From PC Mag: Apple hasn’t updated its entry-level iPad since March last year, and a new leak suggests the company is working on major under-the-hood performance improvements for a refreshed tablet.

The leak is based on Apple code spotted by MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris. It reveals that the...

From CNET: To quote George Santayana, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” So why does it so often feel like Big Tech has such a short memory?

The latest hiccup comes from Meta. In mid-September, it rolled out a beta test of a feature for its brand-new Muse AI agent...

From Noctua Press Release: Noctua and Forced Physics DCT today announced a joint research partnership to explore how Forced Physics’ patented JouleForce micro-channel array technology can be brought to desktop PCs and workstations. The collaboration is a long-term research and development effort...

From Tom's Hardware: Australia has ordered an “urgent and immediate review” after saying an OpenAI agent discovered a way around blocks on its Medicare statistics portal, BBC News reported. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese made the announcement at the UN General Assembly in New York, referring to a...

From ComputerWorld: Google’s Gemini 4 AI model is in the early days of post-training, the phase in which a base AI model is refined to behave reliably, and should be released “much earlier” than the end of this year, Google DeepMind head Koray Kavukcuoglu told The Information at its AI Agenda Live...

From PC Mag: Just two years ago, Microsoft launched its Copilot+ PC brand to identify AI-first computers with exclusive artificial intelligence features, but that wording is nowhere to be found on recent Microsoft devices or OEM products.

As spotted by Windows Central, the Copilot+ PC brand hasn’t...

From Tom's Hardware: A “routine” update for a Samsung smart fridge model in South Korea has broken the refrigerators for thousands of users, with the incident happening ahead of a major holiday. According to Seoul Shinmun [machine translated], the company pushed an erroneous update to some customers...

From Tom's Hardware: Nintendo of America just won a lawsuit against James Williams, who allegedly moderated the r/SwitchPirates subreddit and sold pirated Switch games online. According to Aftermath, the company sued Williams in June 2024 for copyright violations. However, they failed to respond...

From PC Mag: Personal AI agents are more popular than ever, handling life's most monotonous tasks. With select Pixel phones, Gemini AI can now make phone calls to businesses on your behalf.

Call for Me, in beta on select phones, sits alongside features like Direct My Call and Hold for Me, and is...

From TechCrunch: Anthropic’s founders want to stay in charge after the company goes public. According to The Information, the company is asking shareholders to approve a structure “in the coming days” that would give CEO Dario Amodei and his six co-founders special shares carrying a combined 50.1%...