OpenAI has just launched an initiative called OpenAI For Governmentstarting with a modest new contract. The company was awarded $200 million by the US Department of Defense (DoD) to develop "prototype frontier AI capabilities to address critical national security...

The online message board 4chan is being investigated by the UK communications regulator over failure to comply with recently introduced online safety rules. Ofcom says it has received complaints over potential illegal content on the website, which has not responded to...

Minecraft has been around since 2009, and it's had a few upgrades in the subsequent years. But today, it's getting another overhaul with Vibrant Visuals, the new cosmetic refresh for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition. Vibrant Visuals will eventually roll out for Minecraft:...

Apple’s WWDC sessions usually offer a mix of developer guidance and subtle hardware tea leaves. And last week, one passing comment during the explanation of an SDK change caught attention for what it might suggest about a particular future device. In a session called...

After initially dismissing a proposed class action lawsuit over Apple's allegedly forcing users to use iCloud, a judge has now accepted further evidence and ruled that the case must continue. Originally filed in March 2024, the class action complaint accused Apple of...

Pokemon GO today unveiled Gold Bottle Caps, a new rare item that allows players to increase the HP, Attack, and Defense of a Pokemon that is a Good Buddy or higher through Hyper Training. Players will need to complete specific Training Tasks themed to the stats they...

Apple has seeded the second beta of tvOS 18.6 to developers for testing. The build number is 22M5054b. This follows the release of tvOS 18.5 to all users last month. tvOS 18 is a major operating system update for the Apple TV with new features like InSight, updates to...

Once upon a time Facebook was filled with posts about the minutiae of your day and album after album of photos of just about every experience you had. By now, a lot of this media is likely hidden with the "only me" setting. But, regardless of how much you use Facebook...

iOS 26 has been stealing the spotlight over the last week, but there is still another iOS 18 update on the horizon, according to a leaker. The first iOS 18.6 beta should be coming very soon, as a private account on X with a proven track record of sharing iOS...

Anne Wojcicki has been declared the winner of a bankruptcy auction for 23andMe, the genetics testing start-up she founded, prevailing over a rival bid from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. TTAM Research Institute, a non-profit public benefit company also founded by...

Here’s a small but long-awaited quality-of-life update coming to Messages in iOS 26: you’ll finally be able to copy just part of a message, instead of the entire thing. A small but long-overdue improvement Until now, copying text in iMessage on iPhone meant grabbing...

The Switch 2 launched on June 5 and sold 3.5 million units worldwide out of the gate, but how did it perform in the US specifically? Mat Piscatella of Circana sharedthat the system is projected to have sold 1.3 million-1.35 million units during its first week in the...