Doug Bowser is joining Hasbro's board of directors just weeks after retiring as Nintendo of America's president, according to an announcement on Tuesday . Though Hasbro's press release doesn't provide...
The US just lowered Taiwan's tariffs in exchange for a massive domestic chipmaking promise, the Commerce Department announced on Thursday . Under the deal, tariffs on goods from Taiwan will decrease f...
Lawsuits seeking damages from Google's illegal ad tech monopoly are piling up following the Justice Department's successful antitrust case . Vox Media, The Verge's parent company, is the latest in a w...
Palworld developer Pocketpair has an interesting way of screening job candidates. The Japanese game studio requires those applying for game designer positions to submit screenshots of their Steam libr...
The original HyperX Cloud Mix Buds were nifty gaming earbuds with batteries that could survive 10-hour sessions. For the follow-up HyperX has swapped that juice – they now last just seven hours – for ...
Article URL: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/15/state-department-threatens-uk-over-grok-investigation-because-only-the-us-is-allowed-to-ban-foreign-apps/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it...
Hi HN, I built *Sightline*, a Shodan-style search engine for *physical-world infrastructure*. Shodan makes it easy to explore exposed internet services. Sightline applies the same idea to the real wor...
Ring has launched a new Ring Verify tool that the company says can "verify that Ring videos you receive haven't been edited or changed." But since Ring won't verify videos that have been altered in an...
Ubisoft is making some massive changes to its business: As part of a reorganization , the company will focus its efforts on the big open-world games it's famous for along with live service titles, and...
The Federal Trade Commission will appeal its loss in a landmark antitrust case against Meta, the agency announced Tuesday. US District Court Judge James Boasberg ruled in November that the government ...
OpenAI plans to focus on "practical adoption" of AI in 2026, according to a blog post from CFO Sarah Friar . As the company spends a huge amount of money on infrastructure, OpenAI is working on "closi...
OpenAI is expanding a low-cost subscription tier called ChatGPT Go to the US and the rest of the world. Go was released in India in August and later became available in another 170 countries prior to ...
On Friday morning, X and Grok went offline for users around the world on both the websites and apps. Outage reports began spiking on DownDetector around 10:00AM ET, while Cisco's ThousandEyes outage m...
Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of X owner Elon Musk's children, is suing his company for enabling its AI to virtually strip her down into a bikini without her consent. St. Clair is one of the man...
Naya has already shipped one successful Kickstarter for a weird keyboard. The Naya Create was an ergonomic split deck with four swappable controller addons: a touchpad, a trackball, a rotary encoder, ...
I built an unofficial CLI and MCP server for Lambda cloud GPU instances. The main idea: your AI agents can now spin up and manage Lambda GPUs for you. The MCP server exposes tools to find, launch, and...
For the past year I've been working to rethink how AI manages timing in conversation at Tavus. I've spent a lot of time listening to conversations. Today we're announcing the release of Sparrow-1, the...
Parents can now manually set a time limit on their kids' YouTube Shorts feed, ranging from fifteen minutes to two hours (with an option for zero minutes coming soon). The update, announced on Wednesda...
Simon Sung, the CEO of Samsung Electronics Europe. Samsung Electronics Samsung has a very different AI strategy from the likes of OpenAI. The company develops AI for consumer products like kitchen app...
We figured out how to turn protein function on and off, with magnetic fields from small handheld magnets. More context here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00204-9 Comments URL: https://ne...