Some of the world’s largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solution that they say can ward off a new generation of cyber threats.
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Google teamed up with the Pokémon Company to introduce a special-edition Fitbit Air that works with the Pokémon Sleep app.
Shoppers can visit the Atorie website and buy handbags or clothes made from the same material — and coming from the same factory — that manufacturers use in high-end goods.
Hoomanely has developed a smart bowl to measure and record dogs’ feeding data, then tells owners if behaviors change.
You can pair Speedo’s Vanquisher goggles with its iQ module. | Image: Speedo Speedo is launching a removable smart module for its Vanquisher goggles that can analyze a swimmer’s performance across all four swim strokes: freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly. The new Speedo iQ system uses swim-specific sensors to analyze head movement in the water, … Read more
On Nvidia’s earnings call Wednesday, CEO Jensen Huang casually announced the company had “achieved AGI,” one of the tech industry’s ultimate goals some of its biggest players have spent years chasing. Almost immediately, Huang dismissed the coveted milestone as “senseless.” He’s right. For the supposed finish line of the AI race, there is no consensus … Read more
After unexpectedly showing up on a wall-mounting compatibility chart on Sony’s site back in June, the company has announced the Sony Bravia 6 OLED TV. The TV sits below its other OLED TVs – the Bravia 8 and Bravia 8 II – as well as its Bravia 9 II and Bravia 7 II RGB LED … Read more
The updates indicate that Google is looking position to AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it’s moving beyond simply helping users find information to actually handling parts of the trip-planning and booking process itself.
Every DeFi app wants a yield feature, but none want to build the liquidation math that comes with it. That trade-off is why leveraged staking, colloquially “looping”, has become one of the most-used strategies in DeFi for a few key players, while staying mostly absent from the many apps that could offer it as a … Read more
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Americans have declared war on Flock cameras. They’ve protested them, damaged them, and destroyed them. This is only the beginning. The spontaneous and decentralized nature of the vigilante protests is also what makes them difficult to suppress. There isn’t a uniform method of disruption; people have done everything from unplugging, smashing, stealing, and spray-painting the … Read more
A hands-on experiment in cross-lingual AI Visibility, RAG entity resolution, and why your professional identity may not survive the language barrier. The Setup In early August 2026, I ran an experiment on myself using Google’s Gemini in AI Mode. Over the previous six weeks, I had deliberately built a narrow, high-density digital footprint on a … Read more
The startup just raised a $26 million Series A to grow its customer base and help reduce red tape for utility and construction work.
The latest special-edition of Google’s Fitbit Air is inspired by the Pokémon Sleep game, with a “Sleepy Blue” band emblazoned with a snoozing Pikachu. It’s not exactly Snorlax blue, but matches the classic blue and gold of a Pokémon card pretty closely. The special-edition is available to preorder now for $129 and starts shipping September … Read more
Hugging Face is taking orders for the Microduck, a $399 tiny open-source duck robot that developers can train at home out of the box.
As Tesla gears up for the official launch of its steering wheel and pedal-less Cybercabs, Waymo is issuing a stark warning about Elon Musk’s approach autonomous driving. Srikanth Thirumalai, Waymo’s VP of Onboard Software, doesn’t specifically call out Musk or Tesla in a blog post, published Wednesday, entitled “10 AI Lessons from Driving 200+ Million … Read more
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There is something wonderfully strange about HTTP 402. Most developers have seen it at least once while scrolling through a list of status codes. 200 OK, obviously useful. 404 Not Found, practically a cultural icon. 500 Internal Server Error, the message nobody wants to see on a Friday afternoon. Then there is: 402 Payment Required … Read more
You read that right. There is a new social network called “Twitter.now” on the block, and it’s being operated by a startup called Operation Bluebird, whose founding team includes former Twitter trademark counsel Stephen Coates. As ArsTechnica reported, X sued the company last year and asked a Delaware judge to issue an injunction to stop … Read more
Test drivers for Waymo and Zoox sustained more than two dozen injuries in 2024 and 2025 from hard braking or other sudden movements made by the autonomous vehicles, according to a TechCrunch review of data submitted to OSHA.
The arrests come after a wave of cyberattacks earlier this year targeting tech companies that rely on high-profile and widely used open source software.
Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could leave lower-cost phones with less memory.
Meta might be on the hook for $17.1 billion and a host of app changes under a new kids safety settlement, but it’s already spinning the deal to its advantage. After years of being the national punching bag for social media harms, Meta has reached a settlement with 47 US states and several districts and … Read more
Every developer uses SDKs: pip install stripe, import stripe, done. But almost nobody knows what happens inside that black box. I built a complete Python SDK for the Stripe API from scratch, authentication, request handling, error management, retries, models, and tests. This article walks through every line. By the end, you will understand SDKs so … Read more
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A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and individuals on the internet.
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