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ReadWrite

Two British members of the Scattered Spider cybercrime collective who helped carry out the 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London have been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison, bringing to a close what the UK’s National Crime...

ReadWrite

Washington state officials and the Tulalip Tribes of Washington have reached a tentative agreement on a new amendment to the Tribe’s Class III gaming compact, bringing decades of revisions into a single governing document while introducing...

Zdnet

Experts warn that an extinction event is coming for SaaS, thanks to AI disintermediation. Here's why some vendors remain skeptical.

Gizmodo

The startup believes its $399 wearable could revolutionize the lives of people with hypertension.

Digital Trends

Global buyers will soon be able to order Red Magic’s liquid-cooled OLED gaming tablet in two memory configurations.

Ars Technica

Welcome to Edition 9.03 of the Rocket Report! SpaceX counted down all the way to T-0 on Thursday evening in South Texas before a handful of Raptor engines decided not to light at ignition of the rocket. It is not clear whether the vehicle...

Ars Technica

When Lucid introduced the Air electric sedan in late 2021, the first Air Dream Edition I tested packed over 1,100 hp (820 kW) and carried a $180,000-plus window sticker. It's easily the most powerful street car I've tested; the only...

Ars Technica

The rich and famous who filed into the Kennedy Center’s opera house in December were there to enjoy one of the nation’s most exclusive celebrations of the performing arts: the center’s annual honors gala. The black-tie event, hosted by...

Ars Technica

Climate change is being driven largely by the greenhouse gases we've pumped into the atmosphere, which trap more of the Sun's energy there. That added energy increases the odds of extreme events: longer, more intense heat waves and...

Techdirt

Here’s a short crash course in U.S. telecom policy. Giant and very unpopular companies like Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, and Charter created regional monopolies that work tirelessly to erode all meaningful competition and oversight,...

The Next Web

Ask a leading AI model to criticise a government with strong free-speech protections, and it usually will. Ask it to criticise a repressive one, and it is far more likely to refuse. That is the finding of a new study from the Oversight...

The Next Web

Picture a lightweight headset. You think about picking up a cup, and a robot arm reaches out and does it. No button, no voice command, no movement. BrainCo drew crowds with that demo at the World AI Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, the South...

The Next Web

The people building the most powerful AI rarely agree on much. This week, three of them agreed on one big thing. The frontier needs regulating, and soon. Over five weeks, the chiefs of Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic each published a...

The Next Web

Just after 9am on Thursday, roughly 100 Google workers gathered outside the company’s Mountain View headquarters, placards in hand, to press a demand that would once have sounded quaint: let us keep our jobs. The rally, organised by...

The Next Web

Airbus is pulling some of its most sensitive systems off Amazon Web Services and onto a European cloud. The aerospace group has picked French provider Scaleway to host them, Scaleway said. The move covers the applications Airbus needs to...

The Next Web

The US telecoms regulator wants ID checks before you can buy a phone. Privacy groups say the plan would end anonymous burner phones and tie every American’s identity to a number. Buying a phone without handing over your identity could soon...

The Next Web

Nine years later, Binance serves more than 316 million users across trading, payments, savings, tokenized securities, and traditional asset access. Its evolution from a spot cryptocurrency exchange into an integrated financial...

The Next Web

Meta will start telling parents when a teenager discusses suicide or self-harm with its Meta AI chatbot. The company set out the change in a blog post on Thursday. The alerts go to parents who use Instagram supervision tools. They are live...

The Next Web

AI agents can now book travel, write code and spend money on your behalf. That power is also the problem. A new startup called Runta has raised $20 million to keep those agents from doing damage. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led the round,...

TechCrunch

A $400 million chip-backed loan points to the next wave of AI infrastructure deals.

ReadWrite

Evolution has agreed to pay £4.75 million ($6.38 million) to resolve a license review by the UK Gambling Commission, ending an investigation that began in December 2024 into how its casino games became available on gambling websites...

Macworld

Macworld Buy on Amazon The Office Oasis Rollerblade Office Chair Wheels – $39.95 View Deal The best upgrade I ever made to my home office wasn’t my Mac Studio or Studio Display XDR. It’s a set of rollerblade wheels. For my office...

Digital Trends

The Sonos app is adding clearer navigation, customizable speaker sorting, and redesigned iOS volume controls, but the phased release could take two weeks to reach every user.

Digital Trends

1Password can now sign Claude into websites without exposing passwords or one-time codes, but the protection ends after login when the AI begins operating inside your account.

Gizmodo

The Oscar-winning 2025 hit remains one of Netflix's most popular streaming selections.

The Next Web

Google DeepMind has launched a programme to turn AI on biological threats. The London lab and its sister company Isomorphic Labs call it bioresilience, and set it out in a joint blog post. The aim is twofold. DeepMind wants to stop people...

