A hacker ran me over with a robot lawn mower
…Today, he’s publishing his research, including official CVE vulnerability disclosures, without giving Yarbo time to fix the problem first. When he first reached out to Yarbo to alert the firm to…
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Will a new CEO help realize Apple’s smart home potential?
…A device like this could help unlock one of the struggles in the smart home — shared control. Everyone in the home can control it, and the home can similarly react to each…
Canvas owner reaches ‘agreement’ with hackers to secure stolen data
…The group threatened to publish 3.5 terabytes of student data if ransom demands for a “settlement” weren’t met. Now, Instructure says the stolen data has been returned as part of…
Sam Altman was winning on the stand, but it might not be enough
…I certainly believe Altman isn’t trustworthy — I mean, The New Yorker published more than 17,000 words about how much he lies. But unlike with Musk, there are contemporaneous documents backing…
Your PS5 can now transform into a Linux PC
…Andy Nguyen previously showed off a ported version of Ubuntu running PC games on a PS5 last month, and he’s now published the installation steps on GitHub this week. This is…
The 7 biggest storylines from Summer Game Fest 2026
…Meanwhile, every publisher in existence seemed to be avoiding going up against Grand Theft Auto VI on the release calendar, and there were some very welcome game announcements, particularly if you’re…
Netflix has its own, impressive AI-powered voice search
…The streamer recently started to test an AI-powered native voice search feature with some subscribers, prompting them to press the Netflix button on their remote control to ask for viewing recommendations…
Fear and loathing at OpenAI
…This week, The New Yorker published a deep look at Altman, his time at OpenAI, and the questions about whether he’s the right person to be in charge of a technology…
A million baby monitors and security cameras were easily viewable by hackers
…Sammy Azdoufal — the man from France who created a remote-controlled army of DJI Romo robot vacuum cleaners without really trying — tells The Verge he found 1.1 million remotely accessible Meari…
GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft
…A flurry of images of unannounced Xbox controllers appeared online last week, after Brazil’s Anatel regulator accidentally published the images. A new Xbox Cloud Gaming controller appeared first, with a new…