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 OpenAI today said it is "pausing" activities involving its upcoming AI model Astra, because its cyber capabilities are potentially too dangerous. OpenAI says its newest internal evaluations show "significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity," and it cannot rule out "critical cyber capabilities." Prior OpenAI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, were labeled as "High."
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 Some of the best Apple deals of the summer arrived this week, including the AirPods Pro 3 for $189.99, up to $500 off select MacBook Pro models, and the lowest iPad Air prices since Apple's price hike. Additionally, you'll find a solid offer on the MacBook Neo at Best Buy this weekend.
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NEW RESOURCES Hot Press: Myles O'Reilly launches Glen Hansard Footage Archive to share "hundreds of hours of unseen footage". "Musician and filmmaker Myles O'Reilly has announced the Glen Hansard Footage Archive to […]
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Elon Musk says robots could build SpaceX factories on the Moon, but the ambitious lunar manufacturing plan has no disclosed budget or timeline.
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He'll be among the many celebrities attending the launch party for the new Pixel devices.
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DeepSeek invests $20.8 million in Unitree's Shanghai IPO, deepening a partnership to develop AI models and applications for humanoid robots in China.
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AI PROBLEMS TechSpot: Amazon is blocking some users from seeing reviews after mistaking them for AI bots. "WTF?! Amazon is restricting access to customer reviews for some shoppers after mistakenly identifying them […]
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 Longevity has become a bit of a buzz word, and has become increasingly aligned with the tech industry. But while it remains unclear whether the billions of US dollars being invested in life-extending bioscience is something any of us can access, a timely report from Harvard Medical
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The iPhone Air reaches one year on sale next month, and Apple is now closer to launching its successor than it is to the original's debut. On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss what's next for the device.
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The EU's sovereign satellite broadband service is now moving towards full-scale deployment.
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It will be the best solar eclipse visible from the U.K. and Ireland so far this century, experts say. Here's how to best view it.
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Boston Dynamics trained its Atlas humanoid robot for millions of simulated hours before it successfully lifted and carried a mini-fridge.
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 According to various reports from sources such as Bloomberg's Mark Gurman and Macworld's Filipe Espósito, Apple is planning to release up to three new products with "Ultra" branding between late 2026 and early 2027.
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NASA is planning to use elements of existing tech to learn more about all sides of the moon.
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A family is suddenly trapped inside their home by mysterious forces and have to fight for survival
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NASA believes the crater left by the rocket is around 60 feet wide.
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Privacy Badger for Chrome is a free extension designed to automatically learn to block numerous invisible trackers. Instead of keeping lists of what to block, Privacy Badger for Chrome learns by watching which domains appear to be tracking you as you browse the Web. Privacy Badger sends the Do Not Track signal (https://www.eff.org/issues/do-not-track) with your browsing. If trackers ignore your wishes, Privacy Badger for Chrome will learn to block them. [License: | Requires:
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 Apple's software engineers are internally testing iOS 26.6.1, according to the MacRumors visitor logs.
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The people building AI fear progress will soon accelerate violently. Should we believe them?
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If you use a Qi or MagSafe charger, it's important for your phone and the charging speed that you get the right kind of case.
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The President signed two new Executive Orders after the Supreme Court rejected his previous, broader attempt to restrict birthright citizenship.
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The judge ruled that teenagers in the state were in the midst of a mental health crisis and that Meta's platforms were a "significant contributing cause."
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WeatherNext can deliver a 15-day forecast predicting storms' track and intensity.
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Unitree reached a nearly $9 billion IPO valuation as new FCC restrictions on certain foreign-made connected robots reshape the global robotics landscape.
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 It is now August, and that means the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max are just a month away. The devices are expected to look similar to the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max, but there will still be many year-over-year changes, with rumored features including a smaller Dynamic Island, 5G via satellite, and more.
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The ruling is in addition to the $375 million Meta was ordered to pay in the same lawsuit in March.
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 The iPhone 18 Pro, ?iPhone 18 Pro? Max, and foldable "iPhone Ultra" could be in short supply this year, leading to long wait times and an initial sellout during preorders.
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The government watchdog found that billions of dollars in DOGE's public tally could not be verified and that some claimed cuts never happened.
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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket used in the January 2025 Blue Ghost mission has crashed into the lunar surface.
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 Best Buy is still hosting its big Back to School sale this week, with notable markdowns on Apple devices, TVs, headphones, monitors, and much more. This event is set to last for the rest of this week, and you don't need to be a My Best Buy Plus or Total member to see the deals.
