Technology
White House blocks Microsoft from foreign worker hiring program
An international visa program has for years allowed US tech companies to hire highly skilled workers from abroad.
The Atari 800XL hybrid gaming console is back after decades in obscurity
This updated version connects via HDMI and comes with 25 built-in games.
Tim Cook says ‘I’m not meddling’ in the new Apple CEO’s business
Tim Cook stepped down as Apple CEO in September, handing over the top job to former hardware chief John Ternus and taking an executive chairman role. Cook's still a visible repres…
I only bought Pokémon Legends: Z-A during Prime Day, and it’s still on sale
After covering Amazon’s October sale for the last few days, only one item found its way into my shopping cart, and, lucky for you, it’s still on sale after the event’s conclusion.…
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.
FBI Says China-Linked Hackers Ran Portal Giving Third Parties Access to Stolen Emails
Hackers tied to a Chinese cybersecurity company stole email from government organizations, law enforcement agencies, healthcare systems, and religious institutions in Southeast As…
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.
US suspends permanent residency program for Microsoft, Adobe and other tech companies
Seven companies have been accused of fraud regarding the H-1B worker visas.
Ben Affleck is an AI nerd, and the internet is impressed
Ben Affleck is going viral for his deep knowledge of AI, from neural networks and transformers to open weights. The actor, who sold his AI filmmaking startup to Netflix earlier th…
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.
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.
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…
Anthropic changes usage policy to ban model abuse and election interference
Anthropic's updated usage policy explicitly prohibits users from repeatedly abusing Claude in extreme cases, though ordinary frustration and criticism are still allowed. The new r…
Forza Horizon 6 is being delayed on PS5 to January 2027
Playground Games first revealed earlier this year that Forza Horizon 6 would be arriving on PS5 in 2026, but the launch is now being pushed back. I reported last month that there …
Apple moves its deal team back under the CFO after seven years
Apple is moving its mergers and acquisitions team back under chief financial officer Kevan Parekh, who ended the company’s net cash neutral policy in May in a move analysts read a…
OpenAI’s math solutions aren’t meeting the field’s standards yet
OpenAI's flood of proofs deviated from the guidelines set by a group of mathematical researchers consulted by the frontier lab.
USA Today becomes the latest publisher to sue OpenAI
USA Today Co., along with the several local newspapers it owns, is suing OpenAI over claims that the company copied "hundreds of thousands" of articles to train its AI models, as …
ThreatsDay: Ransomware Affiliate Betrayal, WhatsApp RAT, Exposed Hacker Tools and 12 More Stories
The crooks have trust problems of their own. One ransomware affiliate decided to keep the profits for himself. Elsewhere, an attacker left a server exposed, complete with tools an…
SpaceXAI backs Omarchy, the controversial Linux distro, with $1.5 million in compute
If Elon Musk and SpaceXAI were going to back any Linux distro, it seems obvious they'd back Omarchy. Today it was announced that SpaceXAI would be joining the Omacom Foundation, w…
Dealroom CEO says Europe’s first trillion-dollar startup may already exist
Europe’s venture-backed companies could be worth more than its industrial base within five years, Dealroom founder and chief executive Yoram Wijngaarde said. He spoke at Wave by V…
Older Pixel watches are losing free cellular access to several safety features
Google announced through a short community post today that the LTE versions of the Pixel Watch 2 and 3 are losing free access to Safety Signal that allowed features like Emergency…
Razer's Basilisk V4 Pro gaming mouse features a new tilt wheel and up to 275 hours of battery life
The company also released the V4 Hyperspeed and a charging dock.
Trump to unveil $2.4B in AI credits to boost federal research
Five American technology companies are pledging $2.4B in AI tools and compute credits to federal science at a White House summit, with Nvidia giving $1B and Google the smallest sh…
Everything Amazon has announced so far in October 2026
Every week, the company has been introducing new devices and products. So here's a nifty roundup.