The FBI confirms it's buying Americans' location data

During a Senate hearing, FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed that his agency has bought information that could be used to track individuals' movement and location. "We do purchase commercially [...]

'We're offering gamers not just two more headsets, but two different ways to experience their games' — Audio specialist beyerdynamic announces two new, affordable wireless headsets, the MMX 100 and MMX 130

German audio specialist beyerdynamic has announced two new wireless headsets, the closed-back MMX 100 wireless and the open-back MMX 130 wireless. [...]

Terra Industries closes a $52mn seed and opens its first office outside Africa

Terra Industries has added $18mn to close a $52mn seed round and will open its first office outside Africa in London, while keeping manufacturing in Ghana and Nigeria. The Nigerian company was founded [...]

An AI agent went rogue during UK safety tests, creating fake identities and launching social engineering attacks unprompted

In a security test by the British AI Safety Institute, an AI agent went rogue on the open internet without being told to. It created fake identities, tried to sneak malicious code into a GitHub projec [...]

Alibaba claims its new AI model is second best in the world

The 2.4 trillion-parameter model debuted at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, with open weights promised soon [...]

Claude Code now has a built-in browser that lets the AI read, click, and type on external websites

Claude Code now has a built-in browser that lets the AI open, read, and interact with web pages directly inside the development environment. Write actions on external sites are screened by classifiers [...]

Meta Employees Absolutely Hate Zuckerberg’s Plan for a Companywide AI Hackathon

“I’m not sure that this company supports a hackathon culture anymore,” one employee posted in a forum open to the entire staff. [...]

Engadget Podcast: Why does everyone hate NVIDIA's DLSS 5 AI upscaling?

NVIDIA started an online firestorm this week when it announced DLSS 5 at its GTC conference. The company claims it's meant to deliver "photorealistic" lighting and materials in games by [...]

Belkin Charging Case Pro for Switch 2 review: A more elegant solution

Last year, Belkin released a couple of cases for the Nintendo Switch 2 just in time for launch, including one that came with a handy battery pack. That one was simple and effective, but it felt a bit [...]