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Despite certain improvements in accuracy, large language models still hallucinate a lot. So much so, in fact, that cybersecurity researchers warn that criminals can easily weaponize delusional AI outputs to spread malware throughout the internet. According to SecurityWeek, the attack works by exploiting a persistent flaw in AI coding assistants. Basically, when these tools recommend third-party so... View Source

Battery Ventures General Partner Dharmesh Thakker joins Bloomberg Open Interest to make the case for investing beyond AI hype. He explains why enterprise software companies that deliver measurable business value will outperform. He also argues that open-source AI models could slash enterprise costs, accelerate adoption, and reshape the competitive landscape for OpenAI, Anthropic, and the broader A... View Source

The company developed the DoorDash Air drones in-house... View Source

NASA This July 23, 2026, illustration depicts charged particles from a solar storm stripping away charged particles of Mars’ atmosphere, one of the processes of Martian atmosphere loss studied by NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission. NASA MAVEN mission scientists have found that certain types of auroras on Mars form in a similar way to Earth-based auroras. Read... View Source

SYFY’s optimistic space opera series, "The Ark," embarks upon its third thrilling season today, occupying a unique entertainment spot as the only weekly scripted sci-fi series currently on regular broadcast television. With an impressive creative resume featuring executive producers Dean Devlin ("Stargate," "Independence Day") and Jonathan Glassner ("Stargate SG-1") and a hopeful premise about hum... View Source

The Remarkable Paper Pro bundle comes with a stylus and a folio cover. A lot of us here at The Verge are fans of Remarkable’s digital note-taking tablets, and right now one of its higher-end options is much cheaper than usual. The Remarkable Paper Pro normally sells for $629 on its own, but Woot is currently offering a refurbished bundle for $449.99 through July 31st. It includes the tablet, a Mar... View Source

Jason Thomas, head of global research and investment strategy at Carlyle, discusses whether AI investment is crowding out other opportunities as capital flows into AI infrastructure. He examines market concentration, portfolio allocation and the outlook for corporate spending, asking whether AI is "going to consume almost the entirety, or certainly a large portion, of their incremental risk budget... View Source

SpaceX's Starship Version 3 floats on the Indian Ocean on July 28, 2026, days after splashing down on the vehicle's Flight Test 13 on July 24. (Image credit: SpaceX via X)SpaceX's Starship V3 looks absolutely seaworthy in this new photo taken days after its most recent flight test.What is it?SpaceX launched its Starship vehicle on July 24, sending the 408-foot-tall (124-meter) Starship Version 3 (... View Source

The business world has quickly learned that there’s such a thing as using too much AI, as they get slammed with outrageous token bills. Now, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is warning of another way that embracing AI could doom a business. In an interview Sunday, Nadella cautioned against sharing too much information, ranging from proprietary data to the prompts entered, with a third-party AI mo... View Source

Gil Luria of DA Davidson says Microsoft will be the key company to watch during this earnings season and it all has to do with spending on artificial intelligence and capex. Microsoft and Meta Platforms both report after the bell on Wednesday. Luria speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Some newer vehicles include the feature, but to keep it, you'll have to pay monthly. You can also buy remote starters outright... View Source

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After the recent Xbox outage even blocked people from playing offline disc-based console games, Microsoft is trying to soothe concerns that you don't truly own anything under Xbox's license system. In a statement to The Verge, Xbox technology chief Scott Van Vliet says that while physical game discs are subject to licensing inspections, that shouldn't have prevented them from working during this w... View Source

Last month, NASA announced that it was launching an unprecedented and risky mission to rescue its aging Swift observatory. The telescope, which has spent over two decades in orbit studying the most powerful explosions in the universe, has seen its orbit decay over time. With the help of a specialized space tug developed by contractor Katalyst Space Technologies, the space agency was hoping to give... View Source

Lenders are so worried about the impact of artificial intelligence on software firms that they’re pushing for repayment terms rarely seen in Europe since the global financial crisis... View Source

The BBC has so many structural benefits that it's unthinkable it could be usurped by anyone else in the UK... View Source

Ray Williams, supervisor of test support operations at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, poses for a photograph on July 16, 2026. Williams is among the first engineers and technicians sworn in as new NASA civil servants at Stennis as part of the administrator’s directive to strengthen technical core competencies within the civil service workforce. NASA/Danny Nowlin Ray W... View Source

Artists whose work has been co-opted by AI are taking to court. | Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge When The Atlantic published a searchable dataset of works used to train AI, Kirk Wallace Johnson, like a lot of artists, looked for his name out of curiosity. And, like a lot of artists, he found it. Essentially, his books, like The Feather Thief and The Fishermen and the Dragon - nonfiction tomes that... View Source

DoorDash Inc. is building its own delivery drones and has gained the necessary approvals to operate them commercially, the latest in its effort to delegate more orders to robots as a way of cutting delivery times... View Source

The Framework 13 Pro is a class-leading Windows laptop that, right now, is just a little too pricey... View Source

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Using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope, astronomers have spotted the blisteringly hot exhaust fumes of one the earliest quasars, cosmic "breath" with temperatures as great as 36 million degrees Fahrenheit. This intensely bright titan is powered by a feeding supermassive black hole engine.The Chandra X-ray telescope observed a relatively silent quasar that existed 2.1 billion years after the Bi... View Source

