Marvel’s Deadpool VR. Meta is laying off about 10 percent of its Reality Labs metaverse division, and the cuts apparently include closing down some of its VR gaming studios. It "appears" Twisted Pixel...
NYSE unveiled a plan on Monday to enable blockchain-based 24/7 trading and instant settlement of stocks and ETFs, in addition to custody features....
What is an Xbox? Microsoft has spent 25 years trying to answer the question, but for fans, the answer is easy: “Xbox” evokes one-eared headsets wired into the memory card slots of massive controllers ...
Al Jazeera's Linh Nguyen explains the increasing relationship between private AI tech firms and militaries....
Hackers disrupted Iranian state television satellite transmissions to air footage supporting the country's exiled crown prince and calling on security forces to not “point your weapons at the people,”...
An Amazon Web Services data center in Ashburn, Virginia, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. | Photo: Getty Images The Trump administration and a bipartisan group of governors are pressuring the PJM Interc...
A recent analyst report has suggested that Sony may push the launch of the PlayStation 6 beyond 2028 and lengthen the PlayStation 5 lifecycle. Ahead of Sony's third quarter financial report due on Feb...
Bethesda’s former Elder Scrolls loremaster has revealed his idea for The Elder Scrolls 6 story, and how it would have set up The Elder Scrolls 7. In an interview with PC Gamer discussing his dissatisf...
Nex Computer runs both Android and this Windows Phone-esque mobile UI that they made in-house. Nex Computer, a company that makes hardware designed to turn your phone into a laptop, is working on some...
OP here. I spent the weekend red-teaming small-scale open weights models (Qwen2.5-1.5B, Qwen3-1.7B, Gemma-3-1b-it, and SmolLM2-1.7B). I found a consistent vulnerability across all of them: Safety alig...
How can people use the internet in authoritarian countries like China, Russia and Iran without revealing their identity? Are there workarounds besides VPNs and proxy servers?...
Hey HN, Lume is an open-source CLI for running macOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon. Since launch ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42908061 ), we've been using it to run AI agents in isolated ma...
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 113, your guide to the best and Verge -iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, please send hot cocoa to my freezing-cold house, and also you can re...
Candidates in pilot assessed on how they prompted consulting firm’s AI assistant and ability to adapt responses...
TikTok finally closed a deal meant to bring it into compliance with the law that should have banned it a year ago, and the lawmakers who passed that law still don't seem to know what's going on . The ...
The White House came under scrutiny for sharing a modified arrest image on X, as the administration pushes tougher limits on manipulated media....
Tesla's robotaxis are not robotaxis in the sense that they're not fully driverless and still feature safety monitors with access to a kill switch in case anything goes wrong. But the automaker is shak...
Anthem , the failed attempt at a live-service game by Mass Effect and Dragon Age developer BioWare, may be officially offline for good , but some people are keeping the dream alive. Anthem publisher E...
The UK is weighing an Australia‑style ban on social media for under‑16s, as regulators ramp up enforcement of the Online Safety Act....
Google AI boss tells FT that despite unsustainable exuberance in the tech sector, ‘if the bubble bursts we will be fine’...