Apple, Mastercard and Visa's antitrust lawsuit over payments has been dismissed

Apple, Mastercard and Visa have successfully dodged a lawsuit that claimed the companies were colluding to maintain the current status quo in point-of-sale-payment card services, Reuters reports. The [...]

Fan fiction website AO3 is finally coming out of beta

The famous fan fiction website Archive of Our Own or AO3 has finally exited open beta, 17 years after it launched way back in 2009. AO3 is a nonprofit created by the by the Organization for Transforma [...]

Google’s Gemma Open Models Pass 1 Billion Downloads as Variants Top 100K

Google DeepMind's Gemma family of open models has passed one billion cumulative downloads, the company said on August 20, 2026, capping two years in which outside developers published more than 1 [...]

Asus just released new open earbuds... for gaming?

Asus has released the ROG Cetra Open Wireless open gaming earbuds. [...]

Qwen is the world’s most downloaded open model, by a smaller margin than Alibaba says

Alibaba says its Qwen models have passed 3 billion downloads, making them the most used open-weight family in the world. The Hugging Face report published a day earlier counts 2,045 million for Qwen t [...]

How to cancel CyberGhost and get a refund

I came out of my CyberGhost review with a positive opinion, feeling it had earned its spot in my best VPN roundup. However, even an expert review is subjective, and there's a chance CyberGhost wi [...]

Google’s AI Overviews and the Fate of the Open Web

Google’s search results are undergoing a big change. Instead of the familiar list of blue links, many users now see AI-generated summary answers – what Google calls “AI Overviews” – at the t [...]

Alibaba's Qwen takes on Kimi K3 with open-weight Qwen 3.8, says model is "second only to Fable 5"

Alibaba has unveiled Qwen 3.8, a multimodal AI model with 2.4 trillion parameters that the Qwen team says rivals leading models and trails only Fable 5. A preview is available now.<br /> The art [...]

How to record a phone call on an iPhone

With iOS 26, Apple has expanded its native call recording feature with transcripts, Live Translation, summaries and tighter integration with Notes. It’s a more polished and useful tool than before, [...]