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Engadget

Apple reportedly plans touchscreen MacBook and iPad Mini launch for this month

The wait to (literally) get your hands on the tech may almost be over.

1 hour ago

Engadget

Apple reportedly plans touchscreen MacBook and iPad Mini launch for this month

WIRED

ICE Emails Discuss Using Palantir-Supported Tool to Investigate Voter Fraud

Documents obtained by Democracy Forward show that ICE looked into feeding voter roll data into the ELITE tool, normally used to identify targets for deportation.

2 hours ago

WIRED

ICE Emails Discuss Using Palantir-Supported Tool to Investigate Voter Fraud

Engadget

IDC: Worldwide PC shipments in Q3 fell 20 percent from last year

"With macro conditions worsening, the risk is that the outlook for the next few quarters gets worse before it gets better."

3 hours ago

Engadget

IDC: Worldwide PC shipments in Q3 fell 20 percent from last year

Engadget

Alexa Tablet vs iPad Pro: How Amazon is keeping up with Apple

Amazon's latest and greatest tablet shares some key similarities to Apple's high-end iPads, but the devil is in the details.

3 hours ago

Engadget

Alexa Tablet vs iPad Pro: How Amazon is keeping up with Apple

Engadget

Anthropic bans 'sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior' toward its AI models

The company is also tightening its election policy ahead of the midterms.

4 hours ago

Engadget

Anthropic bans 'sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior' toward its AI models

TechCrunch

Pretend you're sitting at Elizabeth Holmes' desk on this weirdly detailed website

With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents from the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer Bo Lau created a website that simulates what it might have been like to rifle through the Theranos founder's desk.

4 hours ago

TechCrunch

Pretend you're sitting at Elizabeth Holmes' desk on this weirdly detailed website

Engadget

Child safety group calls ChatGPT for Teens an unacceptable risk

After extensive testing, Common Sense Media found the chatbot failed in five key areas.

4 hours ago

Engadget

Child safety group calls ChatGPT for Teens an unacceptable risk

Engadget

Cyberpunk 2077 is the latest video game to get the movie treatment

Paramount Pictures will develop the film and CD Projekt Red will produce.

4 hours ago

Engadget

Cyberpunk 2077 is the latest video game to get the movie treatment

Ars Technica

Feds get ready to rewrite car headlight rules

Reducing glare and allowing modern light technologies will be two goals.

4 hours ago

Ars Technica

Feds get ready to rewrite car headlight rules

Ars Technica

RIP Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing

Hamilton also coined the term "software engineering" and founded two successful software companies.

5 hours ago

Ars Technica

RIP Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing

TechCrunch

Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect

Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that their dismissals are creating a chilling effect on the company’s AI safety culture.

5 hours ago

TechCrunch

Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect

Ars Technica

Let's Encrypt cuts certificate lifetimes to 64 days starting February 2027

Free SSL/TLS certificate lifetimes reduce to 64 days in February.

5 hours ago

Ars Technica

Let's Encrypt cuts certificate lifetimes to 64 days starting February 2027

Ars Technica

Driver wins $76 after ALPR led to bogus traffic stop, drug searches

Mass surveillance gets stupider.

5 hours ago

Ars Technica

Driver wins $76 after ALPR led to bogus traffic stop, drug searches

WIRED

She Designed Meta’s New AI Logo. Then Came the Hate

Jessica Hische knew working for Meta might upset some people. But she didn’t anticipate just how angry they would get.

5 hours ago

WIRED

She Designed Meta’s New AI Logo. Then Came the Hate

Ars Technica

An experimental tour-de-force: Entanglement between glass bead and light

Getting a glass bead to act like a quantum object by entangling it with light.

6 hours ago

Ars Technica

An experimental tour-de-force: Entanglement between glass bead and light

TechCrunch

Watch the trailer for 'The Altruists,' Netflix's show about the FTX scandal

A fictionalized Sam Bankman-Fried is coming to your TV screen on November 19.

6 hours ago

TechCrunch

Watch the trailer for 'The Altruists,' Netflix's show about the FTX scandal

TechCrunch

Popular AI leaderboard Arena nearly doubles valuation to $3.1B valuation in 10 months

The company behind the popular LMArena leaderboard has raised $200 million led by Lightspeed and Khosla, and is now measuring AI models on alignment issues such as lying.

7 hours ago

TechCrunch

Popular AI leaderboard Arena nearly doubles valuation to $3.1B valuation in 10 months

TechCrunch

OpenAI's revenue is reportedly $20 billion less than previously projected

It had previously been reported that the AI lab's annualized revenue was some $70 billion, but a new report claims it's a whole lot less than that.

7 hours ago

TechCrunch

OpenAI's revenue is reportedly $20 billion less than previously projected

TechCrunch

Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses

Google is turning Gemini into an AI agent that can plan, execute tasks, and work across business apps and systems. The agent can delegate work to subagents, use multiple AI models, and even gets its own workplace identity, complete with an email address.

7 hours ago

TechCrunch

Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses

WIRED

38 Best Last-Minute Prime Day Deals You Can Still Shop Today (2026)

Prime Day might be over, but the discounts are still going. We’ve tracked down the best last minute Prime Day deals on all the gear our team recommends.

7 hours ago

WIRED

38 Best Last-Minute Prime Day Deals You Can Still Shop Today (2026)

Ars Technica

Amazon's new Alexa Tablets drop the Fire branding but are more Android than ever

Amazon killed its app store, so Google Play it is.

8 hours ago

Ars Technica

Amazon's new Alexa Tablets drop the Fire branding but are more Android than ever

WIRED

Amazon Alexa Tablet 12 Pro, Alexa Tablet 11, Alexa Tablet 8: Specs, Features, Price

The three new aluminum Alexa Tablets now run Android with full access to the Google Play Store. There are versions for kids too.

12 hours ago

WIRED

Amazon Alexa Tablet 12 Pro, Alexa Tablet 11, Alexa Tablet 8: Specs, Features, Price

WIRED

The New Alexa Tablets Feel Like a Blueprint for an Amazon Phone

Amazon is rumored to be making a smartphone, and the Alexa-powered experiences on its new tablets give us a taste of what might come if that happens.

12 hours ago

WIRED

The New Alexa Tablets Feel Like a Blueprint for an Amazon Phone

WIRED

Life Is Asymmetric. The Scientists Who Figured Out Why Won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Henri Kagan and Kensō Soai designed chemical reactions producing only one of the two mirror-image forms of a molecule—an important finding for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and other biological substances.

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WIRED

Life Is Asymmetric. The Scientists Who Figured Out Why Won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry