Actor union Sag-Aftra has filed a complaint over the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to recreate the voice of Star Wars villain Darth Vader in Fortnite. The union said Llama Productions - a subsidiary of Epic, which makes the hit video game - had chosen "to...

Good news for X fans, with Elon Musk announcing that he’s scaling back his work on improving government efficiency in order to focus on his businesses in Tesla, SpaceX and X/xAI. The bad news? Coinciding with Musk’s announcement, X suffered a series of outages, which...

CUTS MADE BY the Trump administration are threatening the function of a tiny but crucial office within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that maintains the US’s framework of spatial information: latitudes, longitudes, vertical measurements like...

The online safety regulator wants a $450,000 maximum penalty imposed on a man who posted deepfake images of prominent Australian women to a website, in the first case of its kind heard in an Australian court. The eSafety commissioner has launched proceedings against...

Over three decades working in Silicon Valley, Jony Ive has shaped the shell of the iMac, designed the look of the iPod and come up with the form factor for the iPhone. Pretty much every major piece of Appletechnology we touch, from the heyday of Alta Vista to today,...

Do you want to make a podcast from notes you record on your iPhone? You can, as Google has introduced an iOS version (and an Android version) of its popular NotebookLM tool, which can do this, among other things. The news follows hot on the heels of speculation that...

I was listening to an episode of one of my favorite podcasts this weekend. The show is called Search Engine, and every episode tries to answer a question that can’t be easily answered through an actual search engine (or even AI). This episode grabbed my attention...

The ninth edition of Operation Pandora, an international operation targeting the trafficking of cultural goods, has led to 80 arrests and the seizure of 37 727 items including archaeological pieces, artworks, coins and musical instruments. Codenamed Pandora IX and led...

Apple's AI tabletop robot is now a major priority for the company as it scrambles to make AI-centric devices, according to a new report from Mark Gurman. In a newsletter to subscribers, Gurman highlights this renewed focus on a device that blends robotics with...

Nintendo has quietly updated its Nintendo Today! mobile app in an apparent effort to prevent users from capturing its promotional videos and sharing them elsewhere. Although the update has not been publicly detailed by Nintendo, Reddit user Cube_play_8 has uploaded a...

Mark Gurman reported in his Power On newsletter for Bloomberg that this year’s Vision Pro-like redesign of the user interfaces with iOS 19, iPadOS 19 and macOS 16 will extend to the watchOS 12 and tvOS operating systems. Don’t expected major visual changes in watchOS...

SilverStone struck a chord when it introduced a retro-inspired PC case on X as an April Fools' joke in 2023. The gag went over so well that the case maker decided to put the design into production, and now they're moving forward with another new retro offering. The...