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Spotify and Liquid Death's Eternal May Fall Short on Sound Quality, Leaving Consumers Disappointed
Consumers who purchase the limited edition Eternal Playlist Speaker, a collaboration between Spotify and Liquid Death, risk being disappointed by its
Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 May Bring Longer Battery Life and Advanced Health Metrics
Samsung's next-generation Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 may put millions of smart risk of being left behind with outdated health tracking features, as rumors
Apple Blocks Underage App Downloads in Key Regions
Apple's new age verification tools restrict 18-plus app downloads in Australia, Brazil, and Singapore.
OpenAI Denies Liability in Teen Suicide Lawsuit, Citing Misuse of ChatGPT
OpenAI has formally denied responsibility in a lawsuit filed by the family of Adam Raine, a 16 year old who died by suicide after months of private conversations with ChatGPT. In a detailed legal fili...
Spotify Expected to Raise U.S. Subscription Prices in Early 2026 Amid Label Pressure
Spotify is reportedly preparing to raise subscription prices in the United States in the first quarter of next year, according to a new TechCrunch report citing industry sources. The move comes after ...
Roblox Faces Backlash After Banning YouTuber Who Tracked Alleged Child Predators
Roblox is under intense scrutiny after banning a YouTuber known as “Schlep,” who built a large audience by tracking, confronting and publicly exposing alleged child predators operating inside the gami...
U.S. Court Filing Alleges Meta Halted Internal Research Pointing to Social Media Harm
Legal pressure on Meta intensified this week after newly unsealed court filings alleged that the company halted internal research that indicated potential harm from its social media platforms. The doc...
UAE Expands Its Autonomous Future as Uber Deploys Fully Driverless Robotaxis in Abu Dhabi
Uber’s ambitions in autonomous mobility reached a new milestone this week as the company confirmed that customers in Abu Dhabi can now be matched with fully driverless robotaxis. The rollout, develope...
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
The United States government is preparing to dramatically widen its digital tracking of immigrants after Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a previous 180 million dollar cap on a controversial...
Homeland Security Probes China’s Bitmain Over U.S. National Security Concerns
The United States is quietly escalating scrutiny around foreign technology firms, and this time the focus is on Bitmain, the Chinese company that dominates the global Bitcoin mining hardware industry....
This Hacker Conference Installed a Literal Anti-Virus Monitoring System
Organizers of New Zealand’s Kawaiicon cybersecurity convention took their hacker spirit beyond digital networks this year, building a physical anti-virus monitoring system designed to track and displa...
Despite Rising Chinese Cyberattacks, U.S. FCC Moves to Scrap Telecom Security Rules
The United States is heading into a major cybersecurity shift as the Federal Communications Commission voted to eliminate rules designed to strengthen the digital defenses of phone and internet provid...
SpaceX’s Upgraded Starship Explodes During Test as Company Pushes Toward Next Launch Phase
SpaceX’s next generation Starship prototype suffered an explosion during ground testing in Texas, creating a new hurdle for the company as it works to prepare the upgraded vehicle for its next series ...
OpenAI to Retire GPT-4o API Access by February 2026
OpenAI has told developers it will officially sunset API access to the widely used GPT-4o model in February 2026, marking the end of one of the company’s most popular multimodal systems. The notice, s...
Salesforce Unveils Agentforce Observability as Companies Race to Monitor AI Decision Making
Salesforce has introduced a new suite of monitoring tools aimed at solving one of the biggest blind spots in corporate AI, understanding how autonomous agents make decisions once deployed in real cust...
Australia to Ban Under-16s From Meta Platforms as Company Begins Shutting Down Teen Accounts
Meta has begun warning young users in Australia that their Facebook, Instagram and Messenger accounts will soon be disabled as the country prepares to enforce one of the world’s strictest age-based so...
How Louvre Thieves Exploited Human Psychology in an €88 Million Heist, and What It Reveals About AI
The theft itself lasted less than eight minutes. On a clear October morning in Paris, four men allegedly entered the Louvre Museum wearing high visibility construction vests, arrived with a furniture ...
France’s Deblock Raises €30 Million as Europe Accelerates Shift Toward Unified Euro and Crypto Banking
Deblock, the French crypto banking startup aiming to merge everyday euro payments with fully self-custodied digital assets, has secured €30 million in fresh Series A funding, positioning itself as one...
France’s Deblock Raises €30 Million as Europe Accelerates Shift Toward Unified Euro and Crypto Banking
Deblock, the French crypto banking startup aiming to merge everyday euro payments with fully self-custodied digital assets, has secured €30 million in fresh Series A funding, positioning itself as one...
Somalia Confirms Major Data Breach in Electronic Visa System
Somalia has launched an urgent investigation into a significant breach of its electronic visa platform, confirming that sensitive applicant information was compromised in an incident that has heighten...
