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OpenAI is shutting down its standalone ChatGPT Atlas browser experiment less than 12 months after launch, absorbing its agentic capabilities into a new workplace productivity platform. Atlas, which launched in October 2025, was OpenAI’s attempt to rethink the browser from the ground up as an AI-native experience. Rather than competing with Chrome on speed or […]

The European Commission has formally accused Meta of breaching the Digital Services Act (DSA) through the addictive design of Facebook and Instagram, threatening fines of up to 6% of the company’s global annual turnover. The charges target four specific design features that the Commission says drive compulsive use: infinite scroll, video autoplay, push notifications, and […]

Apple has released iOS 26.5.2, a security-focused update that patches over two dozen vulnerabilities, many of them in WebKit, the engine that powers Safari and third-party browsers on iPhone and iPad. The update, released on June 29, arrives nearly a month after iOS 26.5.1 and addresses a range of security issues Apple describes as being […]

Intel is developing a new entry-level workstation and server platform codenamed Dunlow, powered by Nova Lake-S processors with up to 28 cores, according to shipping logs and hardware listings. The Dunlow platform introduces the LGA 1954 socket and will support Intel’s next-generation Xeon processors. Early specifications point to a 28-core single-compute-tile design with a 95-watt […]

Microsoft’s patch for a Windows Defender zero-day vulnerability may have introduced a new problem: on some systems, the update can write files large enough to completely consume available disk space. The patch, released on Wednesday, July 8, addresses the RoguePlanet vulnerability — a local privilege escalation exploit that grants attackers SYSTEM-level access on fully patched […]

Reports that Microsoft has considered spinning off or selling its Xbox gaming division have raised a question that does not have an obvious answer: who would actually buy it? The Information reported in June that Microsoft had discussed options including restructuring Xbox as a wholly owned subsidiary — modeled on how LinkedIn and GitHub operate […]

DuckDuckGo has escalated its long-running challenge to Google’s dominance by making YouTube ad blocking a default feature of its browser — a direct attack on one of Google’s most important revenue streams. The DuckDuckGo browser now blocks most video ads on desktop and iPhone, including YouTube ads, without requiring any additional extensions or configuration. The […]

Meta Superintelligence Labs has released Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal reasoning model purpose-built for agentic tasks, alongside a public preview of the Meta Model API. Unlike Meta’s previous open-weights releases, Muse Spark 1.1 is a closed, hosted model, priced per token. The model accepts text, images, video, and document inputs and generates text outputs, with […]

Meta is developing prototype smart glasses that could continuously record audio and snap photos every few seconds, according to a Financial Times report, raising fresh questions about the privacy boundaries of wearable AI. The project, described internally as “super sensing” glasses, represents a significant departure from Meta’s current Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, which require the […]

Meituan, the Chinese food-delivery and services giant best known as the operator of the DoorDash-like Meituan Waimai platform, has open-sourced LongCat 2.0 — a 1.6-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts language model trained entirely on Chinese-made AI ASIC chips, with zero Nvidia GPUs involved. The model, released under the permissive MIT license on GitHub and Hugging Face, represents one […]