From PC Mag: Amazon Web Services is investigating Perplexity AI over its data-scraping practices after multiple news outlets, including Forbes and Wired, reported that the AI startup is swiping their web archives to train its models without consent or compensation.

An AWS rep confirmed Thursday...

From PC World: Recently Apple reversed a long-standing policy that disallowed retro game emulator apps, so now gamers have access to decades of classic ROMs on the iPhone and iPad without work-arounds. But it appears that tolerance does not extend to emulating classic PC platforms, for games or any...

From CNET: The Galaxy S24 series arrived in January, bringing a first glimpse of the company's big AI push. But we're still expecting several major new mobile products from Samsung in 2024, such as the Galaxy Ring and new foldable phones, all of which are likely to embrace AI in one way or another....

From PC Mag: Google is adding 110 new languages to Google Translate, bringing its total number of supported languages to 243.

The key to this achievement? AI, of course. The company's PaLM 2 AI model "was a key piece to the puzzle, helping Translate more efficiently learn languages that are closely...

From PC Mag: Reddit is updating its Robots Exclusion Protocol, or robots.txt file, to try to block bots and web crawlers from swiping data and content from its site.

Reddit says "good faith actors" like the Internet Archive will continue to have access to its platform, however, and adds that most...

From PC World: On June 25th, Microsoft released KB5039302 for Windows 11, a patch that brings a few small improvements for users, which are fully described in the official changelog.

This patch distinguishes between changes that Microsoft is gradually rolling out to users and improvements that the...

From CNET: Verizon is giving itself a refresh. On Wednesday, the carrier introduced a host of new offerings ranging from expanding its discounted streaming perks program to its home internet users and a new guaranteed trade-in offer for wireless users. To ring in the new era, the carrier debuted a...

From The Verge: Patreon is gearing up to allow gifting on its subscription platform, alongside a host of new features to help content creators build their communities. Artists, writers, podcasters, and other content creators will also soon be able to sell individual posts and even set a countdown...

From PC Mag: Tesla's Cybertruck has been recalled again, this time over its windshield wiper failing to work and trunk bed trim potentially coming loose and falling onto the road, according to filings submitted to US transportation regulators this month and posts on Tesla's website.

The National...

From PC World: Did you know that it’s entirely possible to use Windows 11 with a local-only account, the way it worked way back when computers still used floppy drives?

You’d be forgiven for not knowing, because it seems like Microsoft is going out of its way to hide this option from you, hoping to...