From TechCrunch: WhatsApp this week started rolling out username reservations ahead of the broader launch planned later this year. The feature — which lets people find and message each other by handle instead of phone number — is already raising impersonation concerns, drawing scrutiny from security...

From CNET: It's a problem almost as old as the internet itself: How do we keep kids safe when they're online? A growing campaign argues that the solution is for the government to outlaw social media use during kids' developmental years. A narrow majority of American adults seems to agree.

A new...

From CNET: Anthropic announced late Tuesday that access to its most advanced AI models, Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5, would be restored globally on Wednesday, with the US government signing off.

Anthropic reiterated in its statement that Fable 5 had industry-leading cybersecurity safeguards...

From eWeek: Google on Tuesday released Nano Banana 2 Lite, the newest addition to its Gemini image generation lineup.

The model, officially named Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image, can turn a text prompt into an image in about four seconds, roughly five times faster than the standard Nano Banana model...

From Tom's Hardware: In a bid to offer unbeatable performance, Nvidia had planned to use four GPU chiplets in its Rubin Ultra AI accelerator due in 2027. However, due to concerns about the manufacturability of such a solution, the company decided to cancel it in favor of a dual-GPU design that is...

From PC World: A few days ago, we reported that Microsoft’s optional update KB5095093 brought some welcome changes, including a bug fix for slow shutdowns as well as improvements to Bluetooth reliability. Now it’s also confirmed that File Explorer has been sped up with this update, which should...

From CNET: Three years after Netflix began more aggressively policing the sharing of streaming accounts, the company is taking another step that could help ensure passwords aren't shared: requiring an email address for every profile.

Earlier this month, some Netflix users began receiving on-screen...

From The Verge: First announced over a year ago in April 2025, the Busy Bar will be available for purchase starting on July 14th when the device also starts shipping. Created by the same team behind the Flipper Zero wireless multitool, the Busy Bar is instead described as a “productivity multitool”...

From CNET: Some T-Mobile customers who've held onto old phone plans are being notified that their accounts will soon be automatically upgraded to the company's current lineup of plans, which in some cases will mean an increase in their mobile phone bills.

A representative of T-Mobile chose to not...

From PC Mag: Ahead of OpenAI preparing to launch its first hardware products, yet another senior Apple hardware executive has jumped ship.

Paul Meade, an Apple VP who heads up the Vision Pro team, is leaving to join OpenAI’s hardware team, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports. Gurman said that the move...