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NASA says its PUNCH mission has greatly advanced the prediction of solar storms.
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 Apple Card users now have a new benefit available to them at Booking.com, with users automatically being upgraded to Genius Level 2 after completing just one eligible stay or car rental rather than the usual standard of five bookings within a two-year period.
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 Apple today released a fourth version of the beta firmware it is testing for the AirPods Pro 2, AirPods Pro 3, AirPods 4, and AirPods Max 2. The firmware is available for developers and has a build number of 9A5336b.
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The Trump administration has struggled over how to approach to "open source" models, which are freely available to download and favored by Chinese companies.
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The security suite's new Student Protection Program covers three devices for eligible students at US universities.
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 We're a little more than a month away from the September iPhone debut season, but there's still lots to talk about in the Apple universe, led this week by the launch of the new Apple Upgrade program in the United States.
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NEW RESOURCES New York City: Mayor Mamdani Launches LIFT Tracker to Build Affordable Housing on City-owned Land. "The tracker maps more than 100 City-owned sites across the five boroughs that will deliver […]
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As newspapers move online, the buildings that once housed their printing presses need new occupants.
The Minnesota Star Tribune has just sold its old printing plant on the edge of Minneapolis to the aptly named property developer Legacy Investing, which plans to create a new data center there. has found the ideal way to bring them back to life.
This is the second such move by Legacy. It has already bought a building in downtown Minneapolis that it has transformed into a data center for artificial intelligence and cloud computing.
These old buildings, already connected to power, are an attractive option for developers — especially with some grid operators threatening power cuts for new-build data centers during power shortages.
Legacy is taking a small-is-beautiful approach rather than replicating the massive data centers being built for Big Tech firms. Those are the size of small towns and consume huge volumes of water and hundreds of megawatts of power, while the capacity of Legacy's downtown building is about 30 MW, and it expects the Star Tribune site to host around 20 MW
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You can now buy panels that plug into electrical outlets, but there are some important safety issues to consider when picking and installing a system.
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A foldable iPhone could be coming soon, but CNET readers would make other changes instead.
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 Apple didn't want to raise its prices but was forced to do so because of exponential increases in memory costs, Apple CEO Tim Cook said today during the company's Q3 2026 earnings call. Apple increased prices for Macs and iPads in June because memory prices have surged.
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 This tiny house isn't intended for full-time small living. Instead, it's a modular home that provides a simple stripped-down retreat, focusing on the basics needed for use as a guesthouse or for a short escape.
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AI PROBLEMS University of Waterloo: Hidden risks in AI data centres spark new battery safety research. "As artificial intelligence (AI) drives a global surge in data centres in Canada and around the […]
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A US federal court has approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement in a class-action lawsuit in which authors accused the AI company of using their books without permission to train the AI model Claude. This is the largest such settlement to date in a US copyright case, according to Reuters.
The dispute is one of several legal cases in which copyright holders sued AI companies over how large language models (LLMs) were trained, and it is the first major AI-related copyright dispute in the US to be resolved through a settlement.
A judge had previously ruled that the actual training of AI models using books falls under the "fair use" doctrine in US copyright law. But Anthropic was found to have violated the law by storing more than 7 million pirated books in a central library, regardless of whether they were later used for AI training or not.
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ANTI-AI ACTIVISM Reuters: Data center opponents stage 142 protests across 42 US states. "Opponents of the rapid buildout of data centers held ?142 protests across 42 states on Saturday in the first […]
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AI PROBLEMS Tane Piper: The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death are a Failure Mode. "On the 29th June 2026 - if you searched for Jim Carrey on Google, you would have been […]
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Claims by a billionaire TV star and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum that China and overseas propaganda drive American protests against data centers are based on scant evidence.
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New research shows that despite losing limbs, some lizards are able to thrive.
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Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) shareholders on Tuesday asked a judge to find that Elon Musk forced the company's board of directors into a deal for SolarCity in 2016 and wanted the CEO convicted, the electric vehicle maker one of the largest judgments in history paid $13 billion.
"This case was always about whether the acquisition of SolarCity was a bailout from financial troubles, a bailout orchestrated by Elon Musk," said Randy Baron, a shareholders' attorney, at the Zoom hearing.
The closing arguments listed the key findings of a 10-d
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 SpaceX revealed Monday that Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa will be its first space tourist.
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