This German drone just hit 699 km/h, and its maker wants the world record to prove it
Official Guinness world record pending, faster targets planned
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Australia's teen social media ban stumbles as platforms skip age checks
Who knew kids would lie about their age?
Why Gen Z is falling in love with film photography – and rejecting the algorithm along with it
Film photography is experiencing a resurrection, summoned by unlikely conjurers: Gen Z
The Supreme Court just ruled that police need a warrant to use phone location data
A 6-3 ruling says geofence warrants require constitutional protections
Researchers built a tiny diving suit for cyborg cockroaches to survive underwater
The goal is to help search-and-rescue teams reach flooded rubble, drains, and narrow gaps robots can't access
Jensen Huang's signed leather jacket could sell for up to $60,000 at charity auction
The auction estimate puts Huang's jacket in the same ballpark as some Nvidia AI hardware
In brief: These days Jensen Huang is better known for turning Nvidia from a beloved gaming company into a somewhat disliked AI supercorporation. But he used to get a lot of attention for his leather jacket. Now, one of those famed items of clothing is going up for auction, and it's expected to raise $40,000 to $60,000 – for charity, of course.
Video Game History Foundation founder says piracy remains the only viable game preservation method
The organization representing game publishers helped kill a preservation bill. Now it's being blamed for pushing archivists toward piracy
Concorde-style supersonic flights could return to the US, as long as they're quiet enough
FAA proposal would replace the decades-old ban with a noise-based standard
Someone finally built a working Game Boy emulator for E-ink screens
This modder proves an old dev board can run 30-year-old games at full speed
Sony will stop making physical PlayStation games starting in 2028
The end of an era is upon us
The video game industry just told lawmakers Minecraft and Call of Duty private servers are illegal piracy
A California Act which would have required refunds or offline modes for shuttered games, fell three votes short in the state Senate
This retro enthusiast forced Windows 11 to run on a Core 2 Quad Q6600 and AGP graphics
The modded system ran "rock stable" despite the aging hardware dating back to 2003
Cargo thieves are now stealing millions in data center hardware, not just GPUs and consoles
Illinois cops just recovered $2.3 million worth of AI data center equipment
Ripple effect: The AI boom may be hurting consumers, white-collar workers, and rural residents living near data centers, but it's opened up "new opportunities" for cargo thieves. Criminals are reportedly cashing in on the data center construction boom by stealing millions of dollars' worth of server hardware, cables, and other high-value tech equipment.
Dbrand kills its Portal-inspired Companion Cube case after admitting it never asked Valve for permission
"Unfortunately, being proud of the thing we made did not give us the right to make it"
Developer builds "complete" OpenStreetMap client for classic Mac OS 9
Fulfilling a childhood dream in the age of cloud, APIs, and software frameworks
Prosecutors used a man's ChatGPT logs to try to link him to the Pacific Palisades fire, but it didn't work
A juror said using ChatGPT shouldn't be treated as a character flaw
Meet "loop engineering": The next evolution in AI coding isn't a better prompt, it's a system that prompts itself
"I don't write the prompt anymore – Claude writes the prompt," says Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code
Australia raises social media ban penalties to $99 million as children keep accessing platforms
Regulator says tech companies are doing the bare minimum
Sony is deleting 551 movies and TV shows you bought on PlayStation, because you don't really own your digital purchases
John Wick, Paddington, and Terminator 2 are among the titles – no refunds offered
Riot's always-on anti-cheat is finally getting an off switch
Vanguard will no longer run in the background 24/7, but there's a big catch
Which game made you a gamer, and what technology made you a lifelong enthusiast?
Every enthusiast has an origin story
Game designer Sandy Petersen recalls how Quake's development "broke" id Software
An intense development cycle led to id's dream team disbanding
The creators of Tetris and the Rubik's Cube just unveiled a puzzle that combines both
The two legends met for the first time last year
The US government wants a working quantum computer by 2028 and quantum-resistant encryption by 2031
Trump just signed two executive orders setting hard deadlines for quantum capabilities
Europe's digital euro is one step closer, designed to cut out Visa and Mastercard
The digital euro would enable private offline payments and launch in 2029