OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman are facing 30 new lawsuits that accuse them of providing “substantial assistance and encouragement” to the suspect in Canada’s Tumbler Ridge school shooting, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The new wave of lawsuits was filed in a California federal court on Wednesday by the students, teachers, and the principal…
New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has announced a new policy today that will ban younger schoolchildren from using AI in classrooms. The one-year moratorium, effective in the 2026-2027 school year, will impact about 600,000 public school students in 2-K through eighth grade and is being introduced alongside additional limits on digital devices and a…
When Google ignominiously exited the European thermostat market last year, it pointed its customers to Tado. This week, the German-based smart home company is launching its Smart Thermostat X (2nd gen), and aiming to attract European Nest users who haven’t already jumped ship. Google shutting down the servers for its 1st- and 2nd-gen thermostats drove…
As companies scale, the technology supporting operations can become a liability just as quickly as it becomes an asset. Disconnected systems, site-specific tools, spreadsheets, and manual workarounds can create data silos that make it harder to spot problems early, coordinate responses, and make decisions with confidence. For Jabil, a global manufacturing company with more than…
Sega’s Dreamcast lasted less than two years on store shelves, yet its library keeps growing in 2026 thanks to one open-source project: Flycast. The emulator, maintained by a developer known as flyinghead, just shipped version 2.7 on August 19, 2026, adding frame pacing improvements, five new localizations, and multiscreen support for arcade cabinets that originally…
Uber is cutting about 3,300 employees, roughly 10% of its global workforce, in its largest round of layoffs since the pandemic. This time, a collapse in ride demand isn’t driving the cuts. Uber is slimming down as CEO Dara Khosrowshahi […] The post Uber lays off 3,300 employees,10% of workforce, in biggest job cuts since…
Developed by CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and international partners, this guidance describes how organizations can plan and execute clear, timely, accurate, and audience-appropriate communications during IT and operational technology (OT) outages. Whether caused by cyber threat actors, human error, equipment failure, or natural hazards, service outages can create disruption and societal panic even…
Dell announced the Dell 14S, a budget-friendly 14-inch Windows 11 laptop built to take on Apple’s MacBook Neo with a lightweight chassis, multiple colors, and full-day battery life.
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android banking trojan called StreamRat that was promoted to Spanish-speaking users through a fake television-streaming campaign on Meta and can give operators near-complete control of infected devices. ThreatFabric said the campaign’s advertisement focused on Spain and reached an estimated 570,950 Meta accounts in the European Union
Virtualizor said hackers used a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijack to divert Softaculous traffic. The hackers then used the diverted update traffic to deliver a malicious Virtualizor package to some installations. A hosting-provider account separately said 5 of its 34 checked Virtualizor hypervisors sustained root-level compromise. The incident window ran from approximately August 28 at…