The website, which compares human beings to extraterrestrials, touts arrest numbers from the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown. But some of its details are really out there.
Soon-to-be-laid-off Meta contractors say they’re being treated differently than Mark Zuckerberg’s full-time employees, who stand to receive more generous severance packages.
Google’s new AI agent combed through my emails, documents, and calendar to plan a birthday party and still didn’t clock the person most important to me.
The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.
The people deciding that AI can replace your job are also the ones least likely to understand what your job truly involves, according to Box founder Aaron Levie, who pointed to this as an example of “AI psychosis.” Indeed, ClickUp recently cut 22% of its workforce for AI agents, tech layoffs in 2026 are already nearly matching all of 2025, […]
Send the pool guy packing. Let one of these robotic buddies maintain your water quality instead.
Chipmaker Groq is looking to raise $650 million in internal funding as it pivots from hardware to focus more on AI inference, the process of refining the way AI models respond to prompted requests, per Axios.
A public spat between Microsoft and an independent security researcher reopens a long-running debate over who is responsible for securing software.
The indie conference Nordic Game returned to Malmö this week, and although the event naturally has a big focus on Scandinavian developers, there was a multinational flavour to the event booths. Germany, Ukraine, and Moldova were among the countries represented on the show floor, and in fact the Moldovan game Lootbound scooped the People's Choice Award, which is voted for by conference attendees. But my personal highlight was DDoD, a roguelike shooter from Ukrainian developer The Future Entertainment Company. I came for the giant mutant snails, but stayed for the tense, loot-based gameplay in a huge industrial wasteland, which felt like a tantalising cross between Stalker and Diablo.
Playstack, the publisher behind games including Balatro, Abiotic Factor, and The Rise of the Golden Idol, is set to be purchased by Integrated Media Company (IMC), the owner of Fandom and Gamespot, among numerous other brands. The news was initially reported by Game Developer.
A book about how AI shapes perceptions of reality came under fire for using AI-generated quotes. Its problems go beyond that.
Cognition makes Devin, the first and arguably most successful AI coding agent. But famed coder Wu says it isn't designed to supplant human programmers.
Made for those who hate having a TV in the home, Samsung’s Movingstyle monitor-on-wheels brings the entertainment when you need it and hides away in a closet when you don’t.
The extent to which the ongoing crisis in cost and supply of digital storage – primarily meaning RAM and SSDs – is going to impact the games business can be hard to grasp. It's been the subject of headlines for months, but it can feel quite abstract. It's one thing to read about the entire world's supply chain for memory chips being rerouted into gigantic data centre projects, leaving only the thinnest of trickles for consumer devices; it's quite another thing to really internalise what that means at a consumer level.
Pope Leo XIV may not be able to disarm AI, but he’s got the attention of the industry.
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The detonation of the New Glenn rocket resulted in a huge fireball in Florida and may have long-term implications for the company's ambitions.
NetEase published its first quarter financial results, reporting a 6.9% rise in gaming revenue to RMB 25.7 billion ($3.7 billion), while overall revenue increased 6.1% to RMB 30.6 billion ($4.4 billion).
