Nvidia RTX Spark laptops, desktops arrive in October from six manufacturers

OpenAI welcomes the "AGI era" with GPT-6 Astra

Forward-looking: The era of AGI has arrived – at least that's what OpenAI president Greg Brockman believes. He was talking about the launch of the company's latest model, GPT-6 Astra, which is being hailed as a "generational leap in capability," able to perform more tasks, faster. Its cybersecurity capabilities are so advanced that they meet OpenAI's "Critical" threshold. But don't worry, the company claims we won't, or shouldn't, see any more agents going rogue, probably.

Xbox Cloud Gaming is getting monthly time limits, and you'll be able to pay for more

Range Rover's first EV packs a huge battery and a 22-minute fast charge

Microsoft Defender briefly decided Google Search was malware

Lego builds on 30+ years of PlayStation with new console-inspired set

Magnetic tape storage is booming again, thanks to AI's unquenchable hunger for data

Magnetic Storage Bubble: The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) format was designed back in the 90s as an open-standard alternative to proprietary tape formats. Now, the magnetic storage technology is growing in both relevance and shipment volumes because AI companies can't seem to stop gobbling up digital data for LLM training and inference workloads.

Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 5 reviews are in: Superb sound with a repairable twist

GTA 6 Extended Look draws over 50 million views, crashing Netflix with 125% higher traffic

Climbers asked Google Gemini how long Mount Shasta would take and what supplies to carry – things went badly wrong

Microsoft warns fake CAPTCHA is tricking Windows users into running malware

Microsoft Edge now has an official Linux support list, seven years after Chrome's

A dark-web site claimed to sell 153 million driver's licenses, then vanished

A hot potato: A dark-web service that claimed to sell scans of more than 153 million US and Canadian driver's licenses has gone offline after Krebs on Security identified it. Before disappearing, the site offered ID images that appeared to include standard scans as well as infrared and ultraviolet versions used in document-verification systems. This development points to a potentially far-reaching compromise of the systems businesses use to verify physical IDs.

Utah just became the first state to target VPN users for age verification

StarCraft 3 might finally happen, just not built by Blizzard

Still using an Intel Mac? Apple just gave developers another reason to leave it behind

Russia's Starlink rival is struggling as satellites fail to reach their planned orbits

Dallas garbage trucks are using AI cameras to flag code violations and give homes a "blight score"

WTF?! Want another reason why there's a big pushback against artificial intelligence? In Dallas, AI-powered cameras mounted on trash collection trucks are photographing properties and assigning them a "blight score" – a rating based on perceived code violations.

Nvidia is buying popular open-source AI hub Hugging Face for $12.9 billion

Police want Axon's cameras redesigned so they don't get mistaken for Flock's

AI is finding thousands of bugs in Linux, and maintainers can barely keep up

Microsoft will soon enable memory integrity by default on eligible Windows 11 PCs