Technology
Steam Machine feels like the gaming PC evolution I...
The new Steam Machine has my attention because Valve is building it around an operating system that ...
Meta is cutting 8,000 jobs to pay for AI. It is al...
Summary: Meta is cutting approximately 8,000 employees (10% of its workforce) beginning 20 May, canc...
High gas prices are not saving Tesla. They are jus...
Summary: US petrol prices passed $4/gallon for the first time in four years (+30% YoY), driven by th...
Sonos’ big sale on refurbished speakers is about t...
Portable audio and home theater upgrades can be very pricey, which is why we make a habit out of tel...
Meta is laying off 10 percent of its staff
Meta is planning to layoff around 10 percent of employees in May, according to a memo from the compa...
SoftBank wants to borrow $10 billion against its O...
Summary: SoftBank is seeking a $10 billion margin loan backed by its OpenAI shares at SOFR + 425 bas...
Rilian raises $17.5 million to bring agentic AI to...
The McLean, Virginia startup’s Caspian platform sits as a command layer above existing security stac...
White House accuses China of industrial-scale AI m...
Summary: The White House OSTP released a policy memo accusing China of “industrial-scale” distillati...
Zapata Quantum raises $15 million after emerging f...
The oversubscribed financing, led by Triatomic Capital, caps a restructuring that addressed $18.7 mi...
‘We Are Xbox’: read the memo defining Microsoft’s ...
Microsoft's new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has laid out a new strategy for what she describes as a "return...
Microsoft’s new Xbox chief is ‘reevaluating’ exclu...
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma held an all-hands meeting this morning and laid out her strategy for a "return ...
Microsoft offers voluntary retirement to 7% of US ...
Summary: Microsoft is offering voluntary retirement to approximately 7% of its US workforce (~8,750 ...
Democrats want to ban ICE from turning warehouses ...
A bill introduced by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) would prohibit the Department of Homeland Security fr...
Spirit is broken
The bright yellow livery of Spirit Airlines may soon disappear from the skies. The country's seventh...
OpenAI launches GPT-5.5, its first fully retrained...
The model, codenamed “Spud,” is designed to complete complex multi-step tasks with minimal human dir...
Claim Clarity on the role of specialized AI in adv...
Claim Clarity suggests that workers’ compensation represents a significant yet often less visible se...
Anthropic’s Mythos breach was humiliating
Anthropic's tightly controlled rollout of Claude Mythos has taken an awkward turn. After spending we...
OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 model is more efficien...
OpenAI just announced its new GPT-5.5 model, which the company calls its "smartest and most intuitiv...
Ikea’s new inflatable chair doesn’t look like an i...
Ikea shared a sneak preview of three pieces from a new experimental collection, set to be fully reve...
Great news, the Moto G Stylus is no longer teeming...
The 2026 edition of Motorola's stylus phone is plenty appealing. My review unit is a charming lilac ...
From enterprise IT to entrepreneurship: How Kostia...
Kostiantyn Gitko built his career in a very different environment. Before starting his own company, ...
Microsoft brings Xbox back, scraps Microsoft Gamin...
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has had a busy week. Sharma held an internal town hall with Xbox employees toda...
Samsung’s new display tech can switch between 2D/3...
Samsung's new metasurface lenticular lens, published in Nature, switches between sharp 2D and glasse...
Keychron’s customizable V1 mechanical keyboard is ...
If you’ve ever wished your laptop keyboard was better tailored to your workflow, the Keychron V1 is ...
Microsoft Copilot can now do actual work inside yo...
Copilot's new Agent Mode can draft and restructure Word documents, build formulas and tables in Exce...
UK Biobank’s 500,000 genomes were listed for sale ...
Summary: Genetic, medical, and lifestyle data from all 500,000 UK Biobank volunteers was listed for ...
The EU is about to tell Google that Gemini cannot ...
The European Commission is preparing to tell Google exactly how it must open Android to rival AI ass...
Inside Microsoft’s wave of executive departures
It feels like not a week has gone by this year without a senior Microsoft executive leaving the comp...
Apple TV 4K may finally evolve beyond a streaming ...
The next Apple TV 4K could bring Apple Intelligence, a new chip, smarter Siri, and improved audio an...
Meta will let parents see children’s chats with AI...
Meta is giving parents weekly topic summaries of their teens' Meta AI conversations across Facebook,...
25 years later, is it time for a new iPod?
This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and enter...
Microsoft offers voluntary retirement to long-serv...
Microsoft is changing up its annual rewards and performance programs today, and offering long-servin...
The Pentagon just picked the companies that will p...
Summary: The Pentagon has narrowed its Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations (ANPI) programme fro...
This sleek electric sedan costs under $32,900 and ...
This new Avatr sedan brings luxury looks, a price under $32,900, and a range-extender setup rated fo...
DJI’s new Lito Series beginner drones start at les...
Following teasers and leaks, DJI has officially announced its new entry-level Lito 1 and Lito X1 dro...
Netflix can’t seem to follow up its biggest shows
It hasn't been that long since Stranger Things ended, but even still fans are clearly clamoring for ...
One of China’s buzziest EV makers hopes to deliver...
Xpeng is eyeing large-scale production of its flying cars next year, with more than 7,000 orders alr...
THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION
Today on Decoder, I want to lay out an idea that’s been banging around my head for weeks now as we’v...
Google is making it dramatically easier to sign in...
Google now lets Android apps verify your email in one tap, no OTP codes and no inbox hunting. Here's...
You’re about to feel the AI money squeeze
Earlier this month, millions of OpenClaw users woke up to a sweeping mandate: The viral AI agent too...
OpenAI’s new image model reasons before it draws
The new model reasons about composition, searches the web for context, generates up to eight coheren...
Volvo’s parent company just made a sleek $14,300 e...
Geely’s Galaxy A7 EV combines a mainstream design, claimed 550km range, and pricing that still under...
Anthropic reportedly hits $1 trillion implied valu...
Secondary share trading platforms are pricing Anthropic at approximately $1 trillion, just three mon...
Netflix authorises $25 billion share buyback after...
The $25B programme has no expiration date and sits on top of a December 2024 authorisation that stil...
Govee’s new colorful outdoor lights are its first ...
Govee announced its first solar-powered lights today. They include a 6W panel with an integrated 4,8...
Tim Cook’s departure is the start of a new era at ...
Apple is about to become a very different company. This September, Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping do...
Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Word, Excel, ...
Microsoft is rolling out a new Agent Mode inside Office apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint this w...
Musk’s SpaceX eyes GPU manufacturing as Nvidia’s s...
SpaceX wants to make its own GPUs, but building chips is no walk in the park. Here's what we know so...
NASA aims September launch for Roman space telesco...
NASA is aiming for an early September 2026 launch of the Roman Space Telescope, a powerful new obser...
AI has turbocharghed the worst form of abusive con...
Watchdog data show generative AI is making child sexual abuse imagery faster to create, harder to po...
