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I read Careless People, the Meta tell-all — and it made me want the chapter Sarah Wynn-Williams couldn’t write

Reading Careless People helped me understand how Facebook’s internal culture may have allowed Mark Zuckerberg’s strange metaverse obsession to become Meta’s defining idea.

The PocketMage resurrects the PDA with an e-paper screen

Personal digital assistants like the iconic Palm Pilot were one of many devices we thought went extinct with the arrival of the smartphone. But similar to Canon resurrecting a nearly decade-old digital camera to appeal to point-and-shoot fans, Talisman Design is crowdfunding a clamshell PDA called t...

Lenovo’s Ryzen 7 IdeaPad Slim 3 touchscreen laptop is a $655 back-to-school and WFH steal with a $345 price cut at Best Buy right now

With Ryzen 7 chip, 16GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 512GB SSD, this laptop is an easy recommendation from me for students and remote workers.

Japanese telco giant KDDI says 12 million emails exposed in major cyberattack

Five KDDI clients were also affected when a threat actor exploited a vulnerability in third-party software.

Nintendo's iOS and Android racer Mario Kart Tour will shut down later this year, with no offline mode planned

Nintendo has announced that the servers for Mario Kart Tour will be shut down later this year.

Comcast is breaking up with NBCU. Why did it ever buy it in the first place?

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Peter Kafka, who is chief correspondent at Business Insider and host of Channels, a podcast about the media industry. And it’s a big week for the media industry — Comcast just announced that it’s splitting itself up, into the Comcast broadband company and the NBCUn...

Meta says its new AI model is ready to compete on coding

After reentering the AI race with its first in-house Muse Spark model in April, Meta is now opening up the doors to developers with a new model that can plug into AI coding software with the new Meta Model API. Meta says that Muse Spark 1.1 is a "step-change" from the first generation, with improvem...

Sony RX10 V vs Sony Cyber-shot RX10 IV: I love this classic wildlife camera’s upgrades after a nine-year wait, but there’s one big drawback

Sony just revived its RX10 series of superzoom cameras, and made wildlife photography more accessible again — here’s how the new RX10 V compares to the RX10 IV.

I took over 1,000 shots with the Sony RX10 V across my kid’s sports day, a bird photography trip and more – here’s how Sony’s surprise new superzoom performed

Sony revives its bridge camera range with a surprise addition, and I predict it'll be a popular all-in-one camera.

Sony brings back the superzoom RX10 with a stacked sensor and a high price

Sony is bringing back the RX10 superzoom camera after a nearly nine-year gap between models. The newly announced RX10 V retains the same 24-600mm equivalent f/2.4-4 Zeiss Vario-Sonnar 25x zoom lens of its last two predecessors, but it has lots of upgrades elsewhere. The new 20.1-megapixel 1-inch-typ...

A Majority of European Lawmakers Voted Against Letting Big Tech Read Our Messages. They’re Going to Anyway

Companies will once again be allowed to scan citizens’ personal texts, emails, and social media messages via the “Chat Control” bill to find child abuse material online.

ICE agents are making house calls for online critics

A few hours after checking into a hotel in New York City, David Streever woke up to a call from the front desk saying someone was looking for him. Streever had just landed on a return trip from Finland, where he'd vacationed with his daughter. Though Streever didn't know it yet, while he'd been away...

Slate’s Gray $25,000 Truck Just Got a Crayola Makeover

The Bezos-backed automaker building America’s cheapest electric truck is teaming up with the crayon company in a bid to brighten its rides. Make ours Razzmatazz.

Free Waymo rides in California? You can thank a regulatory quirk.

State agency's delay could mean free robotaxi rides in company’s new Ojai vehicle for a few months.

Say hello to Claude Wrapped

The popularity of Spotify Wrapped has kicked off a wide range of year-in-review features, on apps from YouTube to Uber - and now, the lookback trend has come to AI. Anthropic on Thursday announced a "reflect" feature for its Claude chatbot, allowing users to see an analysis of their usage data over...

Character.AI wants a piece of the microdrama pie

Character.AI's plan to become more than just an LLM-powered chatbot platform is going beyond interactive books, comics, and audio dramas. Today, the company announced the debut of c.ai Series - short-form, episodic videos designed to be watched and interacted with - on your phone. Unlike traditional...

The newest entrant in the military’s launch competition isn't actually a launch company

"I think it's fair to say that Phase 3 did not contemplate this."

Insurance company AssuranceAmerica exposes 6.9 million drivers following major data breach — here's what we know

No one has claimed responsibility for AssuranceAmerica attack yet.

GPT-5.6 is now the preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Learn how GPT-5.6 powers Microsoft 365 Copilot with stronger AI capabilities across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat, and Cowork for faster, higher-quality work.

Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users

Benchmark-backed Ollama has amassed 176,000 stars, and nearly 17,000 forks on Github by helping developers easily run AI on their PCs.

Character.ai enters the microdrama arena with its own productions, but there’s a twist

In an interesting twist that takes advantage of the company's core product, users can chat with these shows' characters, ask them questions, and even roleplay different storylines.

The Alienware AW3426DW is easily the best 34-inch ultrawide OLED I've ever used, and it's made me want to abandon my 45-inch monitor

The Alienware AW3426DW QD-OLED is the best 34-inch ultrawide I've ever used, hands down, and an easy choice for any gamer seeking greater immersion.

NordVPN expands scam text protection to all Android users worldwide

NordVPN has rolled out Message Protection to Android users worldwide, screening incoming SMS for scams and joining Call Protection in one unified screen.

FL Studio 2026 turns its AI chatbot into your assistant engineer

Last year, Image Line introduced Gopher for FL Studio, an AI chatbot that was basically a glorified instruction manual. You asked it how to do something, and it would serve up the relevant instructions. It's the kind of thing I actually use AI for on a semi-regular basis. But in the new release, Gop...

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Major second-hand retailer warns loss of physical PlayStation games will mean higher prices for consumers and 'fewer opportunities to shop around'

A major UK second hand retailer warns loss of physical PlayStation games will mean higher prices for shoppers.

‘The gap between AI ambition and infrastructure reality is widening’ Google Cloud report finds 83% of organizations must overhaul their infrastructure in order to maximize the agentic AI opportunity

Businesses are struggling to integrate agentic AI effectively, but Google's recommendations can help improve efficiency and reduce costs when implementing AI initiatives.

The EU AI Act deadline has moved, but data lineage can’t wait

Despite moving deadlines, data lineage remains crucial for AI initiatives.

Got ChatGPT’s new voice mode? Here's how to check — and 5 things you should try first

All ChatGPT users are getting access to the new AI voice model, and there's plenty you can do with it.

The Download: a nuclear landmark, and China eyes Nvidia chips

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Four nuclear reactors hit a big milestone in the US —Casey Crownhart I was really looking forward to July 4, and not just because I love a poolside barbecue. This...