OpenAI has introduced a new safety feature to ChatGPT that lets users add “trusted contacts” to their profiles. These contacts will receive alerts if a user’s ChatGPT exchange points to signs of self-harm—one of many changes OpenAI is making to its best-known product after multiple suicides that allegedly involved the …

Activision has confirmed that Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 will be the last game in the franchise to support PlayStation 4. Black Ops 7 was launched on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, but the next version coming this year, widely reported as the next Modern …

If your 2026 resolution is to learn a new language, this one’s for you: In celebration of its 20th anniversary, Google Translate has added a new pronunciation practice tool that uses AI to help users improve their speaking skills in supported languages. Users can now listen to the correct pronunciation …

Mozilla says its “zero-days are numbered” after identifying 271 security‑sensitive Firefox vulnerabilities using Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview model.In security terms, a zero‑day is a vulnerability that developers do not yet know about and therefore have had “zero days” to fix. Mozilla caught this slate of vulnerabilities by having Claude Mythos …

Apple has confirmed that macOS 26 “Tahoe” will be the last version to support Intel-based Macs, with macOS 27 and onward reserved for Apple silicon and the A-series MacBook Neo. The company told developers that future macOS releases will focus entirely on its own ARM-based chips—a change first announced at …

Meta will start using new tracking software on employee computers in the US to gather training data for its workplace AI agents, Reuters reported Tuesday. Its Model Capability Initiative (MCI) will capture mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and screenshots from internal tools. Meta says it wants to use real examples of …

Amazon Prime Air drones are facing renewed scrutiny following customer complaints about packages being dropped from perilous heights. Videos show Amazon’s aircraft dropping packages from roughly 10 feet in the air, leaving items smashed on impact. Some depict drones hovering above driveways and backyards before letting boxes fall to the …

In the third launch of its larger New Glenn rocket, and the first time Blue Origin had attempted to re-use a booster, it failed to place its payload into an effective orbit. Now, the satellite will need to be de-orbited, TechCrunch reports. Although the company in question has many more …

Microsoft is quietly opening the Windows 11 taskbar to third‑party AI agents that can work directly on the desktop. The new model lets Microsoft and external developers create agents that can plan tasks, interact with apps and files, and generally run semi‑autonomously, rather than only answering prompts in a chat …

Ahead of the 10th anniversary of AMD’s socket AM4 this September, the brand may be set to release a special anniversary edition of its most beloved AM4 CPU: The Ryzen 5800X3D. Rumors suggest AMD has made a special edition of the chip with anniversary branding and may have even restarted …

Nvidia and AMD have a number of features that you can only enjoy if you’re running the latest generations of their respective graphics cards. However, you can get around much of this with some fantastic third-party tools. A new report from VideoCardz reveals that the beloved DLSS Enabler is offering …

Apple reportedly plans to release an iPhone Air 2 despite how poorly the first-generation iPhone Air has sold. The claim comes from Weibo leaker Fixed Focus Digital, who says Apple will produce at least two generations of the ultrathin iPhone.The first iPhone Air launched in 2025 as Apple’s thinnest phone …

Google is integrating NotebookLM directly into Gemini, making it a core part of Google’s main AI product. NotebookLM lets users build notebooks from PDFs, Google Docs, websites, and other sources, then query them with AI. “Notebooks” are dedicated workspaces where you group all those sources for a single project and …

The modder working to get Intel’s unique 12 P-core Bartlett Lake 273PQE CPU running on a consumer motherboard has hit a new milestone: It now boots to Windows! They were even able to get some basic system info apps running. No benchmark results yet, but after some more tweaking, I …

On Tuesday, a security researcher named Chaofan Shou revealed on X that he had found a 59.8MB JavaScript source map file in a public release of Anthropic’s Claude Code.This file is intended for internal debugging purposes and helps to associate compiled, public code with the original source code. With it, …