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Paramount is merging Pluto TV, BET+, and Paramount+ onto one tech stack to prepare for HBO Max

Paramount is unifying the tech stacks behind Paramount+, Pluto TV, and BET+ onto a single backend infrastructure by mid-2026. CEO David Ellison announced the consolidation earlier this year. It is...

The researcher Microsoft threatened just dropped a seventh Windows zero-day hours after Patch Tuesday

Chaotic Eclipse, the security researcher Microsoft threatened with criminal prosecution, has published a seventh Windows zero-day exploit. Called RoguePlanet, it grants attackers SYSTEM privileges on...

Why enterprise AI will be a major focus at VivaTech 2026

While Silicon Valley continues pushing aggressively into large language models and consumer-facing AI products, many European companies are focused on applying AI to complex systems already embedded...

How memory tools can make AI models worse

New research suggests that AI memory systems can degrade model performance and encourage sycophantic tendencies.

Netflix expands revamped mobile app across Asia and doubles down on kids’ gaming

The media giant is pushing to expand its mobile and gaming business.

Alex Vindman Survived Trump’s Retaliation Machine. Now He’s Running for Senate

In 2019, Alex Vindman testified during President Trump’s first impeachment trial–a decision that ended his military career. Now he wants to challenge the president from the halls of Congress.

Amazon Ember Artline Review: A Stylish Art Television

The affordable Artline doubles as a design piece and comes close to outshining the reigning champion of art TVs, the Samsung Frame Pro.

FCC filings suggest Valve’s Steam Machine could launch before June 29

Valve’s Steam Machine, the compact gaming PC announced in November 2025, could launch on or before June 29 based on a pattern in the company’s FCC regulatory filings. The theory, first spotted by...

Supermicro plans to raise $7 billion to fulfill $39 billion in AI server orders

Super Micro Computer plans to raise $7 billion through a package of equity offerings to purchase components for its AI servers. The company said Tuesday it has received approximately $39 billion in...

Apple says it may remove some apps from the App Store if they don’t attract users

Apple may begin removing existing apps that it considers stale, low-value, or unable to attract users.

Apple bets cheaper AI will woo small developers

As AI experimentation grows more expensive, Apple is waiving cloud API costs for developers with fewer than 2 million first-time App Store downloads.

Apple plays catch-up at WWDC

Apple spent much of its WWDC keynote highlighting fixes, performance improvements, and long-requested features before unveiling its upgraded AI-powered Siri, signaling that the company wants users to...

China just approved the world’s first commercial brain implant. The race with Neuralink is no longer theoretical.

Controlling a machine with your mind used to be science fiction. Now it is a regulated medical product, at least in China. Earlier this year, China’s National Medical Products Administration approved...

Apple’s WWDC 2026 App Store changes let independent developers bundle subscriptions together

Apple announced a sweeping set of changes to the App Store at WWDC 2026 on Monday, introducing cross-developer subscription bundles, group purchasing, enterprise volume licensing, and an AI-powered...

The UK Is Betting on a Billion-Dollar AI Supercomputer to Kick Its Addiction to US Tech

The British government thinks a state-backed infrastructure initiative will help supercharge homegrown chip startups.

Google’s New Guidance Claims Authority Over SEO, Tools, And AEO/GEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google positions itself as the ground truth for SEO and AEO/GEO advice and questions third-party SEO tools, data and services. The post Google’s New Guidance Claims Authority Over SEO, Tools,...

China wants slimmer EVs after batteries and features made them too heavy for parking spaces

China wants its electric vehicles to go on a diet. The average passenger car in the country weighed 1,704 kg in 2024, roughly a third more than in 2012, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Sunday....

Hacked, leaked, and held for ransom: the worst breaches of 2026 so far

From a massive DOGE data breach and the hacking of critical energy and water systems to the hack of an FBI surveillance system, here are the most damaging security incidents and data breaches of 2026.

Google’s Updated Guidance Urges FTC Complaints Against Shady SEOs via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google now encourages FTC complaints in its SEO hiring guidance, while cautioning about AI SEO services, SEO tools, and misleading claims. The post Google’s Updated Guidance Urges FTC...

The Best 3-in-1 Apple Charging Stations After Testing Top Models

I tried all the top models to find the best 3-in-1 Apple charging stations, pads, and more. Keep your iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods topped up with these WIRED-tested docking systems.

