Our 15-month investigation into death and surveillance along the US-Mexico border began with a simple question: Why did so many people die near government surveillance towers meant to help track and apprehend them? This story is part of Dying on Camera, a collaboration between MIT Technology Revi...
OpenAI reportedly expects to spend $278 billion more money than it generates between 2026 and 2030 due to aggressive spending on compute capacity and adjacent infrastructure.
The second largest AI company in China is having to work frantically to patch up its reputation after a number of prominent devs raised flags about their local files and data being siphoned to online servers without consent.
Microsoft warned that the built-in File History backup feature in Windows may stop working on some systems after installing the September 2026 security updates. [...]
Amazon claims Meta's Muse is a safety risk and bars the AI agent from shopping on its website.
Apple's variable aperture might capture better photos, but is near impossible to fix if it breaks.
Cloudflare has saved 100 TB of RAM again, but this time by tuning its hash-mapping algorithm.
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US power emissions restrictions are being wiped out, but hey – datacenters running Nvidia kit are getting better at extracting ever bit of compute they can from a megawatt, for what it's worth
Jump into high-refresh-rate gaming without breaking the bank: ASRock’s 27-inch 1080p 180Hz IPS gaming monitor is just $96, a whopping 40% off and at an all-time low
A Texas jury found Bambu Lab liable for patent infringement in the creation of the X1, P1 and A1 series of 3D printers, and awarded Stratasys, Inc. $27.6 million dollars in damages.
Each of those teeny lens blades is around the same thickness as a human hair. | Image: iFixit iFixit's latest device teardown shows us the inner workings of the new variable aperture lens inside Apple's iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max, alongside some repair concerns to be mindful of. The adjustabl...
Officials discussed setting up a mechanism for the two countries to notify each other of AI incidents which could threaten national security.
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Attackers are courting crate owners with plausible company profiles and booby-trapped recruitment calls
“Frontier robot policies,” the policies for models turning what a robot sees into what it does, “reliably carry out harmful instructions,” according to a Sept. 18 report by Robocurve.
The Bambu Lab P2S Combo makes useful, polished objects without requiring advanced technical skills.
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The United Nations logo at the UN headquarters in New York. | Getty Images Governments need to rein in increasingly capable AI agents before their risks are fully understood, a United Nations scientific panel warned in the global organization's first major assessment of OpenAI's hack of Hugging...
Acer chairperson and CEO Jason Chen believes that PC prices will plateau by the first half of next year and start coming down towards the latter part of 2027. He also said that memory makers predict high prices because they want to keep their high margins for as long as possible.