A Wing drone carrying a DoorDash delivery. The food delivery app company says it will build its own drones going forward. | Image: Google DoorDash is launching a new drone delivery program called DoorDash Air. The largest food delivery app in the US said that it has approval from the Federal Aviation Administration that clears the way for drone delivery in the near future. DoorDash said it has rec... View Source

NextEra Energy Inc., the largest US power utility, is teaming up with Brookfield on a more than $100 billion transformation of a shuttered Cold War uranium-enrichment facility in Kentucky into a data center campus with a generating plant... View Source

Nothing has had a strong visual identity since the Ear 1 were released in 2021 for $99 and challenged the notion that a highly featured headset requires a high price. The Ear 3A have the same transparent look as Nothing's previous earbuds, with a clear case and stem design accented by a solid-colored body - this time adding a striking pink alongside yellow, black, and white options. And Nothing co... View Source

As dozens of cities across the US are forced to scrap their plans to build power-hungry data centers, some civic leaders are no longer asking. According to new reporting by Fortune, the state of Georgia’s for-profit utility company, Georgia Power, is looking to demolish and pave over some 30 homes — and 330 parcels of land — that currently block the route of a 1,000 mile transmission line. W... View Source

European startups aim to replace the US software company... View Source

A short king. Is this the future of foldable phones? Samsung clearly thinks so. The company has given its new wide foldable the "Z Fold 8" name, positioning the phone not as a widescreen oddity, but as the new normal, the default design for foldables going forward. Rumor has it that Apple feels the same way, with a similar squat shape widely predicted for the first foldable iPhone, expected to la... View Source

The UK’s consumer and antitrust watchdog is investigating whether Microsoft Corp. misled customers into paying more for its productivity tools software subscriptions after adding its Copilot AI product to the suite... View Source

Nintendo's 1986 commercial-use Famicombox is rare, but a Japanese love hotel reportedly has one in almost every room... View Source

The AI agent that escaped from OpenAI and hacked developer platform Hugging Face attacked other companies as well, OpenAI revealed on Tuesday. The update substantially widens the scope of an already concerning incident, which has alarmed industry insiders and fueled growing calls for stronger oversight on frontier AI systems. In an update to a blog post detailing its ongoing investigation into the... View Source

Hinda Gharbi, CEO of Bureau Veritas, one of the world's leaders in testing, inspection and certification, says the business environment is 'complex' but the company has seen 'resilience' despite the tensions in the Middle East. Gharbi spoke exclusively with Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua from Paris. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Earlier this month, OpenAI gave several of its AI models a task: complete a test designed to measure their cybersecurity capabilities. It put the systems in a sandboxed environment without an internet connection and set them off to work. What happened next is almost laughably silly - but also, as Adam Gleave, cofounder and CEO of AI safety organization FAR.AI, put it, "a visceral example of how mi... View Source

GoTo Group reported its second consecutive quarter of net income, boosting the Indonesian ride-hailing and food delivery company’s efforts to navigate a challenging consumer market and a looming cut to ride-hailing commissions... View Source

DeepMind's award-winning AlphaFold team is no more... View Source

After months of asking who can spend the most, investors are increasingly asking a different question... View Source

The July full "Buck Moon" rises tonight to lead Saturn, Mars and Mercury in a spectacular mini planetary parade through the summer sky. Here's what you need to know.July's full moon phase occurs at 10:36 a.m. EDT on July 29 (1436 GMT), when the lunar disk will appear fully illuminated. It's often called the Buck Moon, to reflect the time when young male deer grow out their antlers. It has also bee... View Source

Startup Zanskar has created one of the most productive geothermal wells in the US at a power plant that had been in decline for years... View Source

The CEO of Bureau Veritas, one of the world's leaders in testing, inspection and certification, says the business environment is 'complex' but the company has seen 'resilience' despite the tensions in the Middle East. Hinda Gharbi spoke exclusively with Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua from Paris. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

We like to think of our home as a nice, smooth sphere. But mapping the Earth’s gravitational field provides a different view of the planet... View Source

Sun King, the world’s largest off-grid solar company, plans to sell products in Madagascar and targets connecting 1.5 million customers by 2030... View Source

Despite market volatility and geopolitical uncertainty, there is more confidence from large corporates when it comes to M&A, as these sponsors strive to be more decisive in their dealmaking says Anna Skoglund, Co-Head of EMEA Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs. She spoke to Bloomberg's Anna Edwards on "The Pulse" on July 28. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

OpenAI's investigation starts shedding light on the activities of its rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face... View Source

Moonshot AI secured a $35 billion valuation after raising a larger-than-anticipated $3.5 billion in a just-closed round of financing, riding the momentum from a breakthrough Kimi K3 model that sent ripples through Silicon Valley... View Source

Valve says that no one on its Steam Machine waitlist is leapfrogging over anyone currently holding a reservation... View Source

Advantest Corp. raised its outlook above estimates, pointing to robust demand for testers needed to manufacture increasingly complex chips for AI data centers... View Source

SK Hynix shares slide by a daily record of around 19% in Seoul Wednesday, erasing early gains after the memory maker reported lower-than-expected operating profit for the second quarter and announced plans for higher spending. The company earmarked at least $31 billion in capital spending this year after reporting a six-fold surge in quarterly profit. Bloomberg's Anthony Stephens reports. (Source:... View Source

After piling into chip stocks and so-called AI winners, investors are now rushing to cut this exposure and rebalance portfolios. Even allowing for that, an acceleration of the selloff in recent days over China competitive risks looks premature... View Source

