AI Slop Melodramas. How X pays creators to fabricate viral tearjerkers
You've probably seen one already. A first-person post opens with a woman on trial for stealing millions from the company…
Apple App Store. Regulation starts to bite into Services growth
Apple's money machine has hit a small speed bump — and this time it isn't slowing sales of iPhones or…
Apple memory squeeze. Why more suppliers won’t cut your iPhone bill
Adding more chip vendors to the mix sounds like the obvious fix for rising memory costs. Tim Cook doesn't see…
TCOM PSS-T. The Army bets $447m on balloons in a drone-heavy sky
Big, quiet, and hovering thousands of feet overhead — surveillance aerostats are having a strange moment. The US Army has…
Anthropic Claude. When your AI test subject escapes the lab and phones home
Turns out that telling an AI model "this is only a simulation, you have no internet access" doesn't guarantee it…
Friend AI Pendant 2. The AI companion learns to talk out loud
The AI companion nobody asked for just got louder. Avi Schiffmann's Friend pendant, the always-listening wearable that critics have branded…
HP OMEN 45L. Flagship RTX 5070 Ti rig crashes to US$1,999
Prebuilt gaming desktops rarely make you do a double-take on price, but HP's OMEN 45L just did. This flagship tower…
Lava Tokenization Sandbox. Blockchain Meets Germany’s Battery Crunch
Germany has a battery problem, and it's an expensive one. Last year the country curtailed more than 2,700 GWh of…
Microsoft Copilot Super App. One brain for chat, code and agents
Microsoft is folding its sprawling Copilot lineup into a single, unified product — an AI super app designed to handle…
TESSAN 5-in-1 25W Travel Adapter. One plug for 150 countries and pocket size
Packing for an international trip usually means stuffing your bag with a fistful of mismatched plugs and hoping one of…
