account both humans and machines.

We’re probably about six weeks away from Apple announcing the iPhone 17 Pro. Much of what we expect to see...

Indie video game marketplace Itch.io announced this week that it has "deindexed" adult and not-safe-for-work games, removing them from its browse and search pages.

Dire warnings of the consequences of Google’s answer engine resulting in over-exploitation of the web and its exhaustion. It’s time to stand up and declare what’s written by a hum…

The U.S. DOGE Service is using a new AI tool to eliminate federal regulations, aiming to cut 50 percent of rules by the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

OpenAI’s chatbot also said “Hail Satan.”

The UK will start checking compliance with its Online Safety Act, which requires strict age verification before users can access pornographic sites.

The UK will start checking compliance with its Online Safety Act, which requires strict age verification before users can access pornographic sites.

Two execs went viral for the wrong reasons. So the company did what any startup would: call in Gwyneth Paltrow

In experimental surgery on pig organs, the robot performed well.

The Internet Archive, thanks to its designation by California Sen. Alex Padilla, joins a network of over 1,100 libraries that make government documents accessible to the public.

My longtime colleague Harry McCracken has a new piece about the future of the iPad at Fast Company that is definitely worth your consideration: As someone who’s used an iPad as my main computer for…

Apple’s tablet is getting more powerful. But it’s also adopting decades of interface clutter it once avoided.

Blender, the widely used open-source 3D suite, is getting a tablet-first redesign, starting with full support for the iPad Pro.

We’ve spent years documenting the challenges of crafting sensible AI policy, from Biden’s misguided plan, to various state-level attempts at regulation. Now Trump’s AI Action Plan…

By Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.

You can now buy a drone that’s a a dead ringer for the DJI Mini 4 Pro — the SkyRover X1 — on Amazon. And that’s probably because DJI made it happen.

The Perplexity app for macOS is getting even more useful, thanks to the addition of MCP support. Here’s what that means.

By Angela Yang / NBC News. View the full context on Techmeme.

For many years, Apple’s annual operating-system cycle seemed to be all about the iPhone, with the occasional bone thrown to the Mac or iPad. But Apple’s latest operating-system releases…

Blender is working on a native iPad version of its popular 3D creation suite, with the goal of delivering a complete multitouch experience tailored to artists who rely on tablets.

Apple is notifying developers about automatic changes to the age rating of their apps and games, as it introduces more granular tiers.