Elon Musk's xAI has filed a lawsuit to block Minnesota's new law that would ban apps that can generate nonconsensual intimate imagery from being enforced... View Source

NXP Semiconductors NV struggled to impress investors with a generally upbeat forecast for the current period, the latest sign of deepening concern about the chip sector... View Source

Legrand SA boosted its sales guidance as customers continue to invest heavily in artificial intelligence infrastructure... View Source

Vantage Data Centers, backed by US alternative asset manager DigitalBridge Group Inc., is considering selling its assets in Malaysia, according to people with knowledge of the matter... View Source

Blackstone Inc.-owned data center firm AirTrunk has secured a $2.3 billion green loan from 30 lenders for a new facility in Malaysia, its largest financing so far for a single asset... View Source

Washington risked widening its tech confrontation with China by restricting more foreign-made goods, including some humanoid robots and power inverters... View Source

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Investment firm Sixth Street Partners and South Korea’s SK Telecom Co. are among bidders for a significant stake in Southeast Asia’s Bridge Data Centres, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Ryan VanGrack, vice chair and head of corporate affairs of Coinbase, joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto" to discuss the importance of the passage of the US Clarity Act. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Craig Beattie, CFO of commerical property firm HongKong Land, discusses the company's 11% rise in underlying profit for the first six months of the year, and discusses its outlook and strategy for growth. He speaks exclusively with Haidi Stroud Watts on "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade". (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Malaysia’s government withdrew its backing for a blockchain conference after promotional material of an after-party featuring a former OnlyFans creator sparked an outcry in the Muslim-majority country... View Source

Footage shows North Island skies lighting up followed by a ‘huge boom’ days after a seperate fireball in South IslandTwo suspected meteors have flashed and boomed across New Zealand’s skies in recent days , delighting those who glimpsed the rare celestial event and sending some animals into a frenzy.A large fireball was seen over parts of the North Island just after 10.20pm on Tuesday night, after... View Source

Capcom Co.’s shares gained the most since January 2014 after the Japanese videogame developer’s first-quarter operating profit beat analysts’ expectations, helped by strong software sales... View Source

Dushyant Shahrawat, Bloomberg Intelligence Crypto & Assets Analyst, says crypto it here to stay and promises to change the way financial products are manufactured. He argues that just like we got used to trusting software and AI, the financial world will do the same with cryptocurrencies, and that the increased use of platforms like Venmo was just the first step. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Bloomberg Intelligence's Dushyant Shahrawat joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." Bitcoin was left out of the newly announced crypto index from S&P and Pantera Capital. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

XRC Ventures Founder & Managing Partner Pano Anthos understands the scale of the issue of AI governance with the insurance industry dropping or excluding AI risk, as companies struggle to manage their internal architectures against outside programs. He speaks to Romaine Bostick and Emily Graffeo on Bloomberg's 'The Close.' (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

It's part of a national security strategy to kickstart domestic production of emerging technology... View Source

SK Hynix Inc.’s quarterly profit rose 557%, but missed expectations, fueling fears that an AI boom that has propelled the semiconductor industry may be decelerating. Bloomberg's Mark Cranfield and Anthony Stephens share their insights. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

An attempt by a lender to offload a portion of a loan backing a Hong Kong data center project is highlighting a global trend of banks reshuffling lending to keep exposure to the booming sector within limits... View Source

In June, Nintendo announced a new version of the Switch 2 that should let you easily replace its battery pack - but only for Europe. Logitech will do much the same. User-replaceable batteries will be the law in Europe in February 2027, but instead of bringing them to the rest of the world, Logitech plans to ship one version of its wireless mice to Europe and a different version everywhere else. Th... View Source

SK Hynix Inc.’s quarterly profit rose a smaller-than expected 557%, adding to heightened fears that an AI boom that has propelled the semiconductor industry may be decelerating... View Source

Ina and David Steiner will receive compensation after a 2019 campaign to silence their critiques of the company... View Source

The Chinese robot maker, Unitree, will likely be impacted by the ban. | Bloomberg via Getty Images The US government is targeting China with a new import ban on "advanced robotic devices" and power inverters made in foreign countries, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an announcement on Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission says the ban will include "mobile" robots, such as humanoid and... View Source

An OpenAI artificial intelligence agent that breached systems at Hugging Face Inc. also compromised a customer at a second technology company, New York-based Modal Labs, Reuters reported... View Source

A new lawsuit accuses Tesla of overextending the safety operators overseeing its robotaxis... View Source

Key specsCamera: 48MP 1/2-inch CMOSVideo resolution: Up to 4KFrame rates: 4K 100 FPS / 2.7K vertical up to 60 FPS / FHD up to 100 FPSBattery: 2590 mAh up to 36 minutes flightCharger type: USB-C cable/battery charging hubModes: Cine, Normal, SportVideo transmission range: 9.3 miles (IC) / 4.97 miles (CE/SRRC/MIC)Dimensions: : Folded 5.67 x 3.70 x 2.44 in / 144 x 94 x 62 mm / Unfolded 7.20 x 9.88 x... View Source

In June, UK staff at the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia became the first to announce their intentions to form a union. Now, US-based employees at the Wikimedia Foundation are joining the union drive, but management at the nonprofit have declined to voluntarily recognize their union. "While the Wikimedia Foundation touts to the public that they plan to take a neutral stance in our organizing efforts... View Source

Goldman Sachs Japan Co. says a sharp selloff in Japan’s artificial intelligence-related stocks has created a buying opportunity, arguing that strong earnings could revive investor appetite for semiconductor shares... View Source

