Lina Khan became chair of the Federal Trade Commission two years ago with a promise to take bold action against the biggest tech companies. For… Read More »FTC’s Lina Khan is facing new questions about her strategy
Enlarge / A stack of Intel’s NUC mini PCs. Andrew Cunningham Since 2012, Intel has been designing and selling its own line of mini PCs.… Read More »No more NUC: Intel’s weirdly named mini PCs seem to be disappearing
A federal judge on Tuesday ruled against the Federal Trade Commission’s attempt to delay Microsoft’s $70 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. In a 53-page Judge… Read More »Court ruling clears way for Microsoft to buy Activision
Enlarge / The Fairphone 3. No one in the Android ecosystem can put a finger on Apple’s software support timeline for the iPhone, but there’s… Read More »Fairphone 3 will receive updates for seven years, outperforming all other Android OEMs
Enlarge / Comedian and author Sarah Silverman. On Friday, the law firm of Joseph Saveri filed an application with the US federal government class action… Read More »Sarah Silverman Sues OpenAI, Meta For “Industrial Strength Plagiarism”
Enlarge / A new grille and wheels clearly indicate that this is an AMG EQE SUV. Jonathan Gitlin A few months ago, we tested Mercedes-Benz’s… Read More »We drive a gilded lily: the 2024 Mercedes-AMG EQE SUV
Open AI On Thursday, OpenAI announced that all paying API customers now have access to the GPT-4 API. It also introduced updates to chat-based models,… Read More »OpenAI launches GPT-4 API for everyone
A deal to ensure that data from Meta, Google and a host of other companies can continue to flow between the United States and the… Read More »US and EU close long-awaited data sharing deal
See the inside of the Pixel Fold. It’s stuffy there. (Full disclosure, this is a composite of the left and right halves with all the… Read More »Pixel Fold teardown reveals the guts of Google’s $1,800 phone
MOVEit, the file transfer software exploited in recent weeks in one of the largest cyberattacks ever, has received another security update that fixes a critical… Read More »MOVEit app that was massively exploited last month fixes a new critical vulnerability
Enlarge / There could be a lot more of this on Reddit soon. The Reddit community is still considering the impact of the platform’s API… Read More »Reddit mods fear spam overload as BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Reddit
Enlarge / You have nothing to lose except your chains. Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Simply mentioning the name “Denuvo” among some gamers is almost… Read More »Denuvo wants to convince you that DRM is not “bad”.
Enlarge / The world’s smallest 3D printed silica glass wine glass (left) and a fiber optic telecommunications optical resonator, photographed by scanning electron microscopy. The… Read More »This is the world’s smallest 3D-printed wine glass, Swedish scientists claim
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images The mass sponge The EV charger migration continues to gain momentum. Since we last wrote on the subject, first Polestar… Read More »Our big unanswered questions about the move to Tesla-style electric plugs
Enlarge / Spectral analysis indicates that silica is present in this supernova remnant, Cassiopeia A. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ O. Krause (Steward Observatory) Since the discovery of neutron… Read More »Exploring the mysteries of neutron stars with a surprising terrestrial analogue
