This Reggae Band Is in a Nightmare Battle Against AI Slop Remixes
…the perspective of a streaming platform, it is sometimes hard to know whether a release is legitimate or not. It's common for artists to change labels or distributors, and there is…
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Tech CEOs Think AI Will Let Them Be Everywhere at Once
…The trend suggests that even while platforms face obstacles in foisting AI features onto users, the top brass is determined to exert greater influence within their business through a kind of AI…
Android Is Fighting Phone Scams With a New Feature to Prove Who’s Calling
…And the feature also changes the entry in Android’s recent call log to say “Unknown” instead of displaying the contact name. Spam calls have been a scourge for decades, and the…
Everything Apple Announced at WWDC 2026
…on three main things: platform improvements, updates in trust and safety, and a “big leap forward” in Apple Intelligence and Siri. The big focus was on changes to Apple’s Siri virtual…
This Startup Wants You to Pay Up to Talk With AI Versions of Human Experts
…During my testing, though, when I asked a bot therapist who it liked in the NBA playoffs—a change of subject it should have shut down— it called my jail-breaking pivot…
Mammotion’s Spino E1 Is Affordable but Doesn’t Quite Deliver
…50 minutes, every other day (this can’t be changed)—good for about three runs in total. The robot uses Bluetooth to communicate with your phone and uses 2.4-GHz Wi…
Arm’s CEO Insists the Market Needs His New CPU. It Could Piss Everyone Off
…They say, "Oh, it's an IP company." But the IP that we deliver is a compute platform, and ultimately platform companies need to do things to move the ecosystem forward. What…
Meet the Gods of AI Warfare
…The code could be changed in a day. “That is the secret sauce of bringing in the operational community in a very, very big way,” Whitworth told me. “Ride that wave,” he…
My Blissful, Unbothered Life as a ‘Do Not Disturb’ Maximalist
…Even so, Oscar still considers the overall smartphone experience to be “extremely invasive.” Recent research published in the academic journal Computers in Human Behavior suggests that notifications, from social media platforms specifically…
The Screenmaxxers Who Spend Every Waking Hour on Their Phones
…On the more extreme end, there are virtual communities that share strategies for ditching smartphones and digital detox retreats where no notifications can find you. Yet there are those, like Dreiss, who…