According to sources speaking with UK newspaper The Times, foreign operatives from China and Russia are increasingly using "sex warfare" to target American tech professionals. The tactic involves sending attractive women to seduce employees, gain access to trade secrets, and sometimes even marry and have children with their targets. Read...
Bethesda confirms Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition, Switch version coming in 2026
Fallout 4 touched down on November 10, 2015, and wasted little time in taking home hardware. The game won top honors at the 19th annual DICE Awards and Game of the Year at the Bafta awards a couple of months later. Not content to rest on their laurels, Bethesda released......
Nike’s Project Amplify is the first powered footwear catering to everyday athletes
Nike is introducing Project Amplify after years of testing in collaboration with its robotics partner Dephy and hundreds of athletes. Now, the US apparel giant wants to bring this innovative footwear system to market as a consumer product, something that everyday people – not just elite – athletes can buy......
Trump pardons Binance founder Changpeng Zhao in shift for US crypto policy
President Donald Trump has granted a full pardon to Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, bringing to a close one of the most closely watched legal battles in the cryptocurrency industry. The decision overturns Zhao's 2023 conviction for violating US anti – money-laundering and sanctions laws. It follows months of......
Meta openly links fresh layoffs to AI-driven automation
Michel Protti, Meta's chief privacy and compliance officer for product, has informed members of Meta's Risk Organization that they are moving away from manual reviews to more automated processes, reports Business Insider. Read Entire Article
Microsoft revives Clippy with Copilot’s “Mico”
Microsoft has released major updates to its Copilot digital assistant that include the introduction of Mico, an animated avatar that gives the AI a human touch by reacting with real-time expressions during voice interactions. Read Entire Article
Apple hit with $2 billion payout in record UK class-action ruling
The United Kingdom's Competition Appeal Tribunal ruled that Apple abused its dominant position by imposing onerous commission fees on app developers, passing unnecessary costs onto consumers. As a result of the country's first mass-action lawsuit, the tech giant must pay up to £1.5 billion ($2.01 billion US). Read Entire Article
Google Skills packs 3,000 tech courses into a gamified learning platform
Alphabet recently launched Google Skills, a digital learning platform aimed at building "essential" skills for the digital age. With much of Big Tech focused on monetizing generative AI services, the platform includes an extensive collection of AI-focused courses – but users can also choose from a wide variety of other...
Software is the next battleground in the US-China tech war
The proposed curbs would apply to a wide range of consumer and industrial products, from laptops to jet engines powered by software from American companies. The news comes ahead of a critical round of trade negotiations between the two countries in Malaysia later this week. Read Entire Article
Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot automatically captures screenshots, but you can turn it off
Microsoft appears to be capturing large numbers of screenshots through Gaming Copilot, extracting text from them, and using the data to further train its AI models. A user recently discovered a potential breach of both privacy and trust related to the Copilot tool, which is now automatically installed on Windows......