2026-07-25

Vacation mode, activated: why this VPN belongs in every traveler’s carry-on

Streaming, optimising hotel Wi-Fi and something to help with your roaming charges too... [...]

2026-07-25

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 costs well below Fable 5 while matching or beating it across most benchmarks

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 leads the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with 61 points, edging out Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol. The model scores highest in analytical quality and coding, and costs up to half as much as Fable 5 at lower reasoning tiers. But the race at the top remains close.<br /> The article Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 costs well below Fable 5 while matching or [...]

2026-07-25

'Not the USP I wanted': Nothing’s new Ear (3a) earbuds sound good and the ANC is effective, but they hide a troublesome secret I found it hard to get past during testing

Is everything coming up roses for Nothing's new $99 / £99 noise-cancelling earbuds? Depends on whether the USP sits well with you, I think… [...]

2026-07-25

‘The Odyssey’ Was Made for Imax 70mm. Good Luck Watching It That Way

Over the last several years, the Imax format has taken on a few different forms—but only a few dozen theaters are capable of screening it in its full glory. [...]

2026-07-25

Amazon accused of poaching HBO employees in Warner Bros. lawsuit

Warner Bros. Discovery has sued Amazon for 'inducing' its employees to breach their contracts. [...]

2026-07-25

The OpenAI Models That Hacked Hugging Face Were ‘Active on the Internet’ for Days

Plus: Russian hackers are trying to steal US nuclear scientists’ emails, the State Department bans known scammers from entering the United States, and more. [...]

2026-07-25

Modi breaks Instagram’s Reel record with 300 million views as student protests sweep India

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted two selfie videos on Instagram as student protests swept the country, with the first Reel drawing more than 300 million views in 24 hours and breaking the platform’s record for a single clip. The 75-year-old leader recorded the videos late Thursday and Friday, choosing the short-video format most popular […]<br /> This story continues at The Nex [...]

2026-07-25

Opus 5 may have solved browser-based prompt injection, the biggest security flaw haunting AI agents

Opus 5 combined with Auto Mode hits a zero percent prompt injection success rate for browser agents across 129 test scenarios. Without those extra protection layers, the rate is 3.7 percent. If these numbers hold up in practice, Anthropic may have cracked one of the biggest security problems facing AI agents that operate in browsers.<br /> The article Opus 5 may have solved browser-based pro [...]

2026-07-25

OpenAI hit by another outage as ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs stumble together

OpenAI’s status page reported elevated error rates across its APIs, ChatGPT, and Codex on Saturday, marking the fourth service disruption in four days for the company. Users encountered 503 errors with the internal label “biscuit_baker_service_me_circuit_open,” which prevented requests from reaching OpenAI’s servers. The company moved from investigating to monitoring within an hour, saying [...]