Wired
As prediction market platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi battle regulators in court, Senate Democrats are urging the CFTC to avoid weighing in, escalating a broader fight over the burgeoning industry. more…
Wired
Attorney General Raúl Torrez is accusing the tech giant of failing to protect minors on Facebook and Instagram. more…
The Verge
New York's state legislature is set to consider a pair of bills that would require labels on AI-generated content and would put a three-year pause on new data center construction. The New York Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Requirements in News Act (NY F… more…
The Verge
This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. The VR industry has been on edge since Meta's massive job cuts earlier this year: One exec cal… more…
The Verge
Thirty years ago today, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a bill credited with creating the groundwork for the modern internet, became law and set off a chain of events that would make it a lightning rod for the techlash. The statute has survived… more…
The Verge
Microsoft is automatically replacing boot-level security certificates on Windows devices before they start expiring later this year. The new Secure Boot certificates will be rolled out as part of the regular Windows platform updates, according to Microsoft's … more…
The Verge
Live Nation executives have reportedly sidestepped the Justice Department's antitrust division to negotiate directly with more sympathetic senior officials in the hopes of avoiding a monopoly trial. Citing "people familiar with the matter," Semafor reports th… more…
The Verge
You can watch Ring's recent Super Bowl ad and see a cute story about dogs being reunited with their families. You can also watch the very same ad and see the seeds being planted for a massively connected, utterly ubiquitous surveillance system that will end t… more…
The Verge
Robert Playter, CEO of Boston Dynamics, announced on Tuesday that he is stepping down from his role effective immediately and leaving the company on February 27th, as previously reported by A3. Under Playter's leadership, Boston Dynamics navigated its way thr… more…
The Verge
In a style that feels nostalgic and nascent, Bree O'Donnell is crafting her singular vision of a 3D witch named Mary. Through the tiny window of short clips on Instagram and TikTok, Mary's world seems enchanting and vast. Bree's work exudes melancholic emotio… more…
The Verge
In between hobnobbing with royalty and world leaders and abusing children and young women, Jeffrey Epstein appears to have been googling himself regularly. Across several batches of documents related to the convicted sex offender made public, we see Epstein s… more…
The Verge
On October 24th, 2011, Jeffrey Epstein was emailing back and forth with Boris Nikolic, a biotech venture capitalist who would later be named as a backup executor of Epstein's will. The two appeared to be discussing a meeting Nikolic had helped arrange between… more…
The Verge
Today, we’re going to talk about the role AI might play in deciding legal disputes. Not just drafting memos and doing research — actually deciding who’s right and who’s wrong, and who should pay. My guest today is Bridget McCormack, the former chief justice f… more…
The Verge
Today, I’m talking with Roland Busch, who is the CEO of Siemens. Siemens is one of those absolutely giant, extremely important, but fairly opaque companies we love to dig into on Decoder. At a very basic, reductive level, Siemens makes the hardware and softwa… more…
Gizmodo.com
Now, Ford CEO is looking to see how China will "change the game." more…
Gizmodo.com
For the dubious tech of the last decade, one door closes and another one opens. more…
Gizmodo.com
While it's no replacement for either computer, the new device is a powerful alternative for addressing some very practical challenges. more…
Gizmodo.com
It's seemingly part of the elaborate marketing plan for a government-backed competitor called Max. more…
Gizmodo.com
The lawsuit is the latest in an escalating feud between the Danish pharmaceutical and telehealth company. more…
Gizmodo.com
Moral clarity through extreme vagueposting. more…
Gizmodo.com
Long live Google. Your pension might depend on it. more…
Gizmodo.com
Sony's Hawk-Eye tech is an impressive feat of camera technology that changed the NFL this year, but there's still one thing fans and football commentators are begging for. more…
BBC News
The restaurant industry says it is facing a double whammy - rising costs and customers with less money. more…
Android Central
Fairphone’s 83.7% growth shows that as phones get pricier and weaker, more users are choosing repairable, long-lasting devices. more…
Android Central
Samsung might finally ditch software tricks for a real mechanical camera on the Galaxy S26 Ultra, giving us the professional hardware control. more…
Android Central
Nothing's most recent over-ear headphones have been a hit, but is there room for a third contender? A leak suggests Nothing thinks there is, but I'm not so sure. more…
"I shipped more code last quarter than any quarter in my career," wrote Siddhant Khare. "I also felt more drained than any quarter in my career." more…
