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Pope Leo XIV, the new American pope, is making the threat of AI to humanity a key issue of his legacy.

Your expected NFC range could quadruple within a few years. The NFC Forum has announced its NFC Release 15 standard, which extends the operating range of Near…

Traditional and indie authors are flooding #WritersTok with videos of them editing their manuscripts to refute accusations of generative AI use—and bring readers into their very human process.

Big Tech companies including Amazon, Meta, Google, and Microsoft — but not Apple — are lobbying to block US states for forming any AI regulation for the next decade.

People in Iran have been having difficulties accessing internet services, including foreign websites and messaging apps like WhatsApp.

There’s a lack of footage from the conflict and AI-generated content is filling the void.

Tens of thousands of security cameras in businesses, CCTV cameras, and cameras from commonplace internet-connected devices were found vulnerable to dark web actors, a new report shows.

After an attack on Iran's Sepah bank, the hyper-aggressive Israel-linked hacker group has now destroyed more than $90 million held at Iranian crypto exchange Nobitex.

Elon Musk’s xAI is burning $1 billion a month as it spends heavily on building its AI models, Bloomberg reported, citing people briefed on the company’s financials. The company is trying to raise $9.3 billion in debt and equity, according to the report, and plans to spend more than half of that sum in the next three months. Meanwhile, the company has told investors to expect just $500 million

Social media company X has filed a lawsuit against the state of New York over a law governing hate speech.

WhatsApp is bringing ads to its status feature, a move that’s at odds with the brand’s identity as a “secure” messaging app.

Months after announcing a partnership with defense-tech startup Anduril, OpenAI has secured a $200 million contract with the Department of Defense.

Negotiations between Microsoft and OpenAI over the startup’s plan to restructure its for-profit unit, which requires Microsoft’s approval, have entered their eighth month with no end in sight and new conflicts emerging. OpenAI wants Microsoft, the startup’s biggest outside shareholder, to have a ...

Plus: The pivot to video is really happening, digital subscriptions may have peaked, and other findings from RISJ's 2025 Digital News Report.

In May, more Americans watched television on streaming than on cable and network television combined, Nielsen said. It is the first time that has happened over a full month.

Late last Tuesday night, after watching F1: The Movie at the Steve Jobs Theater, I was driving back from dropping Federico off at his hotel when I got a text: Can you pick me up? It was from my son Finn, who had spent the evening nearby and was stalking me in Find My. Of

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Netflix says its first two Netflix House locations in Philadelphia and Dallas will open later this year.

Apple sought to dismiss a lawsuit concerning iCloud storage, but a US judge just ruled that the class action can move forward.

In a new ad, Google drops a tiny Pixel 10 tease while poking fun at iOS 26 features coming to the iPhone later this year.

Social networks are bolstering their terms of service against scrapers and bots that crawl the website to train AI models. Days after Elon Musk-owned X

The list of sites in the suspect's notebook, which can easily reveal where someone lives, are a simple Google search away, have been for years, and lawmakers could make changes if they wanted. They have before.

While other tech companies rush to dominate artificial intelligence with bold promises and uneven results, Apple is building something slower, quieter, and more durable.

Apple's rumored smart home display has surfaced in a new leak, one sourced from code in the developer beta for iOS 18.6.

Apple has migrated its global Password Monitoring service from Java to Swift, achieving a 40% increase in throughput and significantly reducing memory usage—freeing up nearly 50% of previously allocated Kubernetes capacity.

Nintendo Co. sold 3.5 million-plus units of the Switch 2 in just four days, a record-breaking start for the company’s first new console in eight years.

President Donald Trump said a trade framework with China has been completed, with Beijing supplying rare earths and magnets “UP FRONT” and the US allowing Chinese students into its colleges and universities.

Federighi talks to Ars about why the iPad’s Mac-style multitasking took so long.

Apple CEO Tim Cook pulls back the curtain on the tech giant's film and television strategy, including spending millions on 'F1.'