Why can't I just wear my AirPods in the pool?... View Source

Ariana Grande filed a lawsuit on Monday in the Los Angeles County Superior Court against the currently unidentified hackers who allegedly stole and leaked private content. It aims to "uncover the identities of these currently unknown and unscrupulous individuals," referred to as "John Doe 1 and John Does 2 through 100." The lawsuit also says that "In 2023 alone, 45 unreleased songs" were "hacked,... View Source

The chipmaker needs to prove it’s more than an accidental beneficiary of a supply squeeze in storage. ... View Source

A thousand workers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and more have signed the letter... View Source

NASA announced on Tuesday (July 28) that it has officially fueled-up the Roman Space Telescope — a magnificent new observatory expected to generate over 500 terabytes of cosmic data per year. By comparison, the Hubble Space Telescope, in its 35 years of service, has created over 400 terabytes in total.At present, the Roman Space Telescope's launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is scheduled t... View Source

eBay and three former executives will pay $55.7 million as part of a settlement with a Massachusetts couple targeted with a bizarre harassment and cyberstalking campaign in 2019, as reported earlier by CNBC. The settlement will resolve a lengthy legal saga that revealed how eBay's former executives sent live insects, a bloody pig mask, a funeral wreath, and other strange items to David and Ina Ste... View Source

Things just keep getting worse for BuzzFeed. On Monday, the struggling media company announced the layoffs of 180 employees, or about a third of its entire workforce, in the latest sign of its decline since its unexpected pivot to AI. The cuts, according to the New York Times, affect employees at its news site HuffPost, BuzzFeed’s film and TV studio, and the recipe publisher Tasty. “We... View Source

For people who want the power of a phone that transforms into a miniature tablet, the Galaxy Z Fold 8 offers a better way to watch shows and movies... View Source

Working hard, or bear-ly working? | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images It's earnings season, and investors got an unpleasant surprise from Google: an increase on its spending estimate, to as much as $205 billion - from the last quarter's projection of up to $190 billion. Even the lower end of Google's new projected range - $195 billion - is much more than the company had previously for... View Source

The retro console is still a favorite for gamers who appreciate simplicity of older tech but still want online play... View Source

A Georgia man was charged with a felony for allegedly wiping his phone while being questioned by Customs and Border Protection. Samuel Tunick had something in common with others who have had their devices searched at airports: He was an activist. Unlike others who have had their phones seized with no explanation, Tunick was told that CBP needed to search his device to determine whether it containe... View Source

Gainwell Technologies LLC is in discussions with investors to replace almost $5.7 billion of leveraged loans, a deal that would be the biggest refinancing from the beleaguered US software industry this year... View Source

Double Fine lays off about a third of its staff... View Source

Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US government supporting a potential slowdown of sorts for frontier AI development - or at least a speed-up of global coordinated governance efforts. "Al could help create a dramatically better future, but that outcome is not guaranteed," the... View Source

If you were looking for even more ways to give Elon Musk your hard-earned cash, you’re in luck! His social media platform X has officially rolled out a new banking service, uninspiredly called X Money, to its Premium and Premium Plus users — who are already shelling out up to $40 a month for a blue checkmark and more prominent tweet replies. The service allows users to store their money... View Source

Make a plan before you use the new Apple Upgrade program to avoid potential fees down the road... View Source

The Milky Way's spiral disk may have flipped over by 90 degrees, in turn altering the solar system's orbit around the center of the galaxy.Spiral galaxies such as the Milky Way have two main, visible, structural components: a disk that encapsulates most of its stars, gas and the central black hole, and a more diffuse halo of older stars that encapsulates the disk.However, the Milky Way's stellar h... View Source

The Hybrid adds Bluetooth functionality to the wired H3, seen here. | Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge While most gaming headsets have moved towards low-latency wireless connections, there’s something to be said for a budget-friendly, capable wired headset. The EPOS H3 Hybrid is on sale for just $24.99 at Woot, a whopping 75 percent off its original price of $99.99. It has an unorthodox batch... View Source

Codelco Chairman Bernardo Fontaine said the Chilean state copper behemoth faces another difficult year for production, effectively ruling out a longstanding goal of returning to pre-pandemic output levels by the end of the decade... View Source

The CW's live sports programming is coming to ESPN on August 4... View Source

Apple says it won't limit the capabilities of devices leased through its new Upgrade program if you miss a payment. In an emailed statement to The Verge, Apple spokesperson Brian Bumbery says, "There will be no restricted mode and/or there will be no limitations put on device functionality due to missed payments or default with the Apple Upgrade program." This confirmation comes after 9to5Mac unco... View Source

The UK’s energy regulator is proposing new rules to stop speculative data centers from clogging up the grid connection queue by requiring hefty upfront financial commitments and tougher project milestones... View Source

60-60 is a good rule of thumb for protecting your hearing... View Source

New Yorkers who want to see their Instagram or TikTok feed curated by an algorithm, or receive notification after midnight, will soon have to verify their ages to access those features. New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) released a set of final rules on how to implement the SAFE for Kids Act, signed into law by Governor Kathy Hochul (D) in June 2024. The rules lay out in more detail what... View Source

Last week, we came across a cleverly subversive advertisement for Meta’s controversial smart glasses, which overlaid socialite Kylie Jenner’s face with one of the terrifying bug-eyed monsters from John Carpenter’s “They Live” and a bold type caption that reads “We’re always watching” when viewed from a specific angle. The billboard, created by activist gro... View Source