Anti-Vax Dating Apps Are Going IRL. People Are Mad as Hell About It

Unjected and PureBlood.Dating are hosting in-person meetups—and have transformed the dating landscape into a political battleground over bodily autonomy.

Beyond Instagram: Introducing the next generation of social apps

These newer social apps offer alternatives to Big Tech’s feeds, focusing on interests, creativity, and community.

Google Analytics Is Adding Google Business Profile Data via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google has documented a native link between Google Business Profile and Google Analytics, bringing local metrics like calls and directions into GA reports. The post Google Analytics Is Adding Google...

The DOGE Boys Get VC Funding to Support Their Latest Enterprise

Former DOGE members and Elon Musk allies are backing a startup aimed at using AI to apply “learnings” from DOGE to the private sector.

Mira Murati resurfaces after 18 months with a warning about AI governance and a product no one expected

For someone who helped ship ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Codex, Mira Murati has been remarkably quiet. On Thursday, she broke the silence. Sitting down with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang in San Francisco, the CEO...

The most interesting startups right now want to get you off your phone

While the AI fundraising machine keeps breaking its own records, some founders are building in the other direction.  Mirror founder Brynn Putnam just raised money for Board, a startup...

Google Launches Search Profiles, Here’s How You Can Get One via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google launches Search profiles, giving eligible creators a customizable page for articles, social posts, and followers. U.S.-only at launch. The post Google Launches Search Profiles, Here’s...

The TikTok Ban Was Never About TikTok

A new documentary chronicles how the app became a stand-in for American anxieties about social media, China, and political power.

Databricks CEO calls 2026 “a terrible year to go public” as SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI prepare to absorb $200 billion in IPO capital

Three companies are preparing to enter public markets this year with a combined valuation that could exceed $3 trillion. SpaceX is set to list as early as 12 June at a $1.77 trillion valuation,...

Waymo’s spent robotaxi batteries will be used as grid storage

The company announced a deal with B2U Storage Solutions to repurpose the battery packs as Waymo pulls them off the road.

Meta will let employees stop being tracked, for 30 minutes at a time

When Meta announced in April that it would install software on US employees’ work computers to capture their keystrokes, mouse clicks, and screenshots for AI training, the company’s head of...

Filtr is a new privacy tool that blocks ads in almost every iPhone and Mac app

This popular ad blocker app for iPhones, iPads, and Macs can now block ads from loading inside apps, including web browsers, thanks to a new feature in the latest Apple software.

Uber to put 500 data-collection vehicles on the road this year

The modified Ioniq 5 will be loaded with sensors to capture data for Uber's new AV Labs division.

Virtual barbarians at the gate: securing the AI blind spot

Many companies have quickly moved to adopt artificial intelligence in their systems, embedding it into virtually everything from customer apps to internal systems. That speed has created new pressure...

Uber cuts nearly a quarter of its HR division as new president reshapes the company from the inside

Three weeks into her expanded role as president and chief corporate affairs officer, Jill Hazelbaker is already cutting. Uber announced on Wednesday that it is eliminating 23% of positions in its...

Ultrahuman says hackers accessed customers’ wellness data via internal tool

The breach at wearable ring maker Ultrahuman stemmed from credentials stolen from a malware-infected employee laptop.

Lovable signs multiyear deal with Google Cloud to up usage 5x, source says

Lovable and Google signed an expanded multiyear deal that involves a 5x expansion of Lovable's footprint on Google Cloud, and expanded access to Anthropic Claude.

Feds failing in bid to take a supercomputer from a climate research center

The National Center for Atmospheric Research won't be losing its supercomputer.

Microsoft's Project Solara is an Android OS designed for agents instead of apps

Microsoft missed the boat on apps, so get ready for agents.

Microsoft used agentic AI to make its quantum chip 1,000 times more reliable, then cut its timeline to a scalable quantum computer in half

Microsoft has unveiled Majorana 2, a next-generation topological quantum chip whose qubits are 1,000 times more reliable than those in the first Majorana chip introduced last year. The improvement is...

Microsoft just announced a new operating system for devices that don’t run apps, only AI agents

Microsoft unveiled Project Solara at Build 2026, a new chip-to-cloud platform designed from the ground up for devices that run AI agents instead of traditional applications. The platform includes a...