The Next Web

What does a company that builds game-playing AI need with a philosopher? That question sits at the heart of a Guardian long-read on Iason Gabriel, who has worked inside Google DeepMind since 2017. For a time, the Guardian reports, Gabriel...

The Next Web

Mick Jagger has given a qualified blessing to musicians who reach for artificial intelligence, on the strict condition that whatever comes out is genuinely their own. “If someone wants to make music by AI, go ahead,” he...

The Next Web

A French startup has raised $30 million to tackle one of fashion’s hardest waste problems. Syntetica recycles nylon, and it can process two grades at once that the industry has long struggled to pull apart, its founder told TechCrunch. The...

The Next Web

AI is reshaping tech careers. But it will not kill off the value of a STEM degree, according to Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis. He made the comments at a London business conference, in a video published on Wednesday. Knowing the...

Fast Company

In a classic experiment more than a decade ago, researchers in Japan gave a slime mold—a single-celled organism known for forming efficient networks—a “map” of the cities around Tokyo. They represented each municipality with an oat flake,...

ReadWrite

Kalshi says it spotted suspicious trading tied to markets on President Donald Trump’s speeches before anyone raised the issue publicly, then investigated the activity and alerted federal regulators. The prediction market exchange offered...

Macworld

Macworld Ever since I installed macOS Tahoe on my M3 Max MacBook, it hasn’t been right. I’m not talking about Liquid Glass or window corner radii, or even the Apps Panel. For the better part of a year, my MacBook simply hasn’t worked the...

Hackernoon

Indrajit Sen stands at the intersection of retail technology, supply chain management, and global talent development. With 24 years of experience, Sen has led digital commerce strategies and large-scale platform transformations for Fortune...

Digital Trends

Netflix says generative AI contributed to roughly 300 productions in 2026, helping creators build crowds, battles, environments, and other sequences faster and more cheaply.

Hackernoon

Last year, the most powerful people in technology told you, in plain language, that AI was coming for your job. Whole categories of work, gone. This year, quietly, those same companies started hiring again. Amazon cut about 16,000 people,...

Fast Company

Hello again and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In. For the longest time, I used Siri for only two purposes. One was setting alarms, which it did flawlessly. The other was answering random questions about the world that popped into...

The Next Web

Sixty billion dollars is a lot of bond, even by SoftBank Group’s standards. The Japanese conglomerate is reportedly preparing to raise up to that much in fresh debt, according to Bloomberg, a target that would eclipse anything Masayoshi...

The Next Web

Google has finally paid its record EU antitrust fine, and the money is about to do something unexpected. The €4.6bn will flow into the EU’s central budget and reduce what member states owe Brussels, Politico reports. The mechanism is...

The Next Web

$188bn is a large number for a company that keeps insisting it is in no rush to go public. That is the valuation Databricks has reached in a new funding round led by Coatue Management, a figure first reported by the Wall Street Journal....

The Next Web

Coca-Cola says its fairlife dairy unit was hit by ransomware, and has suspended all US production while it investigates. A ransomware attack has stopped production at one of Coca-Cola’s biggest dairy brands. The company said fairlife found...

The Next Web

The apartment in the StreetEasy photo is bright, airy, and a shade roomier than the walls actually permit. Under a plan from New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, that listing would soon have to confess the touch-up. On 16 July his...

The Next Web

Japan’s three biggest power-chip makers want to become one company, and the wiring is proving harder to rearrange than the ambition. Mitsubishi Electric is exploring a combination of its power-semiconductor operations with those of Rohm...

Hackernoon

A Git mirror can make a team feel safer than it really is. The command succeeds, another remote exists, and everyone assumes the repository can be recovered if GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or an internal server goes unavailable. Then the...

Hackernoon

Two stores. Same traffic. Same product. Same price. One converts at 3.2%. The other is at 1.4%. The difference isn't page speed, and it isn't the offer. The difference is that one of them is based on the actual decision-making process...

Hackernoon

The Problem Every Growing AI Organisation Hits Picture this. Your organisation decides to invest in AI. Three teams get the green light to build AI-powered features simultaneously. Team A (customer service) spends two weeks building a...

Hackernoon

Somewhere between one and three years ago, I noticed something was off with how I used social media. I'd open an app with a specific reason: check a message, see what a friend posted, and come out the other side twenty or forty minutes...

Hackernoon

A file converter looks easy until someone uploads a 200-page PDF. An image compressor looks finished until a 12 MB phone photo freezes the browser. A word counter looks like ten lines of JavaScript until users paste formatted text, emoji,...

ReadWrite

Entain is moving ahead with organizational changes that will lead to about 500 job losses as the Ladbrokes and Coral owner pushes to streamline its operations. The company confirmed the restructuring to ReadWrite, saying a number of...

Hackernoon

A naming and tracking system for AI video production, borrowed from a hundred years of film pipeline discipline that the AI tools never inherited. Three weeks into producing Lost Garden, my corridor scene folder had 214 files in it....