WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2026, 22:45
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: How newsrooms should use AI — or if they should at all — has been a recurrent debate within the media industry over the last several years. Increasingly, these rules are being hammered out at the bargaining table between unions and publishers. Right now, employees at The New York Times are gearing up for a fight. Unionized staff with the Tech...
YouTube will begin automatically labeling videos when its systems detect “significant” photorealistic AI use, while also making AI-content disclosures more visible below long-form videos and directly on Shorts. “We’ve heard consistently from our community that they value transparency when it comes to generative AI content,” YouTube said in a blog post. “These changes are designed to balance...
Roku is rolling out its first major homescreen update in a decade. The UI doesn’t look too dramatically different, but users will notice more personalization-driven changes, including frequently used apps, “top picks,” household-specific layouts, and recommendations based on viewing habits. Rest assured, Engadget adds, “Everything is still in various shades of purple and Roku City is still...
The Chinese company is adapting to the demise of Moore’s Law, which guides chip production. It could complicate US chip dominance.
Amid ongoing economic anxieties, BLK and other companies are giving away basic essentials to appeal to the public.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: There is a certain wildness in the tech industry these days that both mimics previous eras of large changes, like cloud computing (runaway costs in the early days), and is like nothing we’ve ever seen before (record revenues accompanied by mass layoffs). One possible explanation: tech executives, especially CEOs, are collectively suffering...
These WIRED-tested computer speakers, from stereo speakers to surround sound, will suit any budget.
Dropbox founder Drew Houston is stepping down as CEO after 19 years and will become executive chairman, with product chief Ashraf Alkarmi set to take over after a co-CEO transition period. CNBC reports: Drew Houston founded Dropbox nearly two decades ago at age 24, eventually becoming a household name in Silicon Valley and the first tech entrepreneur to take a company from the Y Combinator...
Designed by Jony Ive and a host of ex-Cupertino colleagues, the Luce shows us what might have been had Apple made good on its $10 billion bet.
joshuark writes: BusPatrol, a company that has installed AI-powered cameras in tens of thousands of school buses around the U.S., now plans to turn those cameras into automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), capturing the location of every vehicle the buses drive past, and give that data to law enforcement, 404 Media has learned. BusPatrol has already taken steps to share the collected data...
“Republicans are just going to have to suck it up and get it done,” says one Trump aide about the funding melee. The votes, though, may simply not be there.
At least seven people have died in recent days as people have tried to cool off in Britain’s waterways
Water safety experts have warned about the dangers of outdoor swimming after a spike in drownings as people try to escape soaring temperatures by cooling off in rivers, lakes, reservoirs and other bodies of water.
In recent days, emergency services have reported at least seven deaths because...
Trajectory is betting the rapid iteration cycle that supercharged vibe-coding can help all kinds of companies build AI products that learn continuously.
These display smart glasses can connect to a phone, laptop, or gaming handheld and project the screen to your eyeballs.
The office was created a year ago and seemingly named for a far-right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations. It now works, a source says, with little to no oversight.
South Africa moved to fix the car industry’s right-to-repair gap in 2021; nothing similar for electronics has followed.
The R1.2-billion solar plant will supply about 60 000 households and anchors a pipeline of 17 projects across 11 stations.
The solar-powered lab will equip young people in the North West province with digital and AI skills.
Microsoft to keynote two-day Sandton event exploring AI, sustainability and Africa’s data centre future.
Regulatory uncertainty and lack of government funding are major obstacles to scaling SA’s electric vehicle charging network.
Altron Digital Business and Microsoft unpack the cloud security challenges facing South African enterprises today.