Honor’s new phones look like iPhones for Android
… It also has a more powerful Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, last year’s Qualcomm flagship, with the midrange 7 Gen 4 in the cheaper phone. …
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Does Trump Mobile know how many stripes are on the American flag?
… I mean the US flag that features prominently on the back. At a glance, to a non-native, it looks fine. But look closer, and there’s something curious: It only has 11 stripes. Last I checked, there really should be 13. …
Tumbler Ridge families are suing OpenAI
… The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI “considered” flagging the 18-year-old’s activity to police, which reportedly involved conversations about gun violence, but ultimately decided against it. …
One UI 8.5 is rolling out now.
… Flagship phones and tablets from the last two generations or so are the first eligible for the update, which is rolling out now in Korea, with other countries to follow. …
Sony’s new Xperia phone gets an overdue redesign
… The only downside is that to fit in the larger sensor, Sony has given up on the continuous optical zoom found on its last four flagships — just as Xiaomi has copied the feature in its own 17 Ultra. …
The US gets the worst phones
… The gap in photographic quality is so stark that when I tested last year’s Pixel 10 Pro XL — one of the best camera phones you can buy in the US — I spent the whole week frustrated by how limited its cameras felt compared to most Chinese flagships. …
Microsoft’s first advanced reasoning AI is here
Microsoft announced a bunch of new in-house AI models at Build 2026, including a new “flagship” model: MAI-Thinking-1. It’s an ambitious step into model development for Microsoft, which introduced its initial in-house models last year — before then, it had relied on OpenAI’s models. …
Our new favorite budget phones
… Still, this year’s addition of MagSafe charging makes it a much more well-rounded package than last year’s 16E, and with the same A19 chip as the flagship iPhone 17, you won’t find any phone with better performance for the price. …
Discord adds a free Xbox Game Pass ‘starter edition’ for Nitro subscribers
… Xbox Game Pass starter edition, which leaked last month, allows PC and Xbox owners to download more than 50 games, including titles like Fallout 4, Stardew Valley, and DayZ. …
OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 model is more efficient and better at coding
… OpenAI quickly followed with GPT-5.4-Cyber, its own model trained to flag cybersecurity vulnerabilities. …