China’s semiconductor industry may have achieved a breakthrough in building chipmaking machines that have long been dominated by the Netherlands’ ASML Holding NV. A state-backed firm in Shanghai has found a way to make so-called immersion deep ultraviolet lithography tools that are capable of manufacturing the most widely used chips, according to the Information... View Source

The HBO Max app now has shorts, because everything needs to have shorts... View Source

The Tile Pro offers the longest Bluetooth range of any Tile tracker. | Image: Tile Apple’s latest AirTag may seem like the obvious choice if you own an iPhone and are shopping for a Bluetooth tracker, but it’s not the most affordable option. For families that contain both Android and Apple devices, it might be better to pick up the latest Tile Pro instead. It works well across both pl... View Source

ASM International NV forecast revenue for the third quarter that beat analyst estimates, with the artificial intelligence infrastructure build-out driving demand for the chip-equipment maker’s tools... View Source

WhatsApp now supports encrypted calls on the web... View Source

In Apple TV’s "Silo" season 3, we lunge back 352 years to the Before Times to see how the greatest engineering project in the history of the world began… and would end. Center stage in this dark sci-fi drama are ambitious Congressman Daniel Keene (Ashley Zukerman) and journalist Helen Drew (Jessica Henwick), the pre-apocalypse duo we were first introduced to in Season 2's final episode.In that sce... View Source

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has some bad news to share: AI will never lead to a shorter work week — despite having already ushered in the singularity, in his dubious telling. During an appearance on the “Relentless” podcast, the billionaire reflected that “somehow we never get the promise of the four-hour work week at mass scale in society,” despite tech “promising people t... View Source

OpenAI and Anthropic PBC employees are circulating a petition that calls on the US government to support a mechanism that would help “deliberately pace” AI development to prevent the technology from advancing too fast, days after the ChatGPT maker disclosed that its tools had mistakenly hacked another firm’s internal systems... View Source

If you've got an older iPhone hanging out in the junk drawer, grab it out and bring it back to life with these tips... View Source

Cursor has built a machine for not needing the best model. The Router sends hard work to frontier models and everything else to efficient ones, delivering frontier quality at roughly 60% lower cost. The swarm research pairs a frontier planner with Composer workers and hits up to 100% on complex tasks like the SQLite rebuild ... Read more... View Source

Don't worry, the Trump administration won't let a little acid rain get in the way of more data centers... View Source

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Warner Bros. Discovery is bringing a vertical video feed to HBO Max to help you find something new to watch. Streaming platforms like Netflix, Disney Plus, and Peacock already offer TikTok-like vertical video feeds to surface content that might be interesting to users, and now HBO Max will have a similar feed of its own. The feed, called "HBO Max Shorts," will be accessible from an icon on the bot... View Source

The West Pacific has swung back into an El Niño phase, bringing nearly unprecedented heat to vast swaths of the globe. Some of El Niño’s impacts are immediately apparent, or will be in the months to come: blistering high temps, of course, but also major amounts of rainfall for some, and extreme drought for others. Unfortunately, those weather patterns don’t just come and go. They also... View Source

An Xbox executive said yesterday's outage was due to "a licensing service that sits outside of Xbox."... View Source

When you use an AI to write code, you pay for tokens — chunks of text the model reads and writes. Frontier models charge a lot per token. Cheaper models charge a fraction. Think of building a house. An architect charges $500 an hour; a bricklayer charges $40. Both are essential. But you’d go broke ... Read more... View Source

The first modern GPU with 4GB of VRAM has appeared, as RAM prices and component shortages push tech prices higher. As Digital Foundry reports, a listing for an AMD Radeon RX 9050 with 4GB of RAM was spotted on ASRock's website by a user on X, the same day ASRock also launched an 8GB version of the RX 9050. Does it make sense to buy a graphics card with just 4GB of VRAM? According to the specs on A... View Source

Cursor has run experiments to test the limits of scaling agents to cooperate toward a goal. Their hypothesis is they can unlock a new tier of task scale and complexity. They are looking to speed up by thousands of times from 1000 commits per hour to 1000 commits per second. Tools like Git and Cargo ... Read more... View Source

SpaceX launched 24 more satellites for its Starlink network on Saturday (July 25), a day after demonstrating it could do the same on its next-gen rocket.A Falcon 9 rocket carrying Starlink group 17-51 lifted off at 11:51 a.m. EDT (1521 GMT or 8:51 a.m. PDT local time) on Saturday from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. About an hour later, the 24 broadband in... View Source

Over the last few months, I've spent a lot of time talking to my computer. One underrated feature of the LLM revolution has been a remarkable leap in all kinds of dictation technology - even the fastest, cheapest models are getting very good at understanding and processing speech. I've tested lots of these apps, from WisprFlow to Monologue to Spokenly to Handy to so many others, and have found the... View Source

Back in the mid-2000s, Mark Zuckerberg had a pretty awesome product: a site called Facebook, which was still widely loved and not polluted with endless ads and scams. The interceding years have been hard on Zuckerberg’s empire. From a disastrous, multibillion-dollar foray into a pandemic-era virtual reality world nobody wanted to step a foot into to effectively abandoning content moderation... View Source

Two months after Ford Motor Co. became the latest old-economy manufacturer to be swept up in the artificial-intelligence rally, investors are looking for proof the enthusiasm was justified... View Source

Better bass and a much newer processor are the main differences between the old Echo Dot and the newer Echo Dot Max... View Source