Perplexity built an “air-traffic controller” that decides in real time whether your AI query runs on your PC or in the cloud

Perplexity AI has developed a platform that dynamically splits AI workloads between personal computers and cloud servers, deciding in real time which tasks can run locally on a PC’s processor and...

The space stock rally is cracking as investors prepare to swap proxies for SpaceX itself

A rally that carried space-related stocks to extraordinary gains this year is showing serious cracks. The Procure Space ETF, which trades under the ticker UFO, has dropped almost 11% in just two...

EntityMap: The Open Standard That Gives AI Systems A Structured View Of Your Business via @sejournal, @Dixon_Jones

What if a single file could tell AI systems exactly what your organization knows and where the evidence lives? That's the EntityMap proposal. The post EntityMap: The Open Standard That Gives AI...

From 15 hours to one minute: How AI/ML is speeding up GM's development

From CFD and FEA to digital twins, carmaking now involves a lot of virtualization.

IBM is up 30% in a month as Barclays says its software business is the antidote to the SaaSpocalypse

IBM stock surged 10% on Monday after Barclays initiated coverage with an overweight rating and a $350 price target, roughly 11% above the opening price. The jump extends a run that has seen IBM gain...

Alphabet plans to raise $80B to pay for AI buildout

"The company is experiencing strong demand for its AI solutions and services from enterprises and consumers, at levels that are exceeding the company’s available supply," Alphabet said in its...

Everyone Has Their Targets Set on the MacBook Neo

Dell, Microsoft, and others are unveiling new laptops to compete directly with the Neo, but not all are learning the right lessons from Apple.

A 9-gigawatt data centre outraged a Utah community. The governor just issued new rules.

Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed an executive order on Friday establishing a “higher bar for data center development” in the state. The order is effective immediately. It follows months of community...

LG Electronics stock jumped 24% in a day after unveiling Google-based car tech that cuts automaker costs

LG Electronics shares surged as much as 23.95% after the company announced a range of automotive solutions built on Google’s Android Automotive operating system. The stock last traded at 279,500 won....

How Turkey Hacked the Hair Transplant Industry

From specialized motors to the use of machine learning algorithms, Turkey’s billion-dollar hair-transplant industry is the result of a constant process of innovation.

Best Unlimited Phone Plan: T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon Compared

I sifted through the fine print and figured out how to score the best deal right now on all the major carriers.

Parloa turns its $350 million war chest into a partnership web spanning SAP, Microsoft, and OpenAI

Parloa, the Berlin-founded AI agent management platform, has announced a wave of strategic partnerships with SAP, Microsoft, OpenAI, Five9, and Epic as it deploys the $350 million it raised in...

Nvidia paid Groq $20 billion and took its top engineers. Now Groq is raising $650 million for what’s left.

Groq is raising $650 million from existing investors to fund its inference cloud business, Axios reported. The raise comes six months after Nvidia struck a $20 billion not-acqui-hire that paid out...

Tello Mobile Plan Review (2026): Low Cost, Reliable Service

With inflation and gas prices rising, I’m trying to save money wherever I can. I tested Tello’s budget cell phone plan, and for me, it turns out prepaid can be just as good.

Do You Actually Need to Pay for Transcription Software?

I tested Wispr Flow and various AI-powered transcription software to see whether you should bother subscribing or stick with free services.

HeartFocus Link adds AI cardiac imaging to any hospital ultrasound machine with a tablet and an HDMI cable

HeartFocus, the AI-powered cardiac imaging software developed by French medtech company DESKi, has launched HeartFocus Link, a product that connects a tablet to any cart-based ultrasound system...

CoStar is paying $800 million for Zonda to close the last gap in its real estate data empire

CoStar Group has agreed to acquire Zonda, the leading provider of new-home construction data, homebuilder software, and residential real estate marketplaces, for $800 million in cash. The...

Microsoft under fire for threatening security researcher with criminal investigation

A public spat between Microsoft and an independent security researcher reopens a long-running debate over who is responsible for securing software.

Autodesk buys MaintainX for $3.6bn to push from design into operations

Autodesk has spent four decades selling the software that engineers and architects use to design buildings, factories and machines. With its latest acquisition, it is buying its way into what happens...

