Tech

Amazon is running a preorder promotion on Samsung’s newly announced Galaxy Z Fold 8 line that throws in a $350 gift card with no trade-in required and no carrier contract, an approach that stands out in an industry where most foldable phone discounts are locked behind multi-year service agreements. The Galaxy Z Fold 8, Samsung’s […]

A security research team has demonstrated a novel class of attack against AI-powered workplace tools: a single ChatGPT link that, when clicked by an employee, silently creates a fully autonomous malicious agent inside the company’s ChatGPT workspace, equipped with the victim’s identity, access permissions, and connected application credentials. The vulnerability, tracked as AgentForger and disclosed […]

A Russian Sukhoi Su-57 fifth-generation fighter jet crashed near Moscow on July 23, and the circumstances surrounding its loss have become the focus of an extraordinary claim: that Ukrainian cyber operatives manipulated a Russian air defense system into shooting down one of its own aircraft. The crash occurred shortly after the Su-57, likely a two-seat […]

A systematic review published in the Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering has mapped the landscape of generative artificial intelligence in bioinformatics, producing a finding that cuts against the dominant trend in commercial AI: specialized models trained on domain-specific data consistently outperform general-purpose architectures at biological tasks. The review, led by researchers from multiple institutions […]

When Sony announced earlier this month that it would stop producing physical PlayStation game discs by 2028, the backlash was immediate and loud. Tens of thousands of comments flooded the company’s YouTube channels. A petition gathered nearly 400,000 signatures. But the sales data tells a different story from the noise, and it overwhelmingly supports Sony’s […]

Meta is continuing its strategy of unbundling Facebook into standalone apps. The company launched a dedicated “Seller” app on July 24 for frequent Marketplace users, adding a free verification system designed to reduce impersonation and fraud in peer-to-peer transactions. The Seller app lets power users manage listings, message buyers, and track sales performance from a […]

The AI-driven memory shortage has found its way into the living room. Roku, the most popular streaming platform in the United States with more than 100 million streaming households, is raising prices across its hardware lineup by up to 60 percent. The Roku Streaming Stick 4K jumped from $50 to $80 – the steepest percentage […]

Twenty-five technology companies released an open letter on July 24 urging US policymakers to avoid “premature restrictions” on open-weight AI models, as the Trump administration weighs bans on Chinese AI models and sanctions against companies accused of intellectual property theft. The signatories include Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, Hugging Face, Mistral, and Replit. The notable absences tell […]

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24, its fourth model in two months, but this one is different from the others. Where Fable 5 and Mythos 5 push the absolute frontier of capability at premium prices, Opus 5 is designed to be the model teams actually use every day, and the benchmarks suggest Anthropic […]

Microsoft released its July 2026 preview update for Windows 11 on July 22, delivering a broad set of quality-of-life improvements to Insiders in the Release Preview Channel. The update, labeled KB5101684, advances 24H2 systems to build 26100.8968 and 25H2 systems to build 26200.8968. File Explorer receives the most visible changes. File sizes in details view […]