Microsoft has open-sourced its popular GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code, a key step towards a transparent, community-driven AI editor.

Researchers from prominent universities worldwide are hiding secret commands in their academic papers to trick AI-powered review systems into giving positive feedback. An investigation first reported by Nikkei found at least 17 papers on the arXiv preprint server using...

Microsoft is discontinuing its Publisher desktop publishing software in 2026. We explore the best replacement options, from professional tools like InDesign to free alternatives like Canva.

German firm TNG has released DeepSeek-TNG R1T2 Chimera, an open-source variant twice as fast as its parent model thanks to a new 'Assembly-of-Experts' merge technique.

The Fairphone 6 has earned a perfect 10/10 repairability score from iFixit. It's now in the US via Murena, but only works on T-Mobile's network.

An Xbox manager has ignited a firestorm of criticism after advising recently laid-off Microsoft employees to seek emotional and career support from AI chatbots. Matt Turnbull, an Executive Producer at Xbox, made the suggestion in a now-deleted LinkedIn post,...

A new study from resarchers of Amazon, Stanford, MIT, and others reveals major flaws in AI agent benchmarks, finding they can misestimate performance by up to 100%.

A judge forces OpenAI to retain all ChatGPT user logs for the NYT lawsuit, overriding user deletions and sparking a major privacy debate over AI data.

A coalition of independent publishers has filed an EU antitrust complaint against Google, alleging its AI Overviews feature abuses market dominance and harms media.

The European Commission has rejected a call from over 45 tech companies to delay the EU AI Act, confirming the original timeline for the landmark regulation.

An engineer's scheme to work four remote jobs at once has exposed the 'overemployed' subculture, raising critical questions about tech work ethics and trust.

Microsoft is removing password management from its Authenticator app by August 2025, moving the feature to Edge and refocusing the app on passkeys and 2FA.

Mistral AI is offering governments sovereign, customizable AI solutions as a direct challenge to dominant, non-European tech giants.

Meta supports a pan-European 'digital majority age' requiring parental consent, sparking a debate with Google over who is responsible for online child safety.

Samsung and Apple are clashing over the EU's new energy labels. Samsung claims 2,000 battery cycles, while Apple intentionally lowers its ratings, citing flawed rules.

Google is integrating its customizable 'Gems' AI chatbots into the side panel of Workspace apps like Docs and Gmail, boosting productivity with in-context AI.

Leaked documents show Meta is training its AI chatbots to send unprompted follow-up messages to boost user retention, raising privacy and manipulation concerns.

AI cloud provider CoreWeave is the first to deploy Nvidia's powerful GB300 NVL72 systems, gaining a critical first-mover advantage over cloud giants.