From PC Mag: Google has announced a substantial fiber optic cable project that will create a new cable network from Kenya to South Africa and then travel subsea across the ocean to Australia, the tech giant announced Thursday.

Dubbed Umoja, the cable route will be set up in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda...

From TechCrunch: Spotify’s addition of its AI DJ feature, which introduces personalized song selections to users, was the company’s first step into an AI future. Now, Spotify is developing an alternative version of that DJ that will speak Spanish.

References to the new AI DJ were spotted in the app...

From TechCrunch: The Kia EV3 — the new all-electric compact SUV revealed Thursday — illustrates a growing appetite among global automakers to bring generative AI into their vehicles.

The automaker said the Kia EV3 will feature a new voice assistant that is built off ChatGPT, the text-generating AI...

From ExtremeTech: Nvidia has posted its earnings for Q1 of fiscal 2025, showing that the company's trip to the moon is still underway. The company broke existing earnings records set in the previous quarter by earning $26 billion overall, with $22 billion coming from its data center business. If...

From : Zoom claims to be first videoconferencing software vendor to use post-quantum cryptography to protect users once quantum computers are able to decode encrypted data.

Zoom is adding “post-quantum” end-to-end encryption to its video and voice meeting software. The aim is to protect...

From TechCrunch: Microsoft wants to bring generative AI to the forefront of Windows — and the PCs running it.

At a pair of keynotes during its annual Build developer conference this week, the company unveiled a new lineup of Windows machines it’s calling Copilot+ PCs, plus generative AI-powered...

From PC Mag: The US claims a newly launched Russian satellite is a space weapon from the Kremlin meant to take out other satellites.

A Defense Department spokesman briefly discussed the alleged Russian space weapon after a US ambassador brought up the claims during a United Nations meeting on...

From PC Mag: Typically, when you delete a photo, it's supposed to stay gone. That hasn't been the case for iPhone and iPad owners on iOS 17.5, where deleted photos are making a surprise comeback.

Apple has released iOS 17.5.1, which it says fixes the issue. Its changelog says only that the update...

From TechCrunch: TikTok is the latest tech company to incorporate generative AI into its ads business, as the company announced on Tuesday that it’s launching a new “TikTok Symphony” AI suite for brands. The tools will help marketers write scripts, produce videos, and enhance current assets.

The...

From Forbes: ChatGPT is suffering a second successive day of problems, with the chatbot being plagued by error messages.

Users of both the free and paid-for ChatGPT Plus are reporting the service is down, with the service failing to instigate new chats or let users access previous conversations...