SpaceX Starship flight 13 shows white powder on the surface of the heat shield. The flaps that were in the water showed a lot of the powder washes off. The theory would be that there were some broken tiles and some tiles had plasma penetrations that cause some ablative damage. Most tiles are good. The ... Read more... View Source

On July 28, 1851, the first-ever photo of a total solar eclipse was recorded by a Prussian daguerreotypist named Johann Julius Friedrich Berkowski. Daguerreotypy is an old photographic process that uses silver-plated copper treated with chemical fumes that make it light-sensitive. Previous attempts to take photos of solar eclipses failed to show the contrast between the sun's corona and the dark d... View Source

For years, we've heard rumors of a new home hub device from Apple, meant to take on smart home devices like the Google Nest Hub Mini and Amazon's Echo Show. Besides "HomePod with a screen," details have been sparse. But now, a new report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman sheds some light on the alleged device, as well as a potential release window. According to Gurman, the new smart hub will feature a... View Source

Chinese startup Moonshot AI is seeking access to more of Nvidia Corp.’s advanced Blackwell chips to train the next version of its model, Kimi K4, The Information reported, citing sources it didn’t name... View Source

Keeping phones out of landfills and doing useful things is a good thing... View Source

Venus beside the International Space Station as captured by photographer A.J. Smadi from Edmonds, Washington on July 18, 2026. (Image credit: AJ Smadi)An astrophotographer captured a breathtaking scene as the International Space Station zoomed by Venus in the daytime sky.A post shared by AJ Smadi (@aj.smadi)A photo posted by on What is it?Photographer AJ Smadi set up the scene on July 18 in a park... View Source

Perplexity has expanded its agentic Personal Computer tool to Windows, allowing computers running the world's most popular OS to be used as a locally run AI system. Like the Mac version that Perplexity launched in April, Personal Computer for Windows operates like a "general-purpose digital worker" that can access local files and apps to perform actions on your behalf, such as creating documents a... View Source

SpaceX shares erased one-fifth of their value since the record setting debut of Elon Musk’s rocket, satellite and artificial intelligence company, as investors shunned riskier technology firms... View Source

The free Android app shares knowledge from members of the Rainy Lake Ojibwe community... View Source

Gene Munster is a great stock market analyst. He says the recent Nasdaq selloff (~7% in July) is a healthy reset, not a breakdown. We are still in the “third inning” of AI wealth creation (not the technology rollout itself). Investors are nervous about the law of large numbers and sustainability of ultra-high growth rates, ... Read more... View Source

Following the original's debut at CES earlier this year, Twelve South is introducing a new version of its leather-wrapped Valet charging tray designed for use in places where space is at a premium. While the original Valet was 7.5-inches deep and large enough to serve as a catchall for a couple of items like your wallet and keys, the new Valet nearly halves that to 4.5-inches deep, so it's better... View Source

Earlier this month, we brought you the story of a data center in the sleepy Michigan town of Dowagiac. Beset by the 30 megawatt tech facility, residents in the otherwise quiet burg were forced to live under the relentless screech of a massive cooling operation, prompting a lawsuit over excessive noise. At the time, footage from a TikTok video — showing volume readings reaching 60 decibels in one r... View Source

Apple Inc., after spending years as a laggard in the smart home market, is preparing a dramatic new push into the category with fresh devices and software... View Source

China's Chang'e-8 moon lander mission scheduled for 2029 could send Africa's first space exploration mission to the lunar south pole.Under the Africa2Moon venture, the Bounced African Low Lunar Sphere, or BALLS for short, is a technology demonstrator in which a trio of spherical probes on the lunar surface will form a radio astronomy array at the moon's south pole region. Each of the metal spheres... View Source

It’s not fancy, but it gets the job done for hours and hours on a single charge. Despite what influencers may say, you don’t need to spend $99.99 on Dyson’s HushJet Mini Cool or $149.99 for the Shark ChillPill to survive the summer whenever you leave the comfort of air-conditioning. My family has found all the comfort it needs to survive humid baseball games, sweltering concerts, and sweaty hikes... View Source

In Alabama, the pushback against AI data centers is turning into a dog fight... View Source

Apple's new program gives you lease options for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac... View Source

Logitech's new gaming boss, Robin Piispanen, tells me he likes the idea of gaming handhelds. "It's such a charming value proposition," he says, as we sip iced vanilla lattes at my local cafe. But he's not building one right now. He's not sure when or if Logitech should try again, after its underwhelming experiment with the Logitech G Cloud streaming handheld. "Right now, in this moment in time, th... View Source

The infamous dead internet theory was originally a conspiracy that posited that the vast majority of the internet was run by bots and thinking machines. Most accounts you saw online were really bots masquerading as people — all part of some nefarious scheme to control humankind by keeping us isolated and divided. That last part is far-fetched, but the core of the idea — that bots outnumber humans... View Source

Astronomers have used the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in the Atacama Desert region of Northern Chile to discover the strongest evidence yet that the famous star Betelgeuse has a companion star. That means after a century of investigation, scientists are closer than ever before to conclusively identifying Betelgeuse as a binary system composed of two stars, Betelgeuse A and Betelgeuse B. Betelgeuse... View Source

Apple has officially introduced "Apple Upgrade," a new leasing program that aims to make it easier to get your hands on the latest iPhone, Mac, iPad, and Apple Watch models. The service is launching today in the US, and works like a car lease - allowing users to keep a device at the end of their subscription period, pay off the device early, or upgrade early to a new model. This leasing program is... View Source

