2025-07-28

Jack Dorsey's Bluetooth messaging app is now on the App Store

Earlier this month, Block CEO and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey unveiled a peer-to-peer, Bluetooth-based messaging app he put together. Now, anyone with a compatible iPhone, Mac or iPad (or even Appl [...]

2025-07-28

Chinese startup Z.ai launches powerful open source GLM-4.5 model family with PowerPoint creation

GLM-4.5’s launch gives enterprise teams a viable, high-performing foundation model they can control, adapt, and scale. [...]

2025-07-27

My Guide to Discussing Police or ICE Raids on Your Ring and Nextdoor Apps

I went straight to the source and found out what Ring and Nextdoor allow when discussing ICE raids and similar police activity in your neighborhood. [...]

2025-07-26

China exports state propaganda with low-cost open source AI models

An audit by NewsGuard found that leading Chinese AI models repeat or fail to correct pro-Chinese false claims 60 percent of the time.<br /> The article China exports state propaganda with low-co [...]

2025-07-26

Surfshark VPN review: A fast VPN for casual users

Surfshark is one of the youngest major VPNs, but it's grown rapidly over the last seven years. Since 2018, it's expanded its network to 100 countries, added a suite of apps to its Surfshark [...]

2025-07-26

China calls for the creation of a global AI organization

China wants to work with other countries and has laid out its plans for the global governance of artificial intelligence at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai. Li Qiang, t [...]

2025-07-26

Extreme sports, an FPS from former Blizzard devs and other new indie games worth checking out

Welcome to our weekly roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. There have been quite a few high-profile arrivals this week, as well as others that have left early access and or arrived [...]

2025-07-25

Trump's AI plan says a lot about open source - but here's what it leaves out

The AI Action Plan pretty much frees up AI companies to do what they want, but it also supports the use of open source for AI. What that means is one big open question. [...]

2025-07-25

It’s Qwen’s summer: new open source Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 tops OpenAI, Gemini reasoning models on key benchmarks

The new Qwen3-Thinking-2507, as we'll call it for short, now leads or closely trails top-performing models across several major benchmarks. [...]