Harvey is one of best-known players in legal tech. Now, the $8 billion startup has hired its first chief product officer to help defend its lead. more…
With guidance from veterinarians, we chose the best dog foods for puppies, adults, and seniors. Our top picks include wet and dry options. more…
NPR
The Trump administration pushed for price transparency in health care. But instead of patients shopping for services, it's mostly health systems and insurers using the information for negotiations. more…
NPR
The Environmental Protection Agency is eliminating a Clean Air Act finding from 2009 that is the basis for much of the federal government's actions to rein in climate change. more…
NPR
Trucks have been stuck at the closed border since October. Both countries are facing economic losses with no end in sight. The Taliban also banned all Pakistani pharmaceutical imports to Afghanistan. more…
NPR
U.S. employers added 130,000 jobs in January as the unemployment rate dipped to 4.3% from 4.4% in December. Annual revisions show that job growth last year was far weaker than initially reported. more…
NPR
Power companies say they're better prepared for extreme weather, but challenges remain to electricity production as the state's demand grows more…
NPR
They're often paid low wages and lack job protections. A petition to the country's supreme court to support their demands did not see success — and they are protesting. more…
Slashdot.org
"How Chinese is your car?" asks the Wall Street Journal. "Automakers are racing to work it out." Modern cars are packed with internet-connected widgets, many of them containing Chinese technology. Now, the car industry is scrambling to root out that tech ah… more…
Slashdot.org
An anonymous reader shares a report: An Anthropic safety researcher quit, saying the "world is in peril" in part over AI advances. Mrinank Sharma said the safety team "constantly [faces] pressures to set aside what matters most," citing concerns about bioterr… more…
Slashdot.org
Reports of the compact disc's death may have been slightly premature, according to a new analysis from Stat Significant that finds CD sales as a share of U.S. music industry revenue have quietly stabilized after years of steep decline. RIAA data shows CD reve… more…
Slashdot.org
An anonymous reader shares a report: The most seductive narrative in American work culture right now isn't that AI will take your job. It's that AI will save you from it. That's the version the industry has spent the last three years selling to millions of ne… more…
Slashdot.org
It's the first "AI" Super Bowl, argues the tech/business writer at Slate, with AI company advertisements taking center stage, even while consumers insist to surveyors that they're "mostly negative" about AI-generated ads. Last year AI companies spent over $… more…
Slashdot.org
Fortune reports on "a watershed moment" in American's nuclear power industry: In January, Meta partnered with Gates' TerraPower and Sam Altman-backed Oklo to develop about 4 gigawatts of combined SMR projects — enough to power almost 3 million homes — for "… more…
Failing isn't the problem in the business world these days. Doing it too slow is. more…
EY's global engineering chief, Steve Newman, says a "handful of agents" do the heavy lifting at the consulting firm. more…
Marc Benioff's ICE-related quip at a Salesforce event has angered his employees at a time the company is already dealing with tension over its future. more…
In this Sunday edition of Business Insider Today, we're talking about what AI means for the future of the software business. more…
Dan Ives says Wall Street is underestimating software's role in the AI boom, calling the skepticism "disconnected." more…
OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger said specialized AI, not AGI or LLMs, is a better future for the technology. more…
Two AI researchers said the 996 work culture, which is gaining traction in Silicon Valley, can lead to burnout for tech workers. more…
In leaked comments, CEO Antonio Filosa told Stellantis employees he was inspired by full-time office culture during a recent trip to San Francisco. more…
A new command-and-control system is expected to make planning and decision-making faster and easier. more…
Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft's AI chief, says AI can automate white-collar jobs within 12-18 months, as tech reaches human-level performance in tasks. more…
Kevin Hart transformed his fitness with sprinting, HIIT, and full-body exercises like cleans and presses to keep fit in his 40s, his trainer said. more…
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said there are three big traits the people "who are wildly successful" in tech all share. more…
OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy says 'agentic engineering is the next evolution in AI coding as vibe-coding marks its first anniversary. more…
Dell is removing all commission-based pay for sellers who achieve less than 60% of their sales targets, an internal presentation shows. more…
Protein expert Stuart Phillips says you may be overdoing it on protein-forward ultra-processed foods. more…
