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Anthropic tells Claude Code to stop recreating existing video games
Claude might soon stop being one of the best AI tools for decompiling and recompiling existing games. According to Anthropic programmer Addy Osmani, the model behind the company's vibe-coding service will now avoid user prompts that request recreations of someone else's video…
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Vizio smart TVs are ignoring tracking opt-outs, continue to send data even when sitting idle
For the study, researchers at Northeastern University tested 12 smart TVs from 10 manufacturers. Together, those sets run the eight operating systems behind roughly 95% of US smart TVs. Every viewing scenario – antenna, HDMI, streaming apps and more – ran 30 times with automatic…
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Borderlands is now a 100 million-copy franchise, and Gearbox isn't done yet
Gearbox launched Borderlands 4 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Windows PCs on September 12, 2025. Like others in the series, it is playable solo or with up to three others. Gamers have enjoyed a solid first year of post-launch add-on content including two story packs,…
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What does "Wi-Fi" stand for?
What do the letters in "Wi-Fi" stand for? Don't Google it. Read Entire Article
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Dating in Silicon Valley now involves spreadsheets, AI analysis, and $5,000-a-month relationship coaches
The industry's boom has drawn a wave of young, ambitious founders and engineers to San Francisco. Many say they date less because they work more, and when they do date, they treat it as a high-stakes decision. A first coffee can start to feel like a final-round interview. Read…
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Pope Leo XIV urges governments to ban lethal AI weapons, says tech must be used for common good
The pope also made the Catholic Church's position clear on the debate over whether AI systems should be granted rights or legal personhood, saying the Vatican sees machines as tools, not sentient beings with a claim to legal rights of their own. AI is developed by human beings,…
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Board makers are running out of GeForce RTX 50 GPUs, so distributors are pushing old RTX 3060s instead
Chinese supply chain outlet ChannelGate first reported the shift. According to the outlet, some manufacturers have already run out of RTX 50 stock. The ones that haven't are reportedly shipping what's left in small batches at higher prices. Read Entire Article
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Squarespace cuts 19% of jobs, CEO admits the technology behind its business has changed enormously
Squarespace founder Anthony Casalena said in a memo announcing the cuts that the company needed smaller teams, more player-coaches, and a simplified organizational structure. About 300 workers will be let go, with the product and engineering teams most affected. Read Entire…
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AMD's Zen 7 "Grimlock" APUs with RDNA 5+ graphics may not arrive until 2029
Prominent leaker Kepler_L2 recently claimed that AMD APUs featuring "RDNA 5+" iGPUs and Zen 7 CPU cores will be available in early 2029. The statement amounts to some of the earliest concrete information about Zen 7 chips for consumer devices. Read Entire Article
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Reddit tells Australian court it isn't a social media site, calls the country's under-16 ban "ill thought out" and "inept"
Australia passed its under-16 social media law in 2024, and the restrictions took effect on December 10, 2025, making it the first country to introduce a ban that has since spread around the world. Read Entire Article
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CentOS co-founder creates a Linux-compatible kernel in just 11 days, with AI doing almost all the coding
Kurtzer unveiled the kernel, Ginux, on X last week. The code is on GitHub, too, under the Apache 2.0 license. As for the name, it blends Linux, GPT, and Greg. The README jokes that to keep its author's ego in check, the G officially stands for GPT. Read Entire Article
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Anthropic's IPO filing reveals $1.7 billion quarterly personnel bill, averaging $107,000 per employee monthly
The filing, spotted by Business Insider, shows that Anthropic recorded more than $1.7 billion in personnel expenses from July through to September. With 5,300 people working at the company, that works out at over $322,000 per person over the three-month span, or about $107,300…
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Refrigerator cyberattack spreads to many European countries, spoiling food worth thousands
A cyberattack on internet-connected refrigeration systems ruined food at grocery stores in at least seven European countries on Monday, with one Belgian Delhaize store estimating its losses at €100,000. The attack mirrors the one that hit French grocers in mid-October, exposing…
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Most users can now upgrade to Windows 11 26H2, even from Windows 10
Microsoft recently updated its official guidance on installing the latest version of Windows 11. Windows 11, version 26H2 is now available to all eligible devices, including those running the 25H2 and 24H2 releases and, well, most everything else a reasonably modern PC can run.…
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The 22GB GeForce RTX 2080 Ti mod is a fix for a problem most gamers don't have
When PC Games Hardware tested a 22GB card lent by a reader, it went looking for trouble on purpose. The outlet picked nine of the most memory-hungry games it knows and maxed them out. It also acknowledges that nearly every game it left out runs fine on the stock 11GB,... Read…
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Forget hobby drones: College student builds 491 mph jet-powered speed demon
Salvo said that the Reaper project was conceived, designed, and assembled in his college dorm room, and that he has been working on it since last February. He claims to have built three working prototypes, each capable of sustaining the claimed 491 mph (790 km/h) speed for four…
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NASA's Swift Space Telescope is set to crash back to Earth this week
The Swift Observatory could plunge back to Earth as early as this Friday, US authorities said. The telescope is expected to undergo an uncontrolled reentry after NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies tried – and failed – to correct the spacecraft's orbit using a robotic device in…
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Android 11 has 10 times more users than Google's latest version
According to the latest Android distribution figures, Android 17 – the latest version of the mobile OS – is installed on just 0.9% of devices worldwide. Android 16 owns the lion's share of distribution at 25.4%, followed by Android 15 with a 14.7% stake. Android 13, which…
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Apple is warning iPhone users in 110 countries about mercenary spyware
The spyware attacks were first reported on October 30 by cybersecurity researcher Costin Raiu, who noted that they were unrelated to the previous round of incidents, for which Apple issued alerts in August. According to Raiu, iPhone users in 99 countries, including several…
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Intel's long-lost Larrabee GPU turns up in storage unit with working drivers, and yes, it can run Crysis
A Reddit user bought the contents of a storage unit at auction and ended up with what looked like an old Intel desktop. Inside was a development machine labeled "Intel Visual Adrenaline," containing an Intel DX58SO motherboard, a working Larrabee prototype and a separate…