A Chinese phone application called “dead or alive” that helps users check in daily has become a top-ranked app, reflecting the trend of solo living among the country’s young people. The Sileme app, or...
Larry Hryb, better known to legions of fans as Xbox's former communications director Major Nelson, has reported being laid off from his new role at Unity. In a post on Twitter/X, Hryb shared an image ...
Verizon can keep phones locked to its network for longer after the Federal Communications Commission agreed to waive the carrier's 60-day unlocking requirement, as reported by Ars Technica . Following...
Elon Musk (L) and Sam Altman Getty/BI composite A trial date has been set in Elon Musk's fraud case against Sam Altman. The case is set to go before an Oakland federal jury in April and is expected to...
Ugandan officials claimed that they could also shut down the internet-free, encrypted messaging app last week, but haven't done so yet....
Donald Trump and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Microsoft unveiled a five-point plan to reduce AI data center impact on US communities. The company aims to reduce rising ut...
I have spent enough years covering games to know when a sale actually matters, and this one does. It's looking like a proper cross platform clearance out there, the kind where great games quietly slip...
The 'Dark Enlightenment' pundit published a transcript he says shows how easily a chatbot can be steered into echoing a user’s ideology....
The most interesting story at this year's CES was just a little tiny bundle of technology. One way to look at Lego's new Smart Brick is as something like a Raspberry Pi, an endlessly remixable gizmo w...
Hi HN, In most codebases I’ve worked on, temporary hacks (“TODO: remove later”, “just for this release”) slowly become permanent. Nobody remembers why they exist, but they keep shipping to production....
Hi HN, I built Ayder — a single-binary, HTTP-native durable event log written in C. The wedge is simple: curl is the client (no JVM, no ZooKeeper, no thick client libs). There’s a 2-minute demo that s...
It looks like the wave of campaigns against data centers are getting under big tech companies' skin - and Microsoft is the latest giant to promise to address frustrations on the ground in communities ...
Lenovo is the top PC manufacturer worldwide. The PC market is bracing for a turbulent year ahead , but shipments managed to exceed expectations in the recent holiday quarter. IDC reports that shipment...
The Sonderklasse 's mid-cycle refresh keeps the focus on the sedan's trademark chill....
Grok - the AI chatbot developed my Elon Musk's company - is facing growing international backlash for being misused to generate sexually explicit and nonconsensual images. Malaysia and Indonesia have ...
Crypto majors are mostly flat headed into Monday open; btc even at $90,600; eth +1% at $3,110, sol +2% at $140; xrp -2% to $2.04. Ip (+20%) and xmr (+15%) led top movers; xmr hit a new ath at $590. Fe...
The pandemic gave workers increased options as home offices became the norm in some fields. Now, with the EU experiencing industrial slowdown and AI automation, workers are growing increasingly wary o...
Anthropic wants to expand Claude's AI agent capabilities and take advantage of the growing hype around Claude Code - and it's doing it with a brand-new feature released Monday, dubbed "Claude Cowork."...
Our sneak peek at the most promising cars, trucks, and SUVs of the next few years....
Chinese artificial intelligence firm Zhipu AI said its new image generation model was trained on chips from Huawei Technologies, making it the first powerful open-source model to be developed on an en...