2025-07-02

ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it

US government officials have condemned ICEBlock and CNN's recent coverage of it, leading to more people hearing about its existence and downloading it from the App Store. Now the application, wh [...]

2025-07-01

The Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max is on sale for $35 for Prime Day

If you already plan on using Prime Day as an excuse to upgrade your home theater, Amazon has a great deal on one of its premium streaming dongles that could be the perfect thing to complete your setup [...]

2025-07-01

Senator Blackburn Pulls Support for AI Moratorium in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Amid Backlash

After critics called the bill a “get-out-jail-free-card” for Big Tech that could make it nearly impossible to rein in social media platforms, Senator Marsha Blackburn killed her own compromise. [...]

2025-07-01

Kayak and Expedia race to build AI travel agents that turn social posts into itineraries

Planning a trip may soon be more agentic as companies like Kayak and Expedia reimagine the travel agent as an AI agent. [...]

2025-07-01

X will let AI write Community Notes

In what was probably an inevitable conclusion, X has announced that it will allow AI to author Community Notes. With a pilot program beginning today, the social network is releasing developer tools to [...]

2025-07-01

International Criminal Court says it was hit by sophisticated cyberattack

No details about the incident were given but the media are tentatively linking it to Israel. [...]

2025-07-01

EU-funded ChatEurope news chatbot delivers outdated and incorrect answers

Fifteen European media organizations have launched ChatEurope, an AI-powered news platform that promises to deliver information on European affairs "without the influence of disinformation and fa [...]

2025-07-01

Inside Wikipedia’s AI revolt—and what it means for the media

The fight over AI summaries is part of a larger struggle playing out in newsrooms figuring out where human editors still fit in. [...]

2025-07-01

Two years later, Meta is making DMs on Threads official

Meta announced just a couple weeks ago that it would finally start testing a dedicated inbox for direct messages on Threads. Now, it's making the feature official and rolling out DMs to everyone. [...]