Trump's Department of Education emailed a group of student-loan borrowers who reached their payment threshold under income-driven repayment plans. more…
Russian authorities said two major airlines were flying one-way flights out of Cuba, as the Trump administration pressures the island's oil supply. more…
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth said that cuts to the company's VR effort were "a real loss," but that Meta's investment had to match segment growth. more…
Chappell Roan is leaving Wasserman agency. CEO Casey Wasserman appeared in the Epstein files in emails he exchanged with Ghislaine Maxwell. more…
At a financial services conference in Miami, David Solomon cited a backlog of private equity spending and AI as key capital-generating drivers. more…
Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter told staff on Tuesday that he'll be stepping down from the company. He first joined Boston Dynamics in 1994. more…
Andrew Athias said his job at the halftime show was really easy: "Don't move. Stand here and be one with the grass." more…
Private equity's years-long waiting game has sparked a $240 billion race on Wall Street. Inside the battle between banks to dominate in secondaries. more…
The sharpest minds in business and tech are responding to a viral essay on AI's impact on jobs with some approval and a lot of skepticism. more…
Mercor found AI agents failed at most consulting tasks, but its CEO says the models are improving so rapidly consultants should be worried. more…
Amazon, Microsoft, and Google raised capex plans to breathtaking new levels. That suggests knowledge that outsiders don't have, Bernard Golden writes. more…
A new crash course is teaching Marines the ins and outs of drone warfare, from navigation in flight to explosive payloads. more…
Ford once predicted it would sell 150,000 electric pickups each year. Instead, it recorded another multi-billion-dollar loss in 2025. more…
Ironclad doesn't buy into "CLM is dead" claims, with its CEO saying the company hit $200 million in annual recurring revenue. more…
The US Army wants AI to help streamline some of its most tedious tasks for recruiters and logisticians. more…
TikTok dances won't make you an A-list celebrity anymore. But niche content creators make substantial incomes and are having a moment. more…
Goldman Sach's Kathy Ruemmler, Paul Weiss's Brad Karp, and Prince Andrew's ex-wife Sarah Ferguson are just some of the people dealing with headaches. more…
Kotaku
Blackfrost: The Long Dark was supposed to enter early access this year, but will no longer more…
Kotaku
Hideo Kojima and more recorded tributes for the icon behind Call of Duty and Titanfall more…
Kotaku
Halo, Splinter Cell, Max Payne, and now God of War are all going backwards with remakes instead of new games more…
Kotaku
Also: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 keeps winning more…
Kotaku
A former artist at Wildlight says Highguard and its team of 'passionate' devs deserved 'better than this' more…
Hackaday
The Core Duo processor from Intel may not have been the first multi-core processor available to consumers, but it was arguably the one that brought it to the masses. Unfortunately, the first Core D… more…
Hackaday
Anyone who has spent any amount of time in or near people who are really interested in energy policies will have heard proclamations such as that ‘baseload is dead’ and the sorting of e… more…
As major energy companies announce plans to move their headquarters from Oklahoma City to Houston, experts say the reasons may have less to do with what... more…
The Virginia Senate on Monday passed a package of five gun violence prevention bills, advancing legislation that would tighten firearm regulations, expand... more…
InsideEVs
Germany is now the world's second-largest producer of electric vehicles, behind China. more…
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's repeal of the foundation for federal climate regulation will immediately free... more…
By Nidhi Verma and Jarrett Renshaw NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The United States has issued a general licence to India's Reliance Industries Ltd... more…
WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Venezuelan interim leader President Delcy Rodriguez said she has been invited to the United States, according an interview... more…
Yahoo Entertainment
"More accessible and appealing." more…
Wall Street is gearing up for an update on the Fed's favored inflation gauge, after the jobs report bolstered the case for keeping rates unchanged. more…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday received the first newly built drone manufactured by a joint German-Ukrainian arms company. Zelensky visited... more…
"Food is and will remain valuable." more…
Yahoo Entertainment
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Tastingtable.com
That Waffle House bacon is being served up with a side of controversy — the meat supplier has been caught up in more than one crisis of ethics. more…
RGTI stock is down 23% YTD after a roadmap reset and soft results, but government deals and a bold 2026-2027 plan keep hopes alive. more…