Modern smartphones are often packed with unwanted AI and other overrated features you don’t need, inflating their prices. Evolution seems to have stagnated, and smartphone makers, like Samsung, Apple, and Google, provide iterative updates with gimmicky features as selling points rather than committing to real innovation. These overrated phone features…

Two days before the Elon Musk vs. OpenAI trial began last week, Musk texted the model maker’s president and co-founder Greg Brockman. Musk suggested to Brockman that OpenAI settle the suit. After Brockman replied by suggesting both sides drop their suits, the exchange went off the rails, with Musk responding:…

A severe security vulnerability affecting almost every version of the Linux operating system has caught defenders off-guard and scrambling to patch after security researchers publicly released exploit code that allows attackers to take complete control of vulnerable systems. The U.S. government says the bug, dubbed “CopyFail,” is now being exploited in…

Science fiction never gets old, and I mean that quite literally. While we’re living on the hockey-stick curve of exponential technological evolution, even some of the earliest, grainiest sci-fi stories are loaded with ideas and concepts that we haven’t been able to bring to reality quite yet. Whether it’s an…

In the long-running saga that is Cerebras Systems’s IPO, the finish line is finally in sight. The AI chipmaker said on Monday that it is preparing to sell 28 million shares at $115 to $125 a share. This would raise $3.5 billion and give it a $26.6 billion market cap…

Former Andreessen Horowitz investor Katie Haun announced on Monday in a press release that her firm has raised $1 billion across new funds to continue its thesis of backing crypto and blockchain. The capital will be spread across startups at early and later stages, Bloomberg reported, and, within the crypto and…

I’ve been using Plex for over a decade, and what pulled me in from the start was how easy it made it to host and stream my personal media library and my friends’ libraries from anywhere. I’ve always enjoyed the streamlined experience, but lately Plex has made a few questionable…

Image model releases are driving growth for AI mobile apps, generating 6.5x more downloads than traditional model updates, according to a new report from app intelligence provider Appfigures. This marks a shift from earlier days, when the release of new models powering the conversational experiences drove more demand, alongside the…

Nearly a week after the makers of the popular web server management software cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM) alerted users of a critical flaw in its software, hackers are still targeting thousands of websites that use the vulnerable software.  As of Monday there are more than 550,000 potentially vulnerable servers…

One of the best parts of owning a Fire TV Stick is how long it can last. You can sometimes get five or even 10 years of use from it. But after a while, the problem often becomes software support rather than the hardware itself. While Amazon updates its Fire…