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Live Nation Vows to Appeal Antitrust Monopoly Verdict
Live Nation-Ticketmaster says it will fight the jury verdict finding it violated antitrust law on several counts. The company issued a statement warning it intends to contest the ruling....
Teenage Engineering Teases KO-Amp 35 Instrument Amplifier
An unannounced Teenage Engineering device called the KO-Amp 35 has surfaced in FCC filings, suggesting the company best known for quirky synthesizers may be expanding into instrument amplifiers....
Europe Launches Free Anonymous Age Verification App for Online Platforms
Europe has released a free, privacy-preserving age verification app intended for use by porn sites and social media platforms to restrict access by minors. The app is described as 'completely anonymous' and shifts compli...
Europol Arrests Four and Takes Down 53 Domains in DDoS Crackdown
In a coordinated operation, Europol targeted for-hire DDoS services, resulting in four arrests and the seizure of 53 domains. As part of the campaign, authorities emailed 75,000 people warning them to stop participating ...
Casely Reissues Power Bank Recall After Death Linked to Fire Hazard
Casely has reannounced a recall of over 429,000 of its 5,000mAh Power Pod wireless power banks, originally recalled in April 2025 for fire and burn hazards. The renewed alert follows a reported fatality associated with t...
Android CLI Promises 3x Faster App Development Using AI Agents
Google has announced an Android command-line interface tool that claims to accelerate Android app development by a factor of three when used with AI coding agents....
OpenAI Codex Updated to Run Background PC Tasks and Expand Beyond Coding
OpenAI has released a major update to its Codex desktop app, introducing the ability to perform tasks on a user's PC in the background without interfering with active work. The update also expands Codex beyond developer ...
Anthropic CPO Resigns from Figma Board Amid Competing Product Reports
Anthropic's Chief Product Officer has stepped down from Figma's board following reports that Anthropic plans to launch a product that would compete directly with Figma. The move intensifies investor concerns about major ...
Chinese Fantasy Novels Rewrite History With Modern Tech — and Political Undertones
A new book examines the booming genre of Chinese online fiction that reimagines historical eras with contemporary technology and ideology. Analysts argue the genre, while popular globally, also serves to reinforce author...
Musk v. Altman Trial Set to Decide Whether OpenAI Abandoned Its Founding Mission
A jury trial is imminent in the lawsuit brought by Elon Musk against Sam Altman and OpenAI, centering on whether the company has strayed from its nonprofit mission to develop AGI for the benefit of humanity. The case cou...
Local Qwen3 Model Outperforms Claude Opus 4.7 on Image Generation Task
Developer Simon Willison reported that Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, run locally on a laptop, produced a superior pelican illustration compared to Anthropic's cloud-based Claude Opus 4.7, highlighting rapid progress in locally deploy...
Chinese Ship Tests Deep-Sea Cable-Cutting Device, Raising Sabotage Fears
A Chinese research vessel, Haiyang Dizhi 2, has tested a device capable of severing submarine data cables at depths of up to 3,500 meters. The demonstration heightens existing security concerns over a series of suspected...
UK Launches $675 Million Sovereign AI Fund to Back Homegrown Startups
The UK government has announced a $675 million sovereign AI investment fund aimed at reducing dependence on foreign technology and nurturing domestic AI companies. The initiative reflects a broader European push for tech...
Microsoft and Stellantis Launch Five-Year AI and Digital Services Partnership
Stellantis, the automaker behind Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, and Ram among others, has entered a five-year agreement with Microsoft to improve its digital services, cybersecurity, and engineering capabilities using AI....
Bluesky Suffers Ongoing Service Disruptions
Social platform Bluesky has been experiencing intermittent outages since just before 3 a.m. ET, affecting users across the platform....
Google Updates AI Mode in Chrome to Provide Persistent Chatbot-Style Search
Google has updated AI Mode in Chrome to keep the chatbot-style search interface persistently available throughout a user's browsing session, eliminating the need to switch tabs. The update is designed to create a more se...
Google AI Mode Now Opens Web Pages Side-by-Side in Chrome
Google has updated AI Mode on Chrome desktop so that clicking a link while using the feature opens the web page alongside the AI conversation. The change is designed to let users browse and research simultaneously....
Google Gemini Gains Personalized AI Image Generation via Google Photos
Google is rolling out a 'personal intelligence' feature in Gemini that uses the Nano Banana image generation model to create personalized images informed by a user's Google Photos library, including photos and associated...
Two Americans Sentenced for Placing North Korean Fake IT Workers in US Firms
The U.S. Department of Justice announced prison sentences for two American nationals convicted of helping the North Korean government embed fraudulent IT workers inside U.S. companies, stealing approximately $5 million i...
InsightFinder Raises $15M to Monitor AI Agents and Full Tech Stacks
InsightFinder has secured $15 million in funding to help enterprises diagnose failures not just in AI models but across entire technology stacks that now incorporate AI agents. CEO Helen Gu identified holistic stack obse...