Samsung and LG Uplus want to turn cell towers into radar for 6G

Samsung Electronics and LG Uplus signed a memorandum of understanding on 27 May to jointly develop Integrated Sensing and Communication, or ISAC, a technology that would allow mobile network base...

ChargePoint partners with Powers Parts to fix the charging and support gap hitting electric transit fleets

ChargePoint and Powers Parts, a national distributor of electric vehicle components and fleet replacement parts, have announced a partnership to sell ChargePoint charging hardware, software, and...

A security lapse at prison pay phone service Pay Tel publicly exposed over 300K callers’ driver’s licenses

Pay Tel secured the publicly exposed data after security researchers discovered the leak containing callers' sensitive ID documents and inmate communications.

New Moms Are Returning to Coding Jobs Radically Reshaped by AI

New mothers working in software development are staring down an AI-pilled workplace they barely recognize.

How To See If Competitors Are Advertising In Your Customers’ ChatGPT Answers via @sejournal, @trendos_com

Learn the manual process to track who is advertising in ChatGPT answers. Understand your competitors' strategies in real-time. The post How To See If Competitors Are Advertising In Your...

Anthropic’s Milan office lands with Generali, Pirelli and Enel as named Italian customers

The formal opening of Anthropic’s sixth European office lands the same week as Pope Leo’s AI encyclical, with the company naming a roster of Italian enterprise deployments. nthropic formally opened...

The internet is being rebuilt for machines

As AI agents move from experiments to production, AWS, Cloudflare, and others are redesigning cloud infrastructure for a future dominated by machine-generated internet traffic instead of human users.

Rivian will deliver the first R2 SUVs on June 9

The company has finally set a date for the first customer deliveries of what CEO RJ Scaringe has said is "maybe the most important thing we’ve launched to date."

Daylight expands MDR into Claude Enterprise to address emerging AI security risks

As enterprises race to embed generative AI into daily operations, security teams are confronting a new category of threats that traditional monitoring systems were never designed to handle. From...

8 Best Computer Speakers (2026) After Testing 25+ Pairs

These WIRED-tested computer speakers, from stereo speakers to surround sound, will suit any budget.

CrowdStrike and Google take down botnet used by hackers to target open source software developers

Cybercriminals used the Glassworm botnet to infect open source software projects with malware, and in turn hack the developers and companies that use that software.

Talkdesk wants its AI agents to call your customers before they call you

Talkdesk has launched proactive AI agents designed specifically for retail and financial services, moving the company from a platform that handles inbound customer queries to one that initiates...

Starship’s path to reusability looks murky after SpaceX’s S-1

SpaceX's recent IPO and Starship rocket test flight delivered two big data points that offer a realistic vision for the coming years — and one that may disappoint both the company's boosters and its...

UK Visa Portal spilled thousands of applicants’ passports and selfies online — and hasn’t fixed the leak

The third-party website exposed applicants' sensitive documents as part of the U.K. visa application process. Instead of fixing the issue, the company sent attorneys.

Machine-First Architecture: How To Build Websites Machines Can Identify, Read, Cite & Use via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic

Designing for the most constrained consumer, a machine, produces a better foundation for every visitor. Here's the full build sequence. The post Machine-First Architecture: How To Build Websites...

The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the cloud provider that runs Dutch digital identity

The Dutch government has imposed a “complete prohibition” on the acquisition of Solvinity, a Dutch cloud provider, by Kyndryl, the American IT infrastructure company spun out of IBM in 2021. The...

Brussels plans to ringfence two-thirds of EU mobile-satellite spectrum for European firms

The proposal expected to be announced on Wednesday would leave Starlink and Amazon’s Kuiper able to bid only for the remaining third of the bloc’s 2 GHz mobile-satellite band. The European Commission...

Microsoft’s quiet Claude Code retreat and the real cost of enterprise AI

In December of last year, Microsoft told thousands of its engineers, product managers and designers that they could use Claude Code, Anthropic’s command-line coding agent, on the company dime. By...

Reallusion bets that 3D artists directing AI models will beat text prompts for professional filmmaking

Reallusion, the 3D animation software company behind iClone and Character Creator, has launched AI Studio, a production platform that pairs traditional 3D scene-building with generative AI video...

