Opinion | You Need to Invest in AI, but Don’t Expect a Return
This revolutionary tech will make your competitors more efficient, so you’ll need it simply to keep up.
Month: August 2026
Trump’s Ballroom Construction Can Continue, Supreme Court Says
Plus, the company giving bonuses for “human” skills and the plan for Venezuela’s oil.
Opinion | The Data Center Panic and U.S. Decline
Public opposition reflects anxiety more than reality. Trump is finally speaking up.
The Best Labor Day Mattress Deals On Beds We’ve Tried In Our Homes
It’s one of the best times of the year to buy a mattress, and our top tested picks are on sale.
I went to the loneliest baseball game on Apple Vision Pro
This weekend, I strapped on an Apple Vision Pro to watch a baseball game in immersive virtual reality for the first time. It was technically impressive, visually pretty remarkable, and also didn’t make that much sense. Apple and Major League Baseball chose a classic match-up of the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees…
FTC lawsuit alleges Amazon has been ‘secretly and systematically’ overcharging for ads
The FTC and 22 state attorneys general are suing Amazon for allegedly using a “secret ad surcharge” to drive up prices for ads on its website and app. FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson claims in a blog post on the lawsuit that the higher advertising prices “were largely passed on to American consumers.” According to the…
JMGO’s very bright all-in-one projector looks ideal for gamers and sports
JMGO’s 4K 120Hz Iris Ultra Max all-in-one Google TV projector is now available outside China. It gets its name from a new dual-iris system that lets it produce an impressive 10,000:1 native contrast, according to JMGO. It boosts the contrast – always an issue with projectors – by placing two separate physical apertures (irises) along…
A group funded by Andreessen, Horowitz, and Brockman plan data center ads to sway midterms
Build American AI plans to lobby voters in select states about the virtues of data centers by spending millions of dollars on ads.
'TerminalFix' Campaign Weaponizes PowerShell for Enterprise Attacks
The ClickFix-style campaign features a sophisticated, multistage attack chain that includes reverse tunnels into victim organizations’ networks.
How to Encrypt Files: 12 Steps, 90 Min [2026]
A stolen laptop with an unencrypted drive hands over every file on it the moment someone pulls the SSD and plugs it into another machine. No password prompt, no login screen, nothing to bypass. Full-disk and file-level encryption close that gap, and in 2026 the tools to do it are free, built into every major…