Technology
Musician sent to prison for $10 million streaming fraud using AI bots
A North Carolina musician was sentenced to 18 months in prison for collecting more than $10 million in royalties from Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and YouTube Music in a ma…
Advantest confirms personal information stolen in ransomware attack
Advantest Corporation is notifying affected individuals that a ransomware attack earlier this year exposed their personally identifiable data. [...]
Jaguar's controversial Type 01 EV looks like a '40s gangster car built for the modern electric era
Jaguar's Type 01 EV is designed to attract affluent young buyers with its deliberately polarizing design.
Jaguar’s first EV looks just like its divisive concept car
The Type 01, Jaguar's most important and divisive car in years, has arrived. The production follow-up to the polarising Type 00 concept, Jaguar says the electric, four-door grand …
ChatGPT for Teens is unsafe for under-18s, Common Sense Media says
ChatGPT is unsafe for anyone under 18, even in the teen mode OpenAI launched in August, according to a new risk assessment from Common Sense Media. The US nonprofit gave ChatGPT f…
Siena raises $17M Series A to build AI agents for consumer brands
Siena, a New York-based startup that develops AI agents for consumer brands, has raised $17 million in its Series A round, with York IE as the lead investor. The new capital raise…
ChatGPT for Teens is an ‘unacceptable risk,’ says Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that offers reviews of apps, services, and entertainment with a focus on youth safety, today said that OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens is an "unacceptab…
Apple TV's F1 coverage will now support Dolby Atmos
Apple TV's F1 coverage will feature Dolby Atmos support, starting with the US Grand Prix in Texas later this month.
Japan’s Rapidus teams up with 17 firms to win customers for 2nm chips
Rapidus, Japan’s state-backed chipmaker, has signed up 17 chip design firms to help it win customers before it starts making 2-nanometre chips. They include Synopsys and Cadence f…
SpaceX reportedly in talks to borrow $40B to buy Nvidia AI chips
SpaceX is in talks to borrow $40bn to buy AI chips from Nvidia, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. Today, Bloomberg reported that the talks are underway, citing people famil…
Intel will stay on Musk’s Terafab chip project, CEO tells Bloomberg
Intel will keep working with Elon Musk on Terafab, his project to make advanced chips in Texas, chief executive Lip-Bu Tan told Bloomberg. Tan made the comments before a Tokyo eve…
Anthropic Expands Claude Access for Vetted Cyber Teams as Glasswing Finds 129,000 Flaws
Anthropic on Tuesday said it's expanding a program that allows vetted cybersecurity professionals to test its advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models with reduced safeguards …
EU considers bigger levy on large companies to tax Big Tech
The European Commission is looking to collect more money from Apple, Meta, Google, and other US tech companies, according to the Financial Times, which spoke with six officials wh…
Spotify expands audiobooks to over 180 markets
Spotify will make 350,000 titles available in over 120 languages for this expansion
100+ Compromised Websites Use Fake Cloudflare Checks to Deliver LunexStealer
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has identified more than 100 compromised websites that have been injected with malicious JavaScript to serve an informati…
How long have wireless gaming controllers been around for?
Game controllers have experimented with losing the cords for longer than you'd think, but early attempts didn't have much success.
How to help stop spam calls on iPhone and Android
Spam calls don't have to grab your attention and waste your time. Use these built-in options to silence and block them without having to pay.
OpenAI drops another batch of mathematical breakthroughs
OpenAI has revealed solutions to a number of long-standing mathematics problems produced by an unreleased frontier model in a batch of 722 manuscripts, covering 372 result familie…
Braid-creator Jonathan Blow on making the 'biggest puzzle game ever'
Order of the Sinking Star is due out on Thursday and has roughly 1,500 puzzles for players to try
Why do some PCs have two Ethernet ports?
Dual Ethernet ports don't automatically provide faster speed, but they increase your networking options.
How to find out if Amazon thinks you have ‘flat buttocks’
"I stumbled upon a page of assumptions that Amazon has made about me based on my purchases and I’m literally speechless," one shopper wrote on Threads.
Apple is reportedly partnering with LG to launch a smart lock, thermostat, and doorbell
Apple appears poised to push into the smart home market with a slate of new devices and a key partner.
Ex-Ramp engineers raise $20M for platform Melius after scrapping their first product
The startup crossed over $1 million in anualized revenue within two months of its post-pivot launch.
Apple reportedly worked with LG on gadgets for its upcoming smart home push
The doorbell, security cameras, thermostats and more could be announced next week.