The AI Era Is Creating a Bug Hunting Arms Race

As attackers ramp up their AI exploit development, the search for software vulnerabilities is changing rapidly.

Use Tiny11 to Rescue a Computer Running Windows 10

If you can’t—or don’t want to—upgrade to full Windows 11, consider this lightweight version of Microsoft’s operating system that works on a wide range of computers.

These Privacy-Conscious Gay Dating Apps Want to Dethrone Grindr

As public backlash against Big Dating mounts, a batch of new gay hookup apps offer community-powered alternatives.

The Gulf was supposed to power the AI boom. Then the war started.

Two Amazon Web Services data centres in the UAE were targeted early in the Middle East war. Nearly three months later, oil prices remain around $100 a barrel and the Strait of Hormuz remains closed....

The AI security gap nobody wants to admit is already here

On March 31, 2026, Anthropic accidentally shipped the entire source code of Claude Code to the public npm registry. Around 512,000 lines of TypeScript across 1,906 files, including 44 hidden feature...

6 kitchen gadgets that make adulting feel easier

From a robot stirring your soup to a bread machine that kneads your dough, here are 6 gadgets that may make you feel like you’ve won adulthood.

HP pushed a critical BIOS update through Windows Update. It bricked its most expensive laptops.

HP customers are reporting that BIOS updates pushed through Windows Update are rendering premium laptops unbootable. The affected devices include the ZBook Ultra G1a, a mobile workstation that costs...

All You Need To Know About Cloudflare’s Agent Readiness Score via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic

Most of the checks that tanked your agent-readiness score don't apply to your website type. Here's what the number actually means. The post All You Need To Know About Cloudflare’s Agent...

SEO teams are tracking keywords. But are they tracking what ChatGPT says about their brand?

When someone searches Google, you can see exactly where you rank. When someone asks ChatGPT for a software recommendation, you have no idea whether your brand comes up at all. That gap is widening,...

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos found 10,000 critical vulnerabilities in one month. The patches can’t keep up.

Anthropic disclosed on Friday that Project Glasswing, its restricted cybersecurity initiative, has uncovered more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerability candidates across some of the...

SpaceX’s IPO filing reveals Musk’s clean energy contradiction. xAI burns gas while Tesla sells solar.

The SpaceX IPO prospectus, filed on Wednesday, contains a vision for terawatt-scale space-based solar power. It also reveals, through what it does not say, that Elon Musk’s AI company xAI is running...

The Best Smart Sprinklers and Irrigation Systems: In-Ground Sprinklers, Hose Timers (2026)

We’ve tested almost a dozen options that handle everything from scheduling and weather changes to water conservation, so you don’t have to.

Waymo’s robotaxis keep driving into floods. The software patch didn’t work. Five cities are now shut down.

Waymo suspended robotaxi service across five US cities on 21 May after a software patch it pushed to its entire 3,791-vehicle fleet less than two weeks earlier failed to prevent another autonomous...

Forum is Meta’s new Facebook Groups app, and it looks a lot like Reddit

The new standalone app sits on top of Facebook Groups, adds an AI tab called “Ask” and an admin assistant, and arrives the same month Mark Zuckerberg told staff he and Chris Cox had discussed whether...

The Rise of LLMs Is Not an Accident

Over three decades, I’ve watched consumer behavior evolve across television, search, and social media. Each shift changed tactics, but not the underlying logic of decision-making. What I am watching...

Blue Origin cleared to fly New Glenn mega-rocket after April mishap

Jeff Bezos' rocket company confirmed an engine failure led to the loss of an AST SpaceMobile satellite last month, but offered little detail.

Valve Steam Controller Review (2026): Wait for the Steam Machine

Without the context of Valve’s Steam Machine (which is still MIA), this controller can’t fully dazzle players yet.

Trump Mobile confirms it exposed customers’ personal data, including phone numbers and home addresses

President Trump’s branded cell phone maker and cell provider said the exposure was linked to a third-party platform and was evaluating whether it needs to notify customers.

HHS launches AI initiative to detect fraud and waste in federal health programmes

The Department of Health and Human Services is moving from “pay and chase” to real-time AI screening across Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP and the Marketplace. The US Department of Health and Human...

