iRobot has filed for bankruptcy and may be taken over by its primary supplier

iRobot, which brought robotic vacuum cleaners to the masses with its iconic Roomba models, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The Massachusetts-based company plans to sell all assets to its primary [...]

Meta's AI display glasses reportedly share intimate videos with human moderators

Users of Meta's AI smart glasses in Europe may be unknowingly sharing intimate video and sensitive financial information with moderators outside of the bloc, according to a report from Sweden [...]

Palona goes vertical, launching Vision, Workflow features: 4 key lessons for AI builders

Building an enterprise AI company on a "foundation of shifting sand" is the central challenge for founders today, according to the leadership at Palona AI. Today, the Palo Alto-based startup [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Italian regulators are investigating Activision Blizzard's monetization practices

The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) has opened two investigations into Microsoft-owned game studio Activision Blizzard, centered around the mobile games Diablo Immortal and Call of Duty: Mobile. [...]

Pirate group Anna's Archive says it has scraped Spotify in its entirety

Anna's Archive, the open-source search engine for shadow libraries, says it scraped Spotify's entire library of music. The group acquired metadata for around 256 million tracks, with 86 mill [...]

The Creators of ‘Hacks’ Really, Really, Really Hate AI

Ahead of the hit show’s finale, cocreators Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello talk about media consolidation, the perils of censorship, and why they find AI “deeply disturbing.” [...]

$300 Intel B50 video card emerges as a surprisingly capable Pro GPU — but Nvidia's older Ada generation emerges as a bit of a bargain

Intel’s $300 B50 delivers surprisingly capable performance in entry-level AI, 3D rendering, and media editing tasks for compact setups. [...]