The UK’s communications regulator has moved to block an “aggressively discounted” offer from BT Group Plc’s wholesale broadband subsidiary, Openreach, for the first time, citing competition concerns... View Source

The rush into ETFs tied to the memory-chip makers has boosted market volatility in South Korea... View Source

Researchers investigating Hugging Face found the majority of its models would generate non-consensual deepfakes... View Source

Investors worry that increasingly circular deals might artificially inflate demand and magnify losses if AI fails to turn profits in the future... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. and BlackRock Inc. will establish a joint venture to build and operate a 1-gigawatt data center complex in Texas, adding to a wave of investment in the computing hubs that power artificial intelligence... View Source

As it promised last year, Baidu has started testing its robotaxis in London along with partners Lyft and Freenow... View Source

Radio telescopes are designed to listen for signals from the stars and from distant galaxies, but scientists are also pointing out that these instruments can also track objects somewhat closer to home: junk in Earth's orbit.Engineers have used the famed radio telescope at Jodrell Bank in the U.K. as part of an international plan to watch high-altitude space debris. Normally, old satellites and bit... View Source

AI’s decimation of call center jobs has begun... View Source

European stocks traded steady as upbeat second-quarter results from Unilever Plc lifted consumer companies’ shares, helping offset pressure from the global selloff in semiconductors... View Source

ChatGPT has been refusing to imitate the writing of famous authors, both living and dead... View Source

Key specsCamera: 48MP 1/1.3-inch CMOSVideo resolution: Up to 4KFrame rates: 4K 100 FPS / 2.7K vertical up to 60 FPS / FHD up to 200 FPSBattery: 2788 mAh up to 36 minutes flightCharger type: USB-C cable/battery charging hubModes: Cine, Normal, SportVideo transmission range: 9.3 miles (IC) / 4.97 miles (CE/SRRC/MIC)Dimensions: : Folded 5.67 x 3.70 x 2.44 in / 144 x 94 x 62 mm / Unfolded 7.20 x 9.88... View Source

Hugging Face isn’t doing much to prevent the AI models it hosts from spitting out sexualized deepfakes. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images Hugging Face is being used to make nonconsensual deepfakes, and the popular open-source AI model repository is doing very little to prevent it. That's according to a new report published by the European nonprofit AI Forensics, which f... View Source

Scientists have long assumed that there’s an upper limit to the intensity of the solar winds that reach Earth. New research suggests there’s not—and the implications are alarming... View Source

Orange SA raised its profit outlook for the year, driven by growth in the French mobile carrier’s Africa and Middle East markets and the acquisition of a new business in Spain... View Source

Taiwanese prosecutors have detained an Nvidia Corp. employee and searched the company’s offices as part of a widening probe into the alleged smuggling of AI accelerators into China, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

With plenty of range and stellar ride quality, the new C-Class is a brilliant EV with a dashboard that's a little too in your face... View Source

Cursor says India is now its third-largest market globally and plans to expand local hiring and enterprise sales... View Source

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About 900,000 current and former Origin Energy Ltd. customers had their data accessed in a security breach, the latest in a string of cyberattacks on major Australian companies and essential-service providers... View Source

Shares of Koei Tecmo Holdings Co. fell the most since March after the video-game publisher reported first-quarter operating profit that missed market expectations, underscoring weak software sales and fueling investor concerns about its long-term growth prospects... View Source

Silicon Valley leaders, including Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei and Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang, are warning against a broad government crackdown on open-weight artificial intelligence systems as a response to a breakthrough Chinese AI model that’s challenged US leadership in the technology... View Source

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s proposed “world-first” environmental and energy controls for Australia’s A$150 billion ($105 billion) data center pipeline will face their first test Tuesday, when federal, state and territory energy ministers meet to discuss guardrails for the booming sector... View Source

Extreme fire conditions on the ground have created unprecedented conditions in the atmosphere... View Source

Only Premium and Premium X subscribers get the privilege of banking with Elon for now... View Source

The 13th test flight of SpaceX's Starship megarocket went pretty well — and provided some amazing visuals, too.Flight 13 launched on Friday (July 24), sending the 408-foot-tall (124 meters) Starship Version 3 (V3) vehicle aloft from SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas.Starship's Super Heavy booster had some engine issues on its way back to Earth. But the Ship upper stage hit all of its marks, su... View Source

X Money, a core part of Elon Musk's mission to turn X into an "everything app," is rolling out starting today, 9to5Mac reports. The payment platform offers a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payments similar to Venmo, along with a metal Visa card users can emblazon with their X username. Other perks include Apple Wallet support and free money transfers on X. It also advertises "up to" a 6 percent A... View Source

A web of interlinked investments raises the risk of cascading losses if AI falls short of its potential... View Source

The ports look the same, but one is much faster than the other... View Source

The Razer Huntsman V3 Pro features doubleshot PBT keycaps. Gaming keyboards have evolved over the years to add RGB LEDs, extra knobs, and buttons with screens, but one feature has remained fairly consistent: the mechanical switch. That’s slowly changing, with brands introducing adjustable optical switches that are more customizable and have a faster response time. Razer’s Huntsman V3 Pro TKL is a... View Source

Last week, ChatGPT maker OpenAI issued what seems like a frightening memo about an “unprecedented cyber incident” involving cutting-edge AI models breaking loose and hacking another company. As the AI lab tells it, a group of next-generation AI models — including one that hasn’t even been disclosed to the public yet — had busted out of their secure testing environment and into a... View Source