SpaceX used a $20 billion bridge loan to slash Musk’s debt costs in half, IPO filing reveals

Elon Musk’s strategy of folding his companies into one conglomerate is already paying off. Regulatory documents filed ahead of SpaceX’s historic IPO reveal that the company secured a $20 billion...

IoT gadget maker AcuRite shares reasoning for killing customers’ favorite app

"The move to AcuRite NOW has not been as smooth as some customers expected ..."

11 Best Meal Delivery Services, Tested by an Ex-Restaurant Critic

Here are the best meal kits in 2026, including Martha Stewart’s delivery box, a GLP-1–supportive plan, and a budget-friendly option.

GitLab 19.0 bets that the real bottleneck in software delivery is everything after writing the code

GitLab has released version 19.0, its first major version bump in a year, built around a concept the company calls intelligent orchestration. The pitch is that AI coding assistants have made writing...

Primer secures $100M Series C to fuel US expansion and autonomous AI payments

Primer, a London-based payment startup, has announced a €86.2 million Series C funding round to expand its AI payments and finance platform. The capital will also support its market development in...

Yearslong fight over users' right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial

Access to TV OS's source code could allow users to limit ads, tracking.

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software just landed in its second European country, with more in the queue

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software is no longer a single-country experiment in Europe. Lithuania became the second EU member state to approve FSD (Supervised) on Tuesday, just weeks after the...

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software is creeping into Europe

First came the Netherlands, now it's Lithuania. And more European countries appear to be in the queue for Tesla's driver-assistance system.

Airbnb gets into hotels, expands AI for host onboarding and customer support

Airbnb will soon let you book luggage storage and car rental services on its app.

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to supercharge Claude’s pre-training with AI

Andrej Karpathy, one of the original co-founders of OpenAI and among the most recognised AI researchers in the world, announced on Monday that he has joined Anthropic. The move is a significant...

Agentic app coding gets an upgrade with Google’s release of Android CLI

Google is embracing the rise of AI coding agents with new Android tools designed to work with platforms like Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, allowing developers — or their AI assistants — to build...

With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots

Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, its most powerful coding and agentic AI model yet, at the company's annual developer conference. It is capable of autonomously executing complex tasks and building...

Google takes a page out of Meta’s book, announces new audio-powered smart glasses at IO 2026

Google is calling the new devices "audio glasses," in that users will be able to issue verbal commands to them and get things done via its ecosystem of apps and services, including Gemini.

Google’s AI Studio now lets anyone build Android apps in minutes

Google unveiled new web-based AI tools that can generate native Android apps in minutes, as the company expands its push into AI-powered software development.

Hackers stole fingerprints and medical data from 1.8 million people in NYC’s largest public hospital breach

  New York City Health and Hospitals, the largest public healthcare system in the United States, has disclosed that hackers stole personal data, medical records, and biometric information, including...

Amazon’s new Alexa+ powered feature can generate podcast episodes

Amazon’s Alexa+ can now generate custom AI podcasts on demand, as the company expands its assistant into a personalized AI content platform.

SpaceX raises Starlink prices across every consumer plan and doubles the cost of Standby Mode

SpaceX has raised the price of every consumer Starlink plan in the United States, adding $5 to $10 per month across its residential and mobile tiers while doubling the cost of its budget Standby Mode...

One Mars spacecraft, two senators, and a cloud of questions

"I think there's plenty of fire lit under them already."

Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare

Stainless, a New York-based startup, founded in 2022, rose to prominence in the emerging AI industry for automating the creation and maintenance of software development kits, or SDKs — the libraries...

If You’re a Serious Bowler, You Need to Know About Bowling Lane Oil

Bowling centers apply oil to their lanes using a machine that works like a giant inkjet printer. The pattern in which it’s applied can change everything about how the ball travels.

Cerebras just had the biggest US tech IPO since Snowflake. SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic are next.

Cerebras Systems closed its first day on the Nasdaq at $311.07, up 68% from its $185 IPO price, giving the wafer-scale chip company a market capitalisation of approximately $95 billion. The offering...

ArXiv will ban researchers for a year if they submit papers they did not bother to read

  ArXiv, the open-access repository that has served as the primary distribution channel for preprint research in computer science, mathematics, and physics for more than three decades, will ban...

Soderbergh used Meta’s AI in his Lennon documentary. Critics hated it. He says that’s the point.