Global Privacy Alarm as WhatsApp Flaw Exposes 3.5 Billion Phone Numbers
A security flaw in WhatsApp’s contact discovery feature has triggered one of the largest privacy incidents of the decade, after researchers revealed that they were able to match 3.5 billion phone numb...
Internet Disruptions Intensify as Cloudflare Outage Triggers Global Slowdowns
Large portions of the global internet briefly went dark on Tuesday morning after Cloudflare experienced a sudden and unexplained surge in traffic that disrupted services across major platforms. The ou...
AWS Bets on Structured Adherence and Spec Fidelity Amid Agent Hype
In an era where autonomous coding agents and generative tools dominated headlines, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has taken a more disciplined path, emphasising structured adherence to specifications and o...
TikTok Adds Direct Amazon Music Sharing as Both Platforms Deepen Social-Streaming Integration
Amazon Music users can now push songs, albums, playlists and personalised listening highlights directly into TikTok, after the companies rolled out a new “Share to TikTok” feature aimed at tightening ...
U.S. Seizure Warrant Targets Starlink Units Used by Scam Compounds Overseas
Thousands of Americans have been lured into crypto and online-romance scams run from criminal compounds across Southeast Asia, and U.S. authorities say the infrastructure enabling those networks is fi...
California Startup Completes First Flight of Military-Ready Air Taxi Prototype
Joby Aviation has completed the first flight of a new military-configured version of its electric air taxi, marking a major step toward adapting next-generation aircraft for defense operations. The Ca...
OpenAI Pilots Group Conversations in ChatGPT Across Four Countries
OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT’s capabilities with a new group chat feature now piloting across Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan, marking one of the company’s most significant experiments in r...
Google Sues China-Based Cybercriminal Group Over Nationwide E-ZPass and USPS Phishing Scams
Google has filed a major lawsuit targeting a cybercriminal group accused of orchestrating one of the most widespread text-based phishing schemes in the United States. The group, which Google says is l...
Uber Rolls Out ‘Send a Ride’ to Let Users Pay Fares for Friends and Family
Uber is introducing a new slate of travel features designed to ease the pressure of what is expected to be an unusually busy holiday season, including a tool that lets users pay for someone else’s tri...
Zaiffer Unveils Confidential Token Protocol After €2M Raise, Pushing Privacy Back Into DeFi
Zaiffer, a Paris-based confidential finance startup, has emerged from stealth with a €2 million raise and a clear mission, rebuild privacy in the decentralised finance ecosystem without putting itself...
WisdomAI Secures $50M to Push AI Data Analytics Into Its Next Phase
WisdomAI has raised another $50 million in fresh funding, a sign of how aggressively investors are backing tools that promise to solve one of the industry’s biggest headaches, turning messy, fragmente...
Google Moves to Crack Down on Android Apps That Drain Excessive Battery Power
Google is tightening its oversight of Android apps by introducing new rules targeting software that quietly drains battery life. The move reflects a growing push across the industry to improve device ...
Apple Rolls Out Digital ID Feature That Lets Users Store Passports in Wallet
Apple is expanding its push into secure digital identity with a new feature that allows US passport holders to store their credentials directly in the Wallet app. The update, announced this week, aims...
OpenAI Unveils GPT-5.1, Promising Warmer Conversations and Expanded Personality Controls
OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.1, a major update to its flagship model that refines performance, broadens customization options, and attempts to address user frustration that followed the underwhelming l...
Harbinger Secures $160 Million to Build Electric Trucks for FedEx
A major vote of confidence has landed in the US electric commercial vehicle market. Harbinger, a Los Angeles-based EV startup, has closed a hefty $160 million funding round as it prepares to build mor...
Apple May Revive the Netbook and Redefine What ‘Cheap’ Means in Cupertino
Apple, the company that effectively killed the netbook era more than a decade ago, might be preparing to bring it back - in its own meticulously designed way. According to industry reports, the compan...
What Happens When Companies Replace Engineers With AI? The Risks of Building a Human-Free Tech Stack
The promise sounds irresistible: AI tools that write, debug, and deploy code faster than any human team could. In 2025, the global AI Code Tools market has exploded to $4.8 billion, projected to grow ...
Twitter.com Shuts Down as X Forces Full Migration Within 48 Hours
The last trace of Twitter’s digital identity is about to disappear. Elon Musk’s X has announced that Twitter.com will permanently redirect to X.com within 48 hours, marking the final step in one of th...
Scam Ads Are Flooding Social Media. Two Former Meta Executives Have a Plan
As scam ads and fake promotions continue to spread across social media, two of Meta’s former senior executives say they’ve seen enough - and they’re building something to fight back. Rob Leathern and ...
Sam Altman Says He Doesn’t Want a Government Bailout if OpenAI Fails
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said he would oppose any form of government bailout if the company were to fail - a pointed statement that comes amid intensifying scrutiny over the power and responsibility ...