The number of software security flaws discovered in popular technology products in 2026 is on pace to roughly double the tally of vulnerabilities that surfaced in 2025, an explosion driven by increasingly capable artificial intelligence systems... View Source

Here's what the rumor mill tells us Google might be preparing for its next Pixel launch... View Source

Climate change is upping the odds of major wildfires, creating a need for new tools to combat them... View Source

Chinese startup Moonshot AI’s new artificial-intelligence model has drawn global attention since its release for its powerful capabilities. Now, Moonshot has made the technology available for public download, a step expected to expand the company’s influence at a time when there is growing US concern about China’s rapid strides in AI development... View Source

A second gremlin is rolling through Spotify this evening... View Source

What would you do if you were unfathomably wealthy? Collect superyachts, throw extravagant parties, and just generally live a care-free existence?  Not if you’re Elon Musk. The former trillionaire is busy as ever waging his war on all-things “woke” — and it’s devolved into a performance which, even by his extreme standards, is a meltdown for the ages. Or a few of them... View Source

Dye & Durham Ltd.’s lenders have retained Houlihan Lokey Inc. as financial adviser as the software company’s capital position comes under increased scrutiny, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Apple's latest software updates are primarily focused on security fixes... View Source

Rocket Lab is expanding its launch operations to the snowy north.The California-based company, which already flies from New Zealand and Virginia, just inked a $266 million deal with the U.S. Space Force to fly up to 18 missile-defense missions, most of them from Alaska."The size and scale of this contract reflects the Space Force's confidence in our ability to meet their urgent national security d... View Source

US advisers liquidating the Mexican aquatic-theme parks operator The Dolphin Company asked a judge in Delaware for permission to sell some parks, alongside the animals in them, despite an ongoing fight over whether the company’s former chief executive officer was wrongly removed... View Source

An extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening hasn't just caused issues for people trying to play digital games - it blocked people from playing their disc-based games, too. Xbox's status page initially reported the outage on Sunday at about 11PM ET, and it has also prevented people from logging in, launching apps, or finding games on the Xbox store. This morning, the page also noted that user... View Source

If you’re among the millions of US citizens against power-hungry data centers going up in your town, you may want to be careful about how you exercise your First Amendment right to protest. Last week, high school physics teacher Lux Claridge was hauled out of a public meeting by four police officers for the baffling crime of clapping in support of an anti-data center speaker. During the publ... View Source

Angola has raised 300.3 billion kwanzas ($321 million) through the sale of 15% stake in state-owned wireless operator Unitel SA, marking the southwest African nation’s biggest initial public offering... View Source

After canning an extraction shooter in the franchise, it seems a new open-world Far Cry game is in development... View Source

NASA astronaut and Expedition 74 flight engineer Chris Williams shows off the Destiny laboratory module’s Microgravity Science Glovebox aboard the International Space Station. Williams was supporting semiconductor crystal research to help advance the commercial space economy and promote Earth-based industries. NASA/Chris Williams NASA astronaut Chris Williams will recap his recent eight-month miss... View Source

Nanoleaf's Blocks Combo XL Smarter Kit comes with nine color-changing LED panels. | Image: Nanoleaf Nanoleaf’s Blocks Combo XL Smarter Kit is a fun back-to-school buy that can add pops of customizable light and storage to your wall. It combines colorful smart lighting panels with a low-profile shelf and pegboard, and right now you can buy the kit for half off at $99.99 from Nanoleaf, which m... View Source

SpaceX successfully launched its Starship vehicle on Friday and appeared to demonstrate important and credible steps toward fulfilling the massive rocket's immense promise. As soon as the vehicle's next flight, Starship could go orbital, begin delivering satellites into space, and potentially return to the launch site to be 'caught' by the tower. All of this is impressive engineering on a gigantic... View Source

Orange SA and infrastructure manager Morrison are joining forces to create a data center company in France in an effort to strengthen Europe’s digital sovereignty... View Source

Like the Konami code, but for Roku remotes... View Source

Royal Philips NV’s operating profitability came in better than expected in the second quarter, as demand for its medical scanners outweighed the impact of tariffs... View Source

Have you tried turning it off and on again?... View Source

5 min read NASA Science Soars During August Total Solar Eclipse Each time the Moon covers the Sun during a total solar eclipse — darkening daytime skies and briefly revealing the Sun’s ethereal outer atmosphere, the corona — it presents new opportunities to better understand our star and its influence on Earth. On Wednesday, Aug. 12, as the next total solar eclipse sweeps over Greenland, Iceland,... View Source

We didn't exactly go bananas for Tim Burton's odd take on "Planet of the Apes" back in 2001, but now, on the occasion of the sci-fi film’s 25th anniversary, we've had time to reflect on not only the summertime spectacle's notable missteps, but also its unsung merits.Invading the hallowed grounds of director Franklin Schaffner’s 1968 original "Planet of the Apes" was risky business at best, but 20t... View Source

Was SpaceX’s recent Starship flight test a success or a failure? Many are hailing it as a victory, but several of the megarocket’s booster’s engines failed after re-entry, causing it to explode. SpaceX has had many similarly ambiguous tests before. But this was the first one since its much-hyped IPO earlier this summer — and it’s already clear that it wasn’t a convinc... View Source

Ad-supported Peacock will be available for free to YouTube Premium subscribers early next year... View Source