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Samsung's Q2 Earnings Guidance Points to a Chip Recovery That Is Actually Happening
Samsung Electronics has released its earnings guidance for the second quarter of 2026, and the figures are worth paying attention to even before the ...

Samsung's July 22 Unpacked event: what's actually landing
Samsung confirmed its next Galaxy Unpacked for 22 July 2026, expected to bring the Galaxy Z Fold 8, Z Fold 8 Ultra and Z Flip 8, plus new Galaxy ...

Cloudflare just gave every website a switch to cut AI off from its content
Cloudflare's new AI crawler policy blocks training and agent bots on ad-funded pages by default from September 15, 2026, unless site owners opt out.

AI Schools for Rich Kids: Inside the Tutoring Trend Splitting Education
There's a new status symbol among a certain set of American parents, and it's not a particular school or a tutor with Ivy League credentials.

Amazon Is Closing Mechanical Turk to New Users — and It's About AI
Amazon has announced it will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk, its long-running crowdsourced labour platform.

Astronomers Found a Third Galaxy With Almost No Dark Matter
A third galaxy with little to no dark matter has been confirmed with the Keck Observatory, sitting in a strange linear chain that standard models ...

Google's Fitbit Air Is a Screenless, 12-Gram Band With a Week of Battery
Google's Fitbit Air ditches the screen for a 12-gram band with about a week of battery life.

GTA VI Pre-Orders Are Live and the Hype Machine Is in Full Effect
It's finally happening. Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders are now live, and the gaming world has responded with the kind of collective enthusiasm that ...

How AR Glasses Like the Xreal R1 Fake a 171-Inch Screen Without a Headset
How do AR glasses work? Xreal's R1 projects a 171-inch virtual display at 240Hz from lenses the size of normal spectacles. Here's the optics behind ...

Trump Memecoin Investors Lost 3.8 Billion Dollars. Here's the Full Picture.
The numbers are in, and they are stark. An analysis published this week found that investors in the Trump memecoin collectively lost 3.8 billion ...

How AR Glasses Like the Xreal R1 Fake a 171-Inch Screen Without a Headset
How do AR glasses work? Xreal's R1 projects a 171-inch virtual display at 240Hz from lenses the size of normal spectacles. Here's the optics behind ...

Alibaba Has Banned Employees From Using Claude Code, and the Timing Tells a Story
Alibaba has reportedly told its employees they are no longer allowed to use Claude Code, Anthropic's AI coding assistant.

A Linux Kernel Bug Called Bad Epoll Lets Any User Become Root
CVE-2026-46242, nicknamed Bad Epoll, lets an unprivileged Linux user jump straight to root. No malicious click needed. Here is what to patch.

The Best Budget 4K Monitors in 2026
The best cheap 4K monitors in 2026, from a 250 pound 144Hz value pick to a big 32 inch curved screen. Honest picks for every desk.

Claude Sonnet 5 Is Now the Default Model for Every Free and Pro User
Claude Sonnet 5 became Anthropic's default model for Free and Pro users on July 1, running agentic tasks near Opus 4.8 at a lower price.

Google Made a Fourth of July Ad About AI Helping Write the Declaration of Independence
Google released a Fourth of July commercial this week that depicts an AI assistant helping someone draft what appears to be an early version of the.

Google's AI Buildout Drove a 37 Percent Jump in Its Electricity Use Last Year
Google consumed 37 percent more electricity in 2025 than it did in 2024. That is not a number that appears buried in a footnote.

The Largest Gravitational Wave Catalog Ever Just Added 161 Black Hole Collisions
Astronomers released the biggest gravitational wave catalogue yet on 1 July, adding 161 black hole collisions and reviving the primordial black hole ...

Midjourney Is Asking Hollywood to Come Clean About How It Uses AI
Midjourney has made an unusual move: the AI image generation company is asking Hollywood studios to publicly disclose how they are using AI in their.

NAS vs Cloud Storage in 2026: What Changes When You Own the Box
NAS gives you speed and control, cloud gives you convenience. Here is the real 2026 tradeoff and the setup most privacy conscious people land on.

NASA Launched an Emergency Mission to Save the Swift Observatory From Crashing to Earth
The Swift Observatory has been one of NASA's most productive space telescopes since its launch in 2004.

The White House Quietly Deleted Thousands of Energy Conservation Pages During a Heatwave
The timing is the kind of thing that would seem heavy-handed in a political thriller, but it happened in reality.

Claude Sonnet 5 Is Now the Default Model for Every Free and Pro User
Claude Sonnet 5 became Anthropic's default model for Free and Pro users on July 1, running agentic tasks near Opus 4.8 at a lower price.

AI is quietly gutting entry-level tech jobs, and this week's jobs report shows the strain
Tech layoffs have hit 142,000 in 2026, with roughly 88,000 US cuts tied to AI. The roles vanishing first are the entry-level rungs, and that is a ...

AirDrop and Quick Share both have unpatched flaws that let strangers push files at your phone
Six issues were disclosed across Apple AirDrop and Android Quick Share that could let a nearby attacker drop files on a device. Here is the simple fix ...