Gizmodo obtained consumer complaints to FTC through a FOIA request.

Season 14 imagines a Texas that isn’t a right-wing hellscape. And it’s nice.

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After unpopular GPT-5 launch, OpenAI begins restoring optional access to previous AI models.

Amazon is getting into AI wearables.

Your self-driving cars get into a few fatal accidents and all of a sudden you're not "safe" or "reliable."

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Catfishing just got harder in California.

Silicon Valley is trying to fix its Gen-Z problem.

All but one senator rejected the amendment.

Nintendo's Bananza may help define the Switch 2 the same way Super Mario Odyssey did for the original Switch.

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How tech became impossible to understand, and thus, impossible to control.

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This studio wants to prove that Hollywood can embrace AI ethically.

This YouTuber wants me to feel bad for calling out misogyny. I don't.

The Supreme Court this morning took a chainsaw to the First Amendment on the internet, and the impact is going to be felt for decades going forward. In the FSC v. Paxton case, the Court upheld the very problematic 5th Circuit ruling that age verification online is acceptable under the First Amendment, despite multiple earlier Supreme Court rulings that said the opposite.

Things are speeding up in generative AI legal cases, with two judicial opinions just out on an issue that will shape the future of generative AI: whether training gen-AI models on copyrighted works is...

Did we really squeeze the big sound of Living Colour behind the Tiny Desk? Yes, we did. And, yet, the band lost none of its intensity.

For three weeks, a DC courthouse hosted a split screen of tech antitrust showdowns.

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Change all your account passwords now — don’t wait: 16 billion credentials are confirmed as having been leaked.

Join the beta — it's a new browser for the social web.

This is part two of my series on using AI tools to fight back against tech company control. Part one explained why we can get beyond just begging billionaires to fix our tools. This part shows exac…

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This is another move by the company to diversify its compute portfolio beyond Microsoft Azure.

Rosetta app translation features for Intel apps won’t stay around indefinitely.

A contract obtained by 404 Media shows that an airline-owned data broker forbids the feds from revealing it sold them detailed passenger data.

Asteroid 2024 YR4, which previously posed the highest impact risk to Earth ever recorded, has now been assessed a slightly higher chance of slamming into the Moon in seven years.

Third-party options may soon duplicate its features at a fraction of the cost, but this is the best there is for now.