2025-12-21

A San Francisco power outage left Waymo's self-driving cars stranded at intersections

Several of Waymo's autonomous vehicles were seen stuck in the middle of San Francisco streets following a significant power outage that took out the city's traffic lights. Waymo responded to [...]

2025-12-21

WhatsApp user warning - hackers are hijacking accounts without any need to crack the authentication, so be on your guard

WhatsApp GhostPairing attacks let hackers hijack accounts using device-linking, exposing messages and media while bypassing authentication completely. [...]

2025-12-20

Game publisher says cheaper Switch 2 cartridges are coming in since-deleted post

Gamers who prefer physical copies of their favorite titles may be getting a major win with the Switch 2. In an unexpected announcement from retro video game publisher ININ Games, Nintendo reportedly h [...]

2025-12-19

Mark Zuckerberg's nonprofit cuts ties with the immigration advocacy group he co-founded

Behold Mark Zuckerberg: man of principle. Witness the Meta CEO's dedication to the most high-minded of causes: "currying favor with whoever's in charge." In 2013, when Barack Obama [...]

2025-12-19

We have more details on the TikTok deal, including some ownership statistics

TikTok has signed a deal to spin off its American business, according to reporting from Associated Press and others. This should keep the popular social media app available in the US for good, capping [...]

2025-12-19

Engineering’s AI reality check

Most engineering leaders cannot answer the one question their CFO is about to ask: “Can you prove this AI spend is changing outcomes, not just activity?” Every December, roadmaps get locked, budge [...]

2025-12-19

This new music player is like a hi-res iPod nano, but with microSD storage — and you won’t believe how cheap it is

A very tempting new option from our favorite budget audiophile brand [...]

2025-12-19

Engadget Podcast: 2025 was the year of AI, smartglasses and spineless Big Tech

This week, Engadget Managing Editor Cherlynn Low joins us to look back at some of the highlights (and lowlights) of 2025. We dive into our favorite gadgets of the year, the many ways Big Tech bowed to [...]

2025-12-19

Google releases FunctionGemma: a tiny edge model that can control mobile devices with natural language

While Gemini 3 is still making waves, Google's not taking the foot off the gas in terms of releasing new models.Yesterday, the company released FunctionGemma, a specialized 270-million parameter [...]