Google has announced a new security measure that limits access to Android’s accessibility services to verified applications classified as Accessibility Tools when Advanced Protection is enabled. With malicious Android applications abusing the API serving as the main conduit for malware and financial fraud, the tech giant said the move would block a major attack pathway.…
Tesla introduced a new feature to enable drivers to escape quickly while charging their vehicles in response to a mass shooting at a Supercharger location in Idaho in August that left seven people wounded and four dead. When a Tesla vehicle is charging, the plug is locked to the charging port and driving is disabled.…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A new contest pits competitors against each other in a race to biological youth —Jessica Hamzelou This week, I officially signed up for an unusual competition. One that rewards competitors for…
On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board in what looked like a gift to its human opponent. Move 37 in game two of the five-game match looked so absurd that some commentators thought it was a…
Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history riskier.
NASCAR 26 is iRacing’s second attempt at the franchise on console, and while it’s a definite iteration, it has so much going for it that even non-NASCAR fans should give it a go.
Reviews for Gears of War: E-Day’s single-player campaign have been released onto the internet, and we’ve rounded up what top review sites had to say on this much-anticipated prequel to Xbox’s flagship shooter franchise.
Meta spent the first days of October 2026 doing damage control over its newest AI product. The company is pushing back hard against a claim that its Muse AI agent read a user’s private Apple Messages without his consent, a dispute that started with a single columnist’s bug report and has snowballed into a broader…