Elon Musk is eyeing an acquisition of Mesh Optical Technologies, a startup founded by three former SpaceX engineers last year developing hardware for fast data center communications. The potential acquisition, which was revealed in a Federal Trade Commission filing and first reported by Bloomberg, confirmed the agency expedited its antitrust review. Mesh Optical came out…
Illumination has multiple reasons to celebrate, with the success of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie and a new Minions movie on the way. However, its hit 2023 animated film Migration is now the reason for a lawsuit. The studio and Migration screenwriter Mike White (The White Lotus) have been sued by Kenneth Giavara, a screenwriter,…
On Wednesday, Chinese cybersecurity firm 360 reportedly unveiled Tulongfeng, an AI tool it says can go head-to-head with Anthropic’s Mythos. That’s the cybersecurity-focused AI model that is reportedly so powerful, the Trump Administration has currently banned it and its more restricted version, Fable 5, from the hands of non-Americans. Earlier the same week Sakana AI,…
I do love me an odd little immersive sim I do. There’s just something special about the flexibility in them, so my ears always perk up like a dog hearing the word walkies whenever a new one enters the scene. Today, it’s Bloodwoven, the next game from the devs behind Blood West (guess they…
This will impact Home Assistant users and those who rely on similar third-party tools. Samsung just announced it’s going to start charging for SmartThings API access, which is the company’s smart home automation platform. Most of these changes impact software developers and other commercial partners, but there is a way this could hit regular users…
I’ve spent years stressing about my phone’s battery health, and the worst part was that most of the damage came from a habit I thought was harmless. Plugging in before bed and leaving it overnight was slowly cooking my battery, and no software setting I tried fixed it for good. I’d mostly made peace with…
Limoncello promptly replied: “My apologies; but I don’t have any more information to share on this topic.” With that, the discussion and Kilpatrick’s inquiry were over. The Lendacky comment in 2020 Kilpatrick referred to came in this thread discussing encryption features available in AMD CPUs. Lendacky said that the Ryzen 3700x, a consumer CPU, “should…
President Donald Trump, alongside Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks to the press on the way to a lunch meeting with Senate Republicans at the Capitol in Washington, June 24, 2026. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump is turning a series of would-be Republican wins into political headaches for his…
As someone who covers AI tools every single day, I’m at a funny point where I can rule out AI subscriptions as a business expense. However, if you’ve been keeping up with subscriptions and usage limits, you’re likely well aware that the $20 tier that once got you practically unlimited usage no longer cuts it….