Steven Soderbergh’s “John Lennon: The Last Interview” premiered on Saturday at the 79th Cannes Film Festival. Built around a never-before-released two-hour-and-45-minute radio interview that Lennon...

Asteroid 2026 JH2 Is About to Fly Right Past Earth—Relatively Speaking

On May 18, an asteroid about the size of Chicago’s Cloud Gate will fly four times closer to Earth than the moon.

Snap, YouTube, and TikTok settle school addiction lawsuit, leaving Meta to face trial alone

Snap, Google’s YouTube, and ByteDance’s TikTok have reached settlements in the first lawsuit brought by a public school district over claims that social media addiction has disrupted learning and...

$60B AI chip darling Cerebras almost died early on, burning $8M a month

Cerebras Systems was 2026's biggest tech IPO so far. But years ago, it burned through hundreds of millions working on a chip many believed impossible.

Best Indoor Garden Systems: I've Been Testing All Year (2026)

Grow a backyard’s worth of greens and vegetables in your house with a vertical hydroponic garden. Here are a few that might be worth the investment.

The most-cited computer scientist alive says AI could make humanity extinct within a decade

  Yoshua Bengio, the Turing Award-winning computer scientist widely regarded as one of the godfathers of artificial intelligence, has renewed his warning that hyperintelligent machines could pose an...

Mira Murati Wants Her AI to ‘Keep Humans in the Loop’

The Thinking Machines Lab founder and former CTO of OpenAI tells WIRED she isn’t interested in automating people out of jobs. Instead, she’s building AI that can collaborate.

Revolut is offering every employee GBP1,000 to sell business banking. The real prize is a $200 billion IPO.

  Revolut’s chief executive, Nik Storonsky, has told employees across the company that business banking is now its top priority, and is offering each of them £1,000 to prove he means it. In a memo...

A hotel check-in system left a million passports and driver’s licenses open for anyone to see

The tech company that maintains the hotel check-in system set its cloud storage to public, allowing anyone to access customers' data without a password.

Osaurus brings both local and cloud AI models to your Mac

Osaurus combines local and cloud AI models in a Mac app that keeps users’ memory, files, and tools on their own hardware.

Weather-monitoring firm hangs dark cloud over customers’ heads by forcing new app

Newer AcuRite Now app lacks some features but has a subscription option.

Why Your AI Ad Strategy Is Only As Good As Your Data via @sejournal, @gregjarboe

AI magnifies what you give it. Weak inputs produce accelerated inefficiency. Here's what feeding the machine better signals actually looks like in 2026. The post Why Your AI Ad Strategy Is Only As...

What is Connected TV Advertising?

Key Takeaways According to Pew Research, 83 percent of U.S. adults watch streaming services, while only 36 percent subscribe to cable or satellite TV at home. In Q4 2025, 74.2 percent of all TV...

Vaporware or not? Aptera assembles its first five validation models.

The three-wheel, two-seat EV has been in development since 2006.

An Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta

Meta employees in the US and UK are organizing against corporate software that tracks workers’ keystrokes and mouse activity.

OpenAI says hackers stole some data after latest code security issue

OpenAI said the damage was limited to the employees’ devices and did not affect user data nor its production systems, and none of its intellectual property was stolen.

YouTube viewers watch 2 billion hours of Shorts on TVs each month

Short-form video is built for mobile, so it may seem counterintuitive, but it's true: YouTube Shorts are becoming quite popular on the big screen.

Nvidia built the AI engine. Alphabet is building the car, the road, and the toll booth. The market is pricing accordingly.

On Thursday, Alphabet’s share price rose nearly 10 per cent after the company reported first-quarter revenue of $109.9 billion, a 22 per cent increase year over year that beat analyst estimates by...

Musely secures $360M from General Catalyst without giving up equity

The DTC skin, hair, and menopause care brand will use the non-dilutive capital to super-charge customer acquisition.

Amazon stuck with months of repairs after drone strikes on data centers

AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on.

Y Combinator built its empire on software. Its latest investment thesis says the garage is no longer enough.

Y Combinator published its Summer 2026 Request for Startups in late April, just days before the application deadline. The document lists 15 categories of companies that YC’s partners want to fund....

The best AI dictation apps, tested and ranked

AI-powered dictation apps are useful for replying to emails, taking notes, and even coding through your voice