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Open-source models' success isn't coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life-cycle. … [Read more...]

It finally happened — Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders finally went live, and people have been buying copies as if they'll somehow run out before launch day. I mean no shade, since I've done exactly the same thing. It also proves that the old "no gameplay, no pre-order" mantra goes completely out the window when Rockstar Games is involved. But while excitement around the game is expected, the … [Read more...]

Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending. … [Read more...]

For the past few months, I had been facing buffering issues with my smart TV. No matter which streaming app I was on, the content always buffered, more so on some than others, but there was always some degree of buffering. I tried countless fixes, from clearing the cache to updating the TV's software, but nothing seemed to work. … [Read more...]

Discord has acknowledged that a bug in its AI moderation system mistakenly banned more than 8,000 users over the past two months, after harmless images—including spreadsheets, chessboards, game textures, as well as white and gray transparent backgrounds—were incorrectly flagged as harmful content. The company confirmed that the issue had been affecting accounts since May, with […] ➪ Continue … [Read more...]

Open source has come a long way over the last few years, and most of the tools I've tried are either level with their closed counterparts or genuinely better in some ways. Most of them are free, and the transparency never really wears off for me. Plus a lot of these projects end up with weird little features the paid tools would never bother shipping. … [Read more...]

Google's upcoming event in August will introduce new Pixel devices. … [Read more...]

The Y Combinator-backed company started a vibe coding platform and later built an agent creation product. … [Read more...]

If you've used any smart TV without a streaming device in the last decade, you're awfully familiar with the abysmal software experience consumers are subjected to. Woefully underpowered processors make the clunky and bloated Android TV/Google TV environment an even bigger nuisance. I struggled with this on my Hisense TV for over four years before switching to the Apple TV 4K (3rd Gen). ➪ Continue … [Read more...]

Nikita Bier, X's head of product, said in a post on Monday that "[m]any videos from top accounts are simply stolen from other users, sometimes 5 years after they originally went viral," while noting that videos on the platform "make up close to half the impressions on X." According to Bier, X is launching a new in-app video editor and recorder to address this "recycled content," so that "some … [Read more...]

We've talked about the AMD Ryzen 5 5500 chip before. It's an excellent budget option if you're looking to build an affordable PC in 2026. Of course, as time has passed, we've seen the price of PC hardware rise, making it increasingly difficult to put together something new. … [Read more...]

For most of us, building a new PC or even upgrading certain components is unthinkable right now, thanks to the ongoing memory and storage crisis. A DDR5 memory kit that used to cost $100 is now well over $400, and a 2TB Gen4 NVMe SSD that could be had for around $120 last year now costs nearly $300. Over the last eight months, the bulk of the wafer supply has been gobbled up by AI data centers, … [Read more...]

While the auto industry wrings its hands over the electric vehicle market, sweating details like aerodynamic efficiency and range anxiety, a new EV startup based in Lisbon, Portugal, is zagging in a different direction. Amble's new electric buggy won't impress anyone with its 0-60 time or its self-driving features (it has none). Instead, it takes a stab at the belief that cars have gotten too big, … [Read more...]

ABC is firing back at the Federal Communications Commission after the agency opened an investigation into The View's airtime of political candidates. In a letter to the FCC on Tuesday, ABC argues that the agency's actions pose a risk to editorial independence by targeting programs "perceived as unfriendly to the current administration," as reported earlier by The Wrap. In February, the FCC Chair … [Read more...]

Starting Tuesday, Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI platform will be available on mobile and web for the first time. The expanded access is rolling out first to Max subscribers and coming to Claude users on other plans "in the coming weeks." Claude Cowork was previously only accessible through the Claude desktop app for macOS and Windows, but now users on iOS and Android can also use it. However, … [Read more...]

The alleged victim, believed to be a small Ohio county, reportedly paid the extortion group to prevent the public release of sensitive stolen data. … [Read more...]

For a long time, my NAS had a little sidekick sitting next to it. The NAS handled storage, while a separate mini PC running Proxmox handled the small services I didn't quite want to run directly on the storage box. It worked, but I never really loved it. I had two machines powered on, two systems to update, two sets of logs to check, and one growing feeling that I'd added extra hardware mostly … [Read more...]

Netflix is bringing 2- to 20-minute videos to its platform through new partnerships with digital publishers, including Rolling Stone and Variety. … [Read more...]

Google is hosting its next Made by Google launch event for Pixel hardware on August 12th in New York City, according to an invitation sent by Google to The Verge. Unusually, the event is taking place in the evening: it'll kick off at 6PM ET that day. The email also includes a brief animation teasing what appears to be a phone in the Pixel 11 family that's gold. Pixel 11 leaks that have popped up … [Read more...]

RALEIGH, N.C. — InsightFinder AI, the predictive reliability platform, has announced the launch of ARI Mobile, its operational AI agent for iOS and Android. With ARI Mobile, on-call engineers can investigate incidents in plain language, get full root-cause analysis and take remediation actions directly from their phones. The ARI operational AI agent triages alerts, surfaces root cause, and guides … [Read more...]