From eWeek: In all honesty, this AI development looks interesting… and long overdue.

OpenAI has introduced a new training technique that encourages advanced language models to explicitly admit when they break rules, cut corners, or “reward hack” during tasks.

The approach, described as a proof-of...

From The Verge: The New York Times has escalated its legal battle against the AI startup Perplexity, as it’s now suing the AI “answer engine” for allegedly producing and profiting from responses that are “verbatim or substantially similar copies” of the publication’s work.

The lawsuit, filed in a...

From PC Mag: Asus is reporting that one of its suppliers was hacked after a ransomware group claimed to have stolen over 1TB from the company.

Asus didn’t name the supplier, but indicated it had lost some company data to the attackers. “This affected some of the camera source code for ASUS phones...

From Tom's Hardware: Intel this week reiterated that it cannot meet demand for all of its client and data center processors due to insufficient supply, and specifically mentioned that it could use more Core Ultra 200-series Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake wafers to increase shipments of appropriate...

From PC Mag: As SpaceX’s Starlink reaches deals with airlines to provide in-flight Wi-Fi, the company’s competition in China is starting to do the same.

The rival Chinese satellite constellation, Qianfan, is becoming an option to power in-flight Wi-Fi over Airbus jets. On Thursday, Qianfan’s...

From ExtremeTech: Sony has quietly updated its PlayStation 5 Slim with a grooved heatsink design borrowed directly from the PlayStation 5 Pro, console modder Modyfikator89 shared via X this weekend. The new models, starting with the CFI-2116 revision, now feature precision-machined grooves around...

From Tom's Hardware: SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son has been in talks with the Trump administration to build Project Crystal Land, Son’s grand vision for a U.S. competitor to Shenzhen, China’s electronics manufacturing hub, with a population of over 17.5 million people, often dubbed as China’s Silicon...

From Fractal Design Press Release: Epoch XL scales up the clean design of the Epoch series into a more spacious format.

With a ventilated mesh front panel and three high-performance Momentum 14 fans included, it is engineered to deliver powerful airflow and keep components running smoothly. For...

From PC World: The AI boom has claimed another victim: Crucial, Micron’s consumer storage brand that the company says will wind down in 2026 to focus on its enterprise businesses.

Micron said that it will close Crucial in February 2026, though it will continue to support Crucial products and...

From The Verge: iPhone 17 Pro users have fewer ways to take photographs in low-light conditions compared to those using older iPhone models. Specifically, the option to select Night mode when taking snaps in Portrait mode — which gives the camera app an artsy depth-of-field effect — isn’t supported...