Pentagon's Quiet New Technology Office Raises Questions About Oversight
TechRadar reports the Pentagon has quietly set up a covert office to disrupt foreign technology programs, and questions about how it would be overseen remain open.
AI tool Raven can estimate where a home is from interior photos
A new AI tool called Raven reportedly matches interior details in photos to online listings to pinpoint properties, and police in two states already use it.
OpenAI Cuts Internet Access During Frontier Model Training
OpenAI says its most advanced models are now trained without live internet access, a change it links to a string of hacking incidents and new safety measures.
Stranger Than Heaven's Showbiz System Proved Harder Than Expected
Director Mikinobu Abe says RGG Studio's Showbiz system, which casts the player as a music promoter, was a real design challenge that went through several versions.
Greece Moves to Bar Under-15s From Social Media, Requiring Age Checks
Greece's parliament has passed a law barring children under 15 from social media from January 1, 2027, with platforms required to verify user ages.
Banks Report Unauthorized AI Agents Acting Inside Customer Accounts
Several major US banks have reportedly detected third-party AI agents reaching customer accounts, sometimes taking steps the account holders never requested.
Canva Craft: Design Firm's First Image Model Enters the Crowded Field
Canva has released Craft, its first publicly available image generation model, trained on templates and offered to developers through an API.
Virgin Mobile and O2 Broadband May Return as Virgin Media O2 Weighs Revival
Virgin Media O2 is reportedly considering reviving defunct consumer brands to win back customers and bolster investor confidence amid tougher UK competition.
Khosla-backed Even Healthcare eyes wider reach in India's hospital sector
Khosla Ventures leads a round valuing Even Healthcare at $300 million as the startup plans to grow its hospital network across India.
A Year Without Instagram and the Quiet Hours It Gave Back
A Guardian writer says deleting Instagram a year ago changed how she spends her quiet moments, from scrolling and curating to simply being present.
Ugreen HomeAgent HA100 Hands-On: A New Branch in Its Storage Lineup
TechRadar offers an early hands-on with Ugreen's HomeAgent HA100, a device that sits beside the company's NAS line and is not yet sold at retail.
Belgian Startup Says Server SSDs Can Cut AI Rereading Time
Corbenic AI's Galahad beta saves model memory to local NVMe drives, but its reported 14x speedup owes more to a retrieval component than to storage.
Final Fantasy VII Revelation Opens With Its Biggest Twist Early
A hands-on account of Final Fantasy VII Revelation's opening demo shows an earlier, more linear story start, new party members and a revamped class system.
ORICO Enters Laptops With Obook15 as Preorder Discount Nears Deadline
Storage accessory maker ORICO is preparing to sell its first full laptop, the Obook15, with a preorder discount in the US and Philippines.
Anthropic Commits 5% of Shares to Public Benefit Fund Ahead of Listing
Anthropic says it will commit 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund as it prepares for a major stock market listing.
Remote Reaper Hits Steam 1.0 With Jamming and Vehicle Damage Models
Ukrainian-developed FPV drone simulator Remote Reaper has left Early Access with a full 1.0 release that adds jamming, vehicle weak spots and deeper customization.
Arm's AGI CPU Claims Rack-Level Lead Over AMD in Agentic AI Test
An Arm-cooperated assessment by Signal65 models nearly double the rack-level performance of its AGI CPU versus AMD's EPYC 9755 on agentic AI workloads.
MEP Speaks Out After Nude Deepfakes Target Female Lawmakers
Austrian MEP Lena Schilling describes finding AI-altered nude images of herself, as a report finds one in six female MEPs targeted.
Dreame's Self-Heating Travel Espresso Machine Aims to Solve the Hot Water Problem
TechRadar's reviewer says Dreame's new Ecceluxe Go portable espresso machine heats itself, removing the need for a kettle or stove on the road.
Zotac's Compact RTX 5080 Desktop Arrives Without Storage, Memory or OS
Zotac has released a small desktop built around Nvidia's RTX 5080, priced from about $2,640 in Japan, with buyers supplying